
Birthday:
01-10-1930
Deathday:
06-04-2020 (90 years)
Birthplace:
Ajmer, Merwara, British India
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Celluloid Man
Act like Self
event2012 star_border 7
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Indian documentary about Indian film history and P. K. Nair, the founder of the National Film Archive of India and guardian of Indian cinema. He built the archive can by can in a country where the archiving of cinema was considered unimportant.
Jeena Isi Ka Naam Hai
Act like Himself (1 ep.)
event2002 star_border 6
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Host Farooq Shaikh interviews many well-known Bollywood faces as well as television celebrities and gives a peek into their private and professional lives.
Piya Ka Ghar
Dialogue (1 ep.)
event1972 star_border 7
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A woman from a rural family enters into an arranged marriage with a man from the city. While she is instantly taken with her husband, she is shocked to discover that the holy man who arranged the wedding had neglected to mention the crammed living conditions of her new family and soon the lack of privacy disrupts the marriage bliss of the newly-wed couple.
Apne Paraye
Director (1 ep.)
event1980
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Film about the trials facing a family whose patriarch has squandered money into a series of unwise ventures.
Khatta Meetha
Director (1 ep.)
event1978 star_border 6.6
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Homi Mistry (Ashok Kumar) has been a widower for several years now, and looks after his four sons, their small house, and a job at the factory. Nargis Sethna has been widowed; is a housewife, has two sons and a daughter, and a large house. Then Soli (David), Nargis' and Homi's friend, suggests that the two get married, then at least the children will have a mother and father, as well as a larger house. They do get married, and hilarious chaos results, as the family and the children try to accomodate each other and fit in with their new family and surroundings.
Baton Baton Mein
Director (1 ep.)
event1979 star_border 6.1
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Rosie Perreira is an overly anxious widow, living with her guitar-obsessed son, Sabhi, and a lovely daughter, Nancy, who she would like to get married to a wealthy young man. Her helpful neighbor, Tom, introduces a young eligible Tony Braganza to Nancy in the 9:10 AM Western Railway local train from Bandra to Churchgate. Tom also asks Nancy to introduce Tony to Rosie, which she does. Rosie is initially apprehensive about him as he only drawing a mere Rs.300/ compared to Nancy's Rs.700/-, but soon changes her mind when she finds out that after his probationary period he will draw a monthly pay of Rs.1000/-. Nancy and Tom are permitted to meet and both eventually fall in love. While Nancy wants to follow her mother's directions and get married, Tony is hesitant, and this is what costs him Nancy's love, as she starts to feel that he will not come through with the marriage. And soon Rosie starts looking elsewhere for a son-in-law, while Tony is still reluctant to make any commitments.
Pasand Apni Apni
Director (1 ep.)
event1983 star_border 4
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Geeta, a stage artist in Star Theatre Company, takes a ride in industrialist Sandeep Anand's car and gossip starts making rounds about their love. Sriram, owner of Star Theatre Company, wants to take advantage of the love between Geeta and Sandeep and publicizes that their new play will be sponsored by Sandeep Anand without Sandeep's knowledge. Sandeep goes on to investiglate the mysterious bills he gets for costumes, meets Geeta and falls in love with her. After quite a lot of confusion, things settle down and Sandeep and Geeta finally get married.
Chhoti Si Baat
Director (1 ep.)
event1976 star_border 7.3
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Arun is a timid accountant in Bombay who dreams of romancing Prabha, but is too shy to share his feelings. While Arun twiddles his thumbs, the suave Nagesh steps into the picture and turns on the heat, prompting Arun to take "love coaching" from "romance specialist" Julius Nagendranath to win Prabha back.
Ek Ruka Hua Faisla
Screenplay (1 ep.)
event1986 star_border 7.9
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Twelve male members of a jury gather together in an enclosed room to deliberate their decision on a charge of murder against a young man who has been accused of killing his elderly father. All of the jury, save for one, are convinced of this young man's guilt, and they would like to convince their colleague also to come to the same unanimous decision. But will they be able to convince him to change his verdict? Its a hindi remake of the movie 12 angry men.
