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Beti No. 1
''Beti No.1'' () is a 2000 Indian Hindi-language comedy drama film, written by Santosh Saroj and directed by T. Rama Rao. The film was released on 10 November 2000. It is a remake of the Malayalam film '' Aadyathe Kanmani''. The film stars Govinda, Rambha, Aruna Irani and Johnny Lever, while Prem Chopra, Ashok Saraf, Laxmikant Berde and Rakesh Bedi appear in supporting roles. Well known villain Prem Chopra played a rare positive role in this film. The film opened to highly negative reviews and flopped. Plot The story of ''Beti No.1'' deals with how our society has given women a very inferior position. It is the story of Durga Devi (Aruna Irani) whose hen-pecked husband Dashrath Bhatnagar is a gharjamai. The couple has three sons, Ram (Ashok Saraf), Laxman (Laxmikant Berde) and Bharat (Govinda). Durga Devi has said that she will bequeath all her wealth to her first grandson however her first two sons, Ram and Laxman who are both married have so far only produced daughters. Due t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aadyathe Kanmani
''Aadyathe Kanmani'' (ππͺπ³π΄π΅π£π°π³π― ππ’π³ππͺπ―π¨) is a 1995 Indian Malayalam-language family drama film directed by Rajasenan. Plot Balachandran Unnithan is a singer who falls in love with Ambika, a singer from his own troupe and they both get married. Balachandran's family longs for a male child to inherit the family's wealth, but his elder brothers have only female children. When Ambika becomes pregnant, Balachandran realizes that his wife is carrying a daughter, and not a son. Later, he meets his old classmate and best friend, Padmarajan, whose wife Hema is also pregnant, bearing a male child. However, their babies are swapped by mistake by Balu's mother soon after the delivery. Both Padmarajan and Balu must keep this as a secret to see their children. When Balu's relatives discover this, the babies get kidnapped by the antagonists. Cast *Jayaram as Balachandran Unnithan (Balu) * Sudha Rani as Ambika Balachandran * Biju Menon as Padmara ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laxmikant Berde
Laxmikant Berde (26 October 1954 β 16 December 2004) was an Indian actor known for his work in Marathi and Hindi cinema. He began his career as an employee at the production company Mumbai Marathi Sahitya Sangh and later appeared in supporting roles in several Marathi stage plays. In 1983β84, he gained recognition for his role in the Marathi play ''Tur Tur''. In addition to his film career, Berde was also involved in successful comedy stage plays, including ''Shantecha Karta Chalu Aahe'' and ''Bighadale Swargache Dwaar''. During his career, he appeared in around 185 films in both Bollywood and Marathi cinema. Berde received two consecutive Filmfare Awards for Best Actor β Marathi for his performances in ''Lek Chalali Sasarla'' (1984) and ''Dhum Dhadaka'' (1985). He also received four nominations for the Filmfare Award for Best Performance in a Comic Role for his roles in the films ''Maine Pyar Kiya'' (1989), ''100 Days'' (1991), ''Beta'' (1992), and ''Hum Aapke H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maya Govind
Maya Govind (17 January 1940 β 6 April 2022) was an Indian lyricist who wrote songs for many Bollywood films. She has written popular songs such as "Mera Piya Ghar Aaya", " Gale Mein Laal Tai", "Maine Paayal Hai Chhankayi", " Main Khiladi Tu Anari", "Aankhon Mein Base Ho Tum" etc. She wrote lyrics in films like '' Aarop'' (1974), ''Main Khiladi Tu Anari'' (1994), '' Takkar'' (1995), '' Yaarana'' (1995), '' Hum Tumhare Hain Sanam'' (2001) etc. She has written over 800 songs. Career Maya was married to late director Ram Govind. She started her career after marriage, with a song in '' Aarop'' (1974), starring Vinod Khanna. The music was composed by Bhupen Hazarika and was rendered by Kishore Kumar and Lata Mangeshkar. At a time of Urdu-poets' prominence and male domination in the songwriting industry, she established herself with her songs. She has written songs for such composers as Kalyanji-Anandji, Bappi Lahiri, Khayyam, Dilip SenβSameer Sen and Anu Malik. Anu Malik was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
T-Series (company)
