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Yash Chopra
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Yash Raj Chopra was an Indian film director and film producer, predominantly working in Hindi cinema. Yash Chopra began his career as an assistant director to I. S. Johar and elder brother and he made his directorial debut with Dhool Ka Phool in 1959, a melodrama about illegitimacy, and followed it with the social drama Dharmputra. Encouraged by the success of films, the Chopra brothers made several more movies together during the late fifties and sixties. Chopra rose to prominence after his commercially and critically successful drama, Waqt, in 1971, Chopra founded his own production company, Yash Raj Films, and launched it with Daag, A Poem of Love, a successful melodrama about a polygamous man. The name Yash Raj was formed with names standing for Yash and Rajesh Khanna, in 1989, Chopra directed the commercially and critically successful cult film Chandni, which became instrumental in ending the era of violent films in Bollywood and returning musicals. Chopra directed and produced the cult classic Lamhe in 1991, considered by critics and Chopra himself as his best work to date, the film became one of the biggest Bollywood hits in the overseas market, although underperforming at the domestic box office. In 1992 he directed Parampara which was panned and was a box office failure. Chopra followed it with the hit and trend setter Darr. Starring Shahrukh Khan, it was a look at obsessive love. -Chopra directed three more films, all starring Khan, Dil To Pagal Hai, Veer-Zaara, and Jab Tak Hai Jaan. Chopra founded and was chairman of the motion picture production and distribution company Yash Raj Films, Chopras career has spanned more than five decades and 50 films, he is considered one of the leading filmmakers in the history of Hindi cinema. He came to be known as the King of Romance of the Indian cinema, Chopra has won several film awards, including six National Film Awards and eleven Filmfare awards, including four Filmfare Best Director awards. The Government of India honoured him with the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 2001, BAFTA presented him with a lifetime membership for his contribution to films, making him the first Indian to receive the honour. Chopra was born on 27 September 1932 in Lahore, British India and his father was an accountant in the PWD division of the British Punjab administration. He was the youngest of eight children, the oldest of whom was almost 30 years his senior, the eminent film-maker BR Chopra is one of his brothers, and among his sisters is Hiroo Johar, wife of the film maker Yash Johar and mother of Karan Johar. Chopra was largely brought up in the Lahore house of his brother, BR Chopra. Chopra went to Jalandhar in 1945 to continue his education, and studied at Doaba College and he moved to Ludhiana in Punjab after the Partition. He originally sought to pursue a career in engineering and his passion for film-making led him to travel to Bombay, where he initially worked as an assistant director to I. S. Johar, and then for his director-producer brother, Baldev Raj Chopra
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Rajesh Khanna
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Rajesh Khanna was an Indian actor, film producer and politician who is known for his work in Hindi cinema. He was referred to as the first superstar and the superstar of Indian cinema. He starred in 18 consecutive solo hit films in the period 1969 to 1972 and he made his debut in 1966 with Aakhri Khat. Through his career he appeared in more than 160 feature films and 17 short films and he received the Filmfare Best Actor Award three times and the BFJA Awards for Best Actor four times. In 1991, he was awarded the Filmfare Special Award and in 2005 and he was the highest paid Indian actor from 1970 to 1987 where Amitabh Bachchan shared the same tag with Khanna from 1980 to 1987. He was also a Lok Sabha member of the Indian National Congress from New Delhi constituency from 1992 to 1996 and he married Dimple Kapadia in March 1973, eight months before her debut film Bobby was released and had two daughters from the marriage. Their elder daughter Twinkle Khanna is married to actor Akshay Kumar, after being critically ill, Khanna died on 18 July 2012. Khanna has been posthumously awarded Indias third highest civilian honour