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Akhtar Ul Iman
Akhtar ul Iman (12 November 1915 9 March 1996) was a noted Urdu poet and screenwriter in Hindi cinema, who had a major influence on modern Urdu nazm. He won the Filmfare Award for Best Dialogue in 1963 for ''Dharmputra'' and 1966 for '' Waqt''. He was awarded the 1962 Sahitya Akademi Award in Urdu, for his Poetry Collection, ''Yadein'' (Memories), by Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters. Early life and education Born on 12 November 1915 in Qila Patthargarh, Najibabad, in the Bijnor district of Uttar Pradesh in 1915. He was brought up in an orphanage. He gained his initial education at Bijnor, where he came in contact with poet and scholar Khurshid ul Islam, who taught at Aligarh Muslim University and developed a long association with Ralph Russell. He graduated from the Zakir Husain College at University of Delhi and completed his Masters in Urdu degree from Aligarh Muslim University. Career He first joined All India Radio as a staff artist. Then Iman j ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Najibabad
Najibabad is a town in the Bijnor district of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, located near the city of Bijnor. It is a major industrial city and is well connected to all major cities of India by roadways via NH 119 and NH 74 respectively and also by various trains. History Nawab Najib-ud-Daula, also known as Najib Khan was a noted Rohilla Muslim warrior and serviceman of both the Mughal Empire and the Durrani empire, Nawab Najib-ud-Daula was a noted Rohilla tribal chief in 18th century Rohilkhand. In the 1740s, he founded the city of Najibabad in Bijnor district, India where he established the present-day city of Najibabad, a state of Najibabad independent from Rohilla tribes, and received the title, "Nawab Najib-ud-Daulla". From 1757 to 1770 he was governor of Saharanpur, ruling over Dehradun.Many architectural relics of the period of Rohilla he oversaw remain in Najibabad, which he founded at the height of his career as a Mughal minister.He succeed Safdarjung as Grand Wazir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph Russell
Professor Ralph Russell Sitara-e-Imtiaz, SI (Urdu: رالف رَسَل) (21 May 1918 – 14 September 2008) was a British scholar of Urdu literature and a Communist. He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge. He taught Urdu and Urdu literature at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and also in universities in India and Pakistan. He wrote articles and essays in Urdu language, Urdu and English language, English, and attended literary seminars and workshops on the subject of his specialization. Russell was born in Kirk Hammerton, Hammerton, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, and grew up in Loughton, Essex. For much of his life he was a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain. He was awarded the Sitara-e-Imtiaz in recognition of his services to Urdu language and literature by the Government of Pakistan. Loughton Town Council installed a blue plaque to Russell on his boyhood home at 6 Queen's Road in that town, which was inaugurated with a re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aadmi Aur Insaan
Aadmi Aur Insaan is a 1969 Hindi film produced by B. R. Chopra and directed by Yash Chopra. The film stars Dharmendra, Saira Banu, Feroz Khan, Mumtaz, Johnny Walker, Madan Puri, Ajit, Anwar, Iftekhar, Achla Sachdev, Kamini Kaushal and Nazima. The film's music is by Ravi with lyrics by Sahir Ludhiyanvi. "Zindagi Ittefaq Hai " song is still popular . This is the only movie in which Yash Chopra and Dharmendra have worked together. Plot A wealthy and independent industrialist, Jai Kishan befriends a young man from a middle-class background by the name of Munish Mehra (Dharmendra), assists him financially to go abroad and get necessary qualifications as an engineer, and then hires him on one of his construction projects. Meena Khanna (Saira Banu) is the daughter of a government official. Munish and Meena meet and fall in love with each other. Jai also gets attracted towards Meena. Shortly after this, Jai finds out that Munish is in love with Meena, and gets enraged. He subseque ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joshila
