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Manohar Singh is a Actor Indian born on 1938 at Shimla (Inde)
Manohar Singh (1938 – 14 November 2002) was a distinguished Indian theatre actor-director and a character actor in Hindi films. He is best known for his performances in films such as Party (1984) and Daddy (1989). Starting his acting career from theatre, he went on to become a theatre director and later the chief of National School of Drama Repertory Company, 1976 to 1988, before switching to cinema. As a theatre actor his most know performances were in Tughlaq directed by Ebrahim Alkazi, Himmat Mai and Begum Barve by Nissar and Amal Allana.
He was awarded the 1982 Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for Acting (Hindi theatre) by Sangeet Natak Akademi. In 2003, a photo exhibition on his work in theatre was organized at the Art Heritage gallery, Delhi chronicling his journey in theatre starting from his first play The Caucasian Chalk Circle (1968) as a student at the National School of Drama to plays like, Tughlaq, King Lear, Kaho Katha Khajuraho Ki, Himmat Mai (Mother Courage) and The Threepenny Opera.
He provides the voice-over in the annual Shriram Bharatiya Kala Kendra production "Ram". The audience can hear the commentary in his voice, providing structure and continuity to the narrative.
He is best known for his spectacular performance in and as Tughlaq directed by his mentor Ebrahim Alkazi, the founder of NSD. After quitting NSD in the late 80s, he got active on the Delhi theater scene, doing some memorable plays like Pagla Raja (King Lear), Himmat Mai (Brecht's Mother Courage), Begum Barve and Nagamandalam (Girish Karnad) with well-known theater personalities, Amal and Nissar Allana.
He had a long film and television career that started with the controversial film based on emergency, Kissa Kursi Ka, that also starred Shabana Azmi. He did Govind Nihalani's Party, Mrinal Sen's Ek Din Achanak, Yeh Woh Manzil To Nahin, Rudaali, Daddy and went to play many powerful roles in over 27 films, including some mainstream films like Chandni and Lamhe with Yash Chopra. His last film was Everybody Says I'm Fine! in 2001.
He appeared in many successful serials on television including Neena Gupta's Dard and Pal Chhin.
He died of lung cancer on 14 November 2002, in New Delhi.
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Nationality Inde
Birth 1938 at Shimla (Inde)
Death 14 november 2002 (at 64 years) at New Delhi (Inde)
Awards Sangeet Natak Akademi Award
Birth 1938 at Shimla (Inde)
Death 14 november 2002 (at 64 years) at New Delhi (Inde)
Awards Sangeet Natak Akademi Award
He was awarded the 1982 Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for Acting (Hindi theatre) by Sangeet Natak Akademi. In 2003, a photo exhibition on his work in theatre was organized at the Art Heritage gallery, Delhi chronicling his journey in theatre starting from his first play The Caucasian Chalk Circle (1968) as a student at the National School of Drama to plays like, Tughlaq, King Lear, Kaho Katha Khajuraho Ki, Himmat Mai (Mother Courage) and The Threepenny Opera.
He provides the voice-over in the annual Shriram Bharatiya Kala Kendra production "Ram". The audience can hear the commentary in his voice, providing structure and continuity to the narrative.
Biography
Born in 1938 in a small village called Kwara near Shimla in Himachal Pradesh, Manohar Singh got his first job in the state govt-run Drama Division. He graduated from National School of Drama (NSD) in 1971, and soon after started directing plays with NSD Repertory Company, starting with Qatl Ki Hawas in 1971. Later in 1976 he became the second chief of the NSD Repertory Company and remained so until 1988. He was awarded the 1982 Sangeet Natak Akademi Award by Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's National Academy of Music, dance and Drama.He is best known for his spectacular performance in and as Tughlaq directed by his mentor Ebrahim Alkazi, the founder of NSD. After quitting NSD in the late 80s, he got active on the Delhi theater scene, doing some memorable plays like Pagla Raja (King Lear), Himmat Mai (Brecht's Mother Courage), Begum Barve and Nagamandalam (Girish Karnad) with well-known theater personalities, Amal and Nissar Allana.