Manzil
Director (1 ep.)
event1979 star_border 7
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A man falls for a woman and pretends to be rich in hopes of impressing her and her father. However, when the truth is revealed, her father attempts to separate them.
Chameli Ki Shaadi
Director (1 ep.)
event1986 star_border 6
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Charandas, a young man in a village has no aim in life except to be a pehelwaan (wrestler). He takes an oath that he will not court or marry a girl until he hits the age of forty. But things changes when Charandas meets Chameli and falls in love with her. A hilarious take on the caste system of India, as both of them come from different castes and try hard to marry each other.
Chitchor
Director (1 ep.)
event1976 star_border 5.5
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Geeta ends up with two suitors after her father goes to bring home a prospective groom and mistakenly picks up the wrong man.
Safed Jhooth
Director (1 ep.)
event1978 star_border 9.5
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Kamla does his best to protect a young woman who reminds him of his slain sister, but it turns out that she has several surprises in store for him.
Rajnigandha
Director (1 ep.)
event1974 star_border 5.6
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A Delhi-based woman in a steady relationship with her boyfriend is forced to come to terms with her true feelings when a job interview in Mumbai brings an old flame back in her life.
Gudgudee
Director (1 ep.)
event1997 star_border 7
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In Mumbai for a wedding, a married man contemplates an affair with a sexy starlet who has an ulterior motive for flirting with him.
Shaukeen
Director (1 ep.)
event1982 star_border 6
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Three friends, in their 60s, try to do everything that they couldn't do in their younger days - before death arrives.
Sara Akash
Director (1 ep.)
event1969 star_border 6.3
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Samar wants to be successful in life but his parents force him to get married. His wife is shy and reserved and Samar does not like this. The other members in the family often ill-treat her.
Sheesha
Director (1 ep.)
event1986 star_border 8.5
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Dinesh and Maneesha fall in love and, soon after, get married. However, things get complicated for the newly-wed couple as Poonam, Dinesh's colleague files an attempted rape case against him.
Us-Paar
Director (1 ep.)
event1974
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Mohan is a college student and a slacker. His father asks him to come to their village home so that he can continue on with his studies without any interruptions, and also look after his ailing grandfather, while his dad goes out to travel to bring his mother back home. Mohan instead takes his camera and goes for long walks amongst the wilderness. One day he comes across a mela (fair) run by gypsies, and instantly falls head over heels in love with Kamli. He takes her photograph, rides on her carousel (merry go round), and they become friends. They meet in secret every day. When Mohan asks Kamli to marry him, she tells him that she is to marry Bhairo, part of the gypsy group, but she also indicates that she loves him. Mohan and Kamli plan to run away together. Kamli accordingly packs up and waits for Mohan to show up. But Mohan does not show up, instead Bhairo shows up and takes Kamli by force back to their camp. Will Kamli ever come to know why Mohan did not come as they had planned?
Man Pasand
Director (1 ep.)
event1980
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Kamli belongs to a poor family. She sells datuns for a living. She sells them in local suburban trains as well as on railway platforms. One day she meets a bachelor named Pratap, who would like her to become a lady, and be educated, to which she agrees. She thinks that Pratap is in love with her, little does she know that she is the subject of a bet between Pratap and his friend, Kashinath, who both find her crude, crass, loud, and uncouth, so much so that both doubt that she can be transformed into a lady.
Lakhon Ki Baat
Director (1 ep.)
event1984 star_border 10
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Freelance photographer, Alok Prakash, while photographing women hockey players in action, is hit by the puck, loses his senses and his hospitalized. His brother-in-law, a lawyer by the name of Prem Sagar, decides to capitalize on this accident, and to sue Alok's employer for a large sum of money, so that they can live comfortably for the rest of their lives. He explains his plan to Alok, and asks the rest of the family also to go on with this charade - with hilarious results - that will change their lives forever.
Kamla Ki Maut
Writer (1 ep.)
event1989 star_border 8.5
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The film is set in a lower middle class chawl, an apartment building in Mumbai, a 20-year-old and unmarried Kamla, unable to handle the news of her pregnancy commits suicide. This makes her neighbourhood examine their own secrets and the choices they have made in their own lives.
