Mehboob Khan

Mehboob Khan

Birth : 1907-09-19, Bilimora, Baroda State, British India

Death : 1964-05-28

History

Mehboob Khan was a pioneer producer-director of Indian cinema, best known for directing the social epic Mother India (1957), which won the Filmfare Awards for Best Film and Best Director, two National Film Awards, and was a nominee for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. He set up his production company – Mehboob Productions, and later a film studio – Mehboob Studios in Bandra, Mumbai in 1954. He also created the dacoit film genre with Aurat (1940) and Mother India, and is also known for other blockbusters including the romantic drama Andaz (1949), the swashbuckling musical Aan (1951), and the melodrama Amar (1954).

Profile

Mehboob Khan

Movies

Minoo
Son of India
Producer
The film is based on an incredible true story about a village woman who gets lost at a railway station and waits fourteen years for her husband to come.
Son of India
Director
The film is based on an incredible true story about a village woman who gets lost at a railway station and waits fourteen years for her husband to come.
Mother India
Producer
A poverty-stricken woman raises her sons through many trials and tribulations. But no matter the struggles, always sticks to her own moral code.
Mother India
Director
A poverty-stricken woman raises her sons through many trials and tribulations. But no matter the struggles, always sticks to her own moral code.
Amar
Producer
A delicately nuanced psychological drama, exploring a 3-way relationship between the main characters and the crisis of conscience that rocks it. A prosperous, well-respected lawyer, in love with and engaged to an educated, socially-conscious young woman, rapes a poor local village milkmaid. The rest of the story deals with the aftermath of this tragic event, with all the inevitable undercurrents of guilt, penitence and pervasive heartbreak that stem from it.
Amar
Director
A delicately nuanced psychological drama, exploring a 3-way relationship between the main characters and the crisis of conscience that rocks it. A prosperous, well-respected lawyer, in love with and engaged to an educated, socially-conscious young woman, rapes a poor local village milkmaid. The rest of the story deals with the aftermath of this tragic event, with all the inevitable undercurrents of guilt, penitence and pervasive heartbreak that stem from it.
The Savage Princess
Producer
A poor farmer conquers the love of an Indian princess, whose brother wants to kill their father to become king.
The Savage Princess
Director
A poor farmer conquers the love of an Indian princess, whose brother wants to kill their father to become king.
Andaz
Producer
Nina is a rich and spoiled girl. Dilip accidentally meets her and starts liking her, not knowing that she is already engaged.
Andaz
Director
Nina is a rich and spoiled girl. Dilip accidentally meets her and starts liking her, not knowing that she is already engaged.
Anokhi Ada
Director
A traumatized beautiful woman loses her memory in a train accident.
Elan
Director
Elaan is a 1947 Indian Bollywood Muslim social melodrama film. It was the sixth highest grossing Indian film of 1947.[1]
Anmol Ghadi
Director
School-going Chandrabhan lives a poor lifestyle with his widowed mom in a small town in India, and has a childhood sweetheart named Lata, who is the daughter of the wealthy Deputy. Chandrabhan is heartbroken when Lata leaves town, and he has only a time-piece left with him as a token of their friendship. Years later, Chandrabhan has grown up, and has found employment in a guitar and musical instrument repair shop run by the owner and his friend, Prakash. Chandrabhan, a frequent reader of poetry, is fascinated by the poems of Renuka Devi, and longs to meet her. He does get to meet her, only to find out that the woman in reality is her friend, Basanti, who was impersonating her, as she had fallen in love with him, though he has no similar feelings for her. He does get to meet Renuka Devi, and is pleasantly surprised when he finds out that she is none other than Lata herself. Before Chandrabhan could plan anything els
Humayun
Director
Humayan (Hindi: हुमायूँ) is a 1945 Indian Bollywood historical epic film directed by Mehboob Khan. It was the seventh highest grossing Indian film of 1945.
Taqdeer
Director
In between his more ambitious Najma (1943) and Humayun (1945), Mehboob made this lightweight comedy about Justice Gangaprasad (Chandramohan) and theatre-owner Seth Badriprasad (Charlie) who lose their daughter and son respectively in the Kumbh Mela.
Najma
Director
Najma is a 1943 Indian film directed by Mehboob Khan and starring Ashok Kumar and Veena. The film's music is by Rafiq Ghaznavi with lyrics by Anjum Pilibhiti. Najma was the first film under Mehboob Khan's Mehboob Productions banner. Due to its financial success upon release, the film became a blueprint for Muslim socials that followed.
Roti
Director
Roti made in the early 1940s inspired by the German Expressionism, is a real critique of Indian society with prophetic insight. It deals with two models - one of a millionaire, possessed by money and power in an industrial civilisation, the other of a tribal couple living in a primeval state of nature. The millionaire is saved by the couple after an air crash, the tribal couple emigrate to the city, do not find happiness and return. The millionaire is ruined in the city, tries futilely to find salvation among the tribal.
Bahen
Director
Having saved his little sister Bina (Baby Meena Kumari) from the floods, Amar (Sheikh Mukhtar) becomes increasingly possessive about her over the years. Amar falls in love twice but forgoes marriage so he can look after the growing Bina. Bina (Nalini Jaywant), now a grown up young girl falls in love with the social activist Rajendra (Harish). However, Amar can not bear to lose Bina and so he plans her marriage to the thief Moti Kanhaiyalal, with the idea that he'll get her divorced after some time and then Bina would stay with him always. After several incidents that end up uniting Rajendra and Bina, Amar gets some happiness when a daughter is born to Bina.
Aurat
Director
Radha is a resolute mother, who strives hard against poverty and a lecherous money lender to feed her two sons who grew up with contrasting temperament.
Judgement of Allah
Story
A classic period movie. It is set in the Ottaman empire where Caesar's Roman armies clash with the Muslim kingdoms. Ziyad, the son of the sultan, is captured by the Romans. Rahil, a Roman princess, falls in love with him and asks the Muslim woman Leila to guard him. Leila smuggles a message written in her blood to the sultan.
Judgement of Allah
Screenplay
A classic period movie. It is set in the Ottaman empire where Caesar's Roman armies clash with the Muslim kingdoms. Ziyad, the son of the sultan, is captured by the Romans. Rahil, a Roman princess, falls in love with him and asks the Muslim woman Leila to guard him. Leila smuggles a message written in her blood to the sultan.
Judgement of Allah
Director
A classic period movie. It is set in the Ottaman empire where Caesar's Roman armies clash with the Muslim kingdoms. Ziyad, the son of the sultan, is captured by the Romans. Rahil, a Roman princess, falls in love with him and asks the Muslim woman Leila to guard him. Leila smuggles a message written in her blood to the sultan.