Best Hindi movies of 1974

Actors : Anant Nag, Shabana Azmi, Priya Tendulkar, Sadhu Meher,
Directors : Shyam Benegal,

Laxmi lives a poor lifestyle in a small village in India along with her husband, Kishtaya, who is a deaf-mute. Both husband and wife work for the wealthy landlord. The landlord's son, Surya...

Actors : Amol Palekar, Vidya Sinha, Dinesh Thakur, Ranjita Thakur,
Directors : Basu Chatterjee,

A Delhi-based woman in a steady relationship with her boyfriend is forced to come to terms with her true feelings when a job interview in Mumbai brings an old flame back in her life.

Actors : Farida Jalal, Parveen Babi, Pran, Amitabh Bachchan,
Directors : Ravi Tandon,

A terminally ill man frames himself for murder to allow his family to collect the reward money. After a successful operation, he escapes police custody and searches for the real killer.

Actors : Hema Malini, Ravindra Kapoor, Shatrughan Sinha, Dharmendra,
Directors : Dulal Guha,

Maanav is an orphan who was brought up by a Catholic Priest, Father Francis. After completing his M.A. he returns home to Taran Devi and finds out that his mentor his dead. He re-locates to...

Actors : Jaya Bhaduri, Shivraj, Sunder, Sanjeev Kumar,
Directors : A. Bhimsingh,

Sushma believes that she is too young to get married, but her father, Lalla Banarsilal insists, and she runs away. Her adventures take her to a lonely wealthy widower with a cute daughter ...

Actors : Rajesh Khanna, Zeenat Aman, Prem Chopra, Asrani,
Directors : Shakti Samanta,

Middle-classed young and dashing Rohit Kumar Saxena falls in love with wealthy and lovely Reshmi, and both decide to get married. Reshmi's dad, the wealthy Diwan Sardarilal is strongly ...

Actors : Rajesh Khanna, Mumtaz, Nirupa Roy, Sujit Kumar,
Directors : Manmohan Desai,

Mangal Singh (Rajesh Khanna) has been a career criminal, whose criminal career began to steal food and to keep from starving, and thence got him in deeper and deeper in the criminal world. ...

Actors : Jaya Bhaduri, Achala Sachdev, A.K. Hangal, Vijay Anand,
Directors : Anil Ganguly,

By the time we learn to live, life is gone.

Actors : Moushumi Chatterjee, Satyendra Kapoor, Madan Puri, Amitabh Bachchan,
Directors : Narendra Bedi,

After helping a stabbing victim to the hospital, a man begins to receive anonymous threats. The only way to save his wife and child is to unravel the mystery of the killer's identity.

Actors : Rajesh Khanna, Dina Pathak, Sharmila Tagore, Dennis Clement,
Directors : Basu Bhattacharya,

Amar and Mansi are in love, and decide to get married. They do so, and still continue to be in love. They get to their first wedding anniversary, and decide to hire a taxi-cab for a day, ...

Actors : Shammi Kapoor, Zeenat Aman, Sanjeev Kumar, Dev Kumar,
Directors : Shammi Kapoor,

An upright beat cop, working the most notorious area of the city - the 'red light district' - desperately tries to hang on to his values in such an amoral environment. He falls for a hooker...

Actors : Aachi Manorama, Bharathi, Bhushan Tiwari, Mehmood,
Directors : Mehmood,

Born without any knowledge of his parentage, Mahesh drives a bicycle rickshaw for a living in a town in India, prays to Bhagwan Shri Kishan, and lives in an unhealthy shanty hut. He is ...

Actors : Rajesh Khanna, Moushumi Chatterjee, Ramesh Behl, Tanuja,
Directors : Jambulingam,

Ram comes from a poor family, and works as a labourer for a living. One day he comes across an old woman in distress, and decides to assist her. This old woman is dying and asks Ram to ...

Actors : Sonia Sahni, Hema Malini, Pran, Amitabh Bachchan,
Directors : Aravind Sen,

Kasauti literally means "norm". The key players are Sapna (Hema Malini), Amit (Amitabh Bachan), Pyarelal (Pran), Neeta (Sonia Sahni) and Heera (Ramesh Deo). The theme is urban poverty and ...

Actors : Ranjeet, Prem Nath, Dev Anand, Hema Malini,
Directors : Mohan Kumar,

Manmohan alias Moni lives a dual life. One as a magician, and the other as a thief with the name of Bhagula Bhagat, whose prime agenda is to rob the rich, and spread the wealth with the ...

Actors : Rakhee Gulzar, Sadhu Meher, Sudhir Dalvi, M.K. Raina,
Directors : Awtar Krishna Kaul,

Sanjay is on a pilgrimage journey to Varanasi and remembers his life in flashbacks.

Actors : Baldev Khosa, Sunder, Alka, Tun Tun,
Directors : Dilip Bose,

After being released from jail, Shyamu returns home to his village and his home to his mom, and blind sister, Radha. Shyamu and his mom try to get Radha married, but in vain, as no one ...

Actors : Rakesh Khanna, Rajesh Khanna, Ambika Johar, I.S. Johar,
Directors : I.S. Johar,

An Indian ruler struggles to rescue her family and liberate her land from the British.

Actors : Rajesh Khanna, Hema Malini, Prem Chopra, Asrani,
Directors : K.S. Prakash Rao,

Karan Singh lives a wealthy lifestyle in a palace along with his widowed mother, an elder brother, Shamsher, his wife and daughter, Meena. His mother, Rani Maa, spent most of her time ...

Actors : Madan Puri, Sanjeev Kumar, Yogeeta Bali, Sharmila Tagore,
Directors : Shakti Samanta,

The movie is about an innocent Sharmila Tagore, who meets Sanjeev Kumar and they fall in love with each other. A twist in the story happens and he gets married to another girl (Yogeeta Bali...