A list of films produced by the Hindi film industry based in Mumbai in 1943:
The ten highest-grossing films at the Indian box office in 1943:[1]
| 1943 Rank | Title | Box Office | |
| 1. | Kismet | Rs. 10,000,000 | |
| 2. | Tansen | Rs. 7,000,000 | |
| 3. | Ram Rajya | Rs. 6,000,000 | |
| 4. | Nadaan | Rs. 5,000,000 | |
| 5. | Nauker | Rs. 4,500,000 | |
| 6. | Duhai | Rs. 4,000,000 | |
| 7. | Gauri | Rs. 3,500,000 | |
| 8. | Hamaari Baat | Rs. 3,200,000 | |
| 9. | Taqdeer | Rs. 3,000,000 | |
| 10. | Ishaara | Rs. 2,800,000 |
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aabroo | Nazir | Sitara Devi, Yakub, Masud, Nazir Ahmad, Chandabai, Laddan, Jagdish Sethi | Social | Music: Pandit Gobindram Lyrics: Tanveer Naqvi, Rajjan, Hasrat Lakhnavi, Swami Ramanand Saraswati | |
| Aadab Arz | V.C. Desai | Nalini Jaywant, Karan Dewan, Mukesh, Dulari | Social Drama | Music: Gyan Dutt Lyrics: Rammurti Chaturvedi, Pandit Indra, Kailash Matwala. | |
| Aage Kadam | N.R. Acharya | Motilal, Anjali Devi, Mubarak, Rajkumari Shukla, Padma Bannerji, Nand Kishore, Narmada Shankar | Social | Music: Madhav Lal, Ramchandra Pal Lyrics: Kailash Matwala | |
| Aankh Ki Sharm | Balwant Bhatt | Prithviraj Kapoor, Trilok Kapoor, Kaushalya, Agha, Dalpat, Minakshi, Himalayawala, Nalini Gute, Nayampalli, Bibijan | Social | Music: Vasant Desai Lyrics: Pandit Indra | |
| Amaanat | Lalit Chandra Mehta | Harish, Husn Banu, Bhudo Advani, Sankatha Prasad, Agha, Dulari, Kayam Ali, Minakshi, Laddan, Nawab | Action | Music: Ninu Mujumdar Lyrics: Neelkanth Tiwari | |
| Andhera | Aspi Irani | Social Melodrama | Music: Gyan Dutt Lyrics: Pandit Indra | ||
| Angoori | Mahesh Kaul | Ulhas, Kaushalya, Sunetra, Angre, Dar Kashmiri | Social | Music: G. M. Durrani Lyrics: Rammurti Chaturvedi | |
| Andhi Duniya | Produced by Zenith Pictures | Nandrekar, Feroza Begum, B Yadav | Social | Music: Lyrics: | |
| Angoothi | Bibhuti Mitra | Ashok Kumar, Chandraprabha, Leela Mishra, S. Nair, Prahlad, Priti Majumdar | Social | Music: Lalubhai Bhojak, Ashok Ghosh Lyrics: Firoz Jalandhari | |
| Ashirwad | Ramchandra Thakur | Lalita Pawar, Balwant Singh, Jilloo, Rampyari, Vatsala Kumthekar, S. B. Nayampalli, Qayam Ali | Family Drama | Music: Anna Saheb Lyrics: Raghunath Brahmbhatt, Pandit Phani, Pandit Indra | |
| Badalti Duniya | Mohan Sinha | Mumtaz Shanti, Trilok Kapoor, K.C. Dey, Badri Prasad, Rajkumari Shukla | Social | Music: Khan Mastana, K.C. Dey, Madhukar, Haribhai Bhojak Lyrics: Mohan Sinha | |
| Badla | Anjali Devi, Bhagwan, Devika, C. Ramchandra, Baburao Pehlwan, Raj Kamal | Action Drama | |||
| Bansari | Ishwarlal, Urmila, Shamim, Noor Mohammed Charlie, Dixit, Bhagwan Das, Kesari | Social | Music: Gyan Dutt Lyrics: D. N. Madhok, Pandit Indra | ||
