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In Custody (1993 Film)
''In Custody/Muhafiz'' is a 1993 film by Merchant Ivory Productions. It was directed by Ismail Merchant, with screenplay by Anita Desai and Shahrukh Husain. It is based upon Desai's 1984 Booker Prize nominated novel '' In Custody''. Plot synopsis Deven's ( Om Puri) position as a professor of Hindi at a local college is only a means to an end. His first love is the Urdu language and in particular Urdu poetry. Deven's multiple (and often stymied) attempts to interview the great Urdu poet, Nur ( Shashi Kapoor), act as a metaphor for the clash between modernization and tradition. Cast * Shashi Kapoor... Nur Shahjenabadi * Sushma Seth... Safiya Begum * Shabana Azmi... Imtiaz Begum * Om Puri... Deven Sharma * Tinnu Anand... Murad * Parikshat Sahni... Siddiqui * Amjad Khan... Musician * Neena Gupta... Sarla Sharma (Deven's Wife) Awards * 1993: Tokyo Film Festival in Kyoto (Official Selection) nomination * 1994: National Film Award ** Special Jury Award: Shashi Kapoor ** ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ismail Merchant
Ismail Merchant (born Ismail Noor Muhammad Abdul Rahman (25 December 1936 – 25 May 2005)) was an Indian film producer, director and screenwriter. He worked for many years in collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions which included Director (and Merchant's longtime professional and domestic partner) James Ivory as well as screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. Early life and education Born in Bombay (Mumbai), Merchant was son of Hazra (née Memon) and Noor Mohamed Rehman, a Bombay textile dealer. He grew up bilingual in Gujarati and Urdu, and learned Arabic and English at school. When he was 11, he and his family were caught up in the 1947 partition of India. His father was the President of the Muslim League and refused to move to Pakistan. Merchant later said that he carried memories of "butchery and riots" into adulthood.cited in ''Cheek of the devil'' As a child at the age of 9, Merchant delivered a speech about partition at a political rally in front of a crowd of 10,000. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulhas Bapat
Pandit Ulhas Bapat ( mr, उल्हास बापट; 31 August 1950 – 4 January 2018) was a santoor player from India. Bapat studied under Zarin Daruwala Sharma, K. G. Ginde and Wamanrao Sadolikar. In the film industry, he made his debut with R. D. Burman Rahul Dev Burman (27 June 1939 – 4 January 1994) was an Indian music director who is considered one of the most influential composers of India. From the 1960s to the 1990s, Burman composed musical scores for 331 films. Burman did major work w ... in the film '' Ghar'' in 1978 and continued playing for him until the film '' 1942: A Love Story''. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Bapat, Ulhas 1950 births 2018 deaths Marathi people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sitar
The sitar ( or ; ) is a plucked stringed instrument, originating from the Indian subcontinent, used in Hindustani classical music. The instrument was invented in medieval India, flourished in the 18th century, and arrived at its present form in 19th-century India. Khusrau Khan, an 18th century figure of Mughal Empire has been identified by modern scholarship as the originator of Sitar. According to most historians he developed sitar from setar, an Iranian instrument of Abbasid or Safavid origin. Another view supported by a minority of scholars is that Khusrau Khan developed it from ''Veena''. Used widely throughout the Indian subcontinent, the sitar became popularly known in the wider world through the works of Ravi Shankar, beginning in the late 1950s and early 1960s. In the 1960s, a short-lived trend arose for the use of the sitar in Western popular music, with the instrument appearing on tracks by bands such as the Beatles, the Doors, the Rolling Stones and others. Etymol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sunil Das
Sunil Das (4 August 1939 – 10 August 2015) was an Indian expressionist painter. He is known for the paintings in his Bull Series and his piece "Woman". In 2014 the Government of India conferred upon him its fourth-highest civilian award, the Padma Shri. Early life and background Sunil Das was born in Calcutta now Kolkata, India. He joined the Government College of Art & Craft, Kolkata in 1955, then won a French Government Scholarship to study at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He died in 2015. Career Das joined Government of India's Handloom division, Ministry of Textiles.. Sunil Das was one of India's most important post-modernist painters. He went through different styles of painting throughout his career. Das said,"To prevent myself from producing the same kind of work, I keep altering my vision. From the day people begun to see me as a painter, a huge responsibility fell upon me, particularly to respond to the feelings of the people at the grassroots level who are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarangi
The sārangī is a bowed, short-necked string instrument played in traditional music from South Asia – Punjabi folk music, Rajasthani folk music, and Boro folk music (there known as the ''serja'') – in Pakistan, India and Bangladesh. It is said to most resemble the sound of the human voice through its ability to imitate vocal ornaments such as ''gamaks'' (shakes) and ''meends'' (sliding movements). The sarangi (Nepali) is a different instrument, traditional to Nepal. History Sarangi derives its name from the bow of Lord Vishnu and probably as it is played with a bow it is named sarangi. According to some musicians, the word ''sarangi'' is a combination of two words: ''seh'' ('three' in Persian) and ''rangi'' ('coloured' in Persian) or Persian ''sad-rangi'', ''sad'' for 'hundred' in Persian ('hundred coloured) corrupted as ''sarangi''. The term ''seh-rangi'' represents the three melody strings. However, the most common folk etymology is that ''sarangi'' is derived from ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Film Award For Best Art Direction