''Joshila'' (English: Spirited) is a 1973 Bollywood thriller film directed by Yash Chopra. The film stars Dev Anand, Hema Malini and Raakhee. Most outdoor parts of the movie were shot in Darjeeling, West Bengal. The film is loosely inspired by James Hadley Chase's 1959 novel, ''Shock Treatment''. Cast *Dev Anand - Amar *Hema Malini - Shalini *Raakhee - Sapna * Pran - Thakur Rajpal Singh * Bindu - Rani *Madan Puri - Madanlal Dogra *Manmohan Krishna - Jailor *Padma Khanna - Manju *A. K. Hangal - Lala Gulzarilal *Sulochana Latkar - Mrs. Gulzarilal * Sudhir - Kundan *Hercules - Sher Singh * Master Satyajeet - Ravi *I. S. Johar - Raunaq Singh *Vikas Anand - Manohar *Roopesh Kumar - Dinesh (Sapna's Brother) *Iftekhar - Inspector Manjit *Jagdish Raj - (as Jagdishraj) *Mahendra Sandhu *Uma Dutt - Solicitor Plot Jailor Manmohan Krishan is responsible for looking after convicts undergoing sentences of rigorous imprisonment. He has a young, beautiful and captivating daughter named S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dhund (1973 Film)
''Dhund'' (translation: ''Mist'') is a 1973 Hindi thriller movie produced and directed by B. R. Chopra. It stars Sanjay Khan, Zeenat Aman, Danny Denzongpa, Deven Verma, Madan Puri, Navin Nischol and Ashok Kumar. The music is by Ravi. The plot is inspired by Agatha Christie's 1958 play, '' The Unexpected Guest''. Plot On a foggy night, Chandrashekhar, who is driving his car at high speed, meets with an accident. He walks to a nearby house to ask for assistance. When nobody answers the door, he enters the house and finds the dead body of a wheelchair-using man. Standing nearby is a beautiful, young woman, Rani, with a gun. She tells him that the dead man is her husband and she has murdered him. She asks Chandrashekhar to call the police. Intrigued, Chandrashekhar asks Rani to tell her what happened. She tells him that her husband, Thakur Ranjit Singh, was a cruel man who used to mistreat his family and used to shoot cats and dogs with his gun for amusement (which is why nob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Poem Of Love
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version can be written in two forms: the double-storey a and single-storey ɑ. The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English grammar, " a", and its variant " an", are indefinite articles. History The earliest certain ancestor of "A" is aleph (also written 'aleph), the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet, which consisted entirely of consonants (for that reason, it is also called an abjad to distinguish it fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bada Kabutar
''Bada Kabutar'' () is a 1973 Bollywood action comedy film produced and directed by Deven Verma. Plot Mama Rampuri (Ashok Kumar) comes from a long line of criminals and is contemplating his latest for which he plans to enlist the services of his nephew Bhola (Deven Varma). Bhola however has had quite a few bad experiences with Mama and has been in and out of prison seven times trying to carry out Mama's mostly disastrous robbery plans. However, his mother, (Leela Mishra) does not listen to his pleas of wanting to live an honest life selling bananas or banyans and tries to inspire him by narrating the glorious deeds of his late father (her husband) who went to the prison no less than seventeen times and yet never complained. She pretends to have heart ailment and gets herself admitted in a hospital. Poor Bhola is wrongly convinced that a large amount of money is needed for her treatment. He reluctantly joins hands with Mama who recruits club dancer Rita (Rehana Sultan) alongside ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roti (1974 Film)
''Roti'' () is a 1974 Indian Hindi-language action film, produced by Rajni Desai and Rajesh Khanna under the banner Aashirwad Pictures Pvt. Ltd and directed by Manmohan Desai. It stars Rajesh Khanna and Mumtaz, with music composed by Laxmikant Pyarelal. This film was released on 18 October 1974, along with '' Benaam'' and '' Roti Kapda Aur Makaan''. Kader Khan was reportedly paid 1.21 Lakhs for writing dialogues for the film. The film was remade in Telugu as '' Neram Nadi Kadu Akalidi'', starring N.T. Rama Rao and Manjula. Plot Mangal Singh has been a career criminal and he is finally sentenced to be hanged due to the murder of a man for the sake of bread (roti). Underworld don, Suraj who raises him as a criminal, plans his escape from jail and is followed by a police inspector. He escapes on a train when he throws a fellow passenger Shravan Kumar off the train. Mangal Singh lands up in a small village in Northern India and becomes a school teacher with the help of a local re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zameer (1975 Film)
''Zameer'' is a 1975 Hindi action-drama film directed by Ravi Chopra and produced by B. R. Chopra for B. R. Films. It stars Amitabh Bachchan, Saira Banu, Shammi Kapoor, Madan Puri and Vinod Khanna. The music for the film was composed by Sapan Chakraborty.All the songs of the movie was super hit. The movie is based on O. Henry's short story ''A Double-Dyed Deceiver'' which was earlier adapted in 1960 as ''Bombai Ka Babu'' starring Dev Anand. The film was commercially successful. Plot Maharaj Singh is a proud owner of several derby-winning stallions, and lives in a palatial farmhouse with his wife, Rukmini and young son, Chimpoo. One day dacoits attack his farmhouse with a view of stealing the stallions, but Maharaj fights them, killing the son of the leader of the dacoits, Maan Singh. Maan Singh swears to avenge the death of his son, and abducts Chimpoo. Years later, a servant of Maharaj, Ram Singh, brings a young man named Badal into the Singhs lives, and tells them that he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kanoon
''Kanoon'' () is a 1960 Indian Hindi-language film directed by B. R. Chopra. The film stars Rajendra Kumar, Nanda, Ashok Kumar, Mehmood, Shashikala, Jeevan and Om Prakash. The film presents a case against capital punishment, arguing that witnesses may be genuinely deceived, and their consequent inadvertently tendered false testimony may lead someone wrongly to the gallows. The film was a courtroom drama of a murder case, where the judge's prospective son-in-law (Rajendra Kumar) is the defence lawyer in a case of murder, for which he suspects his would-be father-in-law. The film was India's second songless talkie. The first one was ''Andha Naal'', a Tamil movie. The movie features an innovative Indo-Western ballet performance with instrumental music by Salil Choudhury. Plot synopsis Kalidas ( Jeevan) is presented before court for the murder of Ganpat. He pleads guilty, but claims that the court can do him no harm, as he has already served a sentence for the murder of the sam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghazal
The ''ghazal'' ( ar, غَزَل, bn, গজল, Hindi-Urdu: /, fa, غزل, az, qəzəl, tr, gazel, tm, gazal, uz, gʻazal, gu, ગઝલ) is a form of amatory poem or ode, originating in Arabic poetry. A ghazal may be understood as a poetic expression of both the pain of loss or separation and the beauty of love in spite of that pain. The ghazal form is ancient, tracing its origins to 7th-century Arabic poetry. The ghazal spread into South Asia in the 12th century due to the influence of Sufi mystics and the courts of the new Islamic Sultanate, and is now most prominently a form of poetry of many languages of the Indian subcontinent and Turkey. A ghazal commonly consists of five to fifteen couplets, which are independent, but are linked – abstractly, in their theme; and more strictly in their poetic form. The structural requirements of the ghazal are similar in stringency to those of the Petrarchan sonnet. In style and content, due to its highly allusive nature, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Filmistan Studio
Filmistan is an Indian film studio based in Goregaon, Mumbai. Spread over five acres, near Patkar College on S.V. Road, the studio has seven shooting floors, and a temple and garden for outdoor locations. Patkar College's reputation has increased due to this studio. It previously operated as a film production company as well. History Shashadhar Mukherjee, Rai Bahadur Chunilal (father of music director Madan Mohan), Ashok Kumar, and Gyan Mukherjee left Bombay Talkies (Film production company and studio 1934-1953) after the death of director Himanshu Rai and founded Filmistan Studios in 1943. Nasir Hussain, who joined Filmistan in 1948 as a writer, was successful as a screenwriter for films such as ''Anarkali'', ''Munimji'' and ''Paying Guest''. He started film direction with ''Tumsa Nahin Dekha'' and became a successful director. Filmistan produced a number of successful hit movies in the 1940s and 1950s, including hits such as ''Shaheed'' (1948), ''Shabnam'' (1949) and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
