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Tanuja Mukherjee
Tanuja Mukherjee (née Samarth), known mononymously as Tanuja, (born 23 September 1943) is an Indian actress who predominantly works in the Hindi film industry. Part of the Mukherjee-Samarth family, she is the daughter of actress Shobhna Samarth and producer Kumarsen Samarth, younger sister of actress Nutan and was married to filmmaker Shomu Mukherjee, with whom she has two daughters, actresses Kajol and Tanisha. A recipient of two Filmfare Awards, Tanuja is best known for her roles in the Hindi films like '' Memdidi'' (1961), '' Chand Aur Suraj'' (1965), '' Baharen Phir Bhi Aayengi'' (1966), '' Jewel Thief'' (1967), '' Nai Roshni'' (1967), '' Jeene Ki Raah'' (1969), '' Haathi Mere Saathi'' (1971), '' Anubhav'' (1971), '' Mere Jeevan Saathi'' (1972), '' Do Chor'' (1972) as well as in Bengali films like ''Deya Neya'' (1963), '' Antony Firingee'' (1967), ''Teen Bhubaner Pare'' (1969), '' Pratham Kadam Phool'' (1970), ''Rajkumari'' (1970). Her pairings with actors Uttam Kumar, Ra ... [...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] |
Chand Aur Suraj
''Chand Aur Suraj'' () is a 1965 Indian Hindi-language film produced by Ganga Chitra and directed by Dulal Guha. The film stars Dharmendra, Ashok Kumar, Tanuja, Nirupa Roy and Asit Sen. The film's music is by Salil Chowdhury. The film was remade in Tamil as ''Annavin Aasai'' (1966). Plot After a disgraced man's accidental death, the lives of his family change drastically when they receive money from his insurance company. Cast * Dharmendra * Ashok Kumar * Tanuja * Nirupa Roy * Asit Sen Soundtrack The soundtrack was composed by Salil Chowdhury. The song "Baug Mein Kali Khili" was later adapted by him into the Malayalam song "Puthan Valakkare" in ''Chemmeen'' (1966). #"Baag Mein Kali Khili" – Asha Bhosle #"Jhanan Jhanan" – Lata Mangeshkar #"Kisine Jaadu Kiya" – Mukesh #"Meri Aur Unke Preet Puranini" – Asha Bhosle #"Teri Yaad" – Lata Mangeshkar #"Tumhe Dil Se Chaha" – Mohammed Rafi & Suman Kalyanpur Suman Kalyanpur (born as Sum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pratham Kadam Phool
''Pratham Kadam Phool'' is a 1969 Bengali film, written and directed by Inder Sen, based on a story of the same name, by Achintya Kumar Sengupta. It stars Tanuja and Soumitra Chatterjee in the lead. The film was produced by Dipangshu Kumar Deb, and edited by Arabinda Bhattacharya. Plot Sukanta meets Kakali in a library reading room and discovers his passion for her, though she rejects him initially. Pranta's wife, Sukanta's sister in law, suspects the truth yet does not dare to encourage the affair since Sukanta is not established. On another day, Kakali and Sukanta become stranded in a library lift for many hours as electric power goes off. Here, they become close to each other, and start meeting frequently thereafter. Later, Sukanta comes to the house of Kakali, but her parents do not approve of him. Sukanta meets Baren, his school friend, who is now very well off. Baren works with a European firm in a high post. He has a four-wheeler and a flat where he stays with his wido ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teen Bhubaner Pare
''Teen Bhubaner Paare'' (তিন ভুবনের পারে) is a Bengali movie, inspired by Samaresh Basu's novel, released in 1969. The songs "Hoyto Tomari Jonno"(হয়তো তোমারই জন্য) & "Jibone Ki Pabo Na"(জীবনে কি পাবো না) sung by Manna Dey are still very famous among Bengali youth. The film was a big hit of the Bengali Cinema. It became highest grossing Indian Bengali movie of 1969 Cast * Soumitra Chatterjee as Mantu * Tanuja as Sarasi Roy * Rabi Ghosh as Jayant: Mantu's friend * Chinmoy Roy as Mantu's friend * Tarun Kumar Chatterjee as Nand * Sumita Sanyal as Heena * Ashok Mitra as Veereshwar Roy: Sarasi's elder brother * Sulata Chowdhury Sulata Chowdhury (1945 – 16 September 1997) was a Bengalis, Bengali actress and theatre personality. Chowdhury made her film debut with ''Debarshi Narader Sansar'' (1960). As a leading actress her first film was Sudhir Mukherjee's ''Shesh Pa ... as Mrs. Roy: Veere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antony Firingee (film)