Jeena Yahan
Director (1 ep.)
event1979
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Jeena Yahan is a 1979 Bollywood film, directed by Basu Chatterjee and produced by N.P. Ali under Jamu Pictures. The film is based on story Ekhane Aakash Neyi by Manu Bhandari. Lekha marries Shekhar, who does not belong to her caste, and lives happily with him in Mumbai. When they visit his village, she learns that his sister is in love but is forced to marry someone else.
Swami
Director (1 ep.)
event1977 star_border 4
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Saudamini is a pampered girl until she is forced to marry the widower Ghanshyam and move into his large household. Saudamini cannot cope with her husband's overbearing and greedy stepmother and pines after the man she really loved and had to abandon, Narendra.
Chakravyuha
Director (1 ep.)
event1978 star_border 4.5
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Rajesh Khanna plays a man drawn unwillingly into a nest of enemy spies and intrigue with the future of his country riding on his shoulders.Chhaya (Neetu) and Amit Narayan (Rajesh) are in love and Chhaya wants to get married. Amit doesn’t see why they have to get married and wants to keep things as they are. Wedding dates are set and then moved, to her great frustration.This is really their only point of discord.Amit lives alone, and is also very fond of Chhaya’s family: father (Om Shivpuri), mother (Dina Pathak), little brother Raju (Master Raju Shrestha)and sister Maya (Rozeena).It is Diwali, and as children burst crackers and set off potentially limb-severing fireworks, Amit’s upstairs neighbor Raman (Vinod Mehra) has been watching a group of men in a tent just outside the building’s courtyard.
Hamari Bahu Alka
Director (1 ep.)
event1982 star_border 6.2
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Collegian Pratapchand alias Pratap lives with his father, Badriprasad, a building contractor, his housewife mom, and a younger brother named Ramu. Badriprasad is always critical of Pratap, and never a day passes without Pratap being reminded of his shortcomings. When Pratap's friend, Sunil gets married to Sudha, Badriprasad arranges Pratap's marriage with a village belle named Alka, much to Pratap's chagrin. After the marriage takes place, Pratap finds Alka attractive, and both fall in love with each other, and would some time together. But that is not to be so, as Pratap has exams coming up, and Badriprasad will not permit them to be close to each other. So both of them scheme up a plot to leave on the pretext of visiting Alka's parents in another distant town. Instead both of them go to Bombay, rent a room, and decide to be intimate. But fate has other plans, rather comical, for them, and will make rue their decision of coming to Bombay.
Kirayadar
Director (1 ep.)
event1986 star_border 5
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Although scores of people migrate to Bombay, from all over India, most do not even have a roof to live under. Some who are lucky manage to find accommodations but pay very high rents, and others who find accommodations refuse to vacate under any circumstances. Two such tenants are Mrs. Laxmi Abhyankar and her employed daughter, Jaya, who live in a flat in Pali Hill area. They had rented this flat from Lucknow-based Kundanlal Choudhury 15 years ago and have been paying him the same amount of Rs.500/- since then. Kundanlal's son, Anil, comes to Bombay to seek employment, and does get employed. His dad wants him to go and live with the Abhyankars, which he does.
Dillagi
Director (1 ep.)
event1978 star_border 5
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A new Sanskrit teacher (Dharmendra) comes to teach at a girls' school. The chemistry teacher (Hema Malini) becomes annoyed at his style of teaching. He falls in love with her and tries to win her over.
Priyatama
Director (1 ep.)
event1978
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Jeetu and Dolly are in love and would like to get married. After seeking Dolly's dad's blessings, they do get married and move in together. They live harmoniously for quite some time, until misunderstandings occur, minor molehills soon become mountains, and they threaten to separate from each other. That done, each goes to their respective lawyers to negotiate a divorce. When Dolly's dad finds out about this, he decides to pay them a visit. Alarmed that he will disapprove of their move to separate, both pretend to live together and show him that they are still in love. But truth has the nasty habit of showing up uninvited, and it will not be long before acrimony breaks out in his presence
The Jewelled Lamp
Director (1 ep.)
event1979
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Ratnadeep revolves around a person who was fed up with his job and to get out of that situation, he applied for two months leave. The story follows when on the last day of his job he found the dead body of a man belonged to very rich family and the body resembled him, which brought new adventures in his life.