| Bhagta Bhoot | Ramanlal Desai | Prakash, Madhurika, Baburao Pehalwan, Firoza Begum, Mumtaz Begum, Vasantrao Pehalwan, Brajrani, Amir Bano, Mirajkar | Action | Music: Vasant Kumar Naidu Lyrics: Ehsan Rizvi | |
| Bhaichara | G.K. Mehta | Bharat Bhushan, Sunetra, Ansari, Himmat Rai, Veena Kumari Hadi, Ramesh Sinha, Rajinder Singh | Social | Music: Himanshu Dutta Lyrics: Kumar Vyas, Uday Shankar Bhatt, I. C. Kapoor | |
| Bhakta Raidas | Keshavrao Dhaiber | Biopic Devotional | Music: Saraswati Devi Lyrics: Safdar Aah | ||
| Bhaktaraj | Vasanti, V. Padnis, Kaushalya, Mubarak, E. Billimoria, Dixit, Sheela, Bhagwan Das | Devotional | |||
| Bhalai | Prithviraj Kapoor, Sitara Devi, Mahajbin, Kumar, S. Nazir, Gope, Ranibala | Social | Music: Pannalal Ghosh Lyrics: Hasrat Lakhnavi | ||
| Chhed Chhad | Sitara Devi, Nazir, Gope, Rajkumari, Majid | Social | Music: Mushtaq Hussain Lyrics: Rajjan, Tanveer Naqvi | ||
| Chhoti Maa a.k.a. Nurse | Chaturbhuj Doshi | Khursheed, Anil Kumar, Arun Kumar, Prabha, Indira, Sheikh | Family Drama | Music: Gyan Dutt Lyrics: | |
| Chirag | Ram Daryani | Ishwarlal, Kaushalya, Gope, Veena Kumari, Gulab | Social | Music: Khemchand Prakash Lyrics: Wali Sahab, D. N. Madhok, Pandit Indra | |
| Duhai | V. M. Vyas | Shanta Apte, Noor Jehan, Kumar, Zarina, Mirza Musharraf, Ansari, Kesarbai | Social | Music: Pannalal Ghosh, Rafiq Ghaznavi Lyrics: Bharat Vyas | |
| Dulhan | Gunjal | Family Drama | Music: Damodar Sharma Lyrics: Pandit Indra, J.B. Mehnat, Bekal | ||
| Duniya Diwani | K. L. Khan | Ramola, E. Billimoria, W. M. Khan, Firoza Begum, Samson, Bibijan | Social | Music: K. Narayana Rao Lyrics: Arshad Gujarati |
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fashion | S.F. Hasnain | Social | Music: Shanti Kumar Lyrics: Arzu Lakhnavi | ||
| Gauri | Monica Desai, Prithviraj Kapoor, Raj Kapoor, Rajkumari Shukla, Shamim, Kamla Chatterjee, Nagendra, Amarnath Pasan | Social | Music: Khemchand Prakash Lyrics: Kidar Sharma | ||
| Hamari Baat | M. I. Dharmsey | P. Jairaj, Devika Rani, Suraiya, Raj Kapoor, David, Shah Nawaz, Mumtaz Ali, Rajkumari Shukla | Social | Music: Anil Biswas Lyrics: Narendra Sharma | |
| Hospital a.k.a. Jogajog | Sushil Majumdar | Social | Music: Kamal Dasgupta Lyrics: Pandit Bhushan, Pandit Madhur | ||
| Hunterwali Ki Beti | Batuk Bhatt | Fearless Nadia, John Cawas, Sardar Mansur, Dalpat, Atish Sayani, Boman Shroff, Gulab | Action | Music: Channalal Naik Lyrics: A. Karim | |
| Inkaar | Sudhir Sen | Leela Desai, Pahari Sanyal, Swarnalata, Jagdish Sethi, Sunalini Devi, Shahadi, Agha, Putlibai, Ghulam Rasool | Social | Music: Ashok Ghosh Lyrics: | |
