Bringemovies
← Browse Movies
Manchali
TITLE DETAILS

Manchali

1973-10-26 · 131 min · ★ 6.2

Music · Comedy · Romance

One condition prevents young Leena (Leena Chandravarkar) from receiving her inheritance: She's unwed -- and until she marries, her uncle won't relinquish her legacy. When the frustrated Leena meets jobless Sanjeev (Sanjeev Kumar), the duo concocts a quid-pro-quo scheme: For a sum, Sanjeev will temporarily pose as her spouse. But once Leena has her fortune in hand, she's ready for "hubby" to make tracks.

Open detail page

Trailers are previews, not full movies.

No authorized playback source configured. Use the legal watch options below.

Production details

Directors
Raja Nawathe
Production companies
Precept Enterprises
Countries
India
Status
Released

Top Cast

Sanjeev KumarSanjeev KumarSushil Kumar
Leena ChandavarkarLeena ChandavarkarLeena
Nirupa RoyNirupa RoyChachi

Title information and images are supplied by TMDb. Explore our discovery guide for advice on comparing metadata and legal viewing options.

Where to watch

Availability provided by JustWatch via TMDb. Offers can change. Provider links are listed on TMDb; full playback requires a separately authorized source.

Availability not listed for this country.

Recommendations

The Merry Widow
★ 6.8
The Merry Widow1934Music · Comedy · Romance

A prince from a small kingdom courts a wealthy widow to keep her money in the country.

Yoh! Bestie
★ 6.3
Yoh! Bestie2026Comedy · Romance

Thando is perpetually unlucky in love, but when her bestie returns from his travels with a fiancée in tow, she's forced to face a new emotion — jealousy.

Wedding Season
★ 6.3
Wedding Season2022Comedy · Romance

Pressured by their immigrant parents to find spouses, two Indian-Americans pretend to date in order to survive a summer of weddings – but find themselves falling for each other as they struggle to balance who they are with who their parents want them to be.

What's Love Got to Do with It?
★ 6.1
What's Love Got to Do with It?2023Comedy · Romance

Two childhood friends now in their thirties must decide whether to follow their heads or their hearts once the man decides to follow his parents' advice and enter into an arranged marriage in Pakistan.

Let's Make Love
★ 6.4
Let's Make Love1960Comedy · Romance

When billionaire Jean-Marc Clement learns that he is to be satirized in an off-Broadway revue, he passes himself off as an actor playing him in order to get closer to the beautiful star of the show, Amanda Dell.

This Little Love of Mine
★ 6.1
This Little Love of Mine2021Comedy · Romance

Laura Price is a successful San Francisco lawyer on the cusp of promotion – a far cry from her childhood growing up on a tropical island with best friends Chip and Gem. When the firm’s biggest client – Chip’s grandfather – asks Laura to travel to the island and deliver a contract to make Chip his heir, she leaves behind her practice and fiancé Owen to convince her childhood friend to sign a contract that will make him a billionaire.

The Right Kind of Wrong
★ 5.9
The Right Kind of Wrong2013Comedy · Romance

A stubborn idealist spies a bride on her way to her wedding and immediately falls in love with her.

¿Quieres ser mi hijo?
★ 8.4
¿Quieres ser mi hijo?2023Comedy · Romance

Lu, a conformist woman in her forties, learns that her 15-year partner has been having extramarital affairs. Starting from scratch, she gets involved in an unexpected relationship with a young womanizer.

Love, Weddings & Other Disasters
★ 6.0
Love, Weddings & Other Disasters2020Comedy · Romance

A fussy celebrity caterer, a blind woman, a tour-bus guide and an inexperienced wedding planner search for love.

G.I. Blues
★ 6.5
G.I. Blues1960Music · Comedy · Romance

Stationed in West Germany, soldier Tulsa McLean hopes to open a nightclub once he's discharged. Although he may lack the capital for such a venture, a chance to raise the cash comes his way through a friendly wager. Local dancer Lili is a notorious ice queen, and Tulsa bets everything he has that a friend of his can earn her affections. But when the friend is dispatched to Alaska, it's up to Tulsa to melt Lili's heart.

