While searching instant movies on Netflix I stumbled on Chirag Kahan Roshni Kahan (1959) starring Rajendra Kumar and Meena Kumari. A doctor, when left widowed w/ a son gives his new infant to a widow that lost her own son after childbirth, unbeknownst to her. Four years later complications arise when the doctor's new wife, Minoo Mumtaz,(whom he married to avoid scandal created by her), who is barren, schemes to inherit the doctor's fortune that is only given to his children.
What can I say?! This movie was FANTASTIC!! The pace was perfect, the songs were sublime, Ratna (the widow) and Raju's (the son's) interactions were delightful. Rajendra Kumar was dashing and Meena Kumari was stunning. Raju of course was the cutest brown baby I've ever seen! Fun fact, Honey Irani, the ACTRESS that played 4 year old Raju wrote the screenplay for Koi...Mil Gaya and Krrish. The movie was just fantastic.
I also watched Aas (1953), w/ Shekhar, Kamini Kaushal, and Om Prakash. Basically a widower marries the governess but his meddling/evil housekeeper schemes to get rid of her. Another shocking example of how easily persuaded Indian men are by mother figures against their wives (Jodhaa Akbar anyone?)
This week I watched Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani, Koi...Mil Gaya, and Shakti: The Power. PBDHH was pretty lame. Starring Shah Rukh Kahn and 
Koi...Mil Gaya is the prequel to Krrish. Hrithik Roshan plays Rohit Mehra, Krishna's father. It is the alien story that's hinted at in Krrish. It was made before Krrish, so is it really a prequel? or just the first of the two? Anyway, it was cute, and Hrithik Roshan did very well, but he beat out SRK in Kal Ho Naa Ho for this performance and in my opinion he maybe shouldn't have. But I get the feeling that the 2004 Filmfare awards with Koi...Mil Gaya was like the year the last Lord of the Rings came out (what do you know, 2004!) and totally gyped a lot of other good movies at the Oscars (Master and Commander, cough cough). So yeah, it was good though. Preity Zinta was the love interest so she did double duty that year, actually triple. She was nominated for K...MG and Kal Ho Naa Ho, but won for KHNH.
Shakti: The Power was intense! s'bout an Indian couple in Canada that gets married and has a kid, then you find out the supposedly alone in the world husband has a parents and sibs in a remote village in India. When the mom might have gotten hurt by a bomb they go over to check on them. Turns out the dad's a crime lord and there's a huge rivalry. The husband gets brutally murdered and the rest of the movie is about the wife trying to escape w/ their son b/c her father-in-law wants to keep him and turn him into a crime boss as well. It was nuts! Really violent actually. I ended up fast forwarding through a lot of the car bombs and murders.