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Apne Apne
''Apne Apne ''( ''Our Own'') is a 1987 Hindi-language drama film, produced and directed by Ramesh Behl under the Rose Movies banner. It stars Jeetendra, Rekha, Hema Malini and music composed by R. D. Burman. The film is recorded as a ''flop'' at the box office. Plot Ravi Kapoor is a multimillionaire, who lives with his mother and runs a construction business, his mother wants to make his marriage to a foreign returned girl Seema, who also comes from another wealthy family. But Ravi is already in love with a poor orphan girl Sharda. Ravi introduces her to his mother, but she instantly disapproves of her, so Ravi doesn't have any other choice except to leave the house and marry Sharda. After some time, Sharda becomes pregnant, Ravi's mother also relents and changes her mind and welcomes them back to home. But things get changed when Sharda meets with an accident, has a miscarriage, and is told that she will never be able to conceive again. So she decides to get rid of her fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gulshan Bawra
Gulshan Kumar Mehta, popularly known by his pen name Gulshan Bawra (literally: "Gulshan The Mad") (12 April 1937 – 7 August 2009), was an Indian songwriter and actor in Hindi cinema. In a career spanning 42 years, he has to his credit about 240 songs, he collaborated with noted music directors like Kalyanji Anandji, Shankar Jaikishan, and R. D. Burman. He composed almost half of the songs in films like ''Khel Khel Mein (1975 film), Khel Khel Mein'' (1975), ''Kasme Vaade'' (1978) and ''Satte Pe Satta'' (1982). Apart from R. D. Burman hits, he is most remembered for his songs like 'Mere Desh Ki Dharti" in ''Upkaar'' (1968) and "Yaari Hai Imaan Mera" in ''Zanjeer (1973 film), Zanjeer'' (1974), both of which got him the Filmfare Best Lyricist Award. The latter also topped the Binaca Geetmala Binaca Geetmala annual list 1973, annual list of 1973. As a character actor, he also appeared in a small number of Hindi films. Early life and education Gulshan Kumar Mehta, popularly known as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sushma Seth
Sushma Seth (born 20 June 1936) is an Indian stage, film and television actress. She started her career in the 1950s, and was a founder member of the Delhi-based theatre group Yatrik. Her first movie was ''Junoon (1978 film), Junoon'' in 1978. She is known for playing a mother and grandmother role in movies and on television, and notable for her role as Dadi in the pioneering TV soap ''Hum Log (television series), Hum Log'' (1984–1985). She has worked with famous directors like Dev Raj Ankur, Ram Gopal Bajaj, Manish Joshi Bismil and Chander Shekhar Sharma. Early and personal life Brought up in Delhi she completed her schooling at Convent of Jesus and Mary (Delhi), Convent of Jesus and Mary, New Delhi. Thereafter Sushma did a teachers training diploma in home science, Lady Irwin College, New Delhi, Associate in Science diploma, Briarcliff College, New York, and later, Bachelor of Fine Arts, from Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, United States. Sushma Seth and her husband, b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1980s Hindi-language Films
__NOTOC__ Year 198 (CXCVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Sergius and Gallus (or, less frequently, year 951 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 198 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire *January 28 **Publius Septimius Geta, son of Septimius Severus, receives the title of Caesar. **Caracalla, son of Septimius Severus, is given the title of Augustus. China *Winter – Battle of Xiapi: The allied armies led by Cao Cao and Liu Bei defeat Lü Bu; afterward Cao Cao has him executed. By topic Religion * Marcus I succeeds Olympianus as Patriarch of Constantinople (until 211). Births * Lu Kai (or Jingfeng), Chinese official and general (d. 269) * Quan Cong, Chinese general and advisor (d. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Scored By R
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amit Kumar
Amit Kumar (born 3 July 1952) is an Indian playback singer, actor, music composer. Kumar launched his own music production company, named Kumar Brothers Music. He predominantly worked in Bollywood and regional film songs since the 1970s, including 150 Hindi and Bengali compositions by R. D. Burman. After Burman's death in 1994, citing a lack of quality music composition, Kumar withdrew from playback singing and concentrated on live orchestra shows. In addition to singing in Hindi, has also performed in Bengali, Bhojpuri, Odia, Assamese, Marathi and Konkani. He is the eldest son of singer-actor Kishore Kumar. Early life Kumar is the son of singer and actor Kishore Kumar and Bengali singer and actress Ruma Guha Thakurta. Like his father, Amit started singing from an early age and he used to sing at Durga Pooja festivals in Calcutta. At one such function arranged by Bengali actor "Mahanayak" Uttam Kumar, the audience continued requesting encores. While his mother complained t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asha Bhosle
Asha Bhosle (; Mangeshkar; born 8 September 1933) is an Indian playback singer, entrepreneur and occasional actress and television personality who predominantly works in Indian Cinema. Known for her versatility, she has been described in the media as one of the most influential and successful singers in Hindi Cinema. In her career spanning over eight decades she has recorded songs for films and albums in various Indian languages and received several accolades including two National Film Awards, four BFJA Awards, eighteen Maharashtra State Film Awards, nine Filmfare Awards including a Lifetime Achievement Award and a record seven Filmfare Awards for Best Female Playback Singer, in addition to two Grammy nominations. In 2000, she was honoured with the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, India's highest award in the field of cinema. In 2008, she was honoured by the Government of India with the Padma Vibhushan, the second-highest civilian honour of the country. Additionally she holds the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suresh Wadkar