Super Cassettes Industries Private Limited, Trade name, doing business as T-Series, is an Indian music record label and film production company founded by Gulshan Kumar on 11 July 1983. It is primarily known for Hindi film music, Hindi film soundtracks and Indi-pop music. T-Series is the largest music record label in India, with up to a 35% share of the Indian Music Industry, Indian music market. As of May 2025, T-Series also owns and operates the List of most-viewed YouTube channels, most-viewed and the List of most-subscribed YouTube channels, second most-subscribed YouTube channel, with over 296 million subscribers and 300 billion views. While best known as a music label, T-Series has List of T-Series films, also produced more than 100 films, and has established itself as a leading film production company in Hindi cinema. Kumar, initially a fruit juice seller in Delhi, founded T-Series to sell Copyright infringement, pirated Hindi songs before the company eventually began pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Soundtrack
A soundtrack is a recorded audio signal accompanying and synchronised to the images of a book, drama, motion picture, radio program, television program, or video game; colloquially, a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film, video, or television presentation; or the physical area of a film that contains the synchronised recorded sound. In movie industry terminology usage, a sound track is an audio recording created or used in film production or post-production. Initially, the dialogue, sound effects, and music in a film each has its own separate track, and these are mixed together to make what is called the ''composite track,'' which is heard in the film. A ''dubbing track'' is often later created when films are dubbed into another language. This is also known as an M&E (music and effects) track. M&E tracks contain all sound elements minus dialogue, which is then supplied by the foreign distributor in the native language of its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guddi Maruti
Guddi Maruti is an Indian actress best known for her comedy roles on TV and in Bollywood movies. Early life Maruti was born to an actor-director father Marutirao Parab in Bandra, Mumbai. Her real name is Tahira Parab and she was nicknamed Guddi. Manmohan Desai gave her the screen name which is what she is known by today. Career Maruti started her career at the age of 10 years as a child artist in the film ''Jaan Haazir Hain''. After her father's death, she continued acting to support the family. Due to her physical appearance, she bagged comedy roles in films and kept on going with her career. Maruti has acted in over 97 movies since the 1980s. Over the years, she acted in TV shows and is well known for her role as Bua in the TV show '' Doli Armano Ki''. Her popular movies include '' Khiladi'', '' Shola Aur Shabnam'', '' Aashik Aawara'', ''Dulhe Raja'' and '' Biwi No. 1''. She did not take chances to get to mainstream acting to avoid risks of being unsuccessful. In 1995, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashalata Wabgaonkar
Ashalata Wabgaonkar (2 July 1941 β 22 September 2020), better known as Ashalata, was an Indian actress. Originally tracing her roots to Palolem, Goa, she was associated with the Mumbai-based Goa Hindu Association. She acted in over a hundred Hindi and Marathi movies. She also sang some Konkani songs broadcast over the Mumbai station of the All India Radio. Early life and education Goa-born Wabgaonkar was also famous as a Marathi singer and playwright, besides being a film actress. She studied at the St. Columba's Girls High School at Gramdevi,Mumbai and was a post-graduate in Psychology from the SNDT Women's University. She first started performing in Konkani and Marathi plays. Career She acted in more than a hundred Hindi and Marathi movies. Some of her Marathi plays are ''Guntata Hridhya He'', ''Varyavarchi Varaat'', ''Chinna'' (with Smita Patil and Sadashiv Amrapurkar) and ''Mahananda''. Her Marathi stage career took off with the musical play ''Matsyagandha''. Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ram Mohan