Padma Bhushan and his father had migrated from pre-partitioned Pakistan to Gali Tiwarian in Amritsar. His biological parents were Lala Hiranand and Chandrani Khanna, Lala worked as headmaster of the MC High School in Burewala, Vehari District, Punjab, Pakistan. His adoptive parents belonged to a family of railway contractors who had moved from Lahore to Bombay in 1935, Khanna lived in Saraswati Niwas in Thakurdwar near Girgaon, Mumbai. He attended St. Sebastian’s Goan High School with his friend Ravi Kapoor, Khanna gradually started taking interest in theatre, did a lot of stage and theatre plays in his school and college day, and won many prizes in inter-college drama competitions. In 1962 Khanna played a wounded soldier in the play Andha Yug and impressed with his performance. Khanna became a rare newcomer who struggled in his own MG sports car to get work in theatre, Khanna did his first two years of Bachelor of Arts in Nowrosjee Wadia College in Pune from 1959 to 1961. Khanna later studied in K. C, College, Mumbai and Jeetendra studied from Siddharth Jain College. Khanna tutored Jeetendra for his first film audition, Khannas uncle KK Talwar changed Khannas first name to Rajesh when he decided to join films. His friends and his wife called him Kaka, Rajesh Khanna was one of eight finalists in the 1965 All India Talent Contest organised by United Producers and Filmfare from more than 10,000 contestants. Sippy and Nasir Hussain were the first to sign Rajesh Khanna after he won the contest, Aakhri Khat was India’s entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 40th Oscar Academy Awards in 1967. Khanna in an interview to Hindu newspaper said, Though Aakhri Khat is my first film, I received my first break as an actor in Ravindra Daves
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Bollywood
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Bollywood is the sobriquet for Indias Hindi language film industry, based in the city of Mumbai, Maharashtra. It is more formally referred to as Hindi cinema, Bollywood is also one of the largest centers of film production in the world. Furthermore, Bollywood is one of the biggest film industries in the world in terms of the number of people employed, according to Matusitz, J. & Payano, P. In 2011, over 3.5 billion tickets were sold across the globe which in comparison is 900,000 tickets more than Hollywood, Bollywood produced 252 films in 2014 out of a total of 1969 films produced in Indian cinema. The name Bollywood is a derived from Bombay, India, and Hollywood, California. Bollywood does not exist as a physical place, some deplore the name, arguing that it makes the industry look like a poor cousin to Hollywood. The naming scheme for Bollywood was inspired by Tollywood, the name that was used to refer to the cinema of West Bengal and it was this chance juxtaposition of two pairs of rhyming syllables, Holly and Tolly, that led to the portmanteau name Tollywood being coined. However, Tollywood is now used popularly to refer to the Telugu Film Industry in Telangana & Andhra Pradesh, the term Bollywood itself has origins in the 1970s, when India overtook America as the worlds largest film producer. Credit for the term has been claimed by different people, including the lyricist, filmmaker and scholar Amit Khanna. Raja Harishchandra, by Dadasaheb Phalke, is known as the first silent feature film made in India, by the 1930s, the industry was producing over 200 films per annum. The first Indian sound film, Ardeshir Iranis Alam Ara, was a commercial success. There was clearly a huge market for talkies and musicals, Bollywood, the 1930s and 1940s were tumultuous times, India was buffeted by the Great Depression, World War II, the Indian independence movement, and the violence of the Partition. Most Bollywood films were unabashedly escapist, but there were also a number of filmmakers who tackled tough social issues, in 1937, Ardeshir Irani, of Alam Ara fame, made the first colour film in Hindi, Kisan Kanya. The next year, he made another film, a version of Mother India. However, colour did not become a feature until the late 1950s. At this time, lavish romantic musicals and melodramas were the fare at the cinema. Following Indias independence, the period from the late 1940s to the 1960s is regarded by historians as the Golden Age of Hindi cinema. Some of the most critically acclaimed Hindi films of all time were produced during this period, examples include the Guru Dutt films Pyaasa and Kaagaz Ke Phool and the Raj Kapoor films Awaara, Shree 420 and Dilip Kumars Aan