He had a long film and television career that started with the controversial film based on emergency, Kissa Kursi Ka, that also starred Shabana Azmi. He did Govind Nihalani's Party, Mrinal Sen's Ek Din Achanak, Yeh Woh Manzil To Nahin, Rudaali, Daddy and went to play many powerful roles in over 27 films, including some mainstream films like Chandni and Lamhe with Yash Chopra. His last film was Everybody Says I'm Fine! in 2001.
He appeared in many successful serials on television including Neena Gupta's Dard and Pal Chhin.
He died of lung cancer on 14 November 2002, in New Delhi.
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Everybody Says I'm Fine! (2001)
, 1h43Directed by Rahul Bose
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Actors Koel Purie, Rahul Bose, Pooja Bhatt, Boman Irani, Anahita Uberoi, Suchitra Pillai
Rating59%
The film revolves around a small group of elite Mumbaikars whose lives converge at a hairdresser's salon. The protagonist Xen (Rehaan Engineer) owns the salon and has a unique gift of connecting with the minds of his clients and reading their thoughts while at work. Most of his customers maintain a facade of normality in order to gain semblance and hide their tumultuous lives to some extent.
Dil Kya Kare (1999)
, 2h39Directed by Prakash Jha
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Ajay Devgn, Mahima Chaudhry, Kajol, Chandrachur Singh, Farida Jalal, Laxmikant Berde
Rating51%
Anand Kishore (Ajay Devgan), an architect, his wife, Kavita (Mahima Chaudhry), and their only child, an adopted daughter, Neha (Akshita Garud), live a happy and serene life in Delhi, India. Their happy and lovely life together is turned upside down when Kavita finds out that Neha is being stalked by a woman named Nandita (Kajol), who comes to see her at school every day. Though Neha insists that Nandita is a sweet "Aunty", Kavita is frantic and confronts Nandita. She is then told that Nandita is the biological mother of Neha.
Genres Action, Romance
Actors Sunny Deol, Jackie Shroff, Manisha Koirala, Deepti Naval, Sushil Parashar, Anupam Kher
Roles Sardar Saab
Rating49%
In order to settle personal scores; two gang leaders, Jai Singh and Oberoi fight for many years in gang-wars. There enmity multiplies when Jai's younger brother, Suraj falls in love with Oberoi's sister, Sapna which forces Suraj and Sapna to elope. Jai then locates the duo and brings them back to try and convince Oberoi to get them marry albeit successful. Jai then decides to give up his criminal ways but Oberoi's consent to the couple's marriage comes to light when Jai is gun down by Oberoi's men which injures and makes him a patient in hospital. Suraj then raise to this occasion to put an end to the entire Oberoi's family and thus the blood shed continues.
Tarpan (1995)
, 2h20Genres Drama
Actors Om Puri, Revathi, Dina Pathak, Manohar Singh, Mita Vashisht, Anang Desai
Roles Chaudhary Veer Singh
Rating72%
1942: A Love Story (1994)
, 2h37Directed by Vidhu Vinod Chopra
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Musical theatre, Action, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Anil Kapoor, Jackie Shroff, Manisha Koirala, Anupam Kher, Pramod Moutho, Danny Denzongpa
Roles Diwan Hari Singh
Rating71%
The film is set in 1942, when the British Raj was declining. It was a time when many Indians were either working for the British or rallying in underground meetings and protests against them. In this atmosphere, Naren Singh (Anil Kapoor) falls in love with Rajeshwari "Rajjo" Pathak (Manisha Koirala). Their romance is shown developing in spite of the political and social unrest at the time.
