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Pinchoo Kapoor
Pinchoo Kapoor (1927 – April 28, 1989) was an Indian actor born in Rawalpindi, Punjab Province (British India), Punjab, British India in 1927. He acted in many Hindi films during the 1970s and 1980s. His film career lasted from 1969 to 1989. He is best remembered for his role in the films ''Don (1978 film), Don'', ''Roti (1974 film), Roti'', ''Avtaar'' and ''Khud-Daar''. Kapoor died aged 62 on 28 April 1989 in Bombay. Filmography References External links * Male actors from Jaipur 1989 deaths Male actors in Hindi cinema Indian male film actors People from Rawalpindi 20th-century Indian male actors 1929 births {{India-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rawalpindi
Rawalpindi ( or ; Urdu, ) is a city in the Punjab province of Pakistan. It is the fourth largest city in Pakistan after Karachi, Lahore and Faisalabad, and third largest in Punjab after Lahore and Faisalabad. Rawalpindi is next to Pakistan's capital Islamabad, and the two are jointly known as the "twin cities" because of the social and economic links between them. Rawalpindi is on the Pothohar Plateau, known for its ancient Hindu and Buddhist heritage, especially in the neighbouring town of Taxila, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. In 1765, the ruling Gakhars were defeated and the city came under Sikh rule, becoming an important city within the Sikh Empire based at Lahore. The city's ''Babu Mohallah'' neighbourhood was once home to a community of Jewish traders that had fled Mashhad, Persia, in the 1830s. The city was conquered by the British Raj in 1849, and in the late 19th century became the largest garrison town of the British Indian Army's Northern command as its climate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dream Girl (1977 Film)
''Dream Girl'' is a 1977 Indian Hindi film, directed by Pramod Chakravorty. The movie stars Hema Malini, Ashok Kumar, Dharmendra and Prem Chopra. Hema Malini was promoted as the ''Dream Girl'' from her first film and that eventually led her to star in this film. Plot The story revolves around a young woman (Hema Malini), who plays five different characters in the film – Sapna, Padma, Champabai, Dream girl, and Rajkumari, to steal money in order to maintain a home for orphans. Cast * Ashok Kumar as Verma * Dharmendra as Anupam Verma * Hema Malini as Sapna/Padma/Champabai/Dream girl/Rajkumari * Asrani as Chanda Mama * Prem Chopra as Prem Verma * Lalita Pawar as Daima * Dina Pathak as Ratnabai * Komilla Wirk as Radha * Alka (actor) as Roopa * Pinchoo Kapoor as Boss * S. N. Banerjee as Munimjee * D. K. Sapru as Sindhi Groom's Dad * Praveen Paul as Birbal * Padmini Kolhapure as Padmini (orphan) *Pallavi Joshi as Pallavi * Alankar as Alankar *Raju Shrestha as Raju (orphan) *Rame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khandaan (1979 Film)
''Khandaan'' () is a 1979 Indian Hindi-language drama film, produced by Sibte Hassan Rizvi under the New World Enterprises banner and directed by Anil Ganguly. It stars Jeetendra, Sulakshana Pandit, Bindiya Goswami and music composed by Khayyam. This film is remade in Telugu as ''Jeevitha Ratnam'' (1981). Plot Gauri Shankar, a clerk in a private firm, lives with his wife Savitri and two sons Vikas & Ravi. Vikas is married to Nanda. The impish Ravi falls in love with Usha. Vikas acquires a job and needs money for security deposit. Gauri Shankar is unable to raise the money and when he tries to steal from his office cashbox, he is caught. Ravi takes up the blame to protect his father. Gauri Shankar passes away after confiding the truth to Savitiri. Vikas and Nanada move out of the house. Ravi returns from jail and learns that Usha is married to someone else. When Vikas lies that their mother has disowned him, a devastated Ravi leaves for the city, where he rescu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jhoota Kahin Ka
''Jhoota Kahin Ka'' is a 1979 Bollywood film directed by Ravi Tandon. It stars Rishi Kapoor and Neetu Singh in pivotal roles. Plot The Rai family consists of four: father, mother, Shanti, and two sons, Ajay and Vijay. While traveling on a ship, they run into a severe storm, which leads to the ship capsizing, and the family getting separated. While Ajay and his mother are together, Rai is separate, and so is Vijay. Wealthy Jagatnarayan Khanna rescues Rai, takes him home, ensures that he is treated well, and makes him a business partner. Years later, the Rai sons have grown up. Ajay is a lowly motor mechanic working in Pinto's Garage, but has big dreams, and a dual life as a Casanova, who is a liar and a conman, who dreams of making it big with a wealthy woman named Sheetal Khanna. Then there is Vijay, who is now known as Vikram, who works for Sheetal Khanna, and hopes to marry her one-day, but has an affair with a gorgeous woman named Mala. When Mala gets pregnant, Vikram refuses ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sunayana
''Sunayana'' is a 1979 Bollywood family drama film directed by Hiren Nag and produced by Tarachand Barjatya. Cast *Talluri Rameshwari as Sunayana * Vijayendra Ghatge as Dr. Indrajeet *Naseeruddin Shah as Rajoo *Gayatri *Sulochana Latkar *Jagdeep *Pinchoo Kapoor *Leela Mishra *Mukri *Rajendra Nath Soundtrack Soundtrack for this film has been composed and written by Ravindra Jain Ravindra Jain (28 February 1944 – 9 October 2015) was an Indian music composer, lyricist and playback singer. He started his career in the early 1970s by composing for several hit movies. His notable works include '' Chor Machaye Shor'' (19 .... # "Sunayana" – K. J. Yesudas # "Aanso Bhi Hain"– K. J. Yesudas # "Megha O Re Megha" – Hemlata # "Kaisi Hoon Main" – Hemlata External links * References 1979 films 1970s Hindi-language films 1979 comedy films Rajshri Productions films Films scored by Ravindra Jain {{1970s-comedy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ratnadeep (1979 Film)
''Ratnadeep'' () is a 1979 Hindi film written and directed by Basu Chatterjee. The film starred Hema Malini and Girish Karnad in lead roles. The film has music by R. D. Burman with lyrics by Gulzar. The movie was reported to be based on a short story by Prabhat Kumar Mukhopadhyay. Cast * Hema Malini * Girish Karnad * A.K. Hangal * Prema Narayan * Dheeraj Kumar * Poornima Jayaram * Sulochana Latkar * Gautam Sarin * Pinchoo Kapoor * Yunus Parvez Plot Madan (played by Girish Karnad) works as a railways official in Tarapore, a remote village. He finds life in the village very monotonous and uninteresting. The daughter of Madan's superior, the Railway Station Master, is in love with him and wishes to marry him. However, Madan is reluctant to marry her because he would then need to continue to live in Tarapore. Madan applies for leave of absence from work. One day a train arrives in Tarapore with the corpse of a sadhu. Madan refuses to allow the offloading of the dead body, but the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duniya Meri Jeb Mein
''Duniya Meri Jeb Mein'' () is a 1979 Indian Hindi-language action film directed by Tinnu Anand, stars Shashi Kapoor, Rishi Kapoor, Neetu Singh in pivotal roles and music was composed by Rajesh Roshan. Plot Vishal Khanna (Rishi Kapoor), a student in a prestigious college, believes he lives a wealthy lifestyle along with his brother, Karan Khanna (Shashi Kapoor), a businessman. Vishal meets and falls in love with Neeta (Neetu Singh), the only daughter of wealthy widower, Gulabchand. Gulabchand meets with Karan and both finalize Vishal and Neeta's marriage. Then things spiral out of control when Gulabchand is killed while Karan is run over by a lorry and ends up losing both his legs. Vishal undertakes to look after the now crippled Karan, but has more surprises to face when Police Inspector Yadav informs him that Karan was never a businessman, but a trapeze artiste in Amar Circus and is also a suspect of a daring robbery and the murder of Gulabchand. Cast *Shashi Kapoor as Karan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Badalte Rishtey
''Badalte Rishtey'' () is a 1978 Bollywood drama film, produced by Sudesh Kumar under the Vijayashree Pictures banner and directed by R. Jhalani. It stars Jeetendra, Rishi Kapoor, Reena Roy and music by Laxmikant Pyarelal. Plot Savitri (Reena Roy), a music teacher with a school, also takes music tutorials for girls by going to their homes. Savitri lives with her brother, Chandar (Asrani), who is a painting contractor, and his mother. She meets Manohar Dhani (Rishi Kapoor), a guide by profession, who falls for her at the first meeting. He follows her to her home on the pretext of selling her eggs. Savitri knows fully aware that Manohar is just trying to woo her and is not an egg seller. Sagar (Jeetendra), is the US returned businessman whose kid sister is a student of Savitri. On his return from the US, he happens to hear Savitri's song and immediately falls for her as well. Savitri's friend, who is also her brother's fiancée, comes in with her father (A. K. Hangal), an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saajan Bina Suhagan
''Saajan Bina Suhagan'' () is a 1978 Indian Hindi-language drama film produced and directed by Saawan Kumar Tak. The film stars Rajendra Kumar, Nutan, Vinod Mehra, Padmini Kohlapure and Shreeram Lagoo, the film's music is by Usha Khanna. It has a popular song "Madhuban Khushboo Deta Hai" sung by Yesudas, Anuradha Paudwal and Hemlata. The film was remade in Tamil as Mangala Nayagi in 1980 and remade in Malayalam as Oru Kochukatha Aarum Parayathe Katha in 1984. Synopsis Asha Nutan lives a poor lifestyle along with her widowed father. She is madly in love with an aspiring doctor Raj Kumar Rajendra Kumar and hopes she will marry him when he completes his studies. When Raj abruptly announces that he has to travel abroad in order to complete his studies, Asha although not wanting to, but has no choice but to wait for him whilst his studies are complete so they can marry. When Asha's father whilst on his deathbed, makes her promise to marry Simla-based Gopal Chopra Shreeram Lagoo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chakravyuha (1978 Film)
''Chakravyuha'' is a 1978 Bollywood thriller film directed by Basu Chatterjee with screenplay by Jainendra Jain. The film stars Rajesh Khanna in the lead role, supported by Neetu Singh, Vinod Mehra, Simple Kapadia, Pradeep Kumar, Om Shivpuri, Dina Pathak, Master Raju Shrestha, Yunuz Parvez, Pinchoo Kapoor and others. Upon release, the film became critically acclaimed. This film was co-produced by Rajesh Khanna with Yusuf Hassan. Plot Rajesh Khanna plays a man drawn unwillingly into a nest of enemy spies and intrigue with the future of his country riding on his shoulders. Chhaya (Neetu) and Amit Narayan (Rajesh) are in love and Chhaya wants to get married. Amit doesn't see why they have to get married and wants to keep things as they are. Wedding dates are set and then moved, to her great frustration. This is really their only point of discord. Amit lives alone, and is also very fond of Chhaya's family: father (Om Shivpuri), mother (Dina Pathak), little brother Raju (Master Raju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bhola Bhala
''Bhola Bhala'' is a 1978 Bollywood action film, directed by Satpal and produced by V. Gopi Krishna. The film stars Rajesh Khanna in a double role and was paired opposite Rekha and Moushumi Chatterjee. The film revolves around the innocent insurance agent Ram Kumar Verma, who falls into the trap of the bandit Nathu Singh, who in turn wants Ram to endorse a Life Insurance Policy in the name of Nathu Singh, so that Nathu can fake a death claim and get the amount from LIC company. The film was a commercial hit upon its release. The musical instrument kalimba was played by Homi Mullan for "Jhuk Gayi Aankhen". Cast *Rajesh Khanna as Ram Kumar Verma / Nathu Singh "Nathiya" (Double Role) *Rekha as Champa *Moushumi Chatterjee as Renu *Deven Verma as Babu *Jagdeep as Tamanchewala * Naaz as Sarla * Mumtaz Begum as Ram's Mother *Sulochana Latkar as Renu's Mother *Satyendra Kapoor as Mr. Kapoor *Ramesh Deo as Thakur Ajit Singh *Joginder as Sambha *Pinchoo Kapoor Pinchoo Kapoor (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tumhare Liye
''Tumhare Liye'' () is a 1978 Indian Hindi-language film directed by Basu Chatterjee. The film stars Sanjeev Kumar, Vidya Sinha and Ashok Kumar as leads with music scored by Jaidev. Plot The story begins in 1905 and propels forward to 1978 when Gauri (Vidya Sinha) and Prakash (Sanjeev Kumar) fall in love and marry against odds. Prakash is originally expected to marry Renuka (Neelam Mehra) but he chooses Gauri over her much to Renuka's displeasure. After the wedding, the couple heads to Rajasthan for honeymoon on Gauri's insistence. However, Gauri starts behaving in a weird manner, lost in thoughts, pining for an unseen lover and begins to refuse Prakash's romantic advances. Gradually, Gauri takes ill and is hospitalised as her mental state deteriorates to an extent where she looks to end her life. Psychiatric treatment reveals a dark and troublesome past where Gauri (a vivacious girl) and Gangadhar Upadhyay (a reserved priest) fall in love while Kalawati, now Renuka tries to se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