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Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress
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Although the Filmfare awards started in 1954, awards for the Best Supporting Actress category started the following year 1955. Five actresses, Nirupa Roy, Farida Jalal, Jaya Bachchan, Rani Mukerji, six actresses have won the award twice, in chronological order, they are Shashikala, Simi Garewal, Raakhee, Rohini Hattangadi, Aruna Irani and Konkona Sen Sharma. Four actresses have won the award in years, Shashikala, Supriya Pathak, Jaya Bachchan. Aruna Irani holds the record of nominations, followed by Raakhee / Shashikala, Farida Jalal / Bindu / Rani Mukerji. Shashikala holds the record of most consecutive nominations with 6 between 1963 and 1967, being nominated twice in 1967, winning twice in 1963 and 1964, eight actresses hold the record of maximum nominations in a single year. In chronological order, they are, Shubha Khote, Shashikala, Nutan, Bindu, Smita Patil, Sushmita Sen, Rani Mukerji, among these, the latter three won the awards in their respective years. The former five thus hold the record of not winning despite having multiple nominations, Bindu holds the record of maximum nominations without ever winning, with 7, followed by Reema Lagoo, Waheeda Rehman and Tanvi Azmi with 4 nominations each. Six actresses, Dina Pathak, Bipasha Basu, Divya Dutta, Kirron Kher, Preity Zinta, Jaya Bachchan, who won 3 awards among 3 nominations, holds the record of winning maximum awards, without ever losing, whenever been nominated. Bachchan also holds the record of awards in minimum time. She won in 2001,2002 and 2004, durga Khote, in 1975, became the eldest winner and eldest nominee, at age 70, whilst Ayesha Kapur, became the youngest winner and youngest nominee, at age 11. Karisma Kapoor and Kareena Kapoor are the siblings who have both won the award. There was no winner in the 1950s, on the contrary in the 60s three actresses had two wins, namely, Nirupa Roy, Shashikala and Simi Garewal. Again, 70s had no wins, but Supriya Pathak achieved two consecutive wins in the 80s. Farida Jalal followed suit with two wins in the 90s, Jaya Bachchan took over in the 2000s with three wins. Until now, no actress is leading the 2010s, vyjayanthimala and Reena Roy are the only actresses to have not accepted the award. Both refused it for their roles in Devdas and Apnapan, respectively, citing that their roles were leading, only once have siblings been nominated for the award during the same year, Ratna Pathak and Supriya Pathak in 2010. Mukerji is the first and only actress to win both awards in the same year. Kareena Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra are the two actresses to win Filmfare Awards in five different categories, while Kangana Ranaut has won in four categories
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Thriller film
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Thriller film, also known as suspense film or suspense thriller, is a film genre that falls under the general thriller genre. The thriller films key characteristics are excitement and suspense, the suspense element, found in most films plots, is particularly exploited by the filmmaker in this genre. Tension is created by delaying what the audience sees as inevitable, a strict definition of the thriller film is that the films overarching goal is to build tension in audiences as the film approaches its climax. Tension is built through situations that are menacing or where escape seems impossible, Life is typically threatened in thriller film, such as when the protagonist does not realize entering a dangerous situation. Thriller films characters conflict with other or with an outside force. Thriller films are typically hybridized with other genres, there exist adventure thrillers, science fiction thrillers, Western thrillers, Thriller films also share a close relationship with horror films, both eliciting tension. In plots about crime, thriller films focus less on the criminal or the detective, common themes include terrorism, political conspiracy, pursuit, or romantic triangles leading to murder. Alfred Hitchcocks first thriller was his silent film, The Lodger. His next thriller was Blackmail, his and Britains first sound film and his notable thrillers in the 1930s include The Man Who Knew Too Much and The 39 Steps. 