Molina Devi

Acting

Molina Devi

Born August 13, 1917 · Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India [now India]

Died August 13, 1977 · aged 60

Molina Devi (13 August 1917 — 13 August 1977) was an Indian Bengali actress of Bengali and Hindi film and theatre. As an actress, she played a wide variety of parts, later frequently playing matronly parts, especially Rani Rashmoni, patroness of the 19th-century Bengali mystic Sri Ramakrishna. She acted in several dozen films, mostly in Bengali and Hindi. With actor Gurudas Banerjee, she also dire…

Known For

The DevotedThe Devoted · 1933
The Devoted
★ 10.01933
Movie
The legend of Prince Puran, born under King Silwan of Sialkot's curse which binds his parents never to set eyes on him until he is 16. Accused of leading a debauched life by an evil general and by the king's second wife, Puran is sentenced to death. Rescued by the mystic Gorakhnath, he becomes an ascetic. When the king is overthrown, Purna rises from his meditations to depose the general who has seized power, before returning to his life of renunciation.
DeterminationDetermination · 1949
Determination
1949
MovieDrama
A father who is ill, is worried about his family in case of his demise. Will he be able to secure their future or will all his hopes crumble?
Saat Pake BandhaSaat Pake Bandha · 1963
Saat Pake Bandha
★ 8.01963
MovieDrama
A young girl,Archana, falls in love with Sukhendu, an educated young man. Her father gladly accepts Sukhendu as his son-in-law. But Sukhendu’s income and nature come in way of this marriage.
MahashwetaMahashweta · 1967
Mahashweta
★ 9.01967
MovieDrama
The widower land-lord fixes his wayward step-brother's alliance with priest's daughter. Groom disappears on wedding day, and he is forced to marry her. The brother comes back and when the elder brother dies, tries to dispossess the widow.
The Fellow TravelerThe Fellow Traveler · 1951
The Fellow Traveler
★ 7.01951
MovieDrama
The first-ever collaboration of Uttam Kumar and Agradoot.
Sharey ChuattarSharey Chuattar · 1953
Sharey Chuattar
★ 8.01953
MovieDramaComedy
The owner of Annapurna boarding house facing an upcoming trouble for let in a girl in the boys hostel.
ShyamaliShyamali · 1956
Shyamali
★ 9.01956
MovieRomanceDrama
Shyamali, who is both hearing and speech impaired, faces several struggles in life. While the man she marries supports her, she is not accepted by her in-laws.
Manmoyee Girls' SchoolManmoyee Girls' School · 1958
Manmoyee Girls' School
★ 7.01958
MovieRomanceComedy
Deciding to start a school for girls named after his wife, a zamindar looks for a married couple to manage the establishment. They apply for and get the job. The two are not actually married; they posed as a couple to obtain the job. After a series of complications and delicate situations, love blooms between the two and they marry.

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GrihadahaGrihadaha · 1936
Grihadaha
★ 10.01936
MovieDrama
The poor but educated Mahim and his childhood friend, the rich but conservative Suresh, both fall in love with the same woman, the liberated Achala. Mahim marries her and they move to a village but she cannot forget Suresh. Her smoldering unhappiness takes the form of resentment towards the orphaned Mrinal, raised by Mahim's father, and receives a dramatic visual embodiment when their house burns down. Mahim falls ill, is rescued by Suresh, and nursed back to health by Achala. On a train (a metaphor for the irreversibly linear course of life) to a health resort where Mahim is supposed to convalesce, Suresh on a rainswept night gives in to temptation and elopes with Achala. At the end of the film, there is a dubious reconciliation as Achala is shown following Mahim's 'good' traditionalism with Sharatchandra's barely concealed hostility towards Achala's liberated Brahmo Samaj upbringing.

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