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Rajendra Kumar Tuli is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Producer and Editor Indian born on 20 july 1929 at Sialkot (Pakistan)

Rajendra Kumar Tuli

Rajendra Kumar Tuli
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Nationality Inde
Birth 20 july 1929 at Sialkot (Pakistan)
Death 29 july 1999 (at 70 years) at Mumbai (Inde)
Awards Padma Shri

Rajendra Kumar Tuli (20 July 1929 – 12 July 1999) was an Indian film actor who starred in Bollywood films. Starting his career in 1950, he appeared in more than 80 films in a career spanning over four decades. He was considered as one of the most successful Indian Bollywood actors in the 1960s. He also produced several films starring his son Kumar Gaurav.

He was born in a Punjabi Hindu family in Sialkot, in the Punjab province of British India, now in Pakistan.

Biography

He married Shukla and had a son and two daughters. His son Kumar Gaurav also had a brief acting career.

Kumar acted with Sunil Dutt and Nargis in the film Mother India (1957) where Sunil Dutt and Rajendra Kumar played natural sons of Nargis's character. He had a special relationship with Dutt and used to actively participate in campaigning for him, whenever the latter used to contest for elections. Dutt quoted as having said that "Even though Rajendra Kumar did not win any award throughout his career, he was one of the most genuine human beings I have ever encountered. When I was struggling with the troubles related to the arrest of my son Sanjay Dutt and my house was repeatedly being searched by means of numerous police raids, Rajendra Kumar was the one who came to my rescue by staying at my house and ensuring that raids were conducted using due procedures, false evidences were not planted in the house and valuables were not stolen." Kumar was best friends with Raj Kapoor, so much so that his son Kumar Gaurav was engaged to the latter's daughter, Reema. As fate would have it, this friendship could not last long after their children broke the engagement and Kumar Gaurav got married to Sunil Dutt and Nargis's daughter Namrata.

He attained a PHD and had a title of 'Doctor' prefixed to his name.

For the premier of his film Vachan, he was asked if he wanted any seats for his relatives or friends, and thinking that it would be complimentary, he answered ten. After some days when he went to get his fees from the producer's accountant, he was given a lesser amount and when he asked why he was told that the money was deducted for the seats he took for his relatives and friends. He took this lesson as a principle of production and when he produced Naam, he deducted some amount from Amrita Singh's fees for the long calls she had made from Hong Kong to India.

Best films

Mother India (1957)
(Actor)

Usually with

Sundar
Sundar
(13 films)
Kumar Gaurav
Kumar Gaurav
(6 films)
David Dhawan
David Dhawan
(5 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Rajendra Kumar Tuli (64 films)

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Actor

Earth
Earth (1998)
, 1h50
Directed by Deepa Mehta
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, War, Historical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about religion, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Aamir Khan, Nandita Das, Rahul Khanna, Shabana Azmi, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Eric Peterson
Roles Refugee Police
Rating75% 3.7965953.7965953.7965953.7965953.796595
The story is set in Lahore in the time period directly before and during the partition of India in 1947.
Phool
Phool (1993)

Directed by Srinivasa Rao Singeetham
Genres Romance
Actors Sunil Dutt, Kumar Gaurav, Maya Alagh, Madhuri Dixit, Rajendra Kumar Tuli, Shakti Kapoor
Roles Dharamraj
Rating51% 2.586892.586892.586892.586892.58689
Dharamraaj (Rajendra Kumar) and Balram Choudhary (Sunil Dutt) are two friends who earn their living by farming. Dharamraaj lives with his mom and son, Raju (Kumar Gaurav) and Balram lives with his wife Savitri and a daughter Guddi (Madhuri Dixit). To cement their friendship both fathers fix their children's wedding. This event is blessed by Mouni Baba from the local Shiv Mandir, whose predictions have never been proved to be wrong. Dharamraaj then goes to Bombay to be a businessman and Raju is sent to a hostel and then to America for further studies. Years later Dharamraaj informs Balram that the marriage cannot take place. Balram returns home with this news and in shock his wife Savitri passes away. Guddi swears never to speak with or about Raju or his family again.
Lovers
Lovers (1983)

Directed by P. Bharathiraja
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Musical films
Actors Kumar Gaurav, Padmini Kolhapure, Danny Denzongpa, Tanuja, Rakesh Bedi, Beena Banerjee
Rating53% 2.674422.674422.674422.674422.67442
Viju lives near Panji, Goa, with his mother, Marry is rich girl lives with her brother, David and his wife, Eliza, studies in Bombay College. Viju and Marry fall in love.
Star
Star (1982)

Genres Drama
Actors Kumar Gaurav, Rati Agnihotri, Raj Kiran., Padmini Kolhapure, Saeed Jaffrey, A. K. Hangal
Rating66% 3.3420353.3420353.3420353.3420353.342035
Dev Kumar Verma comes from a middle-class family and must find employment to support his parents. Dev, however, has set his mind upon becoming a music sensation like Elvis Presley.
Love Story
Love Story (1981)

Directed by Rajendra Kumar Tuli, Rahul Rawail
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Musical films
Actors Kumar Gaurav, Vijayta Pandit, Rajendra Kumar Tuli, Amjad Khan, Naresh Vijaya, Vidya Sinha
Roles Vijay Mehra
Rating64% 3.243873.243873.243873.243873.24387
Vijay Mehra (Rajendra Kumar) is a wealthy builder, and loves Suman (Vidya Sinha), who also loves Vijay. Ram Dogra(Danny Denzongpa) is a civil engineer who loves Suman. Ram and Suman were friends at college time.
Bin Phere Hum Tere
Genres Drama
Actors Asha Parekh, Vinod Mehra, Sarika, Rajendra Kumar Tuli, Kamal Kapoor, Jankidas
Roles Jagdish Sharma
Rating65% 3.266653.266653.266653.266653.26665
Jamuna lives a poor lifestyle in Gangapur with her widowed step-mother. She is of marriageable age, but instead of getting her married, she is sold to her maternal uncle, Mukand Bihari, who, in turn, sells her to a brothel madame, Telanbai, where Jamuna is confined and forced to dance and sing against her will. She does manage to escape one day, and comes to the rescue of two runaway twins, Raju and Debu, and takes them to Bandra, Bombay, to their cancer-ridden father, Jagdish Sharma. Jagdish and Jamuna are attracted to each other, and both believe to be each other's spouses, even though no formal marriage is performed. Jamuna continues to look after the twins even after Jagdish passes away, and endures many difficulties raising them. Years later, the twins have grown up, while Raju is employed in a factory, Debu is a doctor. Raju has fallen in love with his boss' daughter, Shikha, while Debu is in love with Kiran. Jamuna meets both girls and approves of them. Then her past comes to pay her a nasty visit when she comes face to face with one of her patrons, Jagmohan, none other than Shikha's dad, on one hand, and Telanbai - who is Kiran's mother. Struggling to hold her own against these odds, Jamuna must now also come to terms with other life-changing decisions - including death and subsequent deception - decisions that she may end regretting for the rest of her life.