| Ishaara | J.K. Nanda | Prithviraj Kapoor, Suraiya, Swarnlata, K. N. Singh, Vatsala Kumtekar, Jagdish Sethi, Masood, Pratima Devi | Social | ||
| Jadui Jhoola | A. M. Khan | Zebunnisa, Shiraz, Ameena, Vatsala Kumtekar, Rafiq, Ansari | Fantasy | Music: Damodar Sharma Lyrics: Ramesh Chandra Pandey | |
| Kanoon a.k.a. The Law | Shahu Modak, Mehtab, Badri Prasad | ||||
| Kashinath | Asit Baran, Bharati Devi, Sunanda Bannerji, Dilip Bose, Manorama, Nawab Nemo, Radharani, Puttan | Social | Music: Pankaj Mullick Lyrics: Pandit Bhushan | ||
| Khazanchi Ki Beti | Nari Ghadiali | Sharda, Yusuf Effendi, Majid, Shahadi, Dudha, Bibijan, Maqbul, Ghulam Hussain | Action | Music: K. Narayana Rao Lyrics: Waheed Qureshi | |
| Khooni Laash | AR Kardar | E. Billimoria, Shantarin, Baburao, Ali | Action Thriller | Music: K. Narayana Rao Lyrics: Shewan Rizvi | |
| Kismet | Gyan Mukherjee | Drama | Music: Anil Biswas Lyrics: Kavi Pradeep | ||
| Koshish | Rafiq Rizvi | Trilok Kapoor, Yakub, Husn Banu, Kalyani, Sunetra, Mirza Musharaf, Maste Nissar | Social | Music: Bashir Dehlvi Lyrics: | |
| Kurbani | Ram Daryani | Ishwarlal, Kaushalya, Vasanti, Durga Khote, Gope, Majid, Sheikh | Social | Music: Khemchand Prakash Lyrics: Wali Sahab | |
| Ladaai Ke Baad | R. S. Junarrkar | Shahu Modak, Raja Paranjpe, Snehprabha Pradhan, David, Kusum Deshpande, Sharda | Social | Music: Dadasaheb Chandekar Lyrics: Wali Sahab | |
| Love | Phani Majumdar | Shanta Apte, Sunalini Devi, Narhari Narayan Joshi | Music: Lyrics: |
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mahasati Ansuya | V. M. Vyas | Durga Khote, Shobhana Samarth, Shahu Modak, Gope, E. Billimoria, Rampyari | Devotional | Music: Avinash Vyas, Allah Rakha Lyrics: Ehsan Rizvi | |
| Mahatma Vidur | Parshwanath Yeshwant Altekar | Durga Khote, V. Pagnis, Raja Sandow, Nayampalli, Yashodhra Katju, David, Sita Jhaveri, Vasantrao Pehalwan, Kalyani Das | Devotional | Music: Harishchandra Bali Lyrics: Narottam Vyas | |
| Manchali | R.C. Talwar | Ramola, Jyoti Prakash, Manorama, Sunder, Ram Dulari | Social | Music: G.A. Chishtii Lyrics: J S Kashyap, G A Chishti | |
| Masterji | Krishna Gopal | Sardar Akhtar, Harish, Shah Nawaz, Bibijan, Veena, Leela Mishra, Shanti Patel, Syed Ahmed | Social | Music: B R Deodhar Lyrics: Waheed Qureshi, Neelkanth Tiwari, Pandit Anuj | |
| Mauj | Pahari Sanyal, Kaushalya, Fearless Nadia, Sardar Mansur, Agha, Nazira | Social Action | Music: Vasant Desai Lyrics: | ||
| Mazaaq | Zahur Raja | Pahari Sanyal, Madhuri, Zahur Raja, Radharani, Haroon, Tara | Social | Music: Zahur Raja Lyrics: Abid Gulrez | |
| Mera Khwab | Hansraj Patel | Prakash, Zebunissa, Samson, Putlibai, Abbas | Social | Music: Ghulam Mohammed Lyrics: M E Ashq | |
