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Dilip Dhawan
Dilip Dhawan (1955 – 15 February 2000) was an Indian film and television actor. He started his career as a child in '' Sangharsh'' (1968), featuring Dilip Kumar. Dhawan acted in over 50 films. Career He acted as the lead in the film ''Arvind Desai Ki Ajeeb Dastaan'' in 1978. He is known for his role as "Guru" in the television serial ''Nukkad'', Dhawan also acted in serials such as ''Janam'', ''Deewar'' and ''Tere Mere Sapne''. He also acted in films like ''Ek Baar Kaho'' (1980), ''Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyon Ata Hai'' (1980), ''Sazaye Maut'' (1981), ''Saaheb'' (1985), '' Dak Bangla'' (1987), ''Hero Hiralal'' (1988), '' Swarg'' (1990), '' Izzatdaar'' (1990), '' Heena'' (1991), '' Madhosh'' (1994), '' Yash'' (1996), '' Virasat'' (1997), '' Hum Saath-Saath Hain: We Stand United'' (1999) and '' Raja Ko Rani Se Pyar Ho Gaya'' (2000). He was also the producer of the film '' Saath Saath'', in 1982. Personal life He was the son of character actor Krishan Dhawan. He died on 15 Febr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sunghursh
''Sunghursh'' ("Struggle") is a 1968 Indian Hindi film directed and produced by Harnam Singh Rawail. It is based on ''Layli Asmaner Ayna'' ("Layli Does Not Go To Heaven"), a short story in Bengali language by Jnanpith Award-winning writer Mahasweta Devi, which presents a fictionalised account of a vendetta within a thuggee cult in the holy Indian town of Varanasi. It stars Dilip Kumar, Vyjayanthimala, Balraj Sahni, Sanjeev Kumar, Jayant, Deven Verma, Durga Khote and Iftekhar. The film was the last one to see Dilip Kumar and Vyjayanthimala working together. The music is by Naushad and lyrics for the songs are by Shakeel Badayuni. Naushad and Badayuni had worked together on many films previously and were "the most sought after" composer-lyricist duo of the time in Bollywood. ''Sunghursh'' was popularly mistaken to be a debut film of Sanjeev Kumar. The director Harnam Singh Rawail's son Rahul Rawail, who is also a director, paid a tribute to this film by titling one of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virasat (1997 Film)
''Virasat'' () is a 1997 Indian Hindi-language action drama film, directed by Priyadarshan. The story was written by Kamal Haasan and remade after the success of the Tamil film ''Thevar Magan''. Mushir-Riaz duo produced the film. It stars Anil Kapoor, Tabu, Amrish Puri, Pooja Batra, Milind Gunaji and Govind Namdeo. The music was composed by Anu Malik and S. P. Venkatesh, with the former composing the songs and the latter composing the score. The film marked the comeback for Priyadarshan in Hindi cinema. Music director Annu Malik reused some of the original tunes of Ilaiyaraaja from ''Thevar Magan''. Tabu has done beatboxing in this movie for the song "Payale Chunmun". ''Virasat'' received sixteen nominations at the 43rd Filmfare Awards, including Best Film, Best Director for Priyadarshan, Best Actor for Kapoor, Best Actress for Tabu, and Best Supporting Actress & Best Female Debut for Batra, and won in seven categories, including Best Film (Critics), Best Actor (Cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tahalka
''Tahalka '' () is a 1992 Indian Hindi-language action adventure film directed by Anil Sharma, featuring an ensemble cast including Dharmendra, Naseeruddin Shah, Aditya Pancholi, Javed Jaffrey, Shammi Kapoor, Amrish Puri, Mukesh Khanna, Ekta Sohini, Pallavi Joshi, Sonu Walia, Shikha Swaroop, and Firdaus Dadi (in her acting debut). The film was the fifth highest grosser of 1992 and was declared a Hit by Box Office India. This film was loosely based on Hollywood action adventure films '' The Guns of Navarone'' and ''Where Eagles Dare''. Plot General Dong is the evil dictator of the fictional country, Dongrila. He has kidnapped dozens of school girls and plans to use them as suicide bombers to bomb populated areas in India. He even puts some girls into his personal harem, pushing the remaining ones into prostitution and using them for illegal organ trade. He also carried out the assassination of the chief of the Indian Army, General Sinha. One day, while out for a seaside trip w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henna (film)