''Antony Firingee'' is a 1967 Indian biographical musical drama film directed by Sunil Bannerjee, starring Uttam Kumar and Tanuja on the lead. It is a biopic based on the life of Anthony Firingee (Hensman Anthony), a Bengali language folk poet of Portuguese origin. Antony Firingee was a Portuguese-Indian who became a famous Bengali poet musician and fell in love with Nirupoma. She agreed to marry him after revealing her tragic history. But his fame was not enough to overcome their ostracisation and tragedy struck again. This musical drama is purely based on the life of a Portuguese named Hensman Anthony. Anthony (Uttam Kumar) came to India and made Bengal his home. The Bengali folk songs and traditional music changed his life forever. Such was the effect that he even looked Bengal as his motherland. He even married a Hindu widow Nirupama (Tanuja). But he could not protect himself against the dirty orthodoxy beliefs that used to plague the land in that period. His wife was burnt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deya Neya
''Deya Neya'' (English: ''Give and Take'', released 1963) is a Bengali film directed by Sunil Bandopadhyay and starring Uttam Kumar and Tanuja in lead roles. This is a romantic comedy film which portrays a man's struggle on a light note and ends with a happy ending. The film was produced and composed by Shymal Mitra. The film was also loosely inspired by Shymal Mitra's real life. The film is noted for its outstanding music and generally the film became an all-time blockbuster hit. Plot Prasanta Kumar Roy (Uttam Kumar), son of BK Roy ( Kamal Mitra) - an industrialist from the town of Lucknow, loves music and dislikes family business. His negligence towards work results in loss for the company. His enraged father comes home only to learn that his son is also secretly practicing music. He disapproves the idea. Prasanta leaves home in a bout and settles in one of his old bosom friend Asim's ( Tarun Kumar) house in Calcutta (Kolkata). He starts singing there in radio and earns fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bengali Language
Bengali, also known by its endonym and exonym, endonym Bangla (, , ), is an Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan language belonging to the Indo-Iranian languages, Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages, Indo-European language family. It is native to the Bengal region (Bangladesh, India's West Bengal and Tripura) of South Asia. With over 242 million native speakers and another 43 million as second language speakers as of 2025, Bengali is the List of languages by number of native speakers, sixth most spoken native language and the List of languages by total number of speakers, seventh most spoken language by the total number of speakers in the world. Bengali is the Official language, official, National language, national, and most widely spoken language of Bangladesh, with 98% of Bangladeshis using Bengali as their first language. It is the second-most widely spoken scheduled languages of India, language in India. It is the official language of the Indian states of West ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Do Chor
''Do Chor'' () is a 1972 Hindi romantic drama film produced by Raj Khosla and directed by Padmanabh. It stars Dharmendra, Tanuja, Shobhana Samarth, K.N. Singh, Trilok Kapoor and Jalal Agha. The music is by R.D. Burman and the lyrics by Majrooh Sultanpuri. The film did well at the box office. Plot A series of mysterious burglaries take place at the homes of four wealthy men. The burglar takes a single piece of jewellery from each of the men, but not touching the cash and other jewellery, and leaving the calling card of a swastika. The police suspect Tony generally known in the community as a thief, but he claims innocence. He tries to find out who the real burglar is and catches Sandhya stealing from one of the wealthy men. She tells him that she is taking back what is really her inheritance, as these items belong to her mother since these four men swindled her mother after her father's death. Her mother is now in a mental institution. Tony and Sandhya fall in love. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mere Jeevan Saathi (1972 Film)