| Mohabbat | Pahari Sanyal, Shanta Apte, Sunalini Devi, Jagdish Sethi, Manorama, K. C. Dey, S. Nair, Yashodara Katju, Navinchandra | Romance Drama | Music: Hari Prasanna Das Lyrics: | ||
| Mohabbat Ki Jeet | Ramanlal Desai | Fearless Nadia, Navinchandra, S Nasir, Shakir, Agha, Leela Pawar, Narhari Narayan Joshi | Action | Music: Vasant Kumar Naidu Lyrics: Ehsan Rizvi | |
| Mr. Jhatpat | Harbans | Radharani, E. Billimoria, Harishchandra, Dalpat, Nazira, Devasker, Bibijan | Action | Music: C. Ramchandra Lyrics: Waheed Qureshi | |
| Muskurahat | Ram Kamlani, Dwarka Khosla | Romance Drama | Music: C. Ramchandra Lyrics: I. C. Kapoor | ||
| Nadaan | Social | Music: Datta Korgaonkar Lyrics: Zia Sarhadi, Tanveer Naqvi | |||
| Nagad Narayan | Vishram Bedekar | Leela Desai, Kusum Deshpande, Pratima Devi, Baburao Pendharkar, Nayampalli, Masood, Rose, Shakir | Social | Music: Shridhar Parsekar Lyrics: | |
| Nai Kahani | D.D. Kashyap | Paresh Bannerjee, P. Jairaj, Rose, Nandrekar, Shalini, Chhotu, Rane | Social | Music: Shyam Sundar Lyrics: Wali Saheb | |
| Nai Zindagi | S. Khalil | Sheikh Mukhtar, Anees Khatoon, Yakub, Nazma, Satish, Gope, Agha, Laddan | Social | Music: Vasant Kumar Lyrics: | |
| Najma | Mehboob Khan | Ashok Kumar, Veena, Kumar, Yakub, Sitara Devi, Majid, Agha, Murad, Rajkumari Shukla | Music: Rafiqe Ghaznavi Lyrics: Anjum Pilibhiti | ||
| Namaste | M. Sadiq, S.U. Sunny | Protima Dasgupta, Wasti, Jagdish Sethi, Rajkumari Shukla, Misra, Allauddin S.B. Nayampalli | Social | ||
| Naukar | Syed Shaukat Hussain Rizvi | Chandra Mohan, Shobhana Samarth, Noor Jehan, Yakub, Balwant Singh, Mirza Musharraf, Miss Moti | Social Melodrama | Music: Rafiqe Ghaznavi Lyrics: Shams Lakhnavi, Akhtar Sheerani, Bahadur Shah Zafar, Nazim Panipati | |
| Naya Tarana | Najam Naqvi | P. Jairaj, Snehprapha Pradhan, Raja Paranjpe, Pratima Devi, David, Chandrika, Sharda | Social | ||
| Naya Zamana | Sarojini, Rajnikant, Ghori, Benjamin, S. Nazir, Mehar Bano, Gulab, Munshi Khanjar, Rajnikant, Ghori | Drama | Music: Ramchandra Pandey, Damodar Sharma Lyrics: Ramchandra Pandey, Ehsan Rizvi, Pandit Anuj |
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paapi | Majnu | Madhuri, Majnu, Salma, Zahur Shah, Satish Batra, Miss Iqbal | Social | Music: Pandit Amarnath Lyrics: Aziz Kashmiri | |
| Pagli | Shankar Mehta | Social | Music: Gobind Ram, Rasheed Attre Lyrics: | ||
| Paigam | Surendra Desai | Surendra, Sadhana Bose, Anil Kumar, Ansari, Sulochana Chatterjee, Hadi, Pratima Devi, Munshi Khanjar | Social | Music: Gyan Dutt Lyrics: Safdar Aah, Baalam Pardesi, Pandit Indra | |
