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Majrooh Sultanpuri is a Actor, Scriptwriter and Sound Indian born on 1 october 1919 at Sultanpur, Uttar Pradesh (Inde)

Majrooh Sultanpuri

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Birth name Asrar Hussain Khan
Nationality Inde
Birth 1 october 1919 at Sultanpur, Uttar Pradesh (Inde)
Death 24 may 2000 (at 80 years) at Mumbai (Inde)
Awards Dadasaheb Phalke Award, Filmfare Awards

Majrooh Sultanpuri (1 October 1919 − 24 May 2000) was an Urdu poet, lyricist and songwriter. He was one of the dominating musical forces in Indian Cinema in the 1950s and early 1960s and was an important figure in the Progressive Writers' Movement. and is considered one of the finest avant-garde Urdu poets of 20th century literature

In his career spanning six decades, he worked with music directors, from Naushad, Madan Mohan, S.D.Burman, Roshan, Ravi, Shankar-Jaikishan, O.P.Nayyar, Usha Khanna, Laxmikant Pyarelal, Anu Malik, R.D.Burman, Rajesh Roshan, Anand-Milind and Jatin-Lalit, to Leslie Lezz Lewis and A.R.Rahman. He won the Filmfare Best Lyricist Award in 1965 for "Chahunga Main Tujhe" in film Dosti, and the highest award in Indian cinema, the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for lifetime achievement in 1993. In the 80s and 90s, most of his work was with Anand-Milind, their most notable collaborations being Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak, Lal Dupatta Malmal Ka, Love, Kurbaan and Dahek.

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Filmography of Majrooh Sultanpuri (54 films)

