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Jayshree Gadkar
Jayshree Gadkar (21 February 1942 – 29 August 2008) was a noted Marathi and Hindi movie actress and a star of Marathi cinema from the 1950s up to the 1980s. Personal life Jayshree was born into a Konkani-speaking family at Kanasgiri (Sadashivgad) near Karwar in the Uttara Kannada district of Karnataka, India. She married Bal Dhuri, a theatre actor best known for his portrayal of Dashratha in Ramanand Sagar's TV serial, ''Ramayana'' (where Jayashree herself played his wife, Kaushalya). She also published an autobiography, Ashi Mi Jayshri. Career She began her career as a child dance artist. She entered films as a tamasha dancer in movies. Her first role was that of a group dancer in V. Shantaram's ''Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baaje'' in 1955, which featured Sandhya as the leading lady. Later, well known Marathi film Director Dinkar D Patil cast her in a small role with dance in his Marathi film ''Disat Tasa Nasat'', opposite Raja Gosavi. This was followed by '' Sangtye Aika,'' a ...
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Karwar
Karwar is a seaside city, ''taluka'', and administrative headquarters of Uttara Kannada district lying at the mouth of the Kali river on the Kanara coast of Karnataka state, India. Karwar is a popular tourist destination and with a city urban area of , It is known for their beaches and green tourism. Etymology Karwar, also known locally as "Kādwād", derived its name from the nearby village of "Kade-Wādā". In the local Konkani language, ''Kade'' means "last" and ''Wādā'' means "precinct". Hence, ''Kade-Wādā'' ("the last neighbourhood") referred to the southernmost Konkani-speaking village. During the Crown rule in India, the name "Karwar" was spelt as "Carwar". The ancient name was "Baithkhol"—from an Arabic term ''Bait-e-kol''— meaning the "bay of safety". This is in the Indian history for maritime trade wherein black peppercorns, cardamom, and muslin cloth were exported from this Kādwād port and after the war with Veer Henja Naik (1803), the port activities ...
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Sandhya Shantaram
Sandhya Shantaram (née Vijaya Deshmukh) is an Indian actress born in 1938. She is best known for her appearances in various Hindi and Marathi films directed by her husband V. Shantaram, in 1950s-1960s, most notably ''Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baaje'' (1955), ''Do Aankhen Barah Haath'' (1958), ''Navrang'' (1959), Marathi film '' Pinjra'' (1972) and ''Amar Bhoopali'' (1951). Career Sandhya was discovered by V. Shantaram when he was seeking new faces to cast for his film ''Amar Bhoopali'' (1951). The young woman did not have outstanding features or talent, but what struck the filmmaker was that she had a good voice, one that strangely resembled that of his second wife, the actress Jayshree. She later married him after Jayshree left him. In 1952, Sandhya debuted as an actress in his Marathi film ''Amar Bhoopali'' in the role of a vocalist, the object of poet Honaji Bala's desire. She went on to feature in most of Shantaram's films. In her next film ''Teen Batti Char Raasta'' (1953), she ...
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Kanoon Apna Apna
''Kanoon Apna Apna'' () is a 1989 Indian Hindi-language action-drama film starring Dilip Kumar, Nutan, Sanjay Dutt, Madhuri Dixit in pivotal roles. The film was a remake of Telugu film '' Collector Gari Abbai''. Plot The Collector of Anokhapur, Jagatpratap Singh is a stickler for law and order. However, his son, Ravi believes that sometimes illegal means may be adopted in order to assert control. This causes conflict between the two. Ravi then falls in love with Editor Ramprasad's daughter, Bharathi. Bhushannath Bhadbole and Kabza Kanhaiyalal are corrupt ministers. Their sons, Kailash and Prakash respectively, rape and kill Jagatpratap's maid-servant and also kill Ravi's friend. They are acquitted because they gave fake alibis. Ravi decides to give these criminals the punishment they deserve. As Ravi knows this will cause a conflict with his father, he decides to leave home. He then becomes a police inspector. This does not heal the father-son bond as he still has different ideas ...