The National Film Award for Best Production Design is one of the National Film Awards presented annually by the Directorate of Film Festivals, the organisation set up by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, India. It is one of several awards presented for feature films and awarded with Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus). The award was instituted in 1979, at 27th National Film Awards as National Film Award for Best Art Direction, and awarded annually for films produced in the year across the country, in all Indian languages; Hindi (18 awards), Tamil (6 awards), Malayalam (6 awards), Bengali (3 awards), Kannada, Urdu, English, Marathi (two each), Telugu, Gujarati, Punjabi, Konkani (one Each). The award renamed as National Film Award for Best Production Design from the 57th National Film Awards in 2011. Multiple winners * 4 Wins:Nitin Chandrakant Desai , Samir Chanda & Sabu Cyril * 3 Wins: Nitish Roy & P. Krishnamoorthy * 2 Wins: Jayoo Patwardhan, Thotta Tharani & Indranil Ghosh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Film Award – Special Jury Award (Feature Film)
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National Film Award (India)
The National Film Awards is the most prominent film award ceremony in India. Established in 1954, it has been administered, along with the International Film Festival of India and the Indian Panorama, by the Indian government's Directorate of Film Festivals since 1973. Every year, a national panel appointed by the government selects the winning entry, and the award ceremony is held in New Delhi, where the President of India presents the awards. This is followed by the inauguration of the National Film Festival, where award-winning films are screened for the public. Declared for films produced in the previous year across the country, they hold the distinction of awarding merit to the best of Indian cinema overall, as well as presenting awards for the best films in each region and language of the country. History The Awards were first presented in 1954. The Government of India conceived the ceremony to honor films made across India, on a national scale, to encourage the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amjad Khan (actor)
Amjad Khan (12 November 1940 — 27 July 1992) was an Indian actor and film director. He worked in over 132 films in a career spanning nearly twenty years. He was the son of the actor Jayant. He gained popularity for villainous roles in mostly Hindi films, the most famous being Gabbar Singh in the 1975 classic ''Sholay'' and of Dilawar in ''Muqaddar Ka Sikandar'' (1978). Early life Amjad Khan was born in Bombay City, Bombay Presidency, British India on 12 November 1940 into a Muslim family of Pashtun descent to actor Jayant; who was originally from Peshawar, North-West Frontier Province. His younger brother was actor Imtiaz Khan. Amjad Khan was educated at St. Andrew's High School in Bandra. He attended R. D. National College where he held the position of general secretary, the highest elected student body representative. During his college and school days, he worked as a theater artist and performed in his college with his brother. Career Before Amjad Khan came to films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parikshat Sahni
Parikshit Sahni (born 1 January 1944) is an Indian actor who is known for playing the lead in TV series Barrister Vinod, '' Gul Gulshan Gulfaam'' ( Doordarshan) and ''Gaatha'' ( Star Plus). He has also appeared in three of Rajkumar Hirani's blockbuster films ''Lage Raho Munna Bhai'', ''3 Idiots'', and '' PK''. He is the son of actor Balraj Sahni and nephew of writer Bhisham Sahni. Early life He was born in Muree in the Rawalpindi District of the Punjab Province of British India (present day in the Murree District of Punjab, Pakistan), into a Punjabi Hindu family, while his father was teaching English at Visva-Bharati University in Shantiniketan of Rabindranath Tagore, and his mother was doing her Bachelors. Most of his schooling was done at the Lawrence school Sanawar. He then went to study at Delhi's St. Stephen's College. Later, Sahni began his career as a child artist. Personal life Sahni's parents were both theatre and film actors, although his mother acted in only a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Urdu Language
Urdu (;"Urdu" ''Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary''. ur, , link=no, ) is an Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in South Asia. It is the Languages of Pakistan, national language and ''lingua franca'' of Pakistan, where it is also an official language alongside English language, English. In India, Urdu is an Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of India, Eighth Schedule language whose status and cultural heritage is recognized by the Constitution of India; Quote: "The Eighth Schedule recognizes India's national languages as including the major regional languages as well as others, such as Sanskrit and Urdu, which contribute to India's cultural heritage. ... The original list of fou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
