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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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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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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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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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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
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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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Bindu (actress)
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Bindu is an actress in Indian cinema who was popular in the 1970s, receiving several award nominations. She has acted in over 160 movies in a career spanned four decades. Bindu was born to film producer Nanubhai Desai and his wife Jyotsna at a village called Hanuman Bhagda in the district of Valsad in the Western Indian state of Gujarat. Bindus road to success was not an easy one and her father died when she was 3. Being the eldest daughter, the burden of earning money fell on her shoulders, Bindu made her debut in Anpadh, playing a young college graduate. She would have been about 11 at the time, which places her birth date in dispute, Bindu had early successes with Ittefaq and Do Raaste in 1969. Bindus mesmerising performances in 1974 as a seductress in Imtihan, and as a nymphomaniac in Hawas, left audiences asking for more. With a string of hits behind her, she managed to break out of the myth that married actresses usually do not go to become sex symbols. She is the point in the holy trinity of item number queens. Along with Helen and Aruna Irani, Bindu defined the Bollywood cabaret dance number and her acting ability was seen in films like Hrishikesh Mukherjees films Arjun Pandit and Abhimaan, where she won raves for playing a very sympathetic character. She proved to be just as convincing as the woman in Chaitali and as the deglamorised role of wife to Ashok Kumar. She played the villains moll in Zanjeer and became famous as Mona Darling. An impending pregnancy, followed by a miscarriage, brought about a lull in her career and on the advice of her doctors she had to end her stint as the glamorous vamp – dancing. Main Hoon Na, and Om Shanti Om, Bindu married her childhood sweetheart and next door neighbour Champaklal Zaveri. She currently resides in Koregaon Park, Pune, shes a member of Derby and often spotted at the race course at Pune. Kiran Aurat Aya Sawan Jhoom Ke Doli Do Raaste Ittefaq Nateeja Kati Patang Amar Prem Preet Ki Dori Dushman, special Appearance Haseeno Ka Devta Dastaan Dil Ka Raaja Ek Bechara Garam Masala Raja Jani. Abhimaan Gaai Aur Gori Dharma Joshila Zanjeer Hawas Free Love Imtihan Pagli Prem Nagar Bangaarada Panjara, reshma Chaitali Dafa 302 Jaggu Sewak Dhoti Lota Aur Chowpatty. Rosita Dus Numbri Nehle Pe Dehla Thief of Baghdad Chakkar Pe Chakkar Chala Murari Hero Banne Chalta Purza Maha Badmaas Bandie Chor Ho To Aisa Des Pardes, manju Jalan Trishna Phandebaaz Rahu Ketu Ram Kasam Amar Deep