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Jaanam Samjha Karo, 2h28
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Salman Khan, Urmila Matondkar, Jaspal Bhatti, Shammi Kapoor, Monica Bedi, Shakti Kapoor
Roles Lyricist
Rating48% 2.4046752.4046752.4046752.4046752.404675
Chandni (Urmila Matondkar), a lower class talented night club singer and dancer, who happens to be religious, and well mannered, lives an unfortunate life with her three aunts, who dominate her life, and with a weak maternal grandmother. She dances for a living because it is the only way she can support her poor family and she hopes to give her nieces an education.
Dahek A Burning Passion, 2h35
Genres Musical, Romance
Themes Musical films
Actors Akshaye Khanna, Sonali Bendre, Danny Denzongpa, Dalip Tahil, K. K. Raina, Achala Sachdev
Rating52% 2.6209452.6209452.6209452.6209452.620945
Jabbar Bahkshi(Danny Dengzongpa) is the eldest son in the Bahkshi household in modern-day Bombay, India, and rules the entire family with an iron, Islamic hand. He finds out his sister, Sabina(Sonali Bendre), is having an affair with Iqbal, and is angered because Sabina is not permitted to have an affair. Sabina and Iqbal elope and get married, and decide to stay away from the Bahkshi family. Jabbar hunts them down and kills Iqbal with a sword. Shocked at this brutality at the hands of her brother, Sabina stabs herself with the same sword and dies instantly. Jabbar is arrested by the Bombay Police, and is sentenced to 12 years in prison. His mother is devastated at Sabina's death and decides never to forgive him. After 12 years, Jabbar returns home and finds that Islamic values and rules are not being observed, and quickly re-asserts his authority, while his mother refuses to have to do anything with him. Jabbar meets his niece, Neelima, and is shocked to find her the very image of Sabina. He finds out that Neelima is having an affair with a young man, but Neelima, out of fear, denies this. She is indeed having an affair with young Sameer Roshan(Akshaye Khanna), and both are in love with each other. When they find out what happened to her aunt, they decide to run away from Bombay and Jabbar. When Jabbar comes to know this he is angered, and his anger turns to blind rage when he finds out that Sameer is an Hindu, and he swears to kill them both. The news gets out of a Hindu boy and a Muslim girl eloping, and spreads like wildfire, arousing old flames, and creating a growing rift between the Hindus and the Muslims. Extreme elements on both the Hindu and the Muslim sides decide to get involved, and Jabbar decides that he will hunt them and kill them, and if necessary let history repeat itself.
Dil Ke Jharoke Main
Genres Romance
Actors Manisha Koirala, Vikas Bhalla, Vikas Bhalla, Mamik Singh, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Satish Kaushik
Roles Lyricist
Rating39% 1.961691.961691.961691.961691.96169
Suman and Vijay Rai are two virtually inseparable school-going children. Both are heart-broken when Suman's dad decides to move out to a new location, both have tattooed a heart on their arms and hope to remember each other for the rest of their lives. Years later, they unknowingly meet each other, and this time Suman is married to Vijay's brother, Prakash, while Vijay is married to a rich and wealthy U.S. returned woman named Rita. Unfortunately, Prakash and Suman meet with an accident shortly after their marriage, but both recover. But Vijay's marriage with Rita is on the rocks due to incompatibility, with Rita moving out of Vijay's life. It is then Advocate Suresh, Suman's brother, comes across evidence that leads him to conclude that the couple was swapped by unknown person(s).
Khamoshi: The Musical, 2h39
Directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Nana Patekar, Manisha Koirala, Salman Khan, Seema Biswas, Helen Khan, Raghubir Yadav
Roles Lyricist
Rating74% 3.7464453.7464453.7464453.7464453.746445
The story is about Joseph (Nana Patekar) and Flavy Braganza (Seema Biswas), a deaf and mute couple in Goa. They have a baby girl, Annie (played by Priya Parulekar as young Annie), who is able to speak and hear. A few years later they have another baby, a boy named Sam, who also speaks and hears. Annie's life is divided into two worlds — one with her parents and the other of music, which she loves. Annie gets her musical inspirations from her grandmother, Maria Braganza (Helen).
Ghatak: Lethal, 2h38
Directed by Rajkumar Santoshi
Genres Drama, Action
Actors Sunny Deol, Meenakshi Seshadri, Danny Denzongpa, Amrish Puri, K. K. Raina, Sanjay Batra
Roles Lyricist
Rating74% 3.747223.747223.747223.747223.74722
Kashi (Sunny Deol) is a kind-hearted wrestler and the dutiful son of Shambhu Nath (Amrish Puri) living in Banaras. Shambhu Nath who was a freedom fighter awarded with Tambra Patra, is an honourable and respectable man in town. Kashi comes to Mumbai with his father for his medical treatment of throat and stays with his brother Shiv Nath (K. K. Raina). Kashi meets Gauri (Meenakshi Seshadri) and starts liking her. He learns that the colony is being terrorized by a tyrannical gangster named Katya (Danny Denzongpa) along with his other six brothers. Before Kashi's arrival, a resident named Sachdev (Om Puri) tries to initiate revolt against Katya but gets ruthlessly killed by him, thereby making Malti (Ila Arun), wife of Sachdev, go mad. Katya and his brothers become enemy with Kashi when he beats up their goons when they were beating up Malti. Shambhu Nath is later diagnosed with throat cancer and has only a few days to live.
Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa, 2h38
Directed by Kundan Shah
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Shahrukh Khan, Suchitra Krishnamoorthi, Deepak Tijori, Ashutosh Gowariker, Satish Shah, Kurush Deboo
Roles Lyricist
Rating75% 3.798153.798153.798153.798153.79815
Everyone loves Sunil (Shah Rukh Khan) except his own father Vinayak. Sunil and his friends start a band. Anna, his childhood friend, returns after many years. After she joins the group, everyone is excited, especially Sunil, who secretly loves Anna. The only other person who knows this secret is his sister. As Anna joins the group, they start hunting opportunities to make it big in the music world. Chris, another band member and Sunil's best friend, is Sunil's antithesis in nearly everything. Chris is a studious person and son of an affluent couple.
Andaz Apna Apna, 2h40
Directed by Rajkumar Santoshi
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Aamir Khan, Salman Khan, Raveena Tandon, Karisma Kapoor, Paresh Rawal, Shakti Kapoor
Roles Lyricist
Rating79% 3.9974853.9974853.9974853.9974853.997485
