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Fakira (film)
''Fakira'' is a 1976 Indian Hindi-language crime action film produced by N.N. Sippy and directed by C.P. Dixit. The film stars Shashi Kapoor, Shabana Azmi, Asrani, Aruna Irani, Danny Denzongpa, Asit Sen, Ramesh Deo and Madan Puri. The music is by Ravindra Jain. The film became a box office hit and emerged as the 6th highest grossing film of the year. The film's team of producer (N.N. Sippy), cast (Shashi Kapoor, Asrani, Danny Denzongpa, Madan Puri) and music composer (Ravindra Jain) had teamed together before for the box office hit ''Chor Machaye Shor'' (1974). ''Fakira'' was later remade into the Telugu film ''Dongalaku Donga'' (1978). Plot Two small children, who are brothers, lose their parents in a fire. They are harassed by bad men and get separated. They grow up and become criminals. One is played by Shashi Kapoor, while the other is played Danny Denzongpa. They become enemies, not knowing that they are brothers. A policewoman, played by Shabana Azmi, goes undercover ...
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Dhruva Chatterjee
Dhruva Chatterjee or Dhruv Chatterjee was a noted writer and screenwriter of Hindi cinema in the 1960s and 1970s. Memorable movies written and scripted by him include ''Chirag Kahan Roshni Kahan'' (1960), ''Hariyali Aur Rasta'' (1962), '' Gehra Daag'' (1963), '' Woh Kaun Thi?'' (1964), '' Kohra'' (1964), '' Gumnaam'' (1965), '' Chor Machaye Shor'' (1974), ''Dus Numbri'' (1976) and '' Fakira'' (1976). He was also nominated for the Filmfare Award for Best Story in 1960, for '' Chirag Kahan Roshni Kahan'' (1959). Filmography * '' Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu'' (screenplay) (1953) * ''Ferry'' (story) (1954) * '' Chirag Kahan Roshni Kahan'' (1959) * Pyaar Ka Saagar (revised screenplay) (1961) * ''Hariyali Aur Rasta'' (screenplay / story) (1962) * '' Bees Saal Baad'' (story) (1962) * ''Nartakee'' (screenplay / story) (1963) * '' Gehra Daag'' (writer) (1963) * '' Kohra'' (screenplay) (1964) * '' Woh Kaun Thi?'' (screenplay/story) (1964) * ''Sanjh Aur Savera'' (story and screenplay) (19 ...
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Cinema Of Andhra Pradesh
Telugu cinema, also known as Tollywood, is the segment of Indian cinema dedicated to the production of motion pictures in the Telugu language, widely spoken in the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. Based in Film Nagar, Hyderabad, Telugu cinema is the second largest film industry in India by box-office revenue as of 2023, following Bollywood. Telugu films sold 23.3 crore (233 million) tickets in 2022, the highest among all Indian film industries. As of 2023, Andhra Pradesh has the highest number of movie screens in India. Since 1909, filmmaker Raghupathi Venkaiah Naidu was involved in producing short films and exhibiting them in different regions of South Asia. He established the first Indian-owned cinema halls in South India. In 1921, he produced the silent film, '' Bhishma Pratigna'', generally considered to be the first Telugu feature film. As the first Telugu film producer and exhibitor, Naidu is regarded as the 'Father of Telugu cinema'. The first Telugu talkie film ...
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Filmfare Award For Best Cinematography
The Filmfare Best Cinematography Award is given by the ''Filmfare'' magazine as part of its annual Filmfare Awards for Hindi films. The category was first awarded in 1954. Superlatives Kamal Bose, Radhu Karmakar, Fali Mistry & Jaywant Pathare have won the award in both the categories — Black & White as well as Color. List See also * Filmfare Award's * Bollywood * Cinema of India References * External links Filmfare Nominees and Winners {{Filmfare Awards Cinematographer The cinematographer or director of photography (sometimes shortened to DP or DOP) is the person responsible for the recording of a film, television production, music video or other live-action piece. The cinematographer is the chief of the camera ... Awards for best cinematography ...
