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Moolchand
Moolchand was a prolific character actor in Hindi and Panjabi cinema, who was active from 1950 to his death in the late 1980s. He appeared in over 250 films. These films spanned the parallel cinema of Guru Dutt to the wrestler films of Dara Singh. He is known for his big stomach. The first known appearance of Moolchand is in 1950. He was often featured in the films of the directors Guru Dutt and Raj Kapoor, working on 6 of the former and 8 of the latter. Other actors he was often seen with were Dev Anand, B. R. Chopra, Dara Singh and I. S. Johar, who featured him in most of their movies. Most of Moolchand's early roles were small ones. He only began to get significant roles in the 1960s. ''Padosan'' (1968), where he plays the servant of Om Prakash's character featured a lot of close-ups of Moolchand and showed him to be an able comedic side actor. This comedic side would be further explored in the 1970s with a scene stealing appearance in ''Yaadon Ki Baarat'', with fellow fat m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Premi Gangaram
''Premi Gangaram'' is a 1978 Bollywood romance film directed by Jagdish Nirula. Plot The love between Gangaram, a talented singer and Jamuna, is a universally known affair. In order to break this love, Jamuna's father takes his daughter away to an unspecified place. Gangaram with the help of Leela, his adopted sister, plays a ruse and they swap places before Jamuna is to take the rounds around the sacred fire with Leela's boy friend to see that the respective spouses are united with their lovers. Cast * Ashok Kumar * Yogita Bali as Yamna * Anwar Hussain as * I. S. Johar as Ganga * Bindu * Tun Tun as Dano * Birbal as Pandet * Kartar Singh as Sikh Post man * Jankidas as Jankidas * Randhir (actor) as Satish father * Dolly * Jugnu * Kirti Bahi * Kuldip Kaur * Laila * Mehar Mittal * Moolchand as Ganga Ram father * Paul Sharma as Rai Bahdur * Saigal * Satish Kaul as Satish * Seema Kapoor * Shama * Uttam Sodi * Vimi Vimi (1943 – 22 August 1977) was an Indian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mama Ji
''Mama Ji'' ( pa, ਮਾਮਾ ਜੀ), also spelled incorrectly as ''Mamaji'', is a 1964 Punjabi film directed by Roshan Bhardwaj, produced by Gopal Saigal and S. P. Malhotra, starring Gopal Saigal, Indira Billi in lead roles. Synopsis ''Mama Ji'' is a drama with comedy and romance. Bansi Lal is an idle and not very intelligent man living in his (married) sister's home. His maternal grandfather is a businessman in Africa. His sister, Lajwanti, and her husband, Kirpa Ram, are very unhappy with him as he does not use his brain at work. They want him to leave. One day, he buy a magic stick from a magician thinking that the stick really has magic. This makes his sister and her husband very angry again. As he realized that the stick does not actually have any magic, he feels robbed and one day, he snatches money from the magician and runs and hides himself in a Tonga. A beautiful girl, Laali, is searching for his father, lost in the Visakhi ''mela'' (English: fair). A Tonga driv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trishul (film)
''Trishul'' () is a 1978 Indian Hindi-language masala film, directed by Yash Chopra, written by Salim–Javed and produced by Gulshan Rai. It features music by Mohammed Zahur Khayyam, with lyrics by Sahir Ludhianvi. The film focuses on the intertwined stories of three main characters, portrayed by Shashi Kapoor, Sanjeev Kumar and Amitabh Bachchan. ''Trishul'' was the second-top-grossing Indian film of 1978, after ''Muqaddar Ka Sikandar,'' which also starred Amitabh Bachchan and Raakhee. The movie has been remade in Tamil as ''Mr. Bharath'' and in Telugu as ''Mr. Bharath''. Plot Raj Kumar Gupta (Sanjeev Kumar) gives up his first love Shanti (Waheeda Rehman) to marry a wealthy heiress Kamini (Gita Siddharth), who is the daughter of Seth Dindayal. Shanti comes by to wish him success on his marriage with the news that she is taking his child and moving away. She gives birth to a boy and names him Vijay Kumar (Amitabh Bachchan). She raises him to adulthood. After she dies, Vijay co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amar Akbar Anthony