''Henna'' is a 1991 Indian romance drama film, written by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, produced and directed by Randhir Kapoor. It stars Rishi Kapoor, along with Pakistani actress Zeba Bakhtiyar in the title role and Ashwini Bhave. The film was planned and started by director Raj Kapoor, but due to his death before the filming, it was shot by his eldest son Randhir. The dialogues of the film were written by the Pakistani writer Haseena Moin. The film was a major critical and a commercial success and was also India's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee. Plot Chandar Prakash (Rishi Kapoor), who lives in Srinagar, is due to be engaged and married to Chandni Kaul (Ashwini Bhave), whom he calls Chand. On the day of the engagement, he experiences an accident, and mistakenly strays into the Pakistani side of Kashmir. A native girl, Henna ( Zeba Bakhtiar), falls in love with him; this is amidst the India-Pakistan tensions in Kashmir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shiva (1990 Film)
''Shiva'' is a 1990 Indian Hindi-language action drama film written and directed by Ram Gopal Varma. It was a remake of Varma's debut Telugu film, '' Siva'' (1989). The film has Nagarjuna (in his Hindi debut) and Amala in lead roles with Raghuvaran and J. D. Chakravarthy as the antagonists. All four actors reprise their roles from the original Telugu film. The film became a blockbuster. The success led to Ram Gopal Varma directing a prequel in 2006. Plot The film opens in a classroom in VAS College of Arts & Sciences. After the classes, upon the directions of a college student, JD, a bunch of goons led by Ganesh savagely assaults a group of students right outside the college gate. It's later made clear that JD was settling some campus scores and that the incident resulted in at least one student leaving the college, deepening the fear for JD on the campus. It turns out that JD is the (unopposed) president of the college students' union and the leader of a notorious campus ga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dak Bangla
A dak bungalow, dak-house or dâk-bungalow was a government building in British India under Company Rule and the Raj. It may also refer to some similarly-built or -used structures in modern India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan. __NOTOC__ Origins The dak bungalows carried on a tradition of ''caravanserais'', ''dharamshalas'', and other guesthouses erected by Indian rulers for both Hindu and Muslim pilgrims.. The India Office possesses a diary with the entry for 25 November 1676 noting "It was thought fitt... to sett up Bungales or Hovells... for all such English in the Company's Service as belong to their Sloopes & Vessells".. The dak bungalows proper were first erected in the 1840s,. serving as staging posts for the ''dak'', the imperial mail service. Rudyard Kipling's father J. Lockwood Kipling described them as "about as handsome as a stack of hay" and forming a kind of "'irreducible minimum' of accommodation". Each was about from the next along the major roads of the subco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bade Dilwala
''Bade Dilwala'' () is a 1999 Indian Hindi-language romance film produced and directed by Shakeel Noorani. The film is a remake of the 1994 Hollywood movie '' It Could Happen to You''. It stars Sunil Shetty and Priya Gill in pivotal roles. It is unrelated to the 1983-released Bollywood film of the same name. Plot Police inspector Ram (Sunil Shetty) is a man of his word. His wife Manthara (Archana Puran Singh) is obsessed with money and neglects her family in pursuit of getting rich quick. She forces Ram to buy a lottery ticket and he obliges. When he goes into a restaurant for a snack, he finds that he has no money to tip the waitress Piya (Priya Gill). He promises her half the money if he ever wins the lottery. And to his surprise, he does! But Manthara is not about to give up half of this windfall so easily and as Ram and Piya get closer to each other, they discover a growing attraction. Cast * Sunil Shetty as Police Inspector Ram Prasad * Priya Gill as Piya Verma * Paresh Ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aagman
''Aagaman'' is a 1982 Hindi language drama film directed by Muzaffar Ali and produced by Uttar Pradesh Sugarcane Seed and Development Corporation under the banner of Integrated Films. The cast included Saeed Jaffrey, Suresh Oberoi, Dilip Dhawan, Anupam Kher, Bharat Bhushan and Raj Bisaria. The film marked the debut of Kher. The plot involved the politics and working techniques of Uttar Pradesh sugarcane co-operative societies. Upon release, it received mixed reviews from critics. The film was also shown at the 43rd International Film Festival of India in 2012. Plot In a village of Awadh, sugarcane planters are exploited by mill owner (Bharat Bhushan). A young man (Suresh Oberoi) returns to this village after receiving a degree in law from a reputed university of Lucknow. Seeing the poor condition of planters, he urges them to stop selling their sugarcane to the mill owner and instead start their own co-operative mill. The mill owner, his landlord-agent (Saeed Jaffrey) and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ek Baar Kaho (1980 Film)
