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Govinda (actor)
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Govind Arun Kumar Ahuja, known mononymously as Govinda, is an Indian film actor, comedian and former politician known for his work in Hindi films. Known for his skills, Govinda has received twelve Filmfare Award nominations, a Filmfare Special Award, a Filmfare Award for Best Comedian. The actor was a member of the Parliament of India from 2004 to 2009. Govindas first film was 1986s Ilzaam, in June 1999, He was voted the tenth-greatest star of stage or screen in a BBC News Online poll. During the 1980s, Govindas films spanned genres and included family, drama, action and he started out as an action hero in the 80s and reinvented himself as a comedy hero in 90s. At one time, Amitabh co-starred with him on his comeback to rejuvenate his market when his films failed miserably. He was recognised the decade as a comic actor after playing a mischievous young NCC cadet in the 1992 romance Shola Aur Shabnam. Govinda had lead roles in commercially successful comedy films, including Aankhen, Raja Babu. 1, Hero No.1 and Haseena Maan Jaayegi and he received a Filmfare Best Comedian Award for Haseena Maan Jayegi and a Filmfare Special Award for Saajan Chale Sasural. Govinda has played roles in several movies, including Jaan Se Pyaara, Aankhen, Bade Miyan Chote Miyan. He played six roles in Hadh Kar Di Aapne, Raju, after a number of box-office flops in the 2000s, his later commercial successes included Bhagam Bhag, Partner, Life Partner etc. In 2015 Govinda became a judge on Zee TVs dance-based reality show, Dance India Dance Super Mom Season 2, the show received the highest TRP of any reality-show opening episode. Govinda was elected the member of parliament for the Mumbai North constituency of Maharashtra, India in the 14th Lok Sabha elections in 2004. Govinda was born on 21 December 1963 to former actor Arun Kumar Ahuja and singer-actress Nirmala Devi into a family with Punjabi, Arun is best known for Mehboob Khans Aurat. He produced one film, and became ill shortly afterwards. The family, living in a bungalow on Mumbais Carter Road, the youngest of six children, he was given the pet name Chi Chi, meaning little finger in Punjabi, the language spoken at home. After Govinda received a Bachelor of Commerce degree, his father suggested a career in film, around this time, Govinda saw the film Disco Dancer, afterwards, he practised for hours and circulated a promotional VHS cassette. He was offered jobs in a commercial and an Allwyn ad. His first lead role was in Tan-Badan, directed by his uncle Anand, Govinda began shooting for his next film, Love 86, in June 1985
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Karisma Kapoor
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Karisma Kapoor is an Indian actress, who appears in Hindi films. Kapoor is often regarded as the nations most beautiful actress, and is the recipient of several accolades, including a National Film Award and four Filmfare Awards. Born and raised in Mumbai, she is a member of the Kapoor family, despite her family background, her father disliked women entering films, and separated from her mother. Kapoor, at the age of seventeen, left her studies to pursue a career for financial support. Subsequently, Kapoor starred in a number of hits, including the dramas Jigar and Anari, the comedies Raja Babu, Coolie No.1 and Saajan Chale Sasural. However, she was criticised for her brief, repetitivein roles, the 1996 blockbuster romance Raja Hindustani marked a significant turning point in Kapoors career, earning her praise and a Filmfare Award for Best Actress. She later won the National Film Award and Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of a dancer in Yash Chopras blockbuster musical romance Dil To Pagal Hai. Kapoor achieved further success by featuring as the lead in three of David Dhawans top grossing romantic comedies—Hero No.1, Biwi No. She also received praise for her performance in the 2002 revenge drama Shakti. Kapoor took a sabbatical from acting in 2004, and made her comeback with the 2012 supernatural thriller Dangerous Ishqq. Kapoor was born on 25 June 1974 in Mumbai, to actors Randhir Kapoor and her younger sister, Kareena, is also an actress. Her paternal grandfather was the actor and filmmaker Raj Kapoor, while her grandfather was actor Hari Shivdasani. She is the niece of actors Rishi and Rajiv, and insurance agent Ritu, actor Ranbir Kapoor and businessman Nikhil Nanda are her first cousins, while actress Sasha Agha is her distant relative. Actress Sadhana, was her mothers first cousin, according to Kapoor, the name Lolo was derived after her mother made a passing reference to the Italian actress Gina Lollobrigida. Both of her paternal and maternal grandparents were from Peshawar, Lyallpur and Karachi