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Bela Bose
Bela Bose (1943 or 1944 – 20 February 2023) was an Indian dancer and actress who was active in Hindi films during the 1960s and 1970s. Early life Bela Bose was born in Calcutta on 1 January 1943 or 1944 into a well-to-do family. Her father was a cloth merchant, and her mother was a homemaker. Following a bank crash that wiped out their fortune, the family relocated to Bombay in 1951. As a schoolgirl, she started her career as a group dancer in films to help support her family after her father's death in a road accident. She appeared in more films after finishing her schooling. Career Bela Bose began to receive independent credit from the late 1950s. Her big break came when she was asked to perform a dance number with Raj Kapoor in ''Main Nashe Mein Hoon'', released in 1959. Her first leading role was at age 21 in ''Sautela Bhai'' (1962) opposite Guru Dutt. She honed her acting skills performing in Bengali plays. Her career consisted of more than 150 films. In ''Hawa Maha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calcutta
Kolkata, also known as Calcutta (List of renamed places in India#West Bengal, its official name until 2001), is the capital and largest city of the Indian States and union territories of India, state of West Bengal. It lies on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River, west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary Financial centre, financial and Commercial area, commercial centre of Eastern India, eastern and Northeast India, northeastern India. Kolkata is the list of cities in India by population, seventh most populous city in India with an estimated city proper population of 4.5 million (0.45 crore) while its metropolitan region Kolkata Metropolitan Area is the List of million-plus agglomerations in India, third most populous metropolitan region of India with a metro population of over 15 million (1.5 crore). Kolkata is regarded by many sources as the cultural capital of India and a historically and culturally significant city in the historic Bengal, region of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chaudhary Karnail Singh
''Chaudhary Karnail Singh'' is a 1960 Indian Punjabi movie based in the pre-partition times of India. The film was one of the earliest works of Prem Chopra. The film won National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Punjabi. Cast *Jagdish Sethi as Chaudhary Karnail Singh *Prem Chopra as Shera *Madan Puri Madan Puri (30 September 1915 – 13 January 1985) was an Indian actor of Hindi and Punjabi films. His brothers were actors Chaman Puri and Amrish Puri. As a character actor mainly in negative roles (villain), he acted in about 430 films in ... as Boota Singh References External links * 1960 films Punjabi-language Indian films 1960s Punjabi-language films {{Punjabi-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neend Hamari Khwab Tumhare (1966 Film)
''Neend Hamari Khwab Tumhare'' is a 1966 Indian Hindi-language film directed by Shiv Sahni and produced by Hans Choudhary. It stars Shashi Kapoor and Nanda in pivotal roles. Synopsis Nishad (Nanda) lives a wealthy and noble lifestyle with her Delhi-based father, Khan Bahadur Balraj Sahni and mom. She has three suitors who would do anything to marry her. The first is Shaukat Khan Manmohan, the son of Nawab Hamid Khan, who also comes from a noble family and meets with the approval of her dad; the second is Shibbu Rajendra Nath, who is distantly related to her mom, and also meets their approval; the third is Anwar Shashi Kapoor, the only son of Nawab Ajmutullah Khan Farooqui Om Prakash who was initially rejected by her parents, but is now on their approval list, as they think he, too, comes from a noble background. After a few dates, Nishad falls in love with Anwar, much to the chagrin of Shaukat and Shibbu. What Nishad does not know is that Anwar's dad was a Hajam (Barbar) by pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boxer (boxing)
