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Sazaye Maut
''Sazā-ye Maut'' (English: Death Penalty) is 1981 Indian film directed and produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra. The films was based on Chopra's diploma film at FTII, ''Murder at Monkey Hill'' (1976). He adapted that into a full-length feature, with Naseeruddin Shah and Radha Saluja, respectively, playing the roles that he, himself, and Anjali Paigankar had played in the short film. Cast * Naseeruddin Shah as Uday Jagirdar / Omkar Puri * Radha Saluja as Malika Modi * Naresh Suri as Baldev * Anjan Srivastav as Uday's lawyer * Francis Menezes as Mr. Modi * Dilip Dhawan Dilip Dhawan (1955 – 15 February 2000) was an Indian film and television actor. He started his career as a child in '' Sangharsh'' (1968), featuring Dilip Kumar, Dhawan acted in over 50 films. Career He acted as the hero in the movie ''Arvin ... as Anil Suri Plot Malika Modi lives a very wealthy lifestyle with her widowed dad in India where they own vast acres of land and businesses. When Mr. Modi suddenly passe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vidhu Vinod Chopra
Vidhu Vinod Chopra (born 5 September 1952) is an Indian film director, producer, editor, screenwriter, lyricist and actor. His well-known films as director are ''Parinda'' (1988), '' 1942: A Love Story'' (1994). He is also known for producing '' Munna Bhai film series'', ''3 Idiots'' (2009), '' PK'' (2014), ''Sanju'' (2018) under his banner Vinod Chopra Films. Early life Chopra was born and grew up in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India. His father was D. N. Chopra and veteran filmmaker Ramanand Sagar was his half-brother. His father's family originally came from Peshawar, British India. His mother was Shanti Devi Mahalakshmi who left Kashmir with him and family after the exodus and mass killings of Kashmiri Pandits due to the Kashmir conflict in 1990. He dedicated his movie ''Shikara'' to his mother which is based on the same theme. He studied film direction at the Film and Television Institute of India in Pune. Career Chopra's first student short film, ''Murder at Monkey ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naseeruddin Shah
Naseeruddin Shah (born 20 July 1950) is an Indian actor. He is notable in Indian parallel cinema. He has also starred in international productions. He has won numerous awards in his career, including three National Film Awards, three Filmfare Awards and the Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival. The Government of India honoured him with the Padma Shri and the Padma Bhushan awards for his contributions to Indian cinema. Early life Naseeruddin Shah was born on 20 July 1950 in Barabanki town, Uttar Pradesh, into a Nawab family. Shah did his schooling at St. Anselm's Ajmer and St Joseph's College, Nainital. He graduated in arts from Aligarh Muslim University in 1971 and attended National School of Drama in Delhi. His elder brother, Lt. General Zameerud-din Shah (Retd.) PVSM, SM, VSM, was Vice-Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University. Career Shah has acted in movies such as '' Nishant'', '' Aakrosh'', '' Sparsh'', ''Mirch Masala'', ''Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyon A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dilip Dhawan
Dilip Dhawan (1955 – 15 February 2000) was an Indian film and television actor. He started his career as a child in '' Sangharsh'' (1968), featuring Dilip Kumar, Dhawan acted in over 50 films. Career He acted as the hero in the movie ''Arvind Desai Ki Ajeeb Dastaan'' in 1978. He was also seen in the popular Topaz shaving blades advertisement in the early 1980s. Best known for his role as "Guru" in the television serial ''Nukkad'', Dhawan also acted in serials such as ''Janam'', ''Deewar'' and ''Tere Mere Sapne''. He was a well-known movie actor, known for mostly supporting roles (and a few major roles) in ''Ek Baar Kaho'' (1980), ''Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyon Ata Hai'' (1980), ''Sazaye Maut'' (1981), ''Saaheb'' (1985), ''Dak Bangla'' (1987), ''Hero Hiralal'' (1988), ''Swarg'' (1990), ''Izzatdaar'' (1990), ''Heena'' (1991), '' Madhosh'' (1994), '' Yash'' (1996), '' Virasat'' (1997), '' Hum Saath-Saath Hain: We Stand United'' (1999) and ''Raja Ko Rani Se Pyar Ho Gaya'' (2000). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renu Saluja
Renu Saluja (5 July 1952 – 16 August 2000) was an Indian film editor. In the 1980s and 1990s, she worked with both mainstream and art house Hindi cinema directors, including Govind Nihalani, Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Sudhir Mishra, Shekhar Kapoor, Mahesh Bhatt, and Vijay Singh. Her work encompassed multiple feature films, documentaries, short films, and television series. Renu was a four-time winner of National Film Award for Best Editing for '' Parinda'' (1989), '' Dharavi'' (1993), ''Sardar'' (1993) and '' Godmother'' (1999) and won Filmfare Award for best editing for '' Parinda'' (1989) and '' 1942: A Love Story'' (1994). Early life and education Renu was born into a Punjabi family. She applied to the direction program at the Film and Television Institute of India in Pune in 1974, but was not accepted and ended up on the editing program instead. She graduated in 1976 and began a career as a film editor in India, a field dominated by men at the time. Career She first edited Vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film And Television Institute Of India
The Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) is a film institute under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting of the Government of India and aided by the Central Government of India. It is situated on the premises of the erstwhile Prabhat Film Company in Pune. It was established in 1960 and its alumni includes technicians, actors and directors in the film and television industry. FTII is a member of the International Liaison Centre of Schools of Cinema and Television (CILECT), an organisation of the world's leading schools of film and television. The centre will set up a new institute in Arunachal Pradesh as part of an initiative to tap the potential of the North Eastern region, Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Development of North Eastern Region, Dr. Jitendra Singh has informed. FTI also sponsors a film award show named Global Indie Film Awards/Festival or GIFA. History The institute was established in 1960 and started its courses in 1961. The T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murder At Monkey Hill
''Murder at Monkey Hill'' is 1976 Indian film written and directed by Vidhu Vinod Chopra. The short film in Black-and-white was made by Vidhu Vinod Chopra as his final project while doing his diploma at FTII. Vinod Chopra, himself, played the lead role with Anjali Paigankar while Dilip Dhawan and Mehmood (not the famous Bollywood comedy actor) made short appearances in the film. Vidhu's 1981 movie ''Sazaye Maut'' is based on this movie. Plot A professional hitman Akhtar is hired by Seth to murder a girl Prabhi. But as Akhtar charms her to get near her to kill her he actually falls in love with her. At loss to honour his commitment to murder for which he has taken one lakh rupee and finding himself unable to kill her, he pays a woodcutter to do that. As the woodcutter chases Prabhi with an axe in his hand, the film comes to an abrupt end without showing if he succeeds or not. Cast * Vidhu Vinod Chopra as Akhtar * Anjali Paigankar as Prabhi * Dilip Dhawan Dilip Dhawan (1955 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radha Saluja
Radha Saluja is an Indian actress who has worked mainly in Hindi cinema, Punjabi cinema and Tamil, with a few Bengali, Malayalam, Telugu and Kannada movies. An alumna of the Film and Television Institute of India, she is known for her films opposite M. G. Ramachandran like '' Indru Pol Endrum Vaazhga'' and ''Idhayakkani'', both of which were blockbusters in Tamil in 1977 and 1975 respectively. She is known for her Hindi films like '' Haar Jeet'' (1972) and ''Ek Mutthi Aasmaan'' (1973). In 1975, she appeared in the breakthrough Punjabi film ''Morni'' (1975). Career In the early 1970s, she appeared as a female lead in numerous films, like ''Aaj Ki Taaza Khabar'' (1973), ''Man Jeete Jag Jeet'' (1973), ''Dukh Bhanjan Tera Naam'' (1974), ''Man Jeete Jag Jeet'', a Sikh religious film in Punjabi, wherein she was cast alongside Sunil Dutt. She also appeared alongside M. G. Ramachandran in the Tamil films, ''Idhayakkani'' (1975) and '' Indru Pol Endrum Vaazhga'' (1977), both of which be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anjali Paigankar
Anjali Paigankar is a Hindi and Marathi film actress. A graduate of Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune, Anjali appeared in ''Murder at Monkey Hill'', Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s diploma film as a final year student there in 1976. The short film was noticed in parallel cinema circles earning work for many of the students involved in the film. The previous year she had already appeared in a short role in Shyam Benegal’s ''Charandas Chor''. In 1977, she appeared in Amol Palekar starrer ''Taxi-Taxie'' but the film flopped. Anjali went on to act in a Marathi film ''Sarvasakshi'' and a Hindi film '' Dillagi'', both released in 1978. The same year she appeared as a main female lead in the film ''Arvind Desai Ki Ajeeb Dastaan''. She also acted in ''Chakra'' and ''Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyon Ata Hai ''Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyoon Aata Hai'' () is a 1980 Indian Hindi-language drama film directed and written by Saeed Akhtar Mirza. The film starred Naseeruddin Shah, Shaban ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Tribune (Chandigarh)
''The Tribune'' is an Indian English-language daily newspaper published from Amritsar, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Bathinda, Chandigarh and New Delhi. It was founded on 2 February 1881, in Lahore, Punjab (now in Pakistan), by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a philanthropist, and is run by a trust comprising five persons as trustees. It is a major Indian newspaper with a worldwide circulation. In India, it is among the leading English daily for Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, and the Union Territory of Chandigarh. The present Editor-in-Chief of ''The Tribune'' is Rajesh Ramachandran. Previously he was editor-in-chief of ''Outlook'' magazine. Ramachandran succeeded Harish Khare, who was appointed editor-in-chief of the Tribune Group of newspapers on 1 June 2015, serving until 15 March 2018. ''The Tribune'' has two sister publications: ''Dainik Tribune'' (in Hindi) and ''Punjabi Tribune'' (in Punjabi). Naresh Kaushal, an eminent name in the field of Journalism in North India is the Edi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anjan Srivastav
Aanjjan Srivastav (born 2 June 1948) is an Indian film, television and stage actor, associated with Indian People's Theatre Association (IPTA) in Mumbai of which he remained Vice-President for several years. Outside theatre, he is best known as a character actor in Marathi and Hindi films, most notably, Mira Nair's ''Salaam Bombay!'', ''Mississippi Masala'' and Anupam Mittal's '' Flavors'' and Bollywood films like ''Gol Maal'', ''Bemisal'', ''Khuda Gawah'', ''Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa'' and '' Pukar''. He has also acted in the TV shows Wagle Ki Duniya (1988) and Wagle Ki Duniya – Nayi Peedhi Naye Kissey (2021). On television, Srivastav made his mark as the quintessential "common man" in the TV series ''Wagle Ki Duniya'' (Wagle's World) (1988–90) and ''Wagle Ki Nayi Duniya'', where he played the lead role, apart from ''Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi'' (1984) and ''Nukkad''. The Hindu, 16 September 2003. He has also acted for more than 40 years in over 30 plays, many of them jubilee hits, incl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1980s Hindi-language Films
__NOTOC__ Year 198 (CXCVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Sergius and Gallus (or, less frequently, year 951 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 198 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire *January 28 **Publius Septimius Geta, son of Septimius Severus, receives the title of Caesar. **Caracalla, son of Septimius Severus, is given the title of Augustus. China *Winter – Battle of Xiapi: The allied armies led by Cao Cao and Liu Bei defeat Lü Bu; afterward Cao Cao has him executed. By topic Religion * Marcus I succeeds Olympianus as Patriarch of Constantinople (until 211). Births * Lu Kai (or Jingfeng), Chinese official and general (d. 269) * Quan Cong, Chinese general and advisor (d. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1981 Films
The following is an overview of events in 1981 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths. Highest-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten films released in 1981 by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events * May 16 – Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer acquires beleaguered concurrent United Artists. UA was humiliated by the astronomical losses on the $40,000,000 movie '' Heaven's Gate'', a major factor in the decision of owner Transamerica to sell it. * March 30 - The 53rd Academy Awards are postponed due to the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan earlier that day. They are held the following day with a message from the President recorded for the ceremony prior to the assassination attempt. * June 8 - Marvin Davis acquires 20th Century Fox for $720 million. * June 12 – '' Raiders of the Lost Ark'' is released by Paramount Pictures. It became Paramount's highest-grossing film of all ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