''Amar Akbar Anthony'' is a 1977 Indian Hindi-language masala film directed and produced by Manmohan Desai and written by Kader Khan. The film stars an ensemble cast of Vinod Khanna, Rishi Kapoor, Amitabh Bachchan, Neetu Singh, Parveen Babi, Shabana Azmi, Nirupa Roy, Pran and Jeevan. The plot focuses on three brothers who get separated in childhood and are adopted by people of different faiths; Hinduism, Islam and Christianity. As fate would have it, the trio reunite by chance in adulthood and set out to seek revenge from the person who is responsible for their separation. The soundtrack album was composed by Laxmikant-Pyarelal and the lyrics were written by Anand Bakshi. The film was released on 27 May 1977 and earned at the Indian box office, becoming the highest-grossing Indian film of that year, alongside '' Dharam Veer'' and ''Hum Kisise Kum Naheen''. Religious tolerance became a landmark theme in Bollywood masala films, building on the masala formula pioneered a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hera Pheri (1976 Film)
''Hera Pheri'' () is a 1976 Hindi crime film directed by Prakash Mehra and starring Amitabh Bachchan, Saira Banu, Vinod Khanna, Sulakshana Pandit, Shreeram Lagoo and Asrani. The film's music is by Kalyanji Anandji and the lyrics were by Anjaan, Indeevar. Vinod Khanna received a Filmfare nomination for Best Supporting Actor. This is one of six films that Vinod Khanna and Amitabh Bachchan starred together in. At the time, the pairing of the two actors often made the film quite successful, especially since both actors were rising stars gunning for the top spot in Hindi Cinema. The movie was an inspiration for the 1978 Telugu movie ''Rama Krishnulu''. Plot Vijay and Ajay are two small-time crooks, who loot other rich 'respected' but criminal-minded people for a living. One night, while gambling, Vijay recognizes Sheru, a person who has assisted PK in murdering his father. Vijay's tragic past is something that Ajay is unaware of. PK, meanwhile, roams around scot-free in the disg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salaakhen (1975 Film)
''Salaakhen'' is a 1975 Hindi movie produced by Parvesh Mehra and directed by A. Salaam. The film stars Shashi Kapoor, Sulakshana Pandit, A. K. Hangal, Mehmood, Amrish Puri and Ramesh Deo. The film's music is by Ravindra Jain. The rights to this film are owned by Shah Rukh Khan's Red Chillies Entertainment. Plot Raju (Shashi Kapoor) and Guddi (Sulakshana Pandit) are childhood friends and neighbors, who are virtually inseparable. Raju's father is arrested after a dramatic police chase for breaking, entering and theft, resulting in their separation. Guddi grows up to be a professional stage singer and dancer, while Raju grows up to be a card-sharp and a thief. Years later, both Raju (now called Chander) and Guddi (now called Seema) meet and fall in love with each other, unaware that they were childhood friends. While Seema is on her way to her birthplace for religious reasons, Chander too is headed that way, to get himself arrested so that he can be jailed for a motive, that gets ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Do Jasoos
Do Jasoos () is a 1975 Hindi comedy drama film. Produced and directed by Naresh Kumar, the film stars Raj Kapoor, Rajendra Kumar, Aruna Irani, Prem Chopra, Kamal Kapoor, Farida Jalal and Asit Sen. The music is by Ravindra Jain. Plot Dharamchand and Karamchand, are two detectives who are on the trail of a millionaire's missing daughter. In their efforts to save the girl, who is an eyewitness to a murder, they fall into a series of comic situations because the photograph they have is that of the friend of Bhavana. Eventually, they also succeed in busting a smugglers' gang. Cast *Shailendra Singh (singer) as Ashok Sinha *Bhavna Bhatt as Pinky Verma *Raj Kapoor as Dharamchand Jasoos *Rajendra Kumar as Karamchand Jasoos *Prem Chopra as Prem Chopra *Kamal Kapoor as Motilal Sippy *Sujit Kumar as G.L.Sippy *Manmohan Krishna as V.N. Sinha *Dulari (actress) as Sarita Devi Verma * Asit Sen as Nihalchand Khushalchand *Farida Jalal as Hema Nihalchand *Ram Avtar as Mr.Johnson *Sunder (a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pratigya (1975 Film)
''Pratiggya'' () is a 1975 Indian Hindi-language action comedy film. Produced by Dharmendra and B. S. Deol, the film is directed by Dulal Guha. The music was by Laxmikant-Pyarelal and the lyricist was Anand Bakshi. It stars Dharmendra, Hema Malini, Ajit, Johnny Walker, Jagdeep, Mukri, Mehar Mittal and Keshto Mukherjee. The story revolves around Dharmendra out to avenge his parents' brutal murder by Ajit in this "violent revenge" story. Along with its strong action scenes it also had a significant comic track in the form of "slapstick" comedy getting the film referred to as a "masterpiece in comedy". The film was a big commercial success at the box-office and among the top 3 grossers for the year in India. Plot Ajit Singh (Dharmendra), an illiterate truck driver, learns from his dying adoptive mother, that he is the only surviving son of an honest cop who was killed and his entire family obliterated by the dreaded dacoit Bharat Thakur ( Ajit) and so, he swears revenge. On hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dukh Bhanjan Tera Naam