Boxing is a combat sport and martial art. Taking place in a boxing ring, it involves two people – usually wearing protective equipment, such as boxing glove, protective gloves, hand wraps, and mouthguards – throwing Punch (combat), punches at each other for a predetermined amount of time. Although the term "boxing" is commonly attributed to western boxing, in which only fists are involved, it has developed in different ways in different geographical areas and cultures of the World. In global terms, "boxing" today is also a set of combat sports focused on Strike (attack), striking, in which two opponents face each other in a fight using at least their fists, and possibly involving other actions, such as kicks, Elbow (strike), elbow strikes, Knee (strike), knee strikes, and headbutts, depending on the rules. Some of these variants are the bare-knuckle boxing, kickboxing, Muay Thai, Lethwei, savate, and Sanda (sport), sanda. Boxing techniques have been incorporated into many ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poonam Ki Raat
''Poonam Ki Raat'' (Full moon Night) is a 1965 horror thriller film starring Manoj Kumar, Prem Chpra, and Rajendra Nath in lead roles. It was produced and directed by Kishore Sahu. The music was given by Salil Chowdhury, with lyrics by Shailendra. Plot Chandan (Shiv Kumar), Prakash (Manoj Kumar) and their college mates are enjoying themselves while on an education tour at a site along with their Professor-in-charge when Sumer Singh (Rajendra Nath) rushes there by jeep to inform Chandan that his father Lala Baijnath ( D.K. Sapru) is not keeping well as his illness has relapsed and that Chandan's mother has asked him to come home immediately. Chandan requests Prakash to accompany him to give moral support. Prakash agrees, as it will give him a chance to give Rekha (Bela Bose), a flirty classmate, the slip. They rush to Chandan's home-town along with Sumer Singh. Reaching the outskirts of the town, Prakash is shocked to learn while buying cigarettes at a stall that the mansion he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hum Sab Ustad Hain
''Hum Sab Ustad Hain'' is a 1965 Hindi film starring Kishore Kumar, Dara Singh and Ameeta. Plot The film begins with Romi (Sheikh Mukhtar) shooting a man, though the attempt isn't fatal. Despite this, Romi is arrested, convicted, and sentenced to prison for murder. His pregnant wife Radha (Lalita Kumari) throws herself into the river but is later saved by a villager who takes her in, along with her son Ram (Dara Singh). After serving 14 years in prison, Romi spends the next eight years wandering. Rejected by society and unable to find work, Romi turns to a life of crime. When his gang is offered a large sum of money to smuggle national secrets, Romi kidnaps a young child and forces her sister Roopa (Ameeta) to transport the contraband. Roopa, who would rather die than betray her country, loses control of her car and drives into the river. She survives and is washed ashore in the village where Radha and Ram reside. Meanwhile, an unemployed Kishore (Kishore Kumar) decides to play de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mama Ji
''Mama Ji'' (), also spelled incorrectly as ''Mamaji'', is a 1964 Punjabi film directed by Roshan Bhardwaj, produced by Gopal Saigal and S. P. Malhotra, starring Gopal Saigal, and Indira Billi in lead roles. Synopsis ''Mama Ji'' is a drama with comedy and romance. Bansi Lal is an idle and not very intelligent man living in his (married) sister's home. His maternal grandfather is a businessman in Africa. His sister, Lajwanti, and her husband, Kirpa Ram, are very unhappy with him as he does not use his brain at work. They want him to leave. One day, he buys a magic stick from a magician thinking that the stick really has magic. This makes his sister and her husband very angry again. As he realized that the stick does not actually have any magic, he feels robbed and one day, he snatches money from the magician and runs and hides himself in a Tonga. A beautiful girl, Laali, is searching for his father, lost in the Visakhi ''mela'' (English: fair). A Tonga driver takes her with h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chitralekha (1964 Film)
Chitralekha may refer to: * Chitralekha (deity), a Hindu deity * ''Chitralekha'' (novel), a 1934 historical novel by Indian writer Bhagwati Charan Verma ** ''Chitralekha'' (1941 film), a film based on the above novel ** ''Chitralekha'' (1964 film), another film based on the same novel, starring Meena Kumari and Ashok Kumar * ''Chitralekha'' (weekly), a Gujarati-language magazine in India See also * Chitra (other) * Lekh (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ziddi (1964 Film)