Suresh Ishwar Wadkar (born 7 August 1955) is an Indian playback singer. He performs in both Hindi and Marathi films. He has sung songs in some Bhojpuri films, Odia albums and bhajans and in Konkani films. He was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for 2018 for Sugam Sangeet. In 2020, the Government of India honoured him with the Padma Shri. Early life and musical training Wadkar was born in Kolhapur in a middle-class family that soon moved to Girangaon. His father Ishwar Wadkar worked in cloth mills and his mother cooked food for the mill workers. In youth, he wrestled at akhadas and frequented the Talwalkar gym with his father, who was also a wrestler. In 1968, when Wadkar was 13, Jialal Vasant encouraged him to work towards the "Prabhakar" certificate offered by the Prayag Sangit Samiti, because it was equivalent to a BEd and qualifies the awardee to teach professionally. Wadkar successfully completed his "Prabhakar" and joined Arya Vidya Mandir in Mumbai as a music te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lata Mangeshkar
Lata Mangeshkar () (born as Hema Mangeshkar; 28 September 1929 – 06 February 2022) was an Indian playback singer and occasional music composer. She is widely considered to have been the greatest and most influential singers in India. Her contribution to the Indian music industry in a career spanning eight decades gained her honorific titles such as the "Queen of Melody", "Nightingale of India", and "Voice of the Millennium". Lata recorded songs in over thirty-six Indian languages and a few foreign languages, though primarily in Marathi, Hindi, and Bengali. Her foreign languages included English, Indonesian, Russian, Dutch, Nepali, and Swahili. She received several accolades and honors throughout her career. In 1989, the Dadasaheb Phalke Award was bestowed on her by the Government of India. In 2001, in recognition of her contributions to the nation, she was awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour; she is only the second female singer, after M. S. Subbulakshmi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Dhanoa
Dan Dhanoa (born ''Inderpreet Singh Dhanoa''; 28 February 1959) is a former Indian film actor and a sailor (master mariner) in the Merchant Navy. He is known mostly for portraying cult villainous roles in Hindi cinema in the 1980s and 1990s, in about 100 films, such as '' Mard'' (1984), ''Karma'' (1986), ''Tridev'' (1989) and ''Sanam Bewafa'' (1991). He was brought into the film industry by actor/director Feroz Khan, but made his debut in the Manmohan Desai film ''Mard'' as the main villain, opposite Amitabh Bachchan. Personal life In 1986, he was first married to Nikii Waalia. Their son Gobind Singh Dhanoa (a.k.a. Tarzan) was born in 1987. Tarzan is a Cinematographer by profession. Later in 2007, he married an actor and classical dancer (Kathak from Jaipur Gharana), Nandita Puri. |
Beena Banerjee
Beena Banerjee (born 19 February 1943), also known as Beena or Bina, is an Indian actress in Bengali and Hindi films and television. Biography Beena Banerjee was born as Beena Batabyal on 19 February 1943, the daughter of film actor Pradeep Kumar (originally Pradeep Batabyal, also, Pradeep Bannerjee) (1925–2001). She married Ajoy Biswas, an actor and film director, but they separated. She has a son, Siddharth Banerjee, who has worked as assistant director to Sajid Khan in two films, namely ''Housefull 2 ''Housefull 2'', sometimes called ''Housefull 2: The Dirty Dozen'', is an 2012 Indian Hindi-language action comedy film written and directed by Sajid Khan. Brothers Sajid Samji and Farhad Samji co-wrote the film under their duo Sajid-Farhad, ba ...'' (2012) and '' Himmatwala'' (2013). Filmography Television References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Banerjee, Beena 1943 births Living people 20th-century Bengalis 20th-century Indian actresses 21st-century ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kader Khan
Kader Khan (22 October 1937 – 31 December 2018) was an Indian actor, screenwriter and film director. As an actor, he appeared in over 300 Bollywood films after his debut film in the 1973 film '' Daag'', starring Rajesh Khanna, in which he acted as a prosecuting attorney. He was a prolific actor and screenwriter in Hindi cinema in the period late 1970s to 90s and wrote dialogues for 200 films. Khan graduated from Ismail Yusuf College affiliated to Bombay University. Before entering the film industry in the early 1970s, he taught at M. H. Saboo Siddik College of Engineering, Mumbai, as a professor of civil engineering. Early life and education Khan was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, on 22 October 1937. His father was Abdul Rahman Khan from Kandahar, Afghanistan while his mother was Iqbal Begum from Pishin, British India (now in Balochistan, Pakistan). Khan had three brothers, Shams ur Rehman, Fazal Rehman and Habib ur Rehman. He is an ethnic Pashtun of the Kakar tribe. Khan wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ramesh Behl
Ramesh Behl was an Indian film director and producer belonging to Behl family of Hindi films. He produced known successful films like The Train (1970 film), ''Kasme Vaade'' (1978). He directed films like ''Jawaani'' (1984), '' Pukar'' (1983) and ''Apne Apne'' (1987). He is the only filmmaker to have taken R. D. Burman as the music director for all his films. He died on 5 January 1990. Personal life His wife Madhu Behl was the daughter of actor Kamal Kapoor. Behl's son Goldie Behl is also a director and producer. His daughter Srishti Arya (, married to Sameer Arya - the son of Sulbha Arya and Ishan Arya) is a producer, media executive, co-founder of Rose Audiovisuals with her brother Goldie, former treasurer and the Vice President of the Producers Guild of India, former core member of Indian Film and TV Producers Council, and was the head of Netflix India till 2021. He is also father of 2 more daughters, Shraddha Behl and chef Tania R. Behl. Ramesh's aunt Shukla was mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