326 —this film would be an inspiration for the future James Bond films, the German film M, directed by Fritz Lang, starred Peter Lorre as a criminal deviant who preys on children. Hitchcock continued his suspense-thrillers, directing Foreign Correspondent, the Oscar-winning Rebecca, Suspicion, Saboteur and Shadow of a Doubt, notable non-Hitchcock films of the 1940s include The Spiral Staircase and Sorry, Wrong Number. In the 1950s, Hitchcock added technicolor to his thrillers, now with exotic locales and he reached the zenith of his career with a succession of classic films such as, Strangers on a Train, Dial M For Murder with Ray Milland, Rear Window and Vertigo. Non-Hitchcock thrillers of the 1950s include The Night of the Hunter —Charles Laughtons only film as director—and Orson Welless crime thriller Touch of Evil, director Michael Powells Peeping Tom featured Carl Boehm as a psychopathic cameraman. After Hitchcocks classic films of the 1950s, he produced Psycho about a lonely, mother-fixated motel owner, J. Lee Thompsons Cape Fear, with Robert Mitchum, had a menacing ex-con seeking revenge. A famous thriller at the time of its release was Wait Until Dark by director Terence Young, john Boormans Deliverance followed the perilous fate of four Southern businessmen during a weekends trip. In Francis Ford Coppolas The Conversation, a bugging-device expert systematically uncovered a covert murder while he himself was being spied upon, Peter Hyams science fiction thriller Capricorn One proposed a government conspiracy to fake the first mission to Mars. His notable films include Sisters, Obsession, which was inspired by Vertigo, Dressed to Kill. Other films include Curtis Hansons The Hand That Rocks the Cradle and Unlawful Entry, detectives/FBI agents hunting down a serial killer was another popular motif in the 90s
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Nanda (actress)
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Nanda was an Indian film actress who appeared in Hindi and Marathi films. She was best known for her performances in films like Ittefaq, Joru Ka Ghulam, Neend Hamare Khwab Tumhare, Kanoon, Pati Patni, Gumnaam, Akashdeep, Bedaag, Nanda was born in a Maharashtrian show-business family to Vinayak Damodar Karnataki, a successful Marathi actor-producer-director. Her father died in 1947, aged 41 when Nanda was eight years old and she became a child actress, helping her family by working in films in the early 1950s. She made her debut with Mandir in 1948, on the silver screen she was first recognized as Baby Nanda. In films like Mandir, Jaggu, Angaarey, and Jagriti, as a result of her involvement in movies, her studies suffered, and she was coached at home by renowned school teacher and Bombay Scouts commissioner, Gokuldas V. Makhi. By taking up a career in films, she supported and educated her six siblings, one of her brothers is Marathi film director Jaiprakash Karnataki. Actress Jayashree Talpade is her sister-in-law and she received her first Filmfare Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress for Bhabhi, she claims that the reason she didnt win was because there was lobbying involved. She played supporting roles to stars like Dev Anand in Kala Bazar and she played the title role in L. V. The movie was a big hit, making her a star, in this commercially successful 1959 film, Nanda played the blind younger sister looked after by two elder brothers, played by Balraj Sahni and Rehman. She then played lead roles, such as one of Dev Anand’s heroines in Hum Dono, both films were acclaimed as hits. She was the heroine in B R Chopras Kanoon, a film with no songs, which was then rare. She won the Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award for Anchal. She was paired with Raj Kapoor in Aashiq and she worked with Rajendra Kumar in 3 films - Toofan Aur Diya, Dhool Ka Phool, Nanda was known to encourage newcomers. She signed 8 films with Shashi Kapoor at a time when he was yet to become successful in Hindi Cinema. Their first 2 films as a pair - the critically acclaimed romantic film Char Diwari and Mehndi Lagi Mere Haath - did not work but the rest were successful at the box office. Shashi, who though had achieved success in English films in 1963, in Jab Jab Phool Khile, Nanda played a westernised role for the first time and it helped her image. Her favorite song that was famously picturized on her in the film was Yeh Samaa, Shashi would later declare that Nanda was his favorite heroine. Nanda, too, declared Kapoor as her favourite hero, in the period 1965-1970, the successful films of the pair Shashi-Nanda include Mohabbat Isko Kahete Hain, Jab Jab Phool Khile, Neend Hamari Khwab Tumhare, Raja Saab and Rootha Na Karo. In the early 1970s, Nanda suggested Rajendra Kumar, co-producer of The Train and she had another hit film in 1965 with Gumnaam, which helped put her in the top league of heroines