''Mere Jeevan Saathi'' (''My Life Partner'') is a 1972 Indian film produced by Harish and Vinod Shah. It is directed by Ravikant Nagaich, and it stars Rajesh Khanna, Tanuja, Sujit Kumar, Bindu, Helen, Utpal Dutt, Nazir Hussain and Rajindranath. This movie made at the height of Rajesh Khanna's popularity and craze after the slight fall in 1971. It was the second movie of Rajesh Khanna with Tanuja after the success of ''Haathi Mere Saathi'' (1971). Although the movie was a box office superhit grosser upon its release and received all time classics good reviews from viewers and critics, the soundtrack and songs became very popular and are evergreen. "O Mere Dil Ke Chain" and "Chala Jata Hoon" are still very famous Kishore Kumar melodies from this film. Plot Prakash (Rajesh Khanna) is a son of a rich father Seth Govindram ( K. N. Singh) who wants to become an artist. His father challenges him to earn a one-time meal from his profession. He accepts the challenge and leaves his fat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anubhav (1971 Film)
''Anubhav'' () is a 1971 Hindi-language film by noted director Basu Bhattacharya, which stars Sanjeev Kumar, Tanuja and Dinesh Thakur. The film was the first part of Basu Battacharya's introspective trilogy on marital discord in an urban setting, which included '' Avishkaar'' (1973) and '' Griha Pravesh'' (1979); and went on to win the 1972 National Film Award for Second Best Feature Film and started a trend later picked up even by the mainstream cinema. The film is also remembered for playback singer Geeta Dutt's finest songs composed by music director Kanu Roy with lyrics from Gulzar, like "Meri Jaan Mujhe Jaan Na Kaho", "Koi Chupke Se Aake" and "Mera Dil Jo Mera Hota". Plot Meeta Sen (Tanuja) and Amar Sen (Sanjeev Kumar) have been married for several years. Due to Amar's hectic work schedule, the couple did not have children, as there was no time for intimacy. Meeta decides to take matters into her own hands, gets rid of the servants, save for Hari ( A. K. Hangal), and deci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haathi Mere Saathi (1971 Film)
''Haathi Mere Saathi'' () is a 1971 Indian Hindi-language drama film, directed by M. A. Thirumugam, with screenplay written by Salim–Javed (Salim Khan and Javed Akhtar) and dialogues by Inder Raj Anand. The movie has a Disneyesque appeal with an Indian twist. ''Haathi Mere Saathi'' was the biggest hit of 1971 going by box office collections, and was also critically acclaimed. The film stars Rajesh Khanna and Tanuja. The film at that point in time was the biggest hit ever made by a South Indian producer in Hindi. The story was written by producer Sandow M. M. A. Chinnappa Thevar who is of Tamil origin and owned Devar Films in Tamil Nadu. Thevar also played a small cameo in the film. Directed and edited by Thevar's brother M.A.Thirumugham, it had music by Laxmikant-Pyarelal and lyrics by Anand Bakshi. The film was also the first collaboration of Salim-Javed (Salim Khan and Javed Akhtar), who were officially credited as screenplay writers. The film was based on Sandow M. M. A. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeene Ki Raah
''Jeene Ki Raah'' () is a 1969 Hindi-language drama film produced & directed by L. V. Prasad under the Prasad Productions Pvt. Ltd. banner. The film stars Jeetendra, Tanuja and Sanjeev Kumar and music composed by Laxmikant Pyarelal. It is a remake of the Telugu film '' Bratuku Teruvu'' (1953). Plot The film begins with Mohan returning to his village after completing his studies when he finds they encompass the debts. So, he decides to aid his joint family containing his wife Shobha, a 5-year-old daughter, the mother Janki, 3 sisters & 2 brothers. Hence, he moves to the city for a job but fails. Disparate Mohan, fortunately, meets his childhood mate Manohar, who makes his acquaintance with tycoon Kamalrai Mansukh Lal and leaves abroad. Rai offers him a job, provided he is single. Owing to necessity, Mohan claims to be solitary. Meanwhile, Rai's daughter Radha, a heart patient, is back from a foreign country. Radha feels relief in Mohan's breezy company and gradually recoups h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