| Panghat | Mahesh Chandra, K.J. Parmar | Ratnamala, Umakant, Alaknanda, Jeevan, Leela Pawar, Sushil Kumar, M. Ismail, Jayant, Manorama | Social | Music: S. N. Tripathi Lyrics: Pandit Indra, Ramesh Gupta | |
| Paraya Dhan | Social Family Drama | Music: Gyan Prakash Ghosh Lyrics: Rammurti Chaturvedi | |||
| Pistolwali | Nari Ghadiali | Romila, Benjamin, Atish Sayani, Bibijan, Ali, Shahzadi, Amritlal Nagar | Action | Music: K Narayana Rao Lyrics: Mustafa Nisar | |
| Poonji | Ravindra Dave, Vishnu Pancholi | Ragini, Ajmal, Jayant, Manorama, M. Ismail, Anwaribai | Social | Music: Ghulam Haider Lyrics: Behzad Lakhnavi, D. N. Madhok, Shaukat Thanvi | |
| Prarthana | Sarvottam Badami | Motilal, Sabita Devi, Nimbalkar, Sadat Ali, Kajjan, K. N. Singh, Mehboob, Menka | Social | Music: Saraswati Devi Lyrics: Safdar Aah | |
| Pratiggya | Nandlal Jaswantlal | Social | Music: Indravadan Bhatt Lyrics: | ||
| Prem Sangeet | Wahid-ud-din Zia-ud-din Ahmed | P. Jairaj, Nina, Anwar, Rajkumari Shukla, W. M. Khan, Ram Avtar, H, Prakash, Gulab | Social | ||
| Prithvi Vallabh | Historical Drama | Music: Rafiq Ghanavi Lyrics: Pandit Sudarshan | |||
| Pyara Watan | M. Udwadia | Alaknanda Benjamin, Yashwant Dave, Kalyani Das, But Kashar, Samson | Social | Music: Shyam Babu Pathak Lyrics: Kabil Amritsari | |
| Rahgeer | A. Rashid | Trilok Kapoor, Masood, Yakub, Zohra Sehgal, Shantarin, Shahzadi, Anwaribai, Habib | Social | Music: Khan Mastana Lyrics: Shewan Rizvi | |
| Raja | Kishore Sahu, Protima Das Gupta, Moni Chatterjee, Ranibala, Ramesh Gupta, Anant Prabhu, Badri Prasad, Vijay Sahu, Gulab, Samson | Social | Music: Khan Mastana Lyrics: Bhagwati Charan Sharma, Rammurti Chaturvedi | ||
| Ram Rajya | Vijay Bhatt | Prem Adib, Shobhana Samarth Chandrakant, Badri Prasad, Shanta Kumari, Ranjana, Madhusudan, Umakant, Yashwant, Athavale | Religious | Music: Shanker Rao Vyas Lyrics: Ramesh Gupta | |
| Rani | P.C. Barua, Patience Cooper, Jamuna, Johar Ganguly, Kalavati, Bikram Kapoor | Social | Music: Kamal Dasgupta Lyrics: Pandit Madhur | ||
| Rekha | Mahendra Thakore | Social | Music: Damodar Sharma Lyrics: Qamar Jalalabadi, Swami Ramanand Saraswati |
| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sahara | Jagatrai Pesumal Advani | Renuka Devi, S. D. Narang, Pran, Zahur Shah, Razia, Meena, Irshad | Social | Music: Gobind Ram Lyrics: Qamar Jalalabadi, M.S. Sehrai, Swami Ramanand Saraswati | |
| Salma | Nazir | Ishwarlal, Sitara Devi, Yakub, Majid, Urmila, Anwari | Social | Music: Gobind Ram Lyrics: Hasrat Lakhnavi | |
| Sanjog | Music: Lyrics: | ||||
| Sawaal | Niranjan | Mumtaz Shanti, Ulhas, Agha, Badri Prasad, Niranjan, Radharani, Habib | Social | Music: Pannalal Ghosh Lyrics: Wali Sahab | |