''Ziddi'' (English: ''Stubborn'') is a 1964 Hindi film directed by Pramod Chakravorty, starring Joy Mukherjee and Asha Parekh. The film has music by S. D. Burman and lyrics by Hasrat Jaipuri, creating hits like "Raat Ka Samaa". It went on to become the fourth highest-grossing film at the Indian Box Office of the year. Plot On the lookout for employment, Ashok (Joy Mukherjee) sees the photographs of beautiful Asha (Asha Parekh), and decides to accept employment as the estate's Manager. His expectations are short-lived as Asha turns out to be a rich, spoiled, conceited bratty young lady. To complicate matters further, Seema (Nazima), Asha's sister is attracted to Ashok. Ashok and Asha do like and eventually end up in love with each other, but Ashok's dad (Ulhas) does not approve to their marriage as he knows of Asha's parentage, a father who is an escaped convict, in jail for murder, and a mother whose profession was: prostitution. Ashok himself sees Asha in her true colors when ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bidesiya (film)
''Bidesiya'' is a Bhojpuri film that was released in 1963 and was directed by S. N. Tripathi produced by Bachubhai Shah. Plot Bidesi Thakur is an Upper-caste youth from Jalalpur village who runs a Paan shop. Parbatiya is a Chamar girl who comes to Bidesi's shop with her aunt, where the two fall in love. They started a love affair. Bidesi's uncle who is a rich and powerful pervert old man sees Parbatiya and keeps a bad eye on her. Bidesi drops Parbatiya to her home on his Horse cart. Bidesi's uncle tries to convince him to leave Parbatiya and it creates an argument between them. The aunt advises him to go somewhere else as he has made many enemies to stand against the Caste system. As soon as, Bidesi leaves, Thakur's men adbuct Parbatiya. The Aunt decides to call Bidesi back. She finds that Bidesi is in Benaras. He returns to the village and Thakur's men try to beat him, Parabtiya goes to rescue him where she is mistakenly shot by the bullet fired by the Thakur to kill Bidesi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anpadh
''Anpadh'' (Hindi: अनपढ़, Urdu: اَنپڑھ, translation: ''illiterate'') is a 1962 Hindi film. It stars Balraj Sahni, Dharmendra, Mala Sinha, Shashikala. Actress Bindu made her first prominent appearance in this film with the song Jiya Le Gayo Ji Mora Sanwariya. The music is by Madan Mohan and the lyrics by Raja Mehdi Ali Khan. The film focuses on the importance of education for girls. This movie has the evergreen song "Aapki Nazron Ne Samjha", sung by Lata Mangeshkar. Plot Shambunath "Shambu" is a rich man who lives with his younger sister Lajwanti "Lajjo". Shambu feels that accumulation of wealth is much more important than education because of which Lajjo becomes illiterate. Lajjo is a naive young girl, who doesn't know to do household chores. Many days later, Shambu gets Lajjo married to Deepak, another young man who comes from a rich family. Lajjo is devastated to know that Deepak is a bibliophile and is highly educated. She confesses to the family about her il ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prem Patra
''Prem Patra'' (''Hindiप्रेमपत्र', The love letter) is a 1962 Indian Hindi-language romantic drama film produced and directed by Bimal Roy. It stars Shashi Kapoor and Sadhana. It was a remake of the 1956 Bengali film '' Sagarika'' starring Uttam Kumar and Suchitra Sen. Cast *Shashi Kapoor as Arun Kumar Mathur * Sadhana as Kavita Kapoor * Praveen Choudhary as Ratna * Seema Deo Seema Deo (27 March 1942 – 24 August 2023) was an Indian Hindi and Marathi film actress. She appeared in over 80 Marathi and Hindi films. She won Maharashtra State Film Award for Best Actress for the film Pahu re kiti vaat. Biography See ... as Tara * Chand Usmani as Sunitra * Rajendra nath as Kedar * Kanu Roy as Mr.Kapur * Sudhir as Subhash * Sadhana Khote Soundtrack All the songs of the movie had been embellished with music by a well-known composer, Mr. Salil Chaudhary. References External links * 1960s Hindi-language films 1962 films Films directed by Bimal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
