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Bhalji Pendharkar
Bhalji Pendharkar (3 May 1897 – 26 November 1994) was a film personality in India, and recipient of Dadasaheb Phalke Award, the most prestigious award in the field. Early life and family Born to Radhabai and her husband Dr Gopal Pendharkar in a Brahmin family, Bhalji was related to quite a few film personalities in Indian film industry. A number of his close relations achieved fame in the Indian film industry. They include his elder brother Baburao Pendharkar, half-brother and actor-Director, Master Vinayak Karnataki, and maternal cousin V Shantaram. Personal life Bhalji had two wives. One of whom, Leela Chandragiri, acted and sang in Hindi and Marathi films in 1930s under the name Miss Leela. Leela-bai already had two children when she first met Bhalji. Bhalji adopted both of them, a boy (Jayasingh) and a girl. The girl later married novelist Ranjit Desai and she is better known as Madhavi Desai (died in 2013); she wrote the book 'Naacha Ga Ghumaa'. His second daughter' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Actor
An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), literally "one who answers".''Hypokrites'' (related to our word for hypocrite) also means, less often, "to answer" the tragic chorus. See Weimann (1978, 2); see also Csapo and Slater, who offer translations of classical source material using the term ''hypocrisis'' (acting) (1994, 257, 265–267). The actor's interpretation of a rolethe art of actingpertains to the role played, whether based on a real person or fictional character. This can also be considered an "actor's role," which was called this due to scrolls being used in the theaters. Interpretation occurs even when the actor is "playing themselves", as in some forms of experimental performance art. Formerly, in ancient Greece and the medieval world, and in England at the time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dadasaheb Phalke Award Recipients
Dadasaheb is an honorary title and given name. Dadasaheb may refer to: * Dadasaheb Gaikwad (1902–1971), Indian politician and social worker * Dadasaheb Khaparde (1854–1938), Indian independence activist * Dadasaheb Phalke (1870–1944), Indian filmmaker known as the Father of Indian cinema * Dadasaheb Rupwate (1925–1999), Indian politician * Dadasaheb Torne Ramchandra Gopal Torne () (13 April 1890 – 19 January 1960), also known as Dadasaheb Torne was an Indian director and producer, best known for making the first feature film in India, '' Shree Pundalik''. This historic record is well establis ... (1890–1960), Indian film director and producer * Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav (1926–1984), Indian athlete See also * Babasaheb (title) {{Given name Titles in India ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marathi Film Producers
Marathi may refer to: *Marathi people, an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group of Maharashtra, India *Marathi language, the Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Marathi people *Palaiosouda, also known as Marathi, a small island in Greece See also * *Balbodh, the script used to write the Marathi language *Maharashtrian cuisine * Maratha (other) Maratha or Marathas may also refer to: * Maratha (Arcadia), a village of ancient Arcadia * Maratha (caste), an Indian caste in Maharashtra, India * Maratha, Cyprus, a village * Maratha Empire The Maratha Empire, also referred to as the Marat ... {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hindi-language Film Directors
Hindi (Devanāgarī: or , ), or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: ), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in the Hindi Belt region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern, and western India. Hindi has been described as a standardised and Sanskritised register of the Hindustani language, which itself is based primarily on the Khariboli dialect of Delhi and neighbouring areas of North India. Hindi, written in the Devanagari script, is one of the two official languages of the Government of India, along with English. It is an official language in nine states and three union territories and an additional official language in three other states. Hindi is also one of the 22 scheduled languages of the Republic of India. Hindi is the ''lingua franca'' of the Hindi Belt. It is also spoken, to a lesser extent, in other parts of India (usually in a simplified or pidginised variety such as Bazaar Hindustani or Haflong Hindi). Outside India, several othe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rukmini Kalyanam (1936 Film)
''Rukmani Kalyanam'' () is a 1936 Indian Tamil-language Hindu mythological film produced and directed by Bhalji Pendharkar. It stars S. Rajam as the Hindu god Krishna and M. S. Vijayal as his wife Rukmani. Plot Cast ;Male cast * Master S. Rajam as Shri Krishna * R. Duraisamy Raju as Balaraman * T. R. Mani as Rukmi * S. Bala Subramaniam as Shishupalan * M. N. M. Sundaram as Naradar * Joker Ramudu as Subodar * P. K. Balu as Boatman * R. D. Raju as Boatman ;Female cast * M. S. Vijayal as Rukmani * T. S. Meenambal as Chitralekha * Chellam as Revathi * Gowri as Friend ;Supported by Mathirimangalam Natesa Iyer, Sreemathi, Panchu Bhagavathar and Kamala. Production ''Rukmani Kalyanam'' was produced and directed by Bhalji Pendharkar. S. Rajam, who portrayed the Hindu god Krishna in '' Sita Kalyanam'' (1934) and '' Radha Kalyanam'' (1935), played the same role in this film, while M. S. Vijayal played his wife Rukmani. Other supporting roles were played by Mathir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maharathi Karna
''Maharathi Karna'' is a Bollywood mythological film based on the life of Karna directed by Bhalji Pendharkar. It was released in 1944 under the banner of Prabhakar Pictures. Cast The cast of the film: * Prithviraj Kapoor as Karna * Durga Khote as Kunti Kunti ( sa, कुन्ती, ), named at birth as Pritha ( sa, पृथा, ), is one of the prominent characters of the Hindu epic ''Mahabharata''. She is best known as the mother of the Pandavas and Karna, the main protagonists of the epi ... * Shahu Modak as Krishna * K.N. Singh as Duryodhan * Kamalakar Torne * Chandrakant as Arjun Reception The film was cited as one of Kapoor's notable films by author Ashok Raj. External links * References 1944 films 1940s Hindi-language films Films based on the Mahabharata Indian action films 1940s action films Indian black-and-white films {{1940s-Hindi-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