respectively, Kapoor is of Hindu Punjabi descent on her fathers side, and on her mothers side she is of Sindhi and British descent. She was particularly inspired by the work of actresses Sridevi and Madhuri Dixit, despite her family background, her father disapproved of women working in films, because he believed it conflicted with the traditional maternal duties and responsibility of women in the family. This led to a conflict between her parents and they separated in 1988 and she and her sister, Kareena, were raised by her mother, who worked several jobs to raise them, until she made her debut in films as an actress. The couple reconciled in 2007, after living separately for several years, Kapoor studied at the Cathedral and John Connon School and later, for a few months, at Sophia College
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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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David Dhawan
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David Dhawan is an Indian film director who works in Hindi films. He is the father of Bollywood actor Varun Dhawan and director Rohit Dhawan and he is best known for directing several successful films, including the comedies Swarg, Shola Aur Shabnam, Judwaa, Dulhan Hum Le Jayenge, Mujhse Shaadi Karogi, Maine Pyaar Kyun Kiya. Partner, Chashme Baddoor and Main Tera Hero, the 1993 action thriller Aankhen and the 1999 comedy Biwi No.1 earned him the Filmfare Award for Best Director nominations. David Dhawan was born in Agartala, but brought up in Kanpur where his father and he studied in Christ Church College till Class XII. He then joined Film and Television Institute of India for acting, so he took up editing as an option. Dhawan started off as an editor before moving into directing and he specialises in directing comedy films. His biggest success to date is 1993s Aankhen, starring Govinda and his Partner also became a big success at the box office. Dhawan is on the board of Asian Academy of Film & Television and he was a judge on the Star Plus show Nach Baliye 3 in 2008 and on the show Hans Baliye. Dhawan first teamed with actor Govinda for the film Taaqatwar and he then formed a collaboration with Govinda and went on to direct 17 movies with him as the leading actor, most of which were comedy films. The films made by their collaboration are Taaqatwar, Swarg, Shola Aur Shabnam, Aankhen, Raja Babu,1, Saajan Chale Sasural, Banarasi Babu, Deewana Mastana, Hero No. 1, Bade Miyan Chote Miyan, Haseena Maan Jaayegi, Kunwara, Jodi No.1, Ek Aur Ek Gyarah, Partner and Do Knot Disturb. Partner, which co-starred Salman Khan, grossed Rs.300 Million in India on its opening week, the same year, Salman Khan invited Dhawan and Govinda on his show 10 Ka Dum to celebrate their film Partner. Dhawan got back to the trio of Govinda, Ritesh Deshmukh and himself with the film, Dhawan is married to Karuna and has two sons Rohit Dhawan and Varun Dhawan. Dhawans brother is actor Anil Dhawan and nephew is actor Siddharth Dhawan, david Dhawan at the Internet Movie Database
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Anees Bazmee
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Anees Bazmee is an Indian film producer and director in Bollywood. He is best known for directing films like No Entry, Welcome. Bazmee started his career in 1988, as a writer for the film Hum Farishte Nahin. He returned in the year 1990 as a writer for the film Swarg and he did several projects in collaboration with Dhawan soon after. In 1995, after having written scripts for ten films, including such as Aankhen. Starring Ajay Devgn and Kajol, the film went unnoticed critically and commercially as well, however, his attempt to cast Devgan and Kajol once again in 1998 for his second directorial venture, Pyaar To Hona Hi Tha, proved successful. The film was both a critical and commercial success, and turned out to be one of the industrys biggest hits that year. After the success of Pyaar To Hona Hi Tha, Bazmee took a break from directing. He returned in 2002, with the thriller Deewangee, which performed average business at the box office. In 2005 Bazmee directed the comedy film, No Entry. The film became the biggest hit of the year, earning over Rs 430 million in its box office. He had great success with Welcome and Singh Is Kinng, starring Akshay Kumar and Katrina Kaif in the lead roles, the films were commercially successful. In 2009, Firoz A. Anees Bazmee at the Internet Movie Database
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Action film
