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Shatranj (1993 Film)
''Shatranj'' () is a 1993 Indian Hindi-language drama film directed by Aziz Sejawal, starring Mithun Chakraborty, Jackie Shroff, Juhi Chawla and Divya Bharti. The movie marks Bharti's last film appearance. Kader Khan's son Sarfaraz Khan appeared as the younger version of his character. Shatranj was hit at the box office. Plot ''Shatranj'' is the story of three brothers Dharamraj ( Kader Khan), Dinky (Mithun Chakraborty) and Dino (Jackie Shroff). Dharamraj runs a garage with his two younger brothers and has remained a bachelor all his life as he hates women. He also forbids his brothers from falling in love and getting married. Tension between the brothers arises when Dinky and Dino meet and fall in love with Radha (Juhi Chawla) and Renu (Divya Bharti). After Dharamraj stops them from marrying Renu and Radha, the brothers leave home. They soon discover the real reason Dharamraj hates women. They are actually the real heirs of a wealthy business empire that was run by their father ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aziz Sejawal
Aziz Sejawal (also spelt Sajawal or Sajaawal) is an Indian film director of Bollywood films. He has worked with major Bollywood actors such as Dharmendra, Mithun Chakraborty, Madhuri Dixit, Amrish Puri, Om Puri, Aditya Pancholi, Jackie Shroff, Juhi Chawla, Sanjay Dutt, Govinda (actor), Govinda and Rani Mukerji. Most of his films have comedic elements, though they often address themes of injustice and corruption. Filmography *''Ilaaka'' (1989) *''Baap Numbri Beta Dus Numbri'' (1990) *''Adharm (1992 film), Adharm'' (1992) *''Shatranj (1993 film), Shatranj'' (1993) *''Andolan (1995 film), Andolan'' (1995) *''Mafia (1996 film), Mafia'' (1996) *''Sanam (1997 film), Sanam'' (1997) *''Hero Hindustani'' (1998) *''Chhupa Rustam: A Musical Thriller'' (2001) *''Chalo Ishq Ladaaye'' (2002) References External links * Hindi-language film directors Living people 20th-century Indian people 21st-century Indian people Year of birth missing (living people) {{India-film-director-stu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dinesh Hingoo
Dinesh Hingoo (born 13 April 1940) is an Indian actor who played comic and supporting roles in Hindi films. He has appeared in over 300 films, from ''Taqdeer (1967)'' to ''Be Careful (film), Be Careful (2011)'', and is known for his laughter and impersonations including that of a Parsi businessman. He was a stand-up comedian in many orchestras. Actor and comedian Johnny Lever, Johny Lever revealed in an interview that it was Hingoo, who gave him a break to perform on stage as a comedian. He has played Supporting actor, supporting roles and bit parts in movies such as ''Qurbani (1980 film), Qurbani'', ''Saajan'', ''Baazigar'', ''Humraaz'', ''Daraar (film), Daraar'', ''No Entry'', ''Judaai (1997 film), Judaai'', ''Khoobsurat (1999 film), Khoobsurat'', Hera Pheri (2000 film), Hera Pheri (2000 film), Phir Hera Pheri and ''Anubhav (1986), Anubhav''. He has acted in television serials on Indian public broadcaster, Doordarshan. He is known for his character as Chaman Jhinga in ''Hera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sushma Shrestha
Poornima Shrestha (born 6 September 1960 as Sushma Shrestha) is an Indian playback singer. Starting as a child artist, she became a leading playback singer in Bollywood during the 1990s. Early life Hailing from the Newar community from Nepal, Poornima was born as an Indian in Mumbai. Her father was music composer Bholanath Shrestha, who worked primarily with Hindi film music directors. He was from Kathmandu and settled in Kolkata and eventually in Mumbai. Friend and assistant to Shankar–Jaikishan recommended her to Shankar. In spite of the prevailing custom of women playback singers singing for children, Shankar took the challenge of using an unknown child to sing "Hai Na Bolo Bolo" for the film '' Andaz''. Sushama recorded her first song on 11 November 1969 with Mohammed Rafi and Suman Kalyanpur. She was the first successful child singer in Hindi films. She recorded a children's album called ''Bal Geet'', which had S.Khale composing the songs and Shanta Shelke pennin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sudesh Bhosle