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Internet Archive
The Internet Archive is an American 501(c)(3) organization, non-profit organization founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle that runs a digital library website, archive.org. It provides free access to collections of digitized media including websites, Application software, software applications, music, audiovisual, and print materials. The Archive also advocates a Information wants to be free, free and open Internet. Its mission is committing to provide "universal access to all knowledge". The Internet Archive allows the public to upload and download digital material to its data cluster, but the bulk of its data is collected automatically by its web crawlers, which work to preserve as much of the public web as possible. Its web archiving, web archive, the Wayback Machine, contains hundreds of billions of web captures. The Archive also oversees numerous Internet Archive#Book collections, book digitization projects, collectively one of the world's largest book digitization efforts. ...
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The Times Group
Bennett Coleman and Company Limited (BCCL), d/b/a the Times Group, is an Indian media conglomerate based in Mumbai. Notable media properties owned and operated by the group include India's largest selling daily English-language newspaper ''The Times of India'', television channels such as Times Now, the radio station network Radio Mirchi, and magazines '' Filmfare'' and '' Femina''. The Sahu Jain family owns a majority of the stake in the group. In May 2023, the Times Group was split into two separate business entities between brothers Vineet Jain and Samir Jain, such that its radio and broadcast properties would remain with Vineet Jain and its print properties would be under the ownership of Samir Jain. History The ''Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce'' was first published on 3 November 1838 as a predecessor to what would become ''The Times of India''. While starting as a biweekly paper, it was converted to a daily in 1850. In 1859 the paper was merged with two other ...
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24th Filmfare Awards
The 24th Filmfare Awards were held in June 20, 1977. ''Kabhi Kabhie (1976 film), Kabhi Kabhie'' led the ceremony with 13 nominations, followed by ''Mausam (1975 film), Mausam'' with 8 nominations and ''Chhoti Si Baat'' with 6 nominations. ''Kabhi Kabhie'' won 4 awards, thus becoming the most-awarded film at the ceremony. Basu Chatterjee received dual nominations for Filmfare Award for Best Director, Best Director for his direction in ''Chitchor'' and ''Chhoti Si Baat'', but lost to Gulzar who won the award for ''Mausam'', his only win in the category. Sanjeev Kumar received dual nominations for Filmfare Award for Best Actor, Best Actor for his performances in Arjun Pandit (1976 film), ''Arjun Pandit'' and ''Mausam'', winning for the former. Rakhee Gulzar, Raakhee received dual nominations for Filmfare Award for Best Actress, Best Actress for her performances in ''Kabhi Kabhie'' and Tapasya (1976 film), ''Tapasya'', winning for the latter, her first and only win in the catego ...
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Asha Bhosle
Asha Bhosle (; ; born 8 September 1933) is an Indian playback singer, entrepreneur, actress and television personality who predominantly works in Indian cinema. Known for her versatility, she has been described in the media as one of the greatest and most influential singers in Hindi cinema. In her career spanning over eight decades she has recorded songs for films and albums in various Indian languages and received #Accolades, several accolades including two National Film Awards, four Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards, BFJA Awards, eighteen Maharashtra State Film Awards, nine Filmfare Awards including a Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award, Lifetime Achievement Award and a record seven Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer, Filmfare Awards for Best Female Playback Singer, in addition to two Grammy nominations. In 2000, she was honoured with the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, India's highest award in the field of cinema. In 2008, she was honoured by the Governmen ...
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Mohammed Rafi
Mohammed Rafi (24 December 1924 – 31 July 1980) was an Indian playback singer. He is considered to have been one of the greatest and most influential singers of the Indian subcontinent. Rafi was notable for his versatility and range of voice; his songs varied from fast peppy numbers to patriotic songs, sad numbers to highly romantic songs, qawwalis to ghazals and bhajans to classical songs. He was known for his ability to mould his voice to the persona and style of the actor lip-syncing the song on screen in the movie. He received six Filmfare Awards and one National Film Award. In 1967, he was honored with the Padma Shri award by the Government of India. In 2001, Rafi was honoured with the "Best Singer of the Millennium" title by Hero Honda and Stardust magazine. In 2013, Rafi was voted for the Greatest Voice in Hindi Cinema in the CNN-IBN's poll. He recorded songs for over a thousand Hindi films and in many Indian languages as well as some foreign languages, though ...