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Action film is a film genre in which the protagonist or protagonists end up in a series of challenges that typically include violence, extended fighting, physical feats, and frantic chases. Advancements in CGI have made it cheaper and easier to create action sequences, while action has long been a recurring component in films, the action film genre began to develop in the 1970s along with the increase of stunts and special effects. The genre is associated with the thriller and adventure film genres. Some historians consider The Great Train Robbery to be the first action film, during the 1920s and 1930s, action-based films were often swashbuckling adventure films in which actors, such as Douglas Fairbanks, wielded swords in period pieces or Westerns. The 1940s and 1950s saw action in a new form through war, the film, along with a war-adventure called The Guns of Navarone, inspired producers Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman to invest in their own spy-adventure, based on the novels of Ian Fleming. The long-running success of the James Bond films or series introduced a staple of the action film. Such larger-than-life characters were a veritable “one-man army”, able to dispatch villainous masterminds after cutting through their disposable henchmen in increasingly creative ways, such heroes are ready with one-liners, puns, and dry quips. The Bond films also used fast cutting, car chases, fist fights, a variety of weapons and gadgets, Dirty Harry essentially lifted its star, Clint Eastwood, out of his cowboy typecasting, and framed him as the archetypal hero of the urban action film. In many countries, restrictions on language, adult content, and violence had loosened up, in the 1970s, martial-arts films from Hong Kong became popular with Western audiences and inspired big budget films such as Bruce Lees Enter the Dragon. Chuck Norris blended martial arts with cops and robbers in films such as Good Guys Wear Black, from Japan, Sonny Chiba starred in his first martial arts movie in 1973 called the Karate Kiba. His breakthrough international hit was The Street Fighter series, which established him as the reigning Japanese martial arts actor in international cinema and he also played the role of Mas Oyama in Champion of Death, Karate Bearfighter, and Karate for Life. Chibas action films were not only bounded by martial arts, but also action thriller, jidaigeki, in the 1980s Hollywood produced many big budget action blockbusters with actors such as Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Lorenzo Lamas, Michael Dudikoff, Charles Bronson and Bruce Willis. Steven Spielberg and George Lucas paid their homage to the Bond-inspired style with Raiders of the Lost Ark, in 1982, veteran actor Nick Nolte and rising comedian Eddie Murphy broke box office records with the action-comedy 48 Hrs. credited as the first buddy-cop movie. That same year, Sylvester Stallone starred in First Blood, the first installment in the Rambo film series made the character John Rambo a pop culture icon. 1984 saw the beginning of the Terminator starring Linda Hamilton and Arnold Schwarzenegger and this story provides one of the grittiest roles for a woman in action and Hamilton was required to put in extensive effort to develop a strong physique. The 1988 film, Die Hard, was influential on the development of the action genre. In the film, Bruce Willis plays a New York police detective who becomes embroiled in a terrorist take-over of a Los Angeles office building high-rise. The film set a pattern for a host of imitators, like Under Siege and Sudden Death, by the end of the 1980s, the influence of the successful action film could be felt in almost every genre
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Shakti Kapoor
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Shakti Kapoor is an Indian actor who appears in Bollywood films. Known for his villainous and comic roles in Hindi films, he has featured in more than 700 films throughout his career, in the 1980s and 1990s, Kapoor teamed up with actor Kader Khan as the comical or evil duo in over 100 films. He was a contestant in the Indian reality show Bigg Boss, Shakti Kapoor was born in Delhi, India to a Punjabi family. His father ran a shop in Connaught Place, New Delhi. After a long struggle. He was then cast as the antagonist in the movie, but Sunil Dutt felt that his name Sunil Sikanderlal Kapoor wouldnt do justice to his villainous stint and hence, Shakti Kapoor was born. Shakti Kapoors portrayal of RD earned him praises and made him a name to be out for. As a struggler in Bollywood, initially Shakti Kapoor did many small roles in movies. The years 1980–81 established Shakti Kapoor as an actor in Bollywood with two of his movies Qurbani and Rocky, in 1983, Kapoor had roles in Himmatwala and the Subhash Ghai directed movie Hero. Kapoor had played roles in both these movies. In the nineties, he diversified to positive comic roles. He has been nominated for the Filmfare Award in the Best Comedian category and won once, for his performance as Nandu in David Dhawans film, Raja Babu. Since 2000, Kapoor is a fixture