Ram Mohan (26 August 1931 β 11 October 2019) was an Indian animator, title designer and design educator, who was also known as father of Indian Animation and was a veteran in the Indian animation industry, who started his career at the Cartoon Films Unit, Films Division of India, Government of India in 1956. He was chairman and chief creative officer at Graphiti Multimedia, a Mumbai-based animation company which was established in 1995, and later he also established the Graphiti School of Animation in 2006. He had won the National Film Award for Best Non-Feature Animation Film twice, ''You Said It'' (1972) and ''Fire Games'' (1983). He was awarded a lifetime achievement award at the 2006 Mumbai International Film Festival and was awarded the Padma Shri the fourth-highest civilian award given by Government of India in 2014. Early life and education Graduated in Chemistry from the University of Madras and later moved to Mumbai for his post-graduate studies but gave it up to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Razak Khan
Abdur Razak Khan (28 March 1951 β 1 June 2016) was an Indian actor who has worked in Bollywood films. Khan was noted for supporting and comic roles. He was known for his comic role of Manikchand in the 1999 AbbasβMustan directed film '' Baadshah'', as Ninja Chacha in the 1999 film '' Hello Brother'', and as Takkar Pehelwan in '' Akhiyon Se Goli Maare''. His noted last film, ''Welcome M1LL10NS'' was released in 2018. Personal life Khan was born in Mumbai, Maharashtra Indihan moved to the United Kingdom during the 1980s to focus on his stage career, but frequently traveled to India for Bollywood movie roles.Khan was married and had four children. Acting career Khan began his onscreen journey with a small role in the television show, ''Nukkad'' (1986β87) as 'Ullasbhai', and made his Hindi film debut with '' Roop Ki Rani Choron Ka Raja'' (1993). He acted in more than 100 films during his 23-year-long career. He was last seen in ''Ghoomketu'' (2020). His other noteworthy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Satyendra Kapoor
Satyendra Kappu (born Satyendra Sharma; also credited as Satyen Kappu; 7 February 1931 β 27 October 2007), was an Indian character actor in Bollywood films. He has acted in 390 films. His most remembered role is Ramlal in the movie ''Sholay'' (1975) and as Amitabh Bachchan's father in Yash Chopra's '' Deewaar''. His other notable films are ''Kati Patang'', '' Anuraag'', '' Amar Prem'', '' Yaadon Ki Baraat'', '' Khote Sikkay'', '' Don'', '' Chhoti Bahu'', '' Benaam'', '' Zanjeer'', '' Avishkaar'', '' Majboor'', '' Namak Halaal'', '' Kaala Patthar'', '' Angaaray'', '' Mr. Natwarlal'', '' Red Rose'', '' Naya Kadam'' and '' Aaj Ka M.L.A. Ram Avtar''. Career Satyen Kappu started his career as a stage actor in 1952 with the Indian People's Theatre Association (IPTA) in Bombay (present-day Mumbai). His career spanned from the early 1960s to the early 2000s with over 390 films to his credit. He mostly played supporting roles of a father, relative, uncle, police officer, doctor and vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohan Joshi
Mohan Joshi is an Indian film, television and theater actor. He has worked in Hindi, Marathi and Bhojpuri films. Career Joshi started his career as a theatre artist in Pune. He was noticed in the play ''Kuryat Sada Tingalam''. Along with Anand Abhyankar and Suhasini Deshpande, the show was performed more than 1000 times. Joshi later on got various roles in Hindi and Marathi films. His 1993 comedy film '' Savat Mazi Ladki'' directed by Smita Talwalkar was quite successful. Joshi played the lead role of a doctor husband of actress Neena Kulkarni and who is engaged in an extra-marital affair with his junior doctor played by Varsha Usgaonkar. For his work in '' Tu Tithe Mee'' (1998), Joshi's work was appreciated. Produced by Smita Talwalkar and directed by Sanjay Surkar, the film was adjudged as the Best Feature Film in Marathi at the 46th National Film Awards. In their official citation, the jury noted Joshi's and his co-star Suhas Joshi's works by quoting "Beautiful p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avtar Gill
Avtar Gill (born 14 May 1950) is an Indian actor who appears predominantly in Hindi Modern Standard Hindi (, ), commonly referred to as Hindi, is the Standard language, standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in the Devanagari script. It is an official language of India, official language of the Government ... and Punjabi language 13 films and television serials. He has done many plays with Indian People's Theatre Association Mumbai. Selected filmography Films Television References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Gill, Avtar Living people Male actors in Hindi cinema Indian male television actors 20th-century Indian male actors 21st-century Indian male actors 1950 births ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
