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List Of Hindi Films Of 1945
A list of films produced by the Bollywood film industry based in Mumbai in 1945: Highest-grossing films The seven highest-grossing films at the Indian Box Office in 1945: A-C D-J K-N O-R S-Z References External links Bollywood films of 1945 at the Internet Movie Database {{DEFAULTSORT:Hindi films of 1945 Lists of Hindi films by year, 1945 Lists of 1945 films by language, Hindi 1945 in Indian cinema, Films, Bollywood ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bollywood
Hindi cinema, popularly known as Bollywood and formerly as Bombay cinema, is primarily produced in Mumbai. The popular term Bollywood is a portmanteau of "Bombay" (former name of Mumbai) and "Cinema of the United States, Hollywood". The industry, producing films in the Hindi language, is a part of the larger Indian cinema industry, which also includes Cinema of South India, South Indian cinema and other smaller Cinema of India#Cinema by language, film industries. The term 'Bollywood', often mistakenly used to refer to Indian cinema as a whole, only refers to Hindi-language films, with Indian cinema being an umbrella term that includes all the Cinema of India#Cinema by language, film industries in the country, each offering films in diverse languages and styles. In 2017, Indian cinema produced 1,986 feature films, of which the largest number, 364, have been in Hindi. In 2022, Hindi cinema represented 33% of box office revenue, followed by Telugu cinema, Telugu and Tamil cine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albeli (1945 Film)
Albeli may refer to: * Albeli (1955 film), an Indian Hindi-language romantic drama film * Albeli (1974 film), a 1974 Indian Hindi-language film See also * Albela (other) {{dab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saraswati Devi (music Director)
Saraswati Devi, born Khorshed Minocher-Homji (1912 – 9 August 1980), was an Indian director of music and score composer who worked in Hindi cinema in the 1930s and 1940s. She is most noted for her score, ''Mein Ban ki Chiriyra Banke Bun Bun Bolun Re'' in Bombay Talkies's '' Achut Kanya'' (1936). She along with Nargis' mother & Sanjay Dutt's grandmother Jaddanbai and Bibbo are considered to be one of the first female music composers in Indian cinema. Early life and education Born in a Parsi family, she had a love for music. Realising this her father made her study Hindustani classical music under Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande who was specialised in Dhrupad and Dhamar style of singing. Later she joined Marris College (later Bhatkhande Music Institute) at Lucknow and studied music. Career With the setting up of an All India Radio station at Mumbai in the late 1920s she, along with her sister Manek, gave musical performances regularly. The programme, known as the Homji Sis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Badri Prasad
Badri may refer to: Films * ''Badri'' (2000 film), an Indian Telugu-language romantic drama film * ''Badri'' (2001 film), an Indian Tamil-language sports action film Military * Badri 313 Battalion in Afghanistan People Surname * Omar el-Badri, Libyan politician, 7th Secretary General of OPEC * Abdallah Salem el-Badri, Libyan politician, 20th and 27th Secretary General of OPEC * Abdul Qadir al-Badri, former Prime Minister of Libya * Balghis Badri, Sudanese feminist activist and social anthropologist * Haitham al-Badri, Al-Qaeda in Iraq member *Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, born Ibrahim al-Badri *Abd al-Aziz al-Badri, Iraqi Islamic scholar *Saleh al-Badri, Iraqi poet *Faisal Al Badri, Libyan footballer *Salem Amer Al-Badri, Kenyan middle-distance runner *Anice Badri, Tunisian professional footballer *Hossam El Badry, Egyptian football coach and former player Given name * Badri Patarkatsishvili, Georgian businessman * Badri Kvaratskhelia, Georgian-Azerbaijani footballer * Badri (director) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arun Kumar Ahuja
Arun Kumar Ahuja (born Gulshan Singh Ahuja; 17 January 1917 – 3 July 1998), popularly known as Aroon, was an Indian actor and producer who was active in Hindi cinema in the 1940s and early 1950s, appearing in over 30 films in both leading and supporting roles. He was married to singer and actress Nirmala Devi and is the father of actor Govinda. Career Ahuja was discovered in Lahore where director Mehboob Khan was on a search for newcomers and Ahuja successfully auditioned and made his debut in the 1939 film '' Ek Hi Raasta'' for Sagar Movietone. He went on to act in over 30 films throughout the 1940s and early 1950s playing leading and supporting roles for film banners such as National Studios, Ranjit Studios and Sagar Movietone. He also sang in most of his films as was the tradition in those days before professional singers were used for playback singing. In 1940, he played perhaps his most well known role in Mehboob Khan's '' Aurat'' where he acted opposite Sardar Akh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeevan (Hindi Actor)
Omkar Nath Dhar (24 October 1915 – 10 June 1987), better known by his stage name Jeevan, was an Indian actor. He played the role of Narad Muni in films of the 1950s, a total of 49 times.http://cineplot.com/jeevan-memories Memories of Jeevan Later, he played the villain in popular Bollywood films of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. His son Kiran Kumar (born Deepak Dhar) is also a film and television actor. Early life Jeevan was born into an aristocratic Kashmiri Pandit family. His grandfather, a nobleman, served as the governor of the Gilgit Agency. His mother died during childbirth and he lost his father when he was just three years old. Career From an early age, Jeevan wanted to be an actor as films had always fascinated him. Since his grandfather was the governor, their family was considered among the nobility. As a son of such a family, joining films would not have been accepted as films were considered taboo, so Jeevan ran away from home at the age of 18 and came to Bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prem Adib
Prem Adib (10 August 1917 – 25 December 1959) was an Indian actor. He was acclaimed as one of the top Bollywood actors of the 1940s, along with the likes of Pahari Sanyal, Ashok Kumar, P. C. Barua and Master Vinayak. Adib is best remembered for his roles as Lord Rama in ''Bharat Milap'' (1942) and '' Ram Rajya'' (1943). These films had him paired with Shobhana Samarth as Sita, and the duo came to be celebrated as an embodiment of chaste love and "traditional Indian values". Adib and Samarth continued as the holy Rama-Sita pair in another Ramayana-based film, '' Rambaan'' (1948). From 1943 to 1950, the Adib-Samarth screen pair became popular enough to be featured on covers of religious publications and on thousands of calendars, which would be placed in Hindu temples as objects of worship. '' Ram Rajya'' (1943) also has the distinction of being the only film ever viewed by Mahatma Gandhi. Early life Prem Narayan Adib was born into a Kashmiri Pandit family of Oudh in 1917. Hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amrapali (1946 Film)
Āmrapālī, also known as "Ambapālika", "Ambapali", or "Amra" was a celebrated '' nagarvadhu'' (royal courtesan) of the Republic of Vaishali (located in present-day Bihar) in ancient India around 500 BC. Amrapali also won the title of rajnartaki (court dancer). Following the Buddha's teachings, she became an arahant. She is mentioned in the old Pali texts and Buddhist traditions ( āgama sutras), particularly in conjunction with the Buddha staying at her mango grove, ''Ambapali vana'', which she later donated to his order and wherein he preached the famous ''Ambapalika Sutra''. Early life Amrapali was born around 600-500 BCE, to Mahanama & an unknown mother. Etymologically, the variants on her name derive from a combination of two Sanskrit words: ''amra'', meaning mango, and ''pallawa'', meaning young leaves or sprouts. It is said that she was spontaneously born at the foot of a mango tree in one of the royal gardens in Vaishali — hence her name. Even as a young maide ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahindra Choudhury
Ahindra Choudhury (1896-1974) was an Indian actor, director, theatre personality and the co-founder of ''Photo Play Syndicate'', a Kolkata-based art organization for bioscope shows. A winner of the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1958, Choudhury was honoured by the Government of India in 1963 with the award of Padma Shri, the fourth highest Indian civilian award, for his services to the nation. Biography Ahindra Choudhury was born on 6 August 1896 in Chakraberia, Kolkata in the Indian state of West Bengal. His early education was at Sishu Vidyalaya in Chakraberia and at London Missionary, Kolkata from where he completed his studies in 1911. His entry into films started with the bioscope show company, ''Photo Play Synidicate'', he founded together with Prafulla Ghosh in 1921. Two years later, he wrote the screenplay for the motionless feature film, ''Soul of a Slave'' directed by Hemchandra Mukherjee and was the lead actor. His foray into the movie world was in 1931 with ''Hris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamuna Barua
Jamuna Barua (10 October 1919 – 24 November 2005) was a leading Indian actress. Early life Jamuna was the fourth of the six daughters of Puran Gupta, a resident of a village near Agra, India. Each of the sisters was named after an Indian river like Ganga, Jamuna, Bhagirathi etc. As destiny would have it, Jamuna came to reside in Calcutta, a leading film producing city in India. Originally from Gauripur, India, Gauripur of Assam's Goalpara district (undivided), Jamuna was married to the legendary actor director Pramathesh Barua, or P.C. Barua, who died in 1950. She began her acting career in her husband's famous production ''Devdas'' in 1936 and was the film's lead character Parvati or Paro, Bhutan, Paro. She went on to make a number of memorable movies in [ Bengali language, Bengali and Hindi, notably ''Amiri'', ''Mukti'', ''Adhikar'' and ''Sesh Uttar''. She stopped acting after Barua died. Film career Jamuna made her film debut in the 1930s and played a small role in M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nanubhai Vakil
Nanubhai Vakil (23 May 1902 – 29 December 1980) was a Hindi and Gujarati film director. He directed the first Gujarati feature film, in 1932, with a biopic on the saint Narsinh Mehta, '' Narsinh Mehta'', whose cast included the actress Mehtab. Career Vakil frequently collaborated with Zubeida and Patience Cooper. The twelve-year-old Suraiya, who had done minor roles as a child artist in films like ''Usne Kya Socha'' (1937) was cast as the young Mumtaz in ''Taj Mahal The Taj Mahal ( ; ; ) is an ivory-white marble mausoleum on the right bank of the river Yamuna in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India. It was commissioned in 1631 by the fifth Mughal Empire, Mughal emperor, Shah Jahan () to house the tomb of his belo ...'' (1941) by Vakil. Vakil later remade several of the silent films "based on Parsi theatre plays". W. M. Khan, who became famous as the first person to sing in an Indian film, "De De Allah Ke Naam Pe Pyare" in '' Alam Ara'' (1931) was made to reprise that song ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
