Sohrab Modi

Khan Bahadur

An early social drama produced and directed by Sohrab Modi

Parakh

A class division melodrama centred on Mehtab’s histrionics. Kiran (Mehtab) is the daughter of a courtesan. Her lowly origins first destroy her marriage and then threaten to jeopardise her son Prakash’s (Singh) ambitions. She is blackmailed for keeping her son’s parentage a secret from him, forcing her to return to her ancestral profession. The film was a commercial success.

Pukar

A love affair and two feuding families who play out a Romeo and Juliet type drama in 17th century India, under the Emperor Jehangir.

Talaq

Roopa, unhappy in her marriage to Niranjan, champions changes in divorce laws to allow women to initiate separation. She successfully divorces Niranjan and marries Amarnath, only for Amarnath to then use the same laws to divorce her.

Phir Milenge

In a world of challenges, some promises remain. A social drama about finding one's way back.

Shama

Film starring Mehtab and Wasti.

Atma Tarang

Atma Tarang follows a man torn between worldly desires and spiritual awakening. As he struggles to overcome material temptations, he embarks on a journey of self-realization and inner transformation.

Said-e-Havas

A screen adaptation of Agha Hashar Kashmiri’s Urdu play, itself based on Shakespeare’s King John. In the film (a stage-play recording), Modi plays the analogue of Shakespeare’s Hubert (named Kazal Beg), and the story follows the central events of King John.

Jailor

Modi's first psychodramatic role as a liberal man becoming a tyrannical jailer. He loses his wife to a lover who then goes blind. The jailer locks up his wife, Kanwal, in their own home, forbidding any contact with their child, Bali. Later the jailer himself falls in love with a blind woman.

Yahudi

In ancient Rome, a mourning Jewish man raises the kidnapped daughter of Roman royalty as his own - and she grows up without learning her true identity. Years later, she falls in love with a Roman prince.

Nausherwan-E-Adil

A fair-minded emperor improves and introduces new laws, but ends up facing challenges when his son violates them.

Bharosa

Gyan leaves his wife Shobha in the care of his friend Rasik while he travels abroad. In his absence, Shobha and Rasik fall in love and have a child, Indira. Years later, unaware of the truth, Gyan returns and unknowingly arranges Indira’s marriage to Rasik’s son—her half-brother—setting the stage for a dramatic and morally complex revelation.

Khoon Ka Khoon

Khoon Ka Khoon follows Prince Hamlet as he seeks revenge for his father’s murder by his uncle, leading to betrayal, madness, and tragedy. The film blends Shakespearean drama with Indian theatrical style.

Meetha Zaher

Sohrab Modi's Meetha Zahar (Sweet Poison) is a social drama film that explores the devastating effects of alcoholism and advocates for prohibition. The narrative highlights the societal ills and personal ruin caused by alcohol, urging audiences to recognize the "evils of drinking."

Ek Nari Ek Brahmachari

Raisaheb Surajbhan Chaudhary has two sons - Rajkumar who has not produced an heir to his family and other is Mohan, a devout worshiper of Lord Bajrangbali and refuses to get married. Things change dramatically when a young woman named Neena, along with her son, enters the Chaudhary household claiming that Mohan had married and abandoned her.

Kundan

Classic Bollywood film about a young man whose poverty leads him to commit crimes which, in turn, lead him to harsher and harsher punishments.

Mirza Ghalib

A fictionalized account of the life of poet and nobleman Mirza Ghalib during the reign of the last Mughal Emperor, told through the lens of his ill-fated love for a beautiful courtesan he called Chaudhvin.

Jhansi Ki Rani

Set in the 19th century against the backdrop of the Mutiny of 1857, the film is about the bravery of queen Lakshmibai, Rani of Jhansi, who took up arms and led her army against the British.

Sikandar

The film begins after Alexander the Great (Sikander in Hindi/Urdu) conquers Persia and the Kabul valley and approaches the Indian border at Jhelum. Sohrab Modi plays the Indian king Puru (Porus to the Greeks). The story goes that when Sikander defeated Porus and imprisoned him, he asked Porus how would he like to be treated. Porus replied the same way a defeated king is treated by the winner (meaning killed).

Woh Koi Aur Hoga

An artist suspects that the wax figures in a local museum may actually be hiding the bodies of murder victims. His investigation is hampered by a beautiful ghost.

Waris

An inheritance melodrama about Kunwar (Mahmood), the son of zamindar Himmat Singh (Sethi). Kunmar marries Shobha (Suraiya) and is disinherited, forcing him to join the army during WW2. When he is reported missing and presumed dead, a repentant Rana invites Shobha to stay with him. However, it is Kanta (Nadira), a young woman betrayed by Rana's villainous secretary Kailash (Yakub), who arrives at the house and his mistaken for Shobha. Masquerading as Shobha, who lives nearby in absolute poverty, Kanta moves in, causing a moral dilemma and generating suspense since she could be caught at any moment.

Jailor

A jailor is abandoned by his wife which leads to great changes in his life

Ek Din Ka Sultan

A commoner and a noblewoman fall in love after he saves her from a fire, but her father is against their marriage.

Raj Hath

A stubborn emperor plans to wage war against another who had humiliated him and his daughter.