Sudesh Bhosale (born 1 July 1960) is an Indian playback singer who primarily sings for Marathi and Bollywood films. Bhosale is known for his ability to mimic actor Amitabh Bachchan, having sung for him in various films. Career Bhosale was born on 1 July 1960 to Sumantai Bhosale and studied in Ambedkar College, Wadala. He got his first major break in playback singing in the film '' Zalzala'' (1988). He used mimicry to become a professional dubbing artist for several artists like Sanjeev Kumar and Anil Kapoor. He dubbed for Sanjeev Kumar when he died prematurely before completing the film '' Professor Ki Padosan''. He has sung songs for the movie '' Ghatothkach'' in 2008. Bhosale is the producer and judge on '' K For Kishore'', a singing contest on Sony Entertainment Television. He has sung many famous Bollywood songs for Amitabh Bachchan including "Jumma chumma de de" from 1991 movie '' Hum'', "Meri Makhna Meri Soniye" from Baghban and others. He mimicked for Amitabh Bachcha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jolly Mukherjee
Jolly Mukherjee (born in 1 October 1956) is an Indian singer who specializes in the music of Bollywood. He started his career as a backing singer for commercials, then moving on to writing music for airline on-flight introductions, where he sometimes wrote for British Airways. His roots include a mixture of Hindustani classical music and Western music. With the Madras Cinematic Orchestra, he recorded the album Fusebox, which included remixes from State of Bengal and Badmarsh & Shri. He provided the string arrangements for Icelandic singer Björk Björk Guðmundsdóttir ( , ; born 21 November 1965), known mononymously as Björk, is an Icelandic singer, songwriter, composer, record producer, and actress. Noted for her distinct voice, three-octave vocal range, and eccentric public per ...'s song "Verandi". Discography References Indian male singer-songwriters Indian singer-songwriters Participants in Indian reality television series Living people 1956 bir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kumar Sanu
Kedarnath Bhattacharya (born 20 October 1957), professionally known as Kumar Sanu, is a leading Indian playback singer who primarily sings in Hindi film songs. He is widely regarded as the Melody King of Bollywood. He holds the record for winning five consecutive Filmfare Award for Best Male Playback Singer from 1991 to 1995. He also holds the Guinness World Record for recording the maximum number of songs (28 songs) in a single day since 1993.Apart from Hindi, he has also sung in other languages including Marathi, Nepali, Assamese, Bhojpuri, Gujarati, Manipuri, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Tamil, Punjabi, Odia, Chhattisgarhi, Urdu, Pali, English and his native language Bengali. For his contribution to Indian cinema and music, he was awarded the Padma Shri in 2009 by the Government of India. Many of his tracks feature in BBC's "Top 40 Bollywood Soundtracks of all time". Early life Kumar Sanu's father, Pashupati Bhattacharya, was a vocalist and composer. His a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sadhana Sargam
Sadhana Sargam (née Ghanekar, born 7 March 1969) is an Indian singer known for her playback career in Indian cinema predominantly in Hindi, Marathi language, Marathi, Bengali language, Bengali, Nepali, Tamil language, Tamil and Telugu language, Telugu language films. She is a recipient of the National Film Awards, National Film Award and Filmfare Awards South, She has also won five Maharashtra State Film Awards, four Gujarat State Film Awards and one Odisha State Film Awards, Orissa State Film Award. Early life Sargam was born in a Marathi family of musicians at Dabhol, the seaport town in Ratnagiri District of Maharashtra. Her mother Neela Ghanekar was a classical singer and music teacher and knew arranger–composer Anil Mohile, who then arranged music for Kalyanji-Anandji. He introduced Sargam to them, and she was in the children's chorus in "Pam Pararampam, Bole Jeevan Ki Sargam" sung by Kishore Kumar in G. P. Sippy's ''Trishna (1978 film), Trishna'' (1978). Sargam performe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Udit Narayan