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Eeshwar (1989 Film)
''Eeshwar'' is a 1989 bollywood film written, and directed by K. Vishwanath. The film stars Anil Kapoor, Vijayshanti. The film is a remake of the Telugu cult classic ''Swati Mutyam'' which starred Kamal Haasan. The film received the Filmfare Award for Best Story. Cast * Anil Kapoor as Ishwarchand Vishnuchand Brahmanand Verma 'Ishwar' * Vijayshanti as Lalita * Shammi as Ishwar's grandmother * Saeed Jaffrey as Masterji (Guest Appearance) * Asha Sachdev as the Village Washerwoman * Sadashiv Amrapurkar as Tolaram * Vinod Mehra as Ramesh (Lalita's Brother) * Bharati Achrekar as Ramesh's Wife & Lalita's Sister-In-Law * Sukanya Kulkarni as Tolaram, Sister In law * Vikram Gokhale as Chaudhary Lalita's father-in-law (father of her first husband) *Jayshree Gadkar as Rajeshswari Chaudhary Lalita's mother -in-law (Mother of her first husband) * Gulshan Grover as Natwarlal *Shama Deshpande as Rani, Housemaid of eeshwar * Rakesh Pandey as Balkrishna (Balu), as son of Eeshwar * Agha as Tola ...
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Mar Mitenge
''Mar Mitenge'' ( ''Bear The Death'') is a 1988 Hindi-language action film, produced by Pradeep Sharma under the TUTU Films banner and directed by Kawal Sharma. It stars Jeetendra, Mithun Chakraborty, Madhavi, Bhanupriya in the pivotal roles and music composed by Laxmikant–Pyarelal. Plot The film begins on a demonic mafia forefront Ajith Singh slaughtering Inspector Thakur. Master Shrikant Verma the close friend of Thakur witnesses the crime. Thus, ferocious Ajith Singh makes the Master & his wife Shanti blind and puts fire to their house. However, their children Ram & Lakshman escape, and they are reared by a good soul with his son Akbar. Years roll by, and Ram & Lakshman grows as justice-seeking gallants and love two charming girls Radha & Jenny respectively. At present, as unbeknownst, they encounter devilries of Ajith Singh’s son Manjit. Once, heinous Manjit tries to molest Radha & Jenny when Akbar sacrifices his life. Being cognizant of it, Ram & Lakshman burst out the ...
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Khooni Darinda
''Khooni Darinda'' is a Hindi horror film of Bollywood directed and produced by Dhirubhai Daxini. This film was released in 1987. Lead singers of the film are Mohammed Rafi and Lata Mangeshkar. Plot Cast * Abhi Bhattacharya * Jayshree Gadkar * Mohan Choti Mohan Choti (1935 – 1 February 1992) was an Indian actor who worked as a comedian in Hindi films. The name Mohan Choti came from a fictional character of the same name from the 1957 film '' Musafir'', in which he plays a tea shop delivery boy ... * Shaheeda Khan * Nazima * Master Bhagwan * Shaminder Singh * Smita Modi * Santosh Bala * Minu Khanna * Rani Bangali Music Ratandeep–Hemraj composed the songs whereas Agha Sarwar wrote them. *"Aayega Koi Mere Paas" - Asha Bhosle *"Jaa Raha Hai Pyaar Mera" - Krishna Kalle *"Chanda Ko Chakor Karke" - N/A *"Jaan-e-Jigar Dekh Idhar" - Mohammed Rafi, Manna Dey, Suman Kalyanpur *"Mehfil Bhi Hai, Deewane Bhi" - Mohammed Rafi References External links * 1987 films 1980s Hi ...
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Masterji
''Masterji'' is a 1985 Indian Hindi-language romantic comedy film directed by K. Raghavendra Rao and written by K. Bhagyaraj. The film stars Rajesh Khanna and Sridevi. It is a remake of Bhagyaraj's own Tamil film ''Mundhanai Mudichu'' (1983). In the film, Radha falls in love with the new teacher employed in the village school. Being a widower with a son, he snubs her. In response, she publicly accuses him of having an affair with her. The film was released theatrically on 30 August 1985.It was one of the highest grossing Bollywood movie of 1985. Plot Radha ( Sridevi) is a notorious prankster creating a variety of mischiefs along with her gang, which often end up in the village court. Masterji ( Rajesh Khanna) enters the village with his infant child to take up the vacant teacher post in the local school, but isn't spared from Radha's pranks upon his arrival. He takes up the job with one hand holding the book, and the other rocking the cradle in the classroom much to the amuse ...