''Ek Baar Kaho'' () is a 1980 Indian Hindi-language drama film produced by Tarachand Barjatya and directed by Lekh Tandon. The film stars Shabana Azmi and Navin Nischol in main roles. The climax is inspired from that of the 1957 movie ''An Affair to Remember''. Plot Ravi Varma loses his parents in childhood and his wife Rajni in an accident. He keeps himself immersed in business. His family physician advises him to take a holiday. He meets Aarti and both are attracted to each other. Ravi is hesitant at first to express his love because he believes whoever he loves will die. Later, he asks her to meet him and she agrees. When Aarti does not come to meet him, Ravi believes that she does not reciprocate his feelings. He meets her two years later and in the climax finds out why she did not come to meet him. Its all's well that ends well! Cast *Shabana Azmi as Aarti Mathur *Navin Nischol as Ravi Varma *Dilip Dhawan *Kiran Vairale *Suresh Oberoi as Suresh *Anil Kapoor *Madan Puri *Ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murder At Monkey Hill
''Murder at Monkey Hill'' is 1976 Indian film written and directed by Vidhu Vinod Chopra. The short film in Black-and-white was made by Vidhu Vinod Chopra as his final project while doing his diploma at FTII. Vinod Chopra, himself, played the lead role with Anjali Paigankar while Dilip Dhawan and Mehmood (not the famous Bollywood comedy actor) made short appearances in the film. Vidhu's 1981 movie ''Sazaye Maut'' is based on this movie. Plot A professional hitman Akhtar is hired by Seth to murder a girl Prabhi. But as Akhtar charms her to get near her to kill her he actually falls in love with her. At loss to honour his commitment to murder for which he has taken one lakh rupee and finding himself unable to kill her, he pays a woodcutter to do that. As the woodcutter chases Prabhi with an axe in his hand, the film comes to an abrupt end without showing if he succeeds or not. Cast * Vidhu Vinod Chopra Vidhu Vinod Chopra (born 5 September 1952) is an Indian film director, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mumbai
Mumbai ( ; ), also known as Bombay ( ; its official name until 1995), is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra. Mumbai is the financial capital and the most populous city proper of India with an estimated population of 12.5 million (1.25 crore). Mumbai is the centre of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, the seventh-most populous metropolitan area in the world with a population of over 23 million (2.3 crore). Mumbai lies on the Konkan coast on the west coast of India and has a deep natural harbour. In 2008, Mumbai was named an alpha world city. Mumbai has the highest number of billionaires out of any city in Asia. The seven islands that constitute Mumbai were earlier home to communities of Marathi language-speaking Koli people. For centuries, the seven islands of Bombay were under the control of successive indigenous rulers before being ceded to the Portuguese Empire, and subsequently to the East India Company in 1661, as part of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Krishan Dhawan
Krishan Dhawan (1926 20 May 1994) was an Indian character actor in Hindi language films. Career Krishan Dhawan was an actor, known for Vidhaata (1982), Mujhe Jeene Do (1963) and Roti Kapada Aur Makaan (1974). Personal life He was born in Mumbai in a Punjabi Hindu Punjabi Hindus are adherents of Hinduism who identify ethnically, linguistically, culturally, and genealogically as Punjabis and are natives of the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent. Punjabi Hindus are the third-largest religious g ... family. He is the father of actor Dilip Dhawan who acted in the iconic television serial " Nukkad" portraying the role of the mechanic "Guru". Filmography References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Dhawan, Krishan 20th-century Indian male actors Male actors from Mumbai Male actors in Hindi cinema 1926 births 1994 deaths ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