Gunaah (1993)
Directed by Mahesh Bhatt
Genres Thriller, Action
Actors Sunny Deol, Dimple Kapadia, Sumeet Saigal, Raza Murad, Anang Desai, Akash Chandra Khurana
Rating48%
Rudaali (1993)
, 2h8Genres Drama
Actors Dimple Kapadia, Rakhee Gulzar, Amjad Khan, Raj Babbar, Sushmita Mukherjee, Raghubir Yadav
Rating73%
The film is set in a small village in Rajasthan, India. It tells the story of a woman named Shanichari, who was abandoned by her mother shortly after her father's death. Bad fortune follows as she marries an alcoholic, who leaves her with little hope of a brighter future for herself and her mentally challenged son.
Tirangaa (1993)
, 2h48Directed by Mehul Kumar Original Name Mohammed Baloch
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Raaj Kumar, Nana Patekar, Mamta Kulkarni, Suresh Oberoi, Varsha Usgaonkar, Alok Nath
Roles Central Minister Jeevanlal Tandel
Rating67%
The film starts with the kidnapping of three nuclear scientists by Pralayanath Gendaswamy (Deepak Shirke) as he plans to build nuclear missiles for an invasion on India. Meanwhile Deputy Inspector General of Police Rudrapratap Chouhan (Suresh Oberoi) an honest police officer is murdered by Pralayanath Gendaswamy since he has been on his hitlist. Rudrapatap's son Harish (Harish Kumar) is the only witness of his murder. When scientists are gone missing police calls Brigadier Suryadev Singh (Raj Kumar) to take matter into his hands. Suryadev allies with hot-headed police Inspector Shivajirao Wagle (Nana Patekar) who spends a lot of time being suspended due to his temper. When Central Minister Jeevanlal Tandel who is an ally of Pralayanath Gendaswamy sets up a meeting with him to inform him about Suryadev Singh, Pralayanath Gendaswamy questions why is there information about his glory and not a single photograph of his face. At that moment Suryadev Singh enters the auditorium and reveals that he is the one whose face Pralayanath Gendaswamy was so eager to see.
Divya Shakti (1993)
, 3hGenres Drama, Action
Actors Ajay Devgn, Raveena Tandon, Satyen Kappu, Shafi Ali Inamdar, Alok Nath, Aanjjan Srivastav
Roles Priya's Father
Rating44%
An idealistic journalist (Devgan) gets weary & tired of witnessing the reign of crime, police corruption & injustice in his city & decides to wage a one man war against the psychotic king maker 'Tau' played by the legendary Amrish Puri. His journey costs him his limbs & loved ones as he goes on a vigilante style brute fest right into the lair & dark world of the two faced Tau & his cronies. Death & Destruction follow the war path.
Diksha (1991)
, 2hGenres Drama
Actors Manohar Singh, Nana Patekar, K. K. Raina
Roles Udup Pandit
Rating74%
Placed in the early 1930s, Diksha is the story of a guru and his widowed daughter, the head disciple and the novice; the lowly-born 'Koga' who dreams of learning the intricacy of scriptures.
Lamhe (1991)
, 3h7Directed by Yash Chopra
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Anil Kapoor, Sridevi, Waheeda Rehman, Anupam Kher, Manohar Singh, Ila Arun
Roles Kothiwale Thakur
Rating71%
Virendra "Viren" Pratap Singh (Anil Kapoor) travels to Rajasthan with his governess, affectionately called Dai Jaa (Waheeda Rehman). He meets the beautiful Pallavi (Sridevi) and falls in love with her. However, she is older than he is, though this does not bother Viren. During a property dispute and a court case, Pallavi's father dies of a heart attack. She is shattered and goes into isolation. At the wake, Viren goes to console her, when she runs past him—towards Siddhharth, the man she loves. Viren is heartbroken but, to fulfill Pallavi's father's dying wish, he arranges the wedding between Siddhharth and Pallavi. Allowing Pallavi to live her life happily, Viren leaves for London.
Patthar Ke Phool (1991)
, 2h35Directed by Anant Balani
Genres Action, Romance
Actors Salman Khan, Raveena Tandon, Kiran Kumar, Vinod Mehra, Reema Lagoo, Vivek Vaswani
Roles Balraj Khanna
Rating55%
Kiran is the only child of a gangster father