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Hemlata (singer)
Hemlata (born 16 August 1954) is an Indian classically trained playback singer in Bollywood. She is best known for her songs in the late 1970s, especially Ankhiyon Ke Jharokhon Se song. She was nominated for Filmfare Best Female Playback Award five times in the period of 1977–81 and won once for Chitchor in 1977 for her classical rendition of "Tu Jo Mere Sur Mein" which was duet with K.J. Yesudas, composed by Ravindra Jain. Early life and background Hemlata was born in Hyderabad as Lata Bhatt into an Marwari Brahmin family and spent her childhood in Calcutta. She was married to Yogesh Bali, the younger brother of Indian film actress Yogeeta Bali. Her husband died in 1988 after a prolonged illness. She lives with her son Aditya. Career Leading career In association with Ravindra Jain, she had worked on many other songs. Among them is "''Ankhiyon Ke Jharokhon Se''". According to the Binaca Geet Mala (a radio show that used to compile records of album sales), it became ...
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Bhushan Mehta
Bhushan is a male Indian given and family name. It may refer to: People *Ardhendu Bhushan Bardhan (1924–2016), general secretary of the Communist Party of India *Amita Bhushan (born 1970), Indian politician *Bharat Bhushan (1920–1992), prominent actor of the 1950s and 1960s in Bollywood *Bharat Bhushan (yogi) (born 1952), yoga guru *Bhushan Kumar (born 1977), Indian film producer *Bhushan Lal Karihaloo (born 1943), professor of civil, architectural, and environmental engineering *Bhushan Tiwari, Indian film actor in Hindi films *Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh (born 1957), Indian politician *Brij Bhushan Tiwari (1941–2012), Indian Samajwadi Party politician *Chandra Bhushan Singh (born 1944), Indian politician *Kavi Bhushan, 17th century Indian poet *Prashant Bhushan, civil liberties lawyer of India *Shanti Bhushan (1925–2023), Indian politician, minister and senior advocate See also

*Padma Bhushan award, an Indian civilian decoration established in 1954 by the Presiden ...
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Aziz Nazan
Aziz (; ; ) is a Semitic name from the root two-zayin. In the Hebrew Bible, the root two-zayin () means 'reputable, powerful, sublime'. In the 1 Chronicles, Aziz was the son of Shema and the father of Bela. Azizus ( Latinised), attested as an Arabian king who ruled Sampsigeramids of the Roman Empire. In ancient Levantine mythology, Azizos is a god of the morning star of Aramaic and Arab origin from Palmyra. The Arabian goddess Al-Uzza, related to the planet Venus, is named from the same root. ''Al-ʿAzīz'' is one of the names of God in Islam. ''ʿAzīz'' without ''al-'' is used as a royal title borne by the high nobles of Ancient Egypt., It is used in existing Semitic languages (Arabic, Hebrew, neo-Aramaic, Mandaic, Maltese) and has also spread to non-Semitic language families like Berber languages, Caucasus languages, Iranian languages, and Turkic languages. ''Aziz'' is a common masculine given name, especially in the Muslim world, but it has also continued to be use ...
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Mahendra Kapoor
Mahendra Kapoor (9 January 1934 – 27 September 2008) was an Indian playback singer. In a long career spanning decades, his repertoire included popular songs such as ''Chalo ekbaar phir se Ajnabi ban jayen hum dono'' ( Gumrah) and ''Neele Gagan ke tale'' ( Hamraaz). His name however became most closely associated with patriotic songs including Mere Desh Ki Dharti in Manoj Kumar's film Upkaar. He considered Mohammad Rafi as his Guru. In 1972, he was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India. He lent his voice to actors Manoj Kumar and Sunil Dutt in most of their films and had a lengthy association with director-producer Baldev Raj Chopra. Biography Mahendra Kapoor was born in Amritsar, but soon moved to Bombay. At an early age, he was inspired by legendary singer Mohammed Rafi and considered him his mentor. He started learning classical music under classical singers like Pt. Hussanlal, Pt. Jagannath Bua, Ustad Niaz Ahmed Khan, Ustad Abdul Rehman Khan and Pt.Tulsidaa ...
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