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Sidharth Malhotra
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Sidharth Malhotra is an Indian actor and former model who appears in Bollywood films. Malhotra began a career as a model at the age of 18, dissatisfied by the profession, he went on to work as an assistant director to Karan Johar in the 2010 film My Name Is Khan. He made his debut with a leading role in Johars comedy-drama Student of the Year. The latter two rank among Malhotras highest-grossing films, with a gross of over ₹1 billion each. Malhotra was born in Delhi, into a Punjabi family, to Sunil, a captain in the Merchant Navy, and Rimma Malhotra. He was schooled at Delhis Don Bosco School and Birla Vidya Niketan, at the age of 18, Malhotra began modelling. Although he was successful, he decided to quit after four years because he was dissatisfied with the profession, interested to pursue an acting career, he successfully auditioned for a film to be directed by Anubhav Sinha. However, the film was shelved, following which he worked as an assistant director to Karan Johar on the 2010 film My Name Is Khan, in 2012, Malhotra made his acting debut with Johars Student of the Year alongside Varun Dhawan and Alia Bhatt. He was cast as Abhimanyu Singh, a student of limited financial means. Film critic Rajeev Masand of CNN-IBN considered Malhotras performance to be earnest, Student of the Year was a financial success, grossing ₹700 million domestically. The film performed well at the box office, with global revenues of ₹620 million. Malhotras second release of 2014 was the Mohit Suri-directed romantic thriller Ek Villain, Malhotra was cast as Guru, a hardened criminal whose terminally-ill wife is murdered by a serial killer. The film was perceived to be plagiarised from the Korean film I Saw the Devil. The film eventually emerged as a commercial success with domestic revenues of over ₹1 billion. The box office performance of the film established Malhotra as one of the most successful among the new generation of Bollywood actors. In 2015, Malhotra appeared in the remake of the Hollywood film Warrior, entitled Brothers, directed by Karan Malhotra and co-starring Akshay Kumar, Jacqueline Fernandez, despite high expectations from trade analysts, the film received negative reviews and under-performed at the box office. However, his release, the Shakun Batra-directed family drama Kapoor & Sons. A reviewer for India Today thought that Malhotra was overshadowed by Khan in the film, though Namrata Joshi of The Hindu wrote that he holds his own with his solid presence and vulnerable glances
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Sonakshi Sinha
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Sonakshi Sinha is an Indian actress. She is daughter of actors Shatrughan and Poonam, after working as a costume designer in her early career, Sonakshi made her debut in action-drama film Dabangg which led her to win the Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut. She received critical acclaim for her portrayal of a woman suffering from tuberculosis in the romantic drama Lootera and she also received praise for her roles in Akira and Force 2. Sinha was born on 2 June 1987 in Patna into a Bihari Kayastha family and her father, Shatrughan Sinha and her mother Poonam Sinha are actors in Hindi Cinema. Her father is now a member of Bharatiya Janata Party. She is the youngest of three children, her two brothers, Luv Sinha and Kush Sinha are twin. She did her schooling at Arya Vidya Mandir and later graduated in fashion designing from Shreemati Nathibai Damodar Thackersey Womens University, Sinha started her career as a costume designer, designing the costumes for films like Mera Dil Leke Dekho in 2005. She made her debut in the 2010 film Dabangg, in which she starred opposite Salman Khan. It went on to become the film of 2010 and ultimately emerged as an all-time blockbuster. Sinha had to lose 30 kg in preparation for the role as a village girl and her performance was well received, with noted critic Taran Adarsh noting that Sonakshi Sinha looks fresh, acts confidently and pairs off very well with Salman. Most importantly, she delivers the right expressions and is not overpowered by the galaxy of stars in the cast, although Sinha had no film releases in 2011, she won awards for her debut. This included the Filmfare Award as well as the IIFA Awards among many others, Sinha had four releases in 2012, her first being Prabhu Devas Rowdy Rathore, opposite Akshay Kumar. The film opened to mixed reviews critics, although it had a strong opening at the box office. ₹150.6 million on the first day and eventually became a blockbuster, however, critic Rajeev Masand criticized her ornamental role and wrote that Sinha seems to exist in this film only to have her midriff repeatedly pinched by Akshay Kumar. Her next film, Shirish Kunders Joker, also opposite Akshay Kumar, proved to be a disaster at the box office. Her third film, Ashwni Dhirs Son of Sardar opposite Ajay Devgan was poorly received by the critics, critic Saibal Chatterjee from NDTV noted that Sinha endeavours to be pretty and dainty amid all the madness. Arbaaz Khans Dabangg 2, the sequel to her successful debut garnered little praise from critics. Sinha also dubbed for the voice of Tooth in the Hindi version of Rise of the Guardians, Sinhas first film of 2013 was Vikramaditya Motwanes period romance-drama Lootera opposite Ranveer Singh
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Hindustan Times
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Hindustan Times is an Indian English-language daily newspaper founded in 1924 with roots in the Indian independence movement of the period. The newspaper is owned by Rajya Sabha M. P. Shobhana Bhartia and it is the flagship publication of HT Media. Hindustan Times is one of the largest newspapers in India, by circulation, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, it has a circulation of 1.16 million copies as of November 2015. The Indian Readership Survey 2014 revealed that HT is the second most widely read English newspaper in India after The Times of India. It is popular in North India, with editions from New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Lucknow, Patna, Ranchi, Bhopal. The print location of Jaipur was discontinued from June 2006 and that of Nagpur edition was discontinued from September 1997, HT launched a youth daily, HT Next, in 2004. The Mumbai edition was launched on 14 July 2005 and the Kolkata edition was launched in early 2000. In 2014 however, Hindustan Times was ranked 360th among Indias most trusted brands according to the Brand Trust Report 2014, a study conducted by Trust Research Advisory, other sister publications of Hindustan Times are Mint, Hindustan, Nandan and Kadambani. Hindustan Times is owned by the KK Birla branch of the Birla family, Hindustan Times was founded in 1924 by Sunder Singh Lyallpuri, founder-father of the Akali movement and the Shiromani Akali Dal in Punjab Province. S Mangal Singh Gill and S. Chanchal Singh were made in charge of the newspaper, Madan Mohan Malaviya and Tara Singh were among the members of the Managing Committee. The Managing Chairman and Chief Patron was Master Sunder Singh Lyallpuri, K. M. Panikkar was its first editor, Devdas Gandhi on the editors panel, and later editor. The opening ceremony was performed by Mahatma Gandhi on 26 September 1924, the first issue was published from Naya Bazar, Delhi. As an Oxonian, historian, and litterateur, Panikkar must have hoped to make his paper eventually more than an Akali sheet and he became the editor and funds flowed freely from activist Akali patrons. He exerted himself strenuously, but the paper made very little headway, in two years Panikkar could not take the print order any higher than 3,000. By then the Akali movement appeared to lose steam and funds dried up, the paper was saved from an untimely demise when Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya stepped in to realise his vision of a newspaper in Delhi. Malaviya raised ₹50,000 rupees to acquire the Hindustan Times along with the help of nationalist leaders Lajpat Rai and M. R. Jayakar and industrialist G. D. Birla, Birla took full control of the paper in 1933. The paper continues to be owned by the Birla family and it has its roots in the Indian independence movement of the first half of the twentieth century and even faced the noted Hindustan Times Contempt Case at Allahabad High Court. It was edited at times by many important people in India, including Devdas Gandhi, Sri Mulgaonkar, B. G. Verghese, sanjoy Narayan was editor in chief of the paper from August 2008 till July 2016