''Dukh Bhanjan Tera Naam'' (1974) is a Punjabi movie about Sikhism. Plot In the era of Guru Ram Das, one cannot leave out Rajni, youngest daughter of Rai Duni Chand, revenue collector (kardar) of Patti. Rajni was a Sikh, a disciple of the Guru. One day she was sitting with her sisters admiring some new clothing they all had received from their father. The girls were ecstatic and exclaiming how good their father was to them. Rajni observed that all gifts are ultimately from God. Their father was merely an instrument of His greatness. Unfortunately for her, he overheard her comment and became very angry. It was not the first time that she incurred his wrath because of her extreme piety. The infuriated father, believing her to be an ungrateful wretch, married her to a leper with a taunt that he would see how her God would help her lead a normal life. The leper was severely disfigured and a foul smell came from his body. The poor girl had accepted her fate ungrudging and worked har ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yaadon Ki Baraat
''Yaadon Ki Baaraat'' () is a 1973 Indian Hindi-language masala film, directed by Nasir Hussain and written by Salim–Javed (Salim Khan and Javed Akhtar). It featured an ensemble cast, starring Dharmendra, Vijay Arora, Tariq, Zeenat Aman, Neetu Singh and Ajit. The film was influential in the history of Indian cinema. It has been widely identified as the first masala film, combining elements of the action, drama, romance, musical, crime and thriller genres.Kaushik Bhaumik"An Insightful Reading of Our Many Indian Identities" ''The Wire'', 12/03/2016 The masala went on to become the most popular genre of Indian cinema, and ''Yaadon Ki Baaraat'' has thus been identified as "the first" quintessentially "Bollywood film." It also launched the careers of several actors, as the commercial breakthrough Hindi film for Zeenat Aman and Neetu Singh, who became leading actresses of the 1970s, and as the debut film for Nasir Hussain's nephews Tariq Khan and Aamir Khan, the latter a chil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amar Prem
''Amar Prem'' () is a 1972 Indian Hindi romantic drama film directed by Shakti Samanta. It is a remake of the Bengali film '' Nishi Padma'' (1970), directed by Arabinda Mukherjee, who wrote screenplay for both the films based on the Bengali short story ''Hinger Kochuri'' by Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay. The film portrays the decline of human values and relationships and contrasts it by presenting an illustrious example of a boy's innocent love for a neighbourhood courtesan. The movie is about a school boy, who is ill-treated by his step mother, and becomes friends with a prostitute neighbour. The film stars Sharmila Tagore playing a prostitute with a heart of gold, with Rajesh Khanna in the role of a lonely businessman and Vinod Mehra as adult Nandu, the young child, who they both come to care for. The film is noted for its music by R. D. Burman; numbers sung by famous playback singers like Kishore Kumar, R.D. Burman's father S.D. Burman and Lata Mangeshkar; lyrics were by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jagga (film)
''Jagga'' is a 1964 Indian Punjabi-language film, directed by Jugal Kishore, starring Dara Singh, Indira, Khairati, Amarnath, Jugal Kishore, Majnu, and more. It is based on the story of 20th-century dacoit Jagga Jatt Movie won the National Film Awards in 1964. Music Lyrics by M.S.Sehrai an songs sang by Mohammad Rafi, Shamshad Begum Shamshad Begum (Hindi: शमशाद बेगम, IAST: ''Śamśād Bēgam''; 14 April 1919 – 23 April 2013) was an Indian singer who was one of the first playback singers in the Hindi film industry. Notable for her distinctive voice and ..., Minoo Purshottam, S.Balbir (1) Mera Baanka Desh- ਮੇਰਾ ਬਾਂਕਾ ਦੇਸ਼ (2) Jeh Main Jaandi , ਜੇਹ ਮੈਂ ਜਾਂਦੀ (3) Jeh Main Jaandi , ਜੇਹ ਮੈਂ ਜਾਂਦੀ References External links * * 1964 films Punjabi-language Indian films 1960s Punjabi-language films Films based on Indian folklore Films set in Punjab, India Indian black-and-w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |