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Ramesh Sippy is a Actor, Director and Producer Indian born on 24 november 1947 at Karachi (Pakistan)

Ramesh Sippy

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Nationality Inde
Birth 24 november 1947 (76 years) at Karachi (Pakistan)

Ramesh Sippy (Sindhi: रमेश सिप्पी) (born 23 January 1947) is an Indian film director, probably best known for directing the popular and critically acclaimed film Sholay.

His father was producer G. P. Sippy, and his son Rohan Sippy is also a film director. His daughter Sheena Sippy is married to Shashi Kapoorr's son – Kunal Kapoor. Ramesh Sippy has been married twice; his current wife is actress Kiran Juneja.

Usually with

Rohan Sippy
Rohan Sippy
(7 films)
Javed Akhtar
Javed Akhtar
(8 films)
Salim Khan
Salim Khan
(5 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Ramesh Sippy (22 films)

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Actor

Celluloid Man, 2h30
Directed by Shivendra Singh Dungarpur
Genres Biography, Documentary
Themes Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry
Actors Krzysztof Zanussi, Lester James Peries, Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Saeed Akhtar Mirza, Gulzar, Naseeruddin Shah
Roles Self
Rating75% 3.791533.791533.791533.791533.79153
P. K. Nair’s fascination with cinema began as a child and he watched his first few films lying on the white sand floor of a cinema in Trivandrum. He was a collector even then - collecting ticket stubs, lobby cards, even weighing machine tickets sporting pictures of the stars of the day. He grew up to be a great collector of films.
Ekk Deewana Tha, 2h17
Directed by Gautham Vasudev Menon
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Prateik Babbar, Amy Jackson, Manu Rishi, Samantha Ruth Prabhu, Shruti Bapna, Sachin Khedekar
Roles Director (Himself)
Rating60% 3.048583.048583.048583.048583.04858
Sachin Kulkarni (Prateik Babbar) is a student of mechanical engineering in Mumbai who aspires to become a filmmaker. His friend introduces him to cinematographer Anay (Manu Rishi). With Anay's help Sachin becomes an assistant to director Ramesh Sippy. Sachin's family, who are Marathi Brahmins, rent Jessie Thekekuttu's (Amy Jackson) house. Jessie is from a conservative Malayali Nasrani Christian family from Alappuzha, Kerala, that lives upstairs. Sachin falls in love with Jessie the moment he meets her. Sachin tries to interact with Jessie, who is afraid of speaking to men around her strict father, and ends up angering Jessie. Unable to hide his feelings for her any longer, Sachin confesses his love for her, to which she does not respond. A few days later, Sachin learns from his sister that Jessie has gone to Kerala to visit her grandmother. He, along with Anay, ends up in Kerala to look for her. After several days, he finds her, apologises and she introduces him to her family in Kerala as her "classmate". Jessie denies she has any feelings for him, but agrees to be his friend. On the train journey back home, however, the two get closer and share a passionate kiss. Sachin is convinced Jessie loves him; the two meet several times and Jessie begins to admit that she also likes Sachin, but wants to refrain from any problems because she knows her father wouldn't give her hand in marriage to a Hindu. Consequently, due to various misunderstandings between Jessie's brother and Sachin, her parents learn of their supposed affair. They fix a match and schedule her wedding. The day arrives and midway through the ceremony, Jessie refuses to marry the groom, displeasing everyone in her family. Sachin, who had, without anyone's knowledge, come to Kerala to witness the wedding is ecstatic and secretly visits Jessie at her home. It is then that Jessie admits she has indeed fallen in love with him. Sachin and Jessie continue to love each other without the knowledge of their parents.
Kora Kagaz
Kora Kagaz (1974)

Genres Drama
Actors Vijay Anand, Jaya Bachchan, Seema Biswas, Ramesh Sippy, A. K. Hangal, Achala Sachdev
Rating72% 3.6229653.6229653.6229653.6229653.622965
Professor Sukesh Dutt (Vijay Anand) and Archana Gupta (Jaya Bhaduri) meet each other in a chance encounter while traveling by BEST bus service in Mumbai. Their meeting again results in formal introduction to each other. Both get attracted to each other and get married. Archana's mother does not like Sukesh due to his modest income. She makes up stories about their affluence, which offends Sukesh. This results in acrimony between Archana and Sukesh, and they decide to separate. Archana goes to live with her parents, while Sukesh relocates. Archana's family asks her to forget Sukesh, and remarry, which Archana finds difficult since she still has feelings for Sukesh.
Bewaqoof
Bewaqoof (1960)

Directed by I. S. Johar
Actors Kishore Kumar, Mala Sinha, I. S. Johar, Pran Krishan Sikand, Leela Chitnis, Bipin Gupta
Rating53% 2.6784852.6784852.6784852.6784852.678485
Advocate Rai Bahadur is a respected lawyer, who has no children. He has an affair with a prostitute Meher who then becomes pregnant with his child. His wife also get pregnant at the same time and both his wife and Meher give birth to baby boys in the same hospital and same day. When Rai Bahadur came to know that Meher also gave birth to his son, he went to meet her in hospital but Meher warns him of dire consequences if he will not give his son his due rights. She blackmail him and ask her to change her baby with his wife's baby. Helpless Rai Bahadur ask a nurse to change the babies and offered money. Nurse agreed but later her conscience does not allow her to do the wrongful. She did not change the babies but said Rai Bahadur that she has changed the babies. Now Rai Bahadur thinks that the boy in his house "Kishore" is from prostitute Meher and the boy with Meher is from his wife. He start dislike his son "Kishor" in his Bungalow and star liking the other one "Pran". He somehow throw "Kishore" with his mother out of the bungalow and bring "Pran" mistaking "Pran" as from his wife. Now "Kishore" raised in poor life with both Meher and Mrs Rai Bahadur and "Pran" raised in bungalow. Both become boxers in the same boxing club. Kishore always betters Pran but denied his right every time due to Pran's unfair tricks.

Director

Zamaana Deewana, 3h
Directed by Ramesh Sippy
Genres Drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Shahrukh Khan, Raveena Tandon, Jeetendra, Shatrughan Sinha, Anupam Kher, Prem Chopra
Rating47% 2.357052.357052.357052.357052.35705
Suraj (Shatrughan Sinha) and Lala (Jeetendra) were good friends before falling prey to the vicious tricks of Sundar (Tinnu Anand), so much so that Lala believes his wife is dead and Suraj is to blame for that.
Akayla
Akayla (1991)
, 3h
Directed by Ramesh Sippy
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Actors Amitabh Bachchan, Amrita Singh, Jackie Shroff, Meenakshi Seshadri, Aditya Pancholi, Shashi Kapoor
Rating52% 2.611412.611412.611412.611412.61141
Inspector Vijay Verma (Amitabh Bachchan) is a very lonely cop whose only family is a younger brother Ajay Verma (Aditya Pancholi) who is studying abroad. He also has two good friends Shekhar (Jackie Shroff) and Seema (Meenakshi Seshadri). One day when he arrests the criminal mastermind Tony Briganza (Keith Stevenson), he is shocked when Tony is released from police custody because his corrupt lawyer shows the court a videotape showing him at a completely different place so therefore he couldn't have committed the crime. From this day on they become enemies and Vijay is hot on Tony's trail every time he commits a crime.
Bhrashtachar, 2h33
Directed by Ramesh Sippy
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Actors Mithun Chakraborty, Rekha, Shilpa Shirodkar, Rajinikanth, Anupam Kher, Raza Murad
Rating48% 2.4433052.4433052.4433052.4433052.443305
Le politicien Purshottam et en tête pour gagner les élections, mais Ashutosh Das, un officier de police alcoolique, Bhavani Dutt un activiste et Abdul Sattar un politicien, sont contre le mouvement de Purshottam. Comme ils sont tout les trois au courant des activité illégale de Purshottam, ils décident de se réunir ensemble pour le faire tomber. Mais Purshottam va tout faire pour se débarrasser du très encombrant trio.
Saagar
Saagar (1985)
, 3h7
Directed by Ramesh Sippy
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Kamal Haasan, Rishi Kapoor, Dimple Kapadia, Florence Ezekiel Nadira, Saeed Jaffrey, Satish Kaushik
Rating68% 3.4422053.4422053.4422053.4422053.442205
Mona (Dimple Kapadia) runs a small restaurant in Goa. Raja (Kamal Hassan), who lives close by, is a good friend. He is in love with her but is unable to profess his feelings. Ravi (Rishi Kapoor) is from a rich industrialist family who moves to Goa from the US. Mona and Ravi fall in love of which Raja knows nothing. Ravi's grandmother is opposed to their love because of class differences.
Shakti
Shakti (1982)
, 2h47
Directed by Ramesh Sippy
Actors Dilip Kumar, Amitabh Bachchan, Rakhee Gulzar, Smita Patil, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Amrish Puri
Rating75% 3.7943953.7943953.7943953.7943953.794395
An ex-cop Ashwini Kumar learns that his grandson Anil Kapoor wants to follow his footsteps. Kumar thinks that his grandson is taking this decision in a flow of emotions, without taking into consideration its implications. To warn his grandson about the dangers and pitfalls of the profession, Kumar decides to tell his own story. How the grandson makes his decision that would affect his whole life is the crux of the story.
Shaan
Shaan (1980)
, 3h1
Directed by Ramesh Sippy
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime, Romance
Actors Sunil Dutt, Shashi Kapoor, Amitabh Bachchan, Shatrughan Sinha, Rakhee Gulzar, Parveen Babi
Rating69% 3.496833.496833.496833.496833.49683
DCP (Deputy Commissioner of Police) Shiv Kumar (Sunil Dutt), returns home to his wife Sheetal (Rakhee Gulzar) and their young daughter and announces that he has been transferred to Bombay. He has two brothers, Vijay (Amitabh Bachchan) and Ravi (Shashi Kapoor), who live in Bombay. They are intelligent, capable guys but spend their time loafing about the city and swindling unsuspecting people. A mysterious man (Shatrughan Sinha) tries to assassinate Shiv Kumar twice in the city. Shiv survives both the times.
Sholay
Sholay (1975)
, 3h24
Directed by Ramesh Sippy
Genres Action, Musical, Western
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood, Buddy films
Actors Sanjeev Kumar, Dharmendra, Amitabh Bachchan, Hema Malini, Jaya Bachchan, Amjad Khan
Rating80% 4.047374.047374.047374.047374.04737
In the small village of Ramgarh, the retired policeman Thakur Baldev Singh (Sanjeev Kumar) summons a pair of small-time thieves that he had once arrested. Thakur feels that the duo—Veeru (Dharmendra) and Jai (Amitabh Bachchan)—would be ideal to help him capture Gabbar Singh (Amjad Khan), a dacoit wanted by the authorities for a ₹ 50,000 reward. Thakur tells them to surrender Gabbar to him, alive, for an additional ₹ 20,000 reward.
Seeta and Geeta, 2h46
Directed by Ramesh Sippy
Genres Comedy, Adventure, Romance
Themes Films about families
Actors Hema Malini, Sanjeev Kumar, Dharmendra, Abhi Bhattacharya, Manorama, Roopesh Kumar
Rating68% 3.44543.44543.44543.44543.4454
Seeta and Geeta (Hema Malini in a dual role) are twin girls who were separated at birth. Geeta, a feisty girl is raised in a poor neighborhood and is a street performer, while Seeta is raised by her cruel aunt Chachi and meek uncle. Chachi treats Seeta like a servant, despite the fact that the family is living off her late parents' money. Seeta's only consolation is her old grandmother.
Andaz
Andaz (1971)
, 2h46
Directed by Ramesh Sippy
Actors Rajesh Khanna, Hema Malini, Shammi Kapoor, Simi Garewal, Ajit Khan, Aruna Irani
Rating66% 3.337733.337733.337733.337733.33773
This film tells the story of a widow Sheetal (Hema Malini) who is left devastated after the death of her husband Raj, (Rajesh Khanna). She is left with a son to look after and teaches in a school. One of her students is the daughter of widower Ravi (Shammi Kapoor). The children become instrumental in getting the single parents to meet and fall in love with each other.

Producer

Sonali Cable, 2h
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Ali Fazal, Rhea Chakraborty, Rhea Chakraborty, Anupam Kher, Smita Jaykar, Swanand Kirkire
Roles Producer
Rating53% 2.6550652.6550652.6550652.6550652.655065
Set in the cable internet turf war of Mumbai, Sonali Cable is the story of a ghetto girl and her ‘internet boys’, who take on a greedy conglomerate that’s out to decimate their spirit of enterprise.
Nautanki Saala!
Directed by Rohan Sippy
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Ayushmann Khurrana, Pooja Salvi, Kunaal Roy Kapur, Evelyn Sharma, Abhishek Bachchan, Gaelyn Mendonca
Roles Producer
Rating57% 2.8994452.8994452.8994452.8994452.899445
The story is about the friendship and the bonding between RP and Mandar and how they face problems and solve them.