in Priyadarshan films like Hungama, Hulchul, Chup Chup Ke, Malamaal Weekly. He also acted in few Bengali films of Kolkata, Odia film, in 2011, he was in the reality television show Bigg Boss as one of the contestants. He has appeared in musical comedy Aasman Se Gire Khajoor Pe Atke with his sister-in-law Padmini Kolhapure, Shakti Kapoor is married to Shivangi and has two children, a son Siddhanth Kapoor and a daughter Shraddha Kapoor. This incident sparked a controversy in Bollywood and Kapoor was banned by the Film & Television Producers Guild of India, association of Indian Motion Pictures and TV Programme Producers decided not to ban him as no allegations against him were proven. One week later, however, the Film & Television Producers Guild lifted the ban, Kapoor claimed that the video clip in question was doctored and he had been framed. He said that the undercover reporter met him several times and threatened to commit if he did not come to the hotel room she had booked. 1995, Filmfare Best Comedian Award – Raja Babu Shakti Kapoor took part in Bigg Boss season 5 and he was the captain of the house for the first two weeks but eventually got eliminated in the fourth week of the show
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Kader Khan
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Kader Khan is an Indian-Canadian film actor, comedian, script and dialogue writer, as well as director. He has appeared in over 300 films after his debut in the 1973 film Daag in which he acted as a prosecuting attorney, Khan graduated from Ismail Yusuf College affiliated to Bombay University. Before entering the industry in the early 1970s, he taught at M. H. Saboo Siddik College of Engineering. Khan was born in Kabul, Afghanistan and his father was Abdul Rehman Khan from Kandahar while his mother was Iqbal Begum from Pishin, British India. Khan had three brothers Shams ur Rehman, Fazal Rehman and Habib ur Rehman and he is an ethnic Pashtun of the Kakar tribe. Between 1970 and 1975, he taught at M. H. Saboo Siddik College of Engineering in Byculla as teacher of civil engineering, on the colleges annual day function, Khan took part in a play and it was acclaimed by all present. Actor Dilip Kumar came to know about it, he called him, Khan made special arrangements and acted the play for him. Kumar was so impressed that he signed him for his two films, Sagina Mahato and Bairaag. Khan lives in Mumbai, the home of the Hindi film industry and he also has family in the Netherlands and Canada. He has three sons, Sarfaraz Khan, Shahnawaz Khan, and a son in Canada. His son Sarfaraz Khan has also acted in several films and he also belongs to the family of Zarine Khan, who also works in the film industry as an actress and model. It is reported that Kader Khan took the citizenship of Canada, Khan has acted in over 300 films in Hindi and Urdu and has written dialogues for over 250 Indian films, from the 1970s up to the turn of the 21st century. Manmohan Desai paid him an amount of one lakh twenty-one thousand for writing dialogues for the film Roti. He is most popularly recognized for working with actor Jeetendra, Feroz Khan, Amitabh Bachchan, Govinda and he has worked side-by-side with other comedians like Shakti Kapoor and Johnny Lever. He has played a variety of parts in films like a supporting role of a father, uncle, brother, main villain or the side villain, guest actor. He recently appeared in Tevar, Mujhse Shaadi Karogi, Lucky, No Time for Love and Family and he starred in his own comedy television series titled Hasna Mat, which aired on Star Plus. He made a comeback on Indian television with a comedy series Hi, kaun Hai Doshi. on Sahara One. As a dialogue writer Kader Khan has worked with Manmohan Desai, besides Amitabh, he was the only one to work in the rival camps of Mehra and Desai
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Aruna Irani
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Aruna Irani is an Indian actress, who has acted in over 300 films in Hindi, Marathi and Gujarati cinema, mostly playing supporting and character roles. Her performances won her nomination at Filmfare Awards for Best Supporting Role and she holds the record for winning the maximum nominations in this category and received the award twice for her roles in Pet Pyaar Aur Paap and Beta. In January 2012, she was honoured with Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award at the 57th Filmfare Awards, Aruna Irani was born on 18 August 1946 in Mumbai, India. Her father Faredun Irani ran a drama troupe, and her mother Saguna was an actress and she is eldest of eight siblings, and gave up studies after sixth standard because her family did not have enough money to educate all the children. Irani made her debut in the movie Ganga Jamuna at nine years old playing childhood Azras character, then she acted in movie Anpadh