Tumhare Liye
Director (1 ep.)
event1978
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Gauri and Prakash are in love and get intimate. Their ways are separate, and Prakash must marry Renuka, as she meets his family's approval. Gauri gets pregnant as a result of this intimacy, gets ill, and is hospitalized. It is here that the truth surfaces about Gauri and Prakash, as details are revealed of their past birth, in which they were lovers - Gangadhar Upadhyay, and Gauri, and Kalavati (presently Renuka). During this previous birth too, Gauri gets pregnant, gets ill, and passes away, because of Kalavati's interference. The child in her womb does not survive, and as a result Gangadhar also gets killed. In this birth, the only way Prakash can survive is after someone who loves him sacrifices their life for him.
Do Ladke Dono Kadke
Director (1 ep.)
event1979 star_border 7.5
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Two hapless petty thieves find themselves embroiled in a kidnapping when they decide to break into a house on the very same night that two dim-witted kidnappers plan to abduct the child who lives there.
Hothat Brishti
Director (1 ep.)
event1998 star_border 7.6
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An young lady's stolen purse was found & returned by a noble man. They didn't meet each other but both fall on love eventually. They overcame all their difficulties & finally unites together.
Prateeksha
Director (1 ep.)
event2006 star_border 6
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A boy from an orthodox Brahmin family is unable to marry the Christian girl with whom he is in love, due to objections from his father.
Chupi Chupi
Director (1 ep.)
event2011
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Chupi Chupi is a 2001 Indian Bengali romance film released on 2001.
Tok Jhal Mishti
Director (1 ep.)
event2002 star_border 4.3
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Dilip and Mukundo, both married with a child each, live in a building in the city of Kolkata. Both the families do not mix due to the difference in status. A new tenant moves into the building, inadvertently bringing trouble with her. The bubbling and warm Deepa barges into both the apartments and befriends the husbands, as their wives seethe with anger and jealousy. They decide to call on their relatives for help. This rigmarole brings Dilip and Mukundo together; they have a common problem - their suspicious wives. The wives also come together, their common enemy being the youthful Deepa and their wayward husbands. Watch the movie to learn how this comic quagmire unfolds further...
Triyacharitra
Director (1 ep.)
event1994 star_border 6.3
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A daughter of poor parents was engaged to a man when she was 13. The man is away working in Calcutta. In the meanwhile, she befriends a truck-driver who promises her parents a huge amount of money. The girl is snatched away by her father-in-law and raped by him. But she is punished for his crime.
Prem Vivah
Director (1 ep.)
event1979
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Asha Parekh plays an unmarried woman in her 30s, past what society considered the marriageable age. Her younger sister played by Bindiya Goswami has a fiancée Mithun Chakraborty. She feels guilty that she is about to have a happy married life, while her older sister will be all alone by herself. She sets out to find a husband for her. When she sees her sister admire Utpal Dutt on television, she brings him into their lives. Unfortunately, Utpal Dutt falls for Bindiya Goswami and isn't aware that Asha Parekh has fallen in love with him. How Bindiya untangles herself from this situation and gets Utpal Dutt and Asha Parekh together forms the rest of the story.
Shotyi Bole Shotyi Kichhu Nei
Original Film Writer (1 ep.)
event2025
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Twelve jury members debate fiercely over a murder trial. Only one juror is convinced that the convict is not guilty of the crime and he tries to convince the rest that the boy is innocent.
Byomkesh Bakshi
Writer (34 ep.)
event1993 star_border 8.6
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An intelligent detective from Kolkata solves many mystery that unsolved by police without any weapons.
Kakkaji Kahin
Director (1 ep.)
event1988
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Kakaji Kahin is an Indian political satire that aired on Doordarshan in 1988. It was one of Basu Chatterjee's acclaimed works for Indian television, based on a book called Netaji Kahin by well-known author Manohar Shyam Joshi
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