The Prince & Me 4: The Elephant Adventure
★ 6.1
The Prince & Me 4: The Elephant Adventure2010Comedy · Romance

One year after their royal wedding, King Edvard and Queen Paige of Denmark receive an invitation to attend the wedding of Princess Myra of Sangyoon. Upon their arrival, Paige finds Myra is unhappy with her arranged marriage to the brooding and sinister Kah and is secretly in love with a young elephant handler named Alu.

Girl on a Bicycle
★ 5.9
Girl on a Bicycle2013Comedy · Romance

Paolo, an Italian tour bus driver living in Paris, has just summoned up the courage to propose marriage to his German girlfriend Greta. However, a chance encounter with a French woman on a bicycle the very next day turns Paolo's life upside down.

Mujhse Shaadi Karogi
★ 6.5
Mujhse Shaadi Karogi2004Comedy · Romance

Sameer, fast at losing his temper is re-located to Goa where he falls in love with Rani. But Sameer's new roommate Sunny, has some plans of his own.

Desperados
★ 6.0
Desperados2020Comedy · Romance

A panicked young woman and her two best friends fly to Mexico to delete a ranting email she sent to her new boyfriend. On arrival, they run into her former beau, who soon gets caught up in their frantic scheme.

Tanu Weds Manu: Returns
★ 6.9
Tanu Weds Manu: Returns2015Comedy · Romance

After Tanu and Manu's marriage breaks apart, the latter finds himself smitten by Datto, a lookalike of his ex-wife. But the estranged couple's feelings begin to spark again.

Holiday Harmony
★ 6.7
Holiday Harmony2022Music · Comedy · Romance

A likeable and talented underdog gets momentarily sidelined from chasing her musical dreams when her van breaks down in a welcoming small town just before Christmas.

Speedway
★ 5.9
Speedway1968Music · Comedy · Romance

A race car driver tries to outrun the beautiful tax auditor out to settle his account.

We Broke Up
★ 5.9
We Broke Up2021Comedy · Romance

Lori and Doug break up right before Lori's sister's wedding and decide to pretend they're still together for the weekend as to not disrupt the fun.

The Incredible Jessica James
★ 6.1
The Incredible Jessica James2017Comedy · Romance

Burned by a bad breakup, a struggling New York City playwright makes an unlikely connection with a divorced app designer she meets on a blind date.

The Fighting Temptations
★ 5.8
The Fighting Temptations2003Music · Comedy · Romance

Darrin Hill, a slick-talking but down-on- his-luck NYC advertising exec, returns to his hometown in Georgia to claim the inheritance his aunt left him. But before Darrin can collect the money, he must fulfill his aunt's final wish -- to create a local choir.

Similar titles

Transistor
Not rated
Transistor2021Romance

Set in 1975 - Rural India, Transistor is a love story of two teenagers and how proclamation of the National Emergency and a Transistor made all the difference to their relationship.

Amar Akbar Anthony
★ 6.9
Amar Akbar Anthony1977Music · Comedy

Three brothers, each raised in different religious households, reunite after many years in a chance encounter. They set out to take revenge on those responsible for separating them.

Kushti
★ 3.5
Kushti2010Comedy · Romance

The film Kushti is the story of a small village in Northern India where wrestling is a popular sport and an important wrestling match is held every year. Ever year rivals Avtar Singh (Sharat Saxena) and Jiten Singh (Om Puri) try to beat each other in the wrestling match and gain the trusteeship of the village. Rama (Rajpal Yadav) plays the role of a village simpleton and a post-master. It filled with misunderstandings and misconceptions, of hidden identities and secret love-affairs and the outcome is simply hilarious. The movie begins to take a turn when a certain someone delivers a secret package in the wrong hands. Especially someone, who is bound to take advantage and manipulate the real owner of the package.

Aulad
★ 8.2
Aulad1987Romance

Believing his wife to be dead, a man lets a woman, who has lost her child, nurse and bring up his infant son - until he finds out that his wife is still alive, and wants the baby back at any cost.

Well Done Abba
★ 6.4
Well Done Abba2010Comedy

Armaan tells his employer why he was away for three months looking for a husband for his daughter.

Apradh
★ 4.8
Apradh1972Romance

A race car driver gets into trouble when he falls in love with the lovely but troubled jewel thief, Meena. He is convinced that her crime connections will not hamper his happily ever after plans.

Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani
★ 6.2
Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani2009Comedy · Romance

When his love interest doesn't show up for a meeting, a man and his friends go to Goa in order to find her, where they discover she loves someone else.