as childhood Mala Sinhas character. After doing several small roles in films like Jahanara, Farz, Upkar and she later acted with comedian Mehmood Ali in films like Aulad, Humjoli, Devi and Naya Zamana. In 1971, she starred in Caravan and she latered starred in Mehmood Alis Bombay To Goa, Garam Masala, and Do Phool. Her films have included Farz, Bobby, Fakira, Sargam, Red Rose, Love Story and she won her first Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award for Pet Pyaar Aur Paap. In the late 1980s and 1990s Irani switched to playing motherly roles and she acted in the Kannada remake of the same film and the same role. Some of her Marathi films are Aandhla Marto Dola, Bhingari, Changu Mangu, Lapwa Chapvi, Ek Gadi Baki Anadi, in her later career, Irani also switched to television performing character roles in various serials. She also took up to direction and production of tele-serials like Mehndi Tere Naam Ki, Des Mein Niklla Hoga Chand, Rabba Ishq Na Hove, Vaidehi, on 19 February 2012, she was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the annual Filmfare awards function in Mumbai. Sharma 1996 Kartavya – Gayetridevi Singh 1998 Ghulam-E-Mustafa – Bhagyalaxmi Dixit Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award 2012 Aruna Irani at the Internet Movie Database
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Prem Chopra
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Prem Chopra is an Indian actor in Hindi and Punjabi films. He has acted in 320 films over a span of over 50 years and he has a soft-spoken diction despite being a villain in most films. His 19 films with him being the antagonist and Rajesh Khanna in lead role remain popular with audience, Prem Chopra, the third of six children of Ranbirlal and Rooprani Chopra, a Punjabi Hindu family, was born on 23 September 1935, in Lahore. After the partition of India, his family moved to Shimla and his father desired that Prem be a doctor or an Indian Administrative Services officer. Prem Chopra completed his schooling and college from Shimla after his father and he took part in college dramatics enthusiastically. At his fathers insistence, he completed his graduation and then went to Mumbai. Soon after he made his film, his mother was detected with mouth cancer and she died, leaving his then nine-year-old sister Anju to be looked after by his father. The brothers had given warning to their wives that only if their sister is happy would they be happy. Noted writer-director Lekh Tandon brought the proposal of Uma for marriage to Prem, Uma was the younger sister of the siblings Krishna Kapoor, Prem Nath and Rajendranath. The couple have three daughters, Rakita, Punita and Prerna Chopra, Rakita is married to film publicity designer Rahul Nanda. Punita owns a pre-school called Wind Chimes in Bandra, suburban Mumbai, Prerna is married to Bollywood actor Sharman Joshi. He resides in an apartment in Pali Hill, Bandra in Mumbai. His relationship with two of his four brothers got estranged in the late 1980s, Prem Chopra had bought a bungalow in 1980 in Delhi, which was jointly owned by him and his father, and his father and his one brother used to stay there. Prem had got his brother a job in Delhi and made him stay at the bungalow, but his father, a day before his death, was made to sign a will favouring one of his brothers, taking away Prems rights in the bungalow. Later an income tax raid happened in that house and his brother said in the raid that Prem had given them the bungalow. Prem had two houses in Mumbai also, which were sold off cheaply by his other brothers without telling him as they needed the money. His biography titled Prem Naam Hai Mera, Prem Chopra, written by his daughter Rakita Nanda, was released in April 2014, in Shimla Prem Chopra developed an interest in acting as he had begun to take part many plays in his college days. Despite stiff opposition from his parents, he managed to go to Mumbai to pursue his dream of acting in Bollywood films, in his initial days he stayed at guest-houses in Colaba, Mumbai
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Arun Bakshi
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Arun Bakshi is an Indian film and television actor and also a singer. He has acted as an actor in over 100 Hindi films. He has also worked in Punjabi and Bhojpuri cinema and he also played the role of Mahant Dashrath Tripathi in Colorss Ishq Ka Rang Safed. He was born and brought up in Ludhiana, Punjab, where he graduated from Arya College and he worked with the Punjab Agricultural University for a while, before moving to Mumbai, to start his acting career in 1981, first in television and later films. Arun Bakshi is well known for performances in BR Chopras Mahabharat as Dhristadyumna, Guru, Kuch To Gadbad Hai,2011 Tum Hi To Ho.2010 Ashok Chakra, Tribute to Real Heroes 2002 Aankhen 2000 Dalaal No
