Best Films of Shammi Kapoor

An adopted rich heiress falls in love with a drummer who is unaware of his family's background.

Rajoo (Rajesh Khanna) and Sheetal (Hema Malini) are in love, and expecting some opposition from Rajoo's dad (Ajit), they marry in a simple temple ceremony. But Rajoo's dad vehemently opposes this marriage, and refuses to accept Sheetal. Then Rajoo is accidentally killed in a vehicle accident, leaving Sheetal pregnant and totally devastated. She eventually gives birth a baby boy Deepu (Master Alankar). Sheetal than seeks employment, and gets a job as a teacher. One of her students is a child named Muni, whose dad is a widower, Ravi (Shammi Kapoor). Since their circumstances are similiar, they become very close, and eventually decide to marry. But Ravi's mom )Achla Sachdev) objects to this marriage, and accuses Sheetal of being a woman of questionable means. In the meantime, a villager, Mahuva (Aruna Irani) commits suicide, and the villagers point the finger at Ravi, on whom Mahuva had a crush. Was Ravi two-timing Sheetal?

A college grad in need of money must disguise himself as an old man to tutor two young women who are under the watchful eye of their strict aunt.

A woman blames a nightclub drummer for the suspicious death of her sister, and seeks revenge. However, the pair work together to solve the mystery and become romantically involved, after he introduces himself under another name.

Shanta (Sadhana) is wealthy Rajbahadur Murthy Sagar's vivacious and uppity, orphan granddaughter. Her character is developed as pretty, haughty, aware of herself and contemptuous of servants. Shyam (Shammi Kapoor) and Shanta have a couple of tempestuous meetings. Shyam, who hails from Allahabad is educated and cares about the wellbeing of his widowed step-mother and wheel chair-bound step-sister Bina. Employed by the Rajbahadur as Manager of his household, Shyam has many opportunities to court Shanta, and he does so with a succession of songs and in style. Shanta however is a misandrist (a woman who hates men) as a result of her traumatic childhood. Rita (Laxmi Chhaya) who has been brought in by the Rajbahadur to help Shanta mend her unmannerly ways has given up and admits defeat. Taming the shrew is a challenge that only Shyam can take up. But how will he deal with a woman who believes in "fall from a hilltop, fall from above, fall from anywhere, but never fall in love"? She even writes up a placard "Men are beasts". Shanta's ego is further stoked by Devdass who serenades her in Scottish attire playing a bagpipe. A road trip in a rare right hand drive open top Buick to a hill station (Khandala) in the Western Ghats is a turning point in Shanta's behaviour. Retired Colonel Jung Bahadur provides a couple of comic interludes and is pivotal as the plot unfolds.

A Darjeeling-based singer is asked to impersonate and take over the life of a Calcutta-based China Town gangster.

After being left brokenhearted several times, wealthy, beautiful Deepa travels to City of Love Paris to live in her palatial house and meets Shyam (Sam), an Indian who is fascinated by her beauty. She tries to ignore him and finally pretends to be the housemaid. Shekar is a spoiled brat of her secretary Damodar, known for his bad habits of gambling and womanizing; he is in debt to local don Jack and tries to woo Deepa and convince her to marry him. Sam always gets in Shekar's way and spoils his plans; after a few misunderstandings, Deepa and Sam fall in love. Jack warns Shekar to pay his debts soon or face the brunt but Shekar's plans go for naught when he discovers that Deepa loves Sam. To Jack's surprise, Deepa is a lookalike of Suzy, a cabaret dancer in his club. When Shekar meets Suzy, he plots with her to replace Suzy with Deepa to clear his debts. But on the very first instance Sam gets suspicious that she is not the real Deepa.

Abandoned as a child, Brahmachari lives in a mortgaged house with twelve young orphans. He saves a woman from dying and she changes his life forever. But first she has to deal with her own affairs.

Dr. Sarin lives with his wife, Sunita, young daughter, Rekha, and his brother, Rajesh. Rajesh is an eligible bachelor, and on the lookout for a life-partner with a view of marriage. One day, Dr. Sarin gets a visitor from his past, namely a beautiful young woman named Mala Das, with whom he had an affair and was even married to for a short period of time. Sarin finds out that he is still attracted to Mala, and is lured into her world - full of deception, deceit, and death.

A rich prince who lives in luxury wants to attain inner peace. He leaves his riches to become an ordinary villager and from there on, his adventure begins.

Laxmi Prasad finds an abandoned baby and decided to keep him. She and her husband Shankar named him Ramu. Shankar wants him to gamble and indulged in bootlegging. He grows up to become a criminal.

Daydreamer Rajaram lives a poor lifestyle in a village in India along with his aunt and an unmarried sister, Malti, who has mortgaged their shanty house with Sukhi Lala so that she can educate Rajaram in Bombay. Rajaram pretends to be wealthy in order to get married to his sweetheart, Nisha Sharma, much to the chagrin of her dad who wants her to get married to a boxer, Ranjeet Gupta. After Rajaram gets a degree in Arts he returns home and finds out about the debt, he attempts to find work, ends up working as a laborer with Sukhi, but is beaten-up when he is found slacking. Rajaram returns to Bombay, meets with Suleiman, and takes up collecting waste material (Dabha Batli) from households for a fee. One day he comes across a bottle, which falls down and out pops a 20000 year old Genie with magical powers. Rajaram does not want anything to do with this Genie, who insists on helping him for one year regardless. With his help Rajaram and Suleiman improve their lifestyle, albeit with a lot of problems, and also improve Rajaram's chances of getting married to Nisha. Things get complicated when the Genie loses his ring, which ends up with Ranjeet, who summons another Genie, Jumjumbo, from the very pits of hell, and abducts Nisha and her dad in order to force Nisha to marry him. Rajaram and the Genie set out for their rescue - only to find that the Genie has no powers underground - and both end up at the mercy of the evil Jumjumbo and Ranjeet.

Prince Bhanu Pratap returns from a decade in a foreign country, together with his friend Kapil. His father, the King (Raja)has married again after Bhanu Pratap's mother passed away, and has a son by his new wife Maharani (Queen) Kalavanti. The Queen's brother Narpat Singh has designs upon the throne and enrolls his sister the Maharani in his plot, by promising to unseat Bhanu Pratap and install her son as the heir. Prince Bhanu Singh has been tipped off, so he starts to behave like a CLOWN prince, instead of acting as the CROWN prince, in an attempt to flush out the schemers. Accused of a murder, the Prince has to flee the Palace, with the police after him. To compound matters, the daughter of the murdered man is committed to exacting revenge, by killing the killer. Going incognito, Bharat Pratap emerges as Bharat Ram, and displays his true character. Can Princess Sangeeta (Sadhna) forgive Rajkumar who she believes killed her father? How can she reconcile her love for Bharat Ram, the common man, with her hatred for the Royal Bhanu Singh-alleged murderer of her father? This is a complex story of Royalty in India, in the post Independence (from the British) era, before democracy took root. It is a story of love, Indian values and to some extent superstitions and the conflict between values, superstition and modern views of the world they lived in.

An inveterate con man falls in love and realizes the error of his ways after his mother comes to know the truth about him.

A humorless and pompous businessman goes wild when he falls in love. Now if only his domineering mother could understand his new lease on life.

Sujit started having mental problems when he was six years after visiting his dad, Ajit, at a mental asylum. Thereafter he kept on getting into trouble, and even ran away from the orphanage. Years later a Musician and Singer, Shyam, found Sujit singing on the roadside, and decided to hire him as a singer in a nightclub. This is where Sujit meets dancer, Jenny, and both fall in love with each other. When they announce their plans to get married, the news does not auger well with the nightclub's owner, Max, an argument ensues, Max draws a gun, and Shyam ends up killing Max. Sujit decides to take the blame, is arrested by the police, he feigns insanity, and is ordered to be admitted in a mental asylum until he recovers. In the asylum he is placed under the compassionate care of Dr. Shalini and about one year later is discharged. He returns to the nightclub just in time to for Jenny's and Shyam's engagement party. Baffled, confused, and angered at this betrayal, he really does go insane and ends up being re-admitted in the very same asylum. But this time his chances of recovery are very slim as he has retreated deep into the inner recesses of his mind - from where he may never return.