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Baldev Raj Chopra
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Baldev Raj Chopra was an Indian director and producer of Bollywood movies and television serials. Best known for making Hindi films like Naya Daur, Sadhna, Kanoon, Gumrah and Humraaz and his younger brother Yash Chopra, son Ravi Chopra and nephew Aditya Chopra are also directors in the Bollywood industry. His nephew Uday Chopra is an actor and producer, Chopra was born in Ludhiana, India, the son of Vilayati Raj Chopra, an employee of the PWD. He was the second of several siblings, one of his brothers is the film-maker Yash Chopra, B. R. received an M. A. in English literature from University of the Punjab in Lahore. He started his career in 1944 as a film journalist with Cine Herald, in the same year, he launched a film with a story by I. S. Johar, Chandni Chowk. Naeem Hashmi was hero of this movie and Erika Rukhshi was the heroine, just as the production of film was to start, riots broke out in Lahore and he and his family had to flee from the city. After the partition of India into India and Pakistan in 1947 and he later moved to Mumbai, where his first production, Karwat, began in 1948, though it turned out to be a flop. His first film as a director, Afsana, was released in 1951 and featured Ashok Kumar in a double role – the film was a hit, Chopra made Chandni Chowk, with Meena Kumari as a lead, in 1954. In 1955, B. R. formed his own production house and his first movie for this production house was the highly successful Naya Daur starring Dilip Kumar and Vyjayantimala Bali, the film became a golden jubilee hit. In 1963, he was a member of the jury at the 13th Berlin International Film Festival, B. R. was instrumental in developing the career of singer Mahendra Kapoor, whom he employed in most of his movies. One prominent thing about B. R. Chopra is the low number of songs sung by Lata Mangeshkar and Mohammed Rafi in his films, with Asha Bhosle. The reason behind this was never revealed by him or the singers, B. R. forayed into television with Mahabharat, one of the most successful TV serials in Indian television history. Nitish Bharadwaj played the role of Krishna in that series, another of his memorable TV dramas is Bahadur Shah Zafar. He died in Mumbai at the age of 94 on 5 November 2008, survived by his son, Ravi Chopra, and two daughters. com
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Iftekhar
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Sayaddana Iftekhar Ahmed Shareef, often mononymously credited as Iftekhar, was a character actor in Bollywood films, especially known for his roles as police officer. Note, It is stated that actress Veena was Iftekhars sister and their individual biographies are conflicting and there is no indication that these two persons are related. Iftekhar was born in Jallandhar and was the eldest among four brothers, after completing his matriculation Iftekhar did a diploma course in painting from Lucknow College Of Arts. Iftekhar had a passion for singing and was impressed with the famous singer Kundanlal Sehgal, in his twenties Iftekhar travelled to Calcuttafor an audition conducted by the renowned music composer Kamal Dasgupta who was then serving for HMV. Dasgupta was so impressed by Iftekhars personality that he recommended his name to M. P, Iftekhar made his debut in the 1944 film “Taqraar” which was made under the banner of “Art Films-Kolkata. Many of Iftekhar’s close relative including his parents and siblings migrated to Pakistan during partition, Iftekhar preferred to stay in India though due to the riots he was forced to leave Calcutta. He, along with his wife and daughters migrated to Bombay where they struggled to make ends meet, Iftekhar had been introduced to actor Ashok Kumar during his time in Calcutta. He contacted Ashok Kumar in Mumbai who not only recognized Iftekhar, Iftekhar acted in over 400 