| School Master | Chimanlal Luhar | Karan Dewan, Gope, Sushil Kumar, Rajkumari Shukla, Jeevan, Maya Banerji, Kaushalya, M. Khanjar, Yakbal | Social | Music: Ninu Majumdar Lyrics: Pandit Indra, Bharat Vyas | |
| Shahenshah Akbar | G.R. Sethi | Historical Biopic Drama | |||
| Shakuntala | V. Shantaram | Jayshree, Chandra Mohan, V. Shantaram, Ameena | Scriptural | ||
| Shankar Parvati | Arun Kumar, Mahipal, Sadhana Bose, Brijmala, Kamala Chatterjee, Narmada Shankar, Bhagwandas, Sulochana. Rewashankar, Rajinder Singh | Religious | |||
| Sharafat | C. M. Trivedi | Pahari Sanyal, Leela Desai, Moti, Agha, Jagdish Sethi, S. L. Puri, Ghulam Rasool | Social | Music: Ashok Ghosh Lyrics: | |
| Shri Ramanuja | Dhiraj Bhattacharya, Chhaya Devi, Tulsi Chakraborty, V. Panchotia, Bikram Kapoor, Biman Bannerji, Hiralal, Kamal Mitra | Devotional | Music: Anupam Ghatak Lyrics: Narottam Vyas | ||
| Tansen | K. L. Saigal, Khurshid, Mubarak, Kamla Chatterji, Nagendra, Kesari, Bhagwandas | Drama, Musical, Romance | Music: Khemchand Prakash Lyrics: D. N. Madhok, Pandit Indra | ||
| Taqdeer a.k.a. Destiny | Motilal, Nargis, Chandra Mohan, Noor Mohammed Charlie, Jilloo, Kayam Ali, Ansari, Laddan, Maheshar Shirazi | Romantic comedy | Music: Rafiq Ghaznavi Lyrics: Meharul Qadri | ||
| Tasveer | Najam Naqvi | Social | Ramchandra Pal Lyrics: Arzu Lakhnavi | ||
| Vakil Saheb | Mohan Sinha | Trilok Kapoor, Madhuri, Shahzadi, Rajkumari Shukla, Mumtaz Begum, Badri Prasad, Munshi Khanjar | Comedy, Drama | Music: Pandit Madhukar, Annasaheb Mainkar Lyrics: Mohan Sinha | |
| Vijay Lakshmi | G. S. Casshyap | Motilal, Shobhana Samarth, Gope, David, Yashodhra Katju, Bhudo Advani, Leela Mishra, Mehar Bano | Social | Music: G. M. Durrani Lyrics: J S Kashyap, Kailash Matwala, Neelkanth Tiwari | |
| Vish Kanya | Prithviraj Kapoor, Sadhana Bose, Surendra, Kamla Chatterjee, Amarnath, Leela Mishra, Brijmala | Costume Fantasy | Music: Khemchand Prakash Lyrics: Kidar Sharma | ||
| Vishwas | Surendra, Trilok Kapoor, Mehtab, Sulochana Chatterjee, Gulab, Himalayawala, Nayampalli | Music: Firoz Nizami Lyrics: Pandit Indra | |||
| Wapas | Hemchandra Chunder | Social | Music: R. C. Boral Lyrics: Pandit Bhushan | ||
| Watan Farosh | Raja Yagnik | Navinchandra, Leela Pawar, Agha, Dalpat, Sardar Mansur, Munshi Khanjar, Bhagwan Das | Action | Music: Mulraj Kapadia Lyrics: Ehsan Rizvi | |
| Zaban | Jayant Desai | Drama | Music: C. Ramachandra Lyrics: D. N. Madhok, Anjum Pilibhiti, Ratan Piya, Saraswati Kumar Deepak, Mahir Ul Qadri | ||
| Zamindar | Moti B. Gidwani | Shanta Apte, Manorama, Khairati, Durga Mota, S. D. Narang, M. Ismail | Mystery | music: Ghulam Haider | |
| Zameen | Anand Kumar | Khursheed, Biswas, Durga Khote, David, S. Nazir | Social | Music: Datta Korgaonkar Lyrics: |