Udit Narayan Jha (born 1 December 1955) is an Nepali and Indian playback singer whose songs have been featured mainly in Hindi cinema, Hindi films. He has also sung in various other languages including Telugu language, Telugu, Kannada, Tamil language, Tamil, Bengali language, Bengali, Sindhi language, Sindhi, Odia language, Odia, Bhojpuri language, Bhojpuri, Nepali language, Nepali, Malayalam, Assamese language, Assamese, Bagheli language, Bagheli and Maithili language, Maithili. He has won four National Film Awards and five Filmfare Awards with twenty nominations among many others. The Government of India honoured him with the Padma Shri in 2009 and the Padma Bhushan in 2016 for his contribution towards arts and culture. As many as 21 of his tracks feature in BBC's "Top 40 Bollywood Soundtracks of all time". He got to sing with Mohammed Rafi in his Hindi playback debut in ''Unees-Bees'' in 1980 and also with Kishore Kumar in the 1980s. He finally made his mark in the 1988 fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abhijeet Bhattacharya
Abhijeet Bhattacharya (born 30 October 1958), professionally known as Abhijeet, is an Indian playback singer who primarily sings in the Hindi film industry. As well as Hindi, he has sung in his native language Bengali and in other languages including Marathi, Nepali, Tamil, Bhojpuri, Punjabi, and Odia, in both West Bengal and Bangladesh. He has sung 6034 songs in more than 1000 films. Some of his iconic tracks feature in BBC's "Top 40 Bollywood Soundtracks of all time". Personal life Abhijeet was born in Uttar Pradesh to a Kanpur-based Bengali Brahmin family the youngest of four to news editor Dheerendranath Bhattacharya and his wife Kamla Bhattacharya in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. He graduated in commerce (B.Com.) from Christ Church College, Kanpur in 1977. He started singing on stage from 1970. He left home in 1981 to pursue a career in singing in Bollywood. Film career He was launched by R. D. Burman in a Bengali film with a duet song with Asha Bhosle.He did stage sho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sahila Chadha
Sahila Chadha (Chaddha is an alternative spelling for the surname ''Chadha'') is an Indian former actress and beauty pageant titleholder. Personal life Sahila is married to actor Nimai Bali, with whom she has a daughter. Career Sahila was crowned Miss India International, Miss India and won 25 contests before becoming a Miss India.''India Today'', Volume 11, p. 92. 1986. "Chaddha, crowned Miss India " She played the character of Rita in the film ''Hum Aapke Hain Koun'' and has featured alongside many superstars, including Shahrukh Khan, Salman Khan, Govinda, and Sanjay Dutt. Filmography References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Chadha, Sahila Actresses from Mumbai Living people Actresses in Hindi cinema Indian beauty pageant winners Indian film actresses 20th-century Indian actresses 21st-century Indian actresses Female models from Mumbai Year of birth missing (living people) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ekta Sohini
Ekta Sohini, known mononymously as Ektaa is an Indian actress. After several small 1980s television roles, she made her film debut opposite Arbaaz Ali Khan in the coming-of-age romance film '' Solah Satra'' (1990). She starred as Aditya Pancholi's love interest in '' Naamcheen'' (1991) and '' Tahalka'' (1992). She is married to actor Mohnish Bahl. Their daughter Pranutan Bahl is also an actress. Filmography * '' Solah Satra'' (1990) * '' Awwal Number'' (1990) * '' Paap Ki Kamaee'' (1990) * ''Picchi Pulliah'' (Telugu 1991) * ''Fateh'' (1991) * '' Naamcheen'' (1991) * '' Hafta Bandh'' (1991) * '' Saajan'' (1991) * '' Khatra'' (1991) * ''Vansh'' (1992) * '' Yudhpath'' (1992) * '' Tahalka'' (1992) * '' Basanti Tangewali'' (1992) * ''Shatranj'' (1993) * '' Nazar Ke Samne'' (1995) * '' Hasina Aur Nagina'' (1996) * ''Talaashi'' (1996) * '' Vaastav'' (1999) * ''Gang A gang is a social group, group or secret society, society of associates, friends, or members of a family with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