After getting fired, a police officer connects with a prostitute he met on the job in a red-light district and sets out to keep her off the streets.

A rich young man woos a proud girl against her father's wishes.

A woodcutter, Jangu lives a poor lifestyle in Kashmir along with his widowed mother, who fears that he is going to die soon after Dassera. She keeps on praying for his well-being and safety, and cautions him to be careful all the time. But Jangu does quite the opposite, gets into fights, even kills a man-eating tiger, and romances his employer's daughter, Nikki, after risking his life and rescuing her twice. Nikki too falls in love with him, much to the chagrin of her estate Manager, Prem, who is the choice of her wheelchair-bound dad. Circumstances will compel Jangu's mother to change her mind about his long life and safety, and she not only curse but also viciously assault, and wish him dead.

When his employee disappears in Singapore, Shyam travels from India to investigate the absence and becomes entangled in a deadly plot.

Rajesh (Shammi Kapoor) is the son of a rich father, Kuver Saheb (Prithviraj Kapoor). Rajesh falls in love with Savita (Saroja Devi) a daughter of a teacher Ramdas (Nazir Hussain), who Rajesh got sacked and humiliated when he was younger. Savita gets Rajesh to study harder in college instead of being a layabout and he comes 1st in the whole college and wins a gold medal. Kuvar Saheb is not happy with his son`s love affair and refuses to accept their love. But Rajesh gets married with Savita without his fathers permission and comes home. Rajesh's father Kuvar Saheb does not greet them or accept them and he consequently insults Savita. Not happy with that, Rajesh leaves home and they start living at Jivan`s house (Pran), who one of his friends. Jivan starts poisoning Rajesh's mind against Savita because Savita humiliated and slapped Jivan when he tried to woo her in college. Big misunderstandings start creeping into their relationship. Not long after the couple separate due to these misunderstanding that have been caused between them. After a while Jivan`s friend (Helen) starts feeling guilty of the misunderstandings that have been caused and brings out the truth to Rajesh he feels guilty for his mistake. Will Rajesh get his wife back? Will his father accept them? All time great singer M. Rafi`s voice adds to this good film.

After completion of his higher education Ashok returns to India to stay with his widowed father. He falls in love with Kavita who after a few altercations falls for him too. They are set to get married now. Ashok goes to attend one of his friends' marriage with a girl, Sheila. But groom's father stops marriage rituals abruptly sighting the reason that Sheila is a pervert, and goes back. Ashok marries Shiela to help Shiela's parents save face. Ashok's marriage does not go down well with Kavita and Ashok's father but now Ashok cannot disown his legally married wife. Kavita now does not want to marry but her sister & brother in law asks Ashok to pursue Kavita to marry another boy they have chosen for her. Upon Ashok's insistence, Kavita agrees but asks Ashok to attend her marriage. Ashok comes to attend marriage with Shiela. The groom comes out to be Chander, who was responsible for getting Sheila declared a pervert and deceived her. Ashok tries to stop Kavita's marriage with this crook. Chander attacks Ashok with a knife but Sheila takes the knife on her body. Chander abducts Kavita and runs away. Ashok saves Kavita. On a hospital bed, Sheila asks Ashok to marry Kavita and dies.

A runaway spoiled rich girl is helped by a man she meets on the road, but their path to love is strewn with numerous misunderstandings, false accusations, a sudden tragedy and the pursing footsteps of a persistent pickpocket.

A young lad, separated at a young age from his parents takes on the life of petty crime and ends up in jail. On his release he comes across a friend in a train, and at the friend's request sets upon to trace his two daughters; he meets them and falls in love with one of them. But the police are on his trail due to a stolen necklace belonging to none other than his birth mother.