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Jiyo To Aise Jiyo
''Jiyo To Aise Jiyo'' is a 1981 Indian masala movie directed by Kanak Mishra and produced by Tarachand Barjatya. The story and screenplay were written by J K Ahuja. K Raman Lal was the cinematographer of the film. The film narrates a man's struggle who is banished from his house and rides the apex of success in Mumbai. The film stars Arun Govil, Debashree Roy, Jayshree Gadkar, Ram Mohan, Vijay Arora, Neelam Mehra and Ram Sethi. The music was composed by Raamlaxman with lyrics penned by Naqsh Layalpuri and Ravindra Rawal. The film deals with the theme of struggle of the growing mercantile community in Mumbai. The characters played by Arun Govil and Vijay Arora are depicted as two aspiring business professionals. It was a jubilee hit at box office. It has been named as the 30th biggest hit of 1981, by IMDb. The film alludes to the struggle against mobilised usurpers, which was considered to be the reason behind the success of the film. It was the last installment of Barjatya and ...
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The Sensation
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pron ...
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Har Har Mahadev (1974 Film)
''Har Har Mahadev'' is a 2022 Indian Marathi-language epic historical action drama film written and directed by Abhijeet Deshpande and produced by Zee Studios along with Sunil Phadtare under the banner of Shree Ganesh Marketing And Films. It stars Subodh Bhave as Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj and Sharad Kelkar as Baji Prabhu Deshpande in lead while Amruta Khanvilkar, Nishigandha Wad, Sayali Sanjeev, Hardeek Joshi, Milind Shinde, Kishore Kadam, Nitish Chavan and Ashok Shinde plays important supporting roles. The film is about the inspiring story of Baji Prabhu Deshpande, a general of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj who, along with his army of 300 soldiers, fought against 12,000 Bijapuri soldiers. The film was released theatrically on 25 October 2022 and digitally in Hindi on 8 December 2022 on ZEE5. Upon release, ''Har Har Mahadev'' received positive reviews from critics and audiences for Deshpande's direction, cast performance (particularly Kelkar and Bhave), writing, cinematography, ...
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Bhagwan Parshuram
''Bhagwan Parshuram'' is a 1970 Indian Hindi language drama film directed by Babubhai Mistry. The film stars Abhi Bhattacharya and Jayshree Gadkar. Plot This is the story of Lord Parshuram, who beheads his mother in the beginning to prove the duty as directed by his father. Cast *Abhi Bhattacharya as Parshuram *Jayshree Gadkar as Gayetri * Jeevan as Bhagwan Shri Narad Muni *Trilok Kapoor *D.K. Sapru as Samrat * Sulochana as Renuka * Sunder as Samrat's employee *Helen as an item number In Indian cinema, an item number or item song is a musical number inserted into a film that may or may not have any relevance to the plot. The term is commonly used within Indian films (Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil, Hindi, Kannada, Punjabi, and ... Soundtrack Remakes It was originally made a Telugu movie, from Renuka's perspective as ''Renukadevi Mahatmyam'' in 1960, which was dubbed into Hindi as ''Sati Renuka'' in 1961, and again remade in Kannada as ''Sri Renukadevi Mahatme'' in 1977 ...
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Sawaal Majha Aika!
''Sawaal Majha Aika!'' (English translation: ''Listen to My Question!'') is a Marathi Indian black and white film released in 1964. The film is produced and directed by Anant Govind Mane under his banner "Chetana Chitra". The storyline of the film is based on a traditional theatre form called Tamasha. The film has many popular songs sung by Sulochana Chavan. The film won the Certificate of Merit for the Third Best Feature Film at the 12th National Film Awards ceremony held on 31 May 1965. Anant Mane's previous two film ''Dhakti Jau'' (1958) and ''Manini'' (1961) also won National Film Awards at the 6th and 9th ceremony respectively. Plot Jyotiba, a tamasha conductor of a popular group enters in a competition against another group led by Raghoo. The competition is a musical Question-Answer, with the looser having to wear lugada for the rest of his life. Jyotiba loses the competition and has to face humiliation due to which he and his wife succumb to death. To avenge the de ...
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