films in a career that spanned from the 1940s through to the early 1990s. His roles ranged from father, uncle, great-uncle, grandfather, police officer, police commissioner, courtroom judge and he also did negative roles in Bandini, Sawan Bhadon, Khel Khel Mein and Agent Vinod. In the 1960s and 1970s, Iftekhar graduated to playing uncle, father, generally he played sympathetic characters but, on occasion, he played the heavy. One of his most memorable roles as a heavy was as Amitabh Bachchans corrupt industrialist mentor in Yash Chopras classic Deewaar, another of Iftekhars classic roles was as the police inspector in Prakash Mehras Zanjeer. It was a part, but the scene where Iftekhar reprimands the near hysteric Amitabh Bachchan for taking the law into his own hands is incredibly powerful. Apart from Hindi films he appeared in two episodes of the American TV series Maya in 1967 as well the English language films Bombay Talkie, Iftekhar married Hannah Joseph, a Jewish girl from Calcutta, renamed Rehana Ahmed. His elder daughter, Salma was born in 1946 and the younger one, Salma married Vipin Chandra Jain of Dehradun in 1964 and has one married daughter, now in London and also one son, Vishal Jain. Sheikh, but she expired in 1995, Iftekhar died on 1st March 1995, a few days after his younger daughters passing away. Col. Pratap Singh Rana City of Joy, Police Commissioner Paap Ko Jalaa Kar Raakh Kar Doonga. Senior Police Officer Marte Dam Tak, mr. Thakur – Sumitra Devis Father Tan-Badan. Dr. Prabhas Senior Ek Daku Saher Mein, lala Fakirchand Kabhi Ajnabi The Phaansi Ke Baad
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Salil Chowdhury
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Salil Chowdhury was an Indian music composer, who mainly composed for Bengali, Hindi and Malayalam films. He was also a poet and a playwright and he is affectionately called Salilda by his admirers. His musical ability was recognised and acknowledged in the Indian film industry. He was a composer and arranger who was proficient in several musical instruments, including flute, the piano. He was also acclaimed and admired for his inspirational and original poetry in Bengali. Salil Chowdhury was born on 19 November 1925in a village called Harinavi in West Bengal, salils childhood was spent in the tea gardens region of Assam. From an early age he listened to the Western Classical collection of his father and his father was reputed to stage plays with coolies and other low-paid workers of the tea-gardens. In 1944, a young Salil came to Calcutta for his graduate studies and he joined the IPTA the cultural wing of the Communist Party of India. He started writing songs and setting tunes for them, the IPTA theatrical outfit travelled through the villages and the cities bringing these songs to the common man. Songs like Bicharpati, Runner and Abak prithibi became extremely popular with the population at the time. Songs like Gaayer bodhu, which he composed at the age of 20, almost every notable singer at the time from West Bengal had sung at least one of his songs. A few examples are Debabrata Biswas, Hemanta Mukherjee, Shyamal Mitra, Sandhya Mukherjee, Manabendra Mukherjee, Subir Sen and his first Bengali film Paribortan was released in 1949. The singer of his debut song was Debabrata Biswas. Mahabharati released in 1994 was the last of his 41 Bengali films, after about 20 years in Bengali and Hindi films, Salil da entered Malayalam films in 1964 with Chemmeen. He went on to compose for over 75 Hindi films, over 40 Bengali films, around 27 Malayalam films, the name of the assamese films are APARAJEYO and MANASH KANYA1985. Salil Chowdhury was married to Jyoti Chowdhury and later he married to Sabita Chowdhury also, Sanjoy Chowdhury is a successful music composer himself and scored music for over a 100 feature films. Sabita Chaowdhury was a singer and their daughter, Antara is currently a performing artist and she recently sang for Music Director Shantanu Moitras hit movie Khoya Khoya Chand in a duet with Sonu Nigam. Hindi and Bengali singles from the album have been released on the iTunes Music Store worldwide, salils music was a blending of Eastern and the Western music traditions. He had once said, I want to create a style which shall transcend borders – a genre which is emphatic and polished and he dabbled in a lot of things and it was his ambition to achieve greatness in everything he did