Malang
★ 7.0
Malang2020Romance

Advait visits Goa where he meets Sara, a free-spirited girl who lives life unshackled. Opposites attract and all goes well until life turns upside down. Years later, Advait is on a killing spree with cops Aghase and Michael in his way.

Aaj Ke Angaarey
Not rated
Aaj Ke Angaarey1988Music

Vidya is a school-teacher in Love Dale High School, and has approximately 12 children in her classroom. One day they decide to participate in a inter-school competition and travel out of town. Their bus is stopped by a group of masked men, and all of them are taken captive, held for ransom in an isolated location.

Pyaar Ka Saaya
★ 3.8
Pyaar Ka Saaya1991Music

Uncredited remake of "Ghost". Dead man's spirit, unable to bear separation from his wife, communicates to her through a wacky medium.

Chori Chori
★ 5.8
Chori Chori2003Comedy · Romance

Con artist Khushi pretends to be the wife of a stranger, Ranbir, who plays along to make his ex-girlfriend jealous and win her back. When Ranbir's family hears their only son has married, the con gets more complicated. A Hindi remake of Housesitter (1992).

Aksar 2
★ 4.5
Aksar 22017Romance

A love triangle where everybody is blackmailing the other two gets a nasty upset when one of them is suddenly found murdered.

Laaga Chunari Mein Daag
★ 5.4
Laaga Chunari Mein Daag2007Romance

Badki and Chutki live a fun-filled life in Banaras, playing pranks, sneaking off to see a forbidden mujra, and soaking up all the excitement that goes on the ghats of the Ganga. Badki is aware that the family is in dire straits, but she and her mother protect Chutki at all costs. When things get worse, Badki decides to go to Mumbai and seek a living for the family.

Aamdani Atthanni Kharcha Rupaiya
★ 4.8
Aamdani Atthanni Kharcha Rupaiya2001Comedy

Jhoomri and her husband, Bhimsha, move into a new neighbourhood. Their immediate neighbours are three squabbling couples, namely Vijay and Anjali who are newly married; Appu Khote and Vimla, who are married and have 4 children; and Ravi and Meena, who are also married and have one child. With their wages unable to keep up with inflation and high cost of living, unable to pay even rent to the landlord, B.K. Kakkad, the wives decide to seek employment to augment their income, with hilarious results from their spouses, who will go to any extent to keep their wives at home, even if means to bring a dancing girl home to cook and look after the children!!

Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro
★ 7.1
Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro1983Comedy

Two zanies open a photography studio. They score a partnership with a gossip magazine that suddenly thrusts them into a world of corruption, murder, and hijinks.

Coolie
★ 6.6
Coolie1983Comedy

When Iqbal gets separated from his mother and brother by a flood, he becomes a coolie at Mumbai railway station. He then fights for the coolies rights and faces challenges from a businessman.

Jannat
★ 6.2
Jannat2008Romance

A gambler turns into a cricket bookie banking on his sixth sense for the game. But his urge to make quick money pushes him into match-fixing and he loses control of his life and love.

Mujhse Dosti Karoge!
★ 6.3
Mujhse Dosti Karoge!2002Comedy · Romance

A man falls in love with his childhood friend, but another friend is the one who reciprocates his feelings.

De Dana Dan
★ 5.8
De Dana Dan2009Comedy

Two down on their luck men try to kidnap a wealthy businesswoman's dog to demand a hefty ransom from her. But things go haywire when the dog goes missing.

Aladin
★ 6.1
Aladin2009Romance

Aladin, an orphan tormented by bullies, discovers a magic lamp that grants him incredible powers. Later, with the help of a genie, he embarks on thrilling adventures to defeat the evil Ringmaster.

Your favorites

Recently viewed

Watch

Choose an authorized server.

Full video from an operator-configured authorized source. Official trailers use a separate player. If a server fails, retry or select another authorized server.

Legal watch options

Official trailer

Trailer preview only. Press Play to start.

Privacy choices

Favorites stay in your browser. Movie images load from TMDb. YouTube trailers contact YouTube only after you allow external media and choose a trailer. Advertising consent, if ads are enabled, is managed separately by the operator’s certified CMP.

Privacy policy

After allowing external media, choose the trailer button to load its player.