It's a story of two men competing for the hand of an heiress get drawn into love – and into trying to save her from an evil criminal. Amar (Aamir Khan) and Prem (Salman Khan) are two daydreamers with a common aim: getting rich by marrying a rich heiress, Raveena Bajaj (Raveena Tandon), daughter of Ram Gopal Bajaj (Paresh Rawal). The guys run into each other on a bus and soon realise that they have a common goal. The duo fail at various attempts to woo the lady.
Love
Love (1991)
, 2h33
Directed by Suresh Krissna
Genres Drama, Action, Romance
Actors Salman Khan, Revathi, Amjad Khan, Shafi Ali Inamdar, Harish Kumar, Rita Bhaduri
Roles Lyricist
Rating61% 3.0510553.0510553.0510553.0510553.051055
Jailed as a juvenile for killing his abusive father (Sudhir Kumar) who is responsible for his mother's suicide, Prithvi (Salman Khan) is unable to stand any atrocity. He meets Maggie Pinto (Revathi Menon) and after a few chance meetings, they both fall in love. Maggie takes Prithvi to meet her parents, but they reject him after learning about his criminal past. When Maggie and Prithvi persist, Maggie's mother, Stella Pinto (Rita Bhaduri), calls the police and has Prithvi jailed. Guruji (Amjad Khan) comes to Prithvi's aid and bails him out. Prithvi and Maggie continue their courtship, but Stella finds out and intervenes, sending goons to attack Prithvi, during which Maggie is injured. How this affects everyone close to her is the crux of the story.
Shiva
Shiva (1990)
, 2h22
Directed by Ram Gopal Varma
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Actors Akkineni Nagarjuna, Amala Paul, Amala Akkineni, Raghuvaran, J. D. Chakravarthy, Paresh Rawal
Roles Musical
Rating79% 3.9953253.9953253.9953253.9953253.995325
The film opens with a bunch of gangsters, led by Ganesh, waiting outside the (fictional) VAS college of Arts & Sciences. A college student JD (JD Chakravarthy) gestures to the goons and they proceed to savagely assault another student and his friends.
Shiva
Shiva (1990)
, 2h41
Directed by Ram Gopal Varma
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Actors Akkineni Nagarjuna, Amala Paul, Amala Akkineni, Raghuvaran, J. D. Chakravarthy, 'Subhalekha' Sudhakar
Roles Musical
Rating79% 3.9953253.9953253.9953253.9953253.995325
The film opens with a bunch of gangsters, led by Ganesh., waiting outside the (fictional) VAS college of Arts & Sciences. A college student JD (JD Chakravarthy) gestures to the goons and they proceed to savagely assault another student and his friends.
Tum Mere Ho
Directed by Tahir Hussain
Genres Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Actors Aamir Khan, Juhi Chawla, Ajit Vachani, Rajendranath Zutshi, Suhas Joshi
Roles Lyricist
Rating39% 1.9658751.9658751.9658751.9658751.965875
Shiva (Aamir khan) is blessed with magical snake-charming powers. When he meets Paro (Juhi Chawla) from a nearby village, he falls head-over-heels in love with her. She is also attracted to him. But Paro's father, Choudhry Charanjit Singh, is not pleased with this match, and he hires men to subdue and kill Shiva, all in vain. Then Shiva attempts to rescue Paro from a shapeshifting snake, and this earns him the wrath of his mate - another shapeshifting snake, who will not rest until Shiva is dead.
Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak, 2h43
Directed by Mansoor Khan
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Romeo and Juliet, Films based on plays, Films based on works by William Shakespeare
Actors Aamir Khan, Juhi Chawla, Dalip Tahil, Goga Kapoor, Alok Nath, Faisal Khan
Roles Lyricist
Rating73% 3.6979353.6979353.6979353.6979353.697935
Dhanakpur village farmer, Thakur Jaswant Singh (Alok Nath) and Dhanraj Singh (Dalip Tahil) are brothers. They have a younger sister Madhumati, who was used, made pregnant and ditched by Ratan Singh (played by Arjun), the son of Thakur Raghuveer Singh from a big Rajput family. The family refuses Jaswant Singh's request to get his sister married to Ratan. Ratan's family refuses to accept that he is guilty, as they are interested in their status. Insulted, Jaswant decides to leave the village. Unable to tolerate the events, Madhumati commits suicide. Frustrated, Dhanraj kills Ratan at his wedding and gets imprisoned. The two families are now bitter enemies. Jaswant moves to Delhi, develops his business, and reaches good status; he also raises Dhanraj's kids. Years later, Dhanraj gets released from the prison. Upon release, Dhanraj receives a letter from his son, Raj (Aamir Khan), an ardent music-lover, who completes his education in Rajput College. An emotional Dhanraj sneaks into Raj's college farewell party and is glad to see his son fulfill his dreams.
Zamaane ko Dikhana hai
Directed by Nazir Hussain, Nasir Husain
Genres Thriller, Romance
Actors Rishi Kapoor, Padmini Kolhapure, Amjad Khan, Simple Kapadia, Yogeeta Bali Chakraborty, Kader Khan
Roles Lyricist
Rating65% 3.2817853.2817853.2817853.2817853.281785
Wealthy industrialist, Nanda, is enraged when he finds out that his eldest son, Ramesh, has fallen in love with a poor woman, Seema, and wants to marry her. He asks his son that if he marries her, he will exclude him from his will. In answer to that, Ramesh marries Seema and leaves the Nanda household. When Nanda's younger son, Ravi, returns home he is told that his brother is away on business. Ravi does find out that Ramesh had been asked to leave by their father. He manages to convince his dad to change his mind about Ramesh, and sets off to find Ramesh. He finds out that Ramesh and Seema are no longer alive, but Seema had given birth to a son, and left him in the care of her sister, Kanchan. Ravi meets Kanchan, and both fall in love with each other. When Kanchan finds out that Ravi is Nanda's son, she is angry, and refuses to have to do anything with Ravi, as she is sure that she too will be rejected by Nanda, when he finds out that she is poor, and related to Seema. What Ravi and Kanchan don't know that Nanda has an ulterior motive, as he wants to adopt Ramesh's son - by hook or by crook.
Heeralaal Pannalaal
Genres Comedy, Action
Actors Shashi Kapoor, Randhir Kapoor, Zeenat Aman, Neetu Kapoor, Ajit Khan, Prem Nath
Roles Lyricist
Rating65% 3.2681853.2681853.2681853.2681853.268185
The movie starts with two innocent and kind hearted guys named Heeralal (Shashi Kapoor) and Pannalal (Randhir Kapoor). They are famous among criminals as they have helped police in capturing them several times. Heeralal is in search of his parent’s killer but has no idea of him at all. Pannalal is in search of his father. Heeralal meets with a girl named Ruby (Zeenat Aman) and falls in love with her. Pannalal falls in love with Ruby’s friend, Neelam (Neetu Singh).