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Dinesh Thakur
Dinesh Thakur (1947 – 20 September 2012) was an Indian theatre director, actor in theatre, television and Hindi film, where most notably he appeared as one of the leads in ''Rajnigandha'' 1974 and directed by Basu Chatterjee, which won both Filmfare Best Movie Award and the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Movie. Dinesh Thakur was born in 1947 in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. He was the founder-director of ANK productions, a Mumbai-based theatre company, established in 1976. Though he mainly appeared as character roles in Hindi films, as a screenwriter and story writer, he is known for writing the story and screenplay of '' Ghar'' (1978), which won him the 1979 Filmfare Best Story Award. He died on 20 September 2012 due to kidney failure. Career Dinesh Thakur did his graduation from Kirori Mal College (KMC), Delhi University, where was also part of the KMC dramatic society. He made his film debut in 1971, with ''Mere Apne'', written and directed by Gulzar, and followed it up wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirori Mal College
Kirori Mal College is a constituent college of the University of Delhi. Established in 1954, it is located in the North Campus of the university in New Delhi, India. It offers undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in the sciences, humanities, social sciences and commerce. The National Assessment and Accreditation Council accredited it with a CGPA of 3.54 (A++) in 2016, which is the third highest among all Delhi University colleges. History The college began as Nirmala College and was located on Delhi Road. Faced with problems relating to the staff in the period following the partition, the management of the college changed hands and the trust founded by Seth Kirori Mal took over. It shifted to its present campus on 1 February 1954. The foundation stones of the college were laid down by the first President of India, Rajendra Prasad in the summer of 1955. The campus infrastructure was designed by the famous architect duo Anand Apte and CSH Jhabvala. The first principal of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anubhav (1971 Film)
''Anubhav'' () is a 1971 Hindi-language film by noted director Basu Bhattacharya, which stars Sanjeev Kumar, Tanuja and Dinesh Thakur. The film was the first part of Basu Battacharya's introspective trilogy on marital discord in an urban setting, which included ''Avishkaar'' (1973) and ''Griha Pravesh'' (1979); and went on to win the 1972 National Film Award for Second Best Feature Film and started a trend later picked up even by the mainstream cinema. The film is also remembered for playback singer Geeta Dutt's finest songs composed by music director Kanu Roy with lyrics from Gulzar, like ''Meri Jaan Mujhe Jaan Na Kaho'', ''Koi Chupke Se Aake'' and ''Mera Dil Jo Mera Hota'' Plot Meeta Sen (Tanuja) and Amar Sen (Sanjeev Kumar) have been married for several years. Due to Amar's hectic work schedule, the couple did not have children, as there was no time for intimacy. Meeta decides to take matters into her own hands, gets rid of the servants, save for Hari ( A. K. Hangal), and dec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madhu Malti
''Madhu Malti'' () is a coming-of-age 1978 Hindi film directed by Basu Bhattacharya. Produced by Chitra Katha, the film stars Sachin and Sarika in the title roles. This was Gulshan Grover's film debut. The film tells the love story of Madhu and Malti, two college students. The film was released on 25 August 1978 and was certified U by the Central Board of Film Certification. Plot Madhu (Sachin) and Malti (Sarika) are college students, who are assigned by their professor, Anil Sharma, to play the title parts in a college play based on ''Romeo and Juliet''. The two fall in love along the way but are forced to move to a big city to realise their love, as their traditional families oppose to their relationship. The later move to Goa, where a Goan couple looks after them, but soon decide to go back home and confront the situation. Cast The film's cast included: * Sachin as Madhu *Sarika as Malti *Nadira *Gulshan Grover *Dinesh Thakur *Arvind Deshpande * Manik Dutt *Bharat Bhushan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karm
''Karm'' () is a 1977 Hindi movie produced and directed by B. R. Chopra. The film stars Rajesh Khanna, Vidya Sinha, Shabana Azmi, Urmila Matondkar and Master Bittoo. The songs wrtin by Rajkavi Inderjeet Singh Tulsi and music given by R. D. Burman. The film was Golden Jubilee hit at the box office. This film was the first film of Matondkar as a child artist Plot Retired Judge Shyamlal Kumar lives in a palatial home with his wife and only son, Arvind, who is now studying law and is on his way to becoming a lawyer. Arvind meets beautiful Asha Shastri, and they fall in love. Asha introduces Arvind to her astrologer father, Chintamani, who instantly approves of Arvind, as Arvind's parents do of Asha. But when Chintamani sees a dark future for the young couple, he withdraws his blessings and asks them not to marry. Spooked by this, Shyamlal and his wife also ask Arvind to marry someone else, but Arvind and Asha start living together. This causes anger in their conservative communi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kalicharan
''Kalicharan'' is a 1976 Indian Hindi-language action drama film directed by Subhash Ghai, starring Shatrughan Sinha, Reena Roy, Prem Nath, Premnath, Ajit Khan, Ajit, Madan Puri and Danny Denzongpa. The film became a box office blockbuster. The film was the directorial debut of Subhash Ghai and was the breakthrough role for stars Shatrughan Sinha and Reena Roy. It was later remade into the Telugu language, Telugu film ''Khaidi Kalidasu'' (1977), the Kannada film ''Kaalinga'' (1980), the Tamil language, Tamil film ''Sangili (1982 film), Sangili'', (1982) and the Malayalam film ''Pathamudayam'' (1985). Plot Dindayal is supposedly an honest rich and clean-hearted man. However, all this is a facade as he is a terror called LION in the world of crime. He is the man under whom black-marketing, smuggling and robberies flourish. No one has an idea about his evil deeds. Not even his close friend IG P.N. Khanna. Khanna is very worried at the sorry state of affairs in the city and state ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faslah
''Faslah'' is a 1974 Bollywood drama film directed by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas. The film stars Raman Khanna. Cast * Raman Khanna as Gautam Swarup Chandra *Shabana Azmi as Asha Premchand *Nadira as Mrs. Sonachand * Paintal *Yunus Parvez as Editor *P. Jairaj *Vinod Mehra as Vinod (Gautam's Friend) *Imtiaz Khan as Gopal 'Gogi' *Komilla Wirk * David Abraham as Sharma (as David) *Shaukat Azmi as Parvati S. Chandra (as Shaukat Kaifi) * Manmauji *Moolchand as Phoolchand - Prison inmate (as Mulchand) *Dinesh Thakur as Comrade Kranti - Prison inmate *Chand Usmani as Radha Chandra *Vijay Ganju as Advocate Bakshi *Helen Helen may refer to: People * Helen of Troy, in Greek mythology, the most beautiful woman in the world * Helen (actress) (born 1938), Indian actress * Helen (given name), a given name (including a list of people with the name) Places * Helen, ... as Dancer / Singer at Club Soundtrack External links * 1974 films 1970s Hindi-language films 1974 drama films Film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parinay
''Parinay'' (literally ''Espousal'') is a 1974 Indian Hindi-language film directed by Kantilal Rathod and produced by Samantar Chitra. The film starred Romesh Sharma and Shabana Azmi, with Asha Sachdev, Dinesh Thakur, Priti Ganguly and T.P. Jain in the supporting cast. Released on 1 January 1974, this film was associated with Saregama (known as "The Gramophone Company of India Limited" at that time). The screenplay was by Rathod and Shukla, whereas the cinematography was by K. K. Mahajan. Written by the trio of Vinay Shukla, Rathod and Harin Mehta, ''Parinay'' won the 1974 Nargis Dutt Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration (known as the "Rajat Kamal Special Award for the Best Feature Film on National Integration" at that time) presented by the Directorate of Film Festivals (DFF). The DFF also gave Samantar Chitra Private Limited a ''Rajat Kamal'' (Silver Lotus), , and a certificate; Rathod got a ''Rajat Kamal'', , and a certificate. Azmi and Sharma got a medallio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jalte Badan
''Jalte Badan'' is a 1973 Hindi-language drama film about the perils of drug addiction. The film is directed and produced by Ramanand Sagar. Plot Kiran (Kiran Kumar) is a young man who goes to Bombay to study. While his university is caught up in a student strike, Kiran descends into drug use, encouraged by an evil mobster and the peer pressure of his fellow students. Kiran's only hope is that a kindly cabaret dancer Malti (Padma Khanna) will take pity on him and call for his snake charmer girlfriend Ganga (Kumkum) to rescue him with her true love. Cast *Kiran Kumar as Kiran *Kumkum as Ganga *Padma Khanna as Malti *V K Sharma *Javed Khan Amrohi as a college student *Tun Tun as Chameli *Pradeep Kumar *Raza Murad Music Music for the film was by Laxmikant–Pyarelal Laxmikant–Pyarelal were an Indian composer duo, consisting of Laxmikant Shantaram Patil Kudalkar (1937–1998) and Pyarelal Ramprasad Sharma (born 1940). He is known by the nickname “Pyromaniac” due to his f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hindu
''The Hindu'' is an Indian English-language daily newspaper owned by The Hindu Group, headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. It began as a weekly in 1878 and became a daily in 1889. It is one of the Indian newspapers of record and the second most circulated English-language newspaper in India, after '' The Times of India''. , ''The Hindu'' is published from 21 locations across 11 states of India. ''The Hindu'' has been a family-owned newspaper since 1905, when it was purchased by S. Kasturi Ranga Iyengar from the original founders. It is now jointly owned by Iyengar's descendants, referred to as the "Kasturi family", who serve as the directors of the holding company. The current chairperson of the group is Malini Parthasarathy, a great-granddaughter of Iyengar. Except for a period of about two years, when S. Varadarajan held the editorship of the newspaper, the editorial positions of the paper were always held by members of the family or held under their direction. Histo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prithvi Theatre
Prithvi Theatre is one of Mumbai's best known theatres. It was built by Shashi Kapoor and his wife Jennifer Kapoor in memory of Prithviraj Kapoor, Shashi's father, who had dreamt of having a "home" for his repertory theatre company, Prithvi Theatres, belongs to the Kapoor family, one of the most influential actor and director families in Bollywood. Prithviraj Kapoor founded 'Prithvi Theatres', a travelling theatre company in 1944. The company ran for sixteen years.Prithvi www.mumbainet.com. Ved Segan was the architect who designed and built the Theatre with the supervision of Jennifer Kapoor. Jennifer, (Trustee) supervised the building and running of the theatre until her death in 1984. In 1978 Prithvi Theatre opened in , |
Jennifer Kapoor
Jennifer Kendal (28 February 1934 – 7 September 1984) was an English actress and the founder of the Prithvi Theatre. She was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for the film '' 36 Chowringhee Lane'' (1981). Her other film appearances included '' Bombay Talkie'' (1970), '' Junoon'' (1978), ''Heat and Dust'' (1983), and '' Ghare Baire'' (1984). Childhood Jennifer Kendal was born in Southport, England, but spent much of her youth in India. She and younger sister Felicity Kendal were born to Geoffrey Kendal and Laura Liddell, who ran a travelling theatre company, "Shakespeareana", which travelled around India as depicted in the book and film, ''Shakespeare Wallah'' (1965) in which Kendal appeared, uncredited, and which starred her husband Shashi Kapoor, her parents and her sister. Shashi Kapoor Shashi Kapoor and Kendal met for the first time in Calcutta, in 1956, where he was part of the Prithvi Theatre company, while she was playing Miranda in the pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Filmfare Best Film Award
The Filmfare Award for Best Film is given by the ''Filmfare'' magazine as part of its annual Filmfare Awards for Hindi films. The award was first given in 1954. Here is a list of the award winners and the nominees of the respective years. Each individual entry shows the title followed by the production company and the producer. Yash Raj Films has produced 18 films that have been nominated, the most for any production house. It also shares the most wins at 4 along with Bimal Roy Productions and UTV Motion Pictures. While Yash Chopra has been the producer of all of the winning films of Yash Raj Films, Bimal Roy has been the producer of all of the winning films of Bimal Roy Productions, thus making them the producers with the most wins. Bimal Roy, Yash Chopra, and Sanjay Leela Bhansali have each directed 4 winning films, the most for any director. Aamir Khan has starred in 9 winning films which is the most for any actor in a leading role. Nutan, Madhuri Dixit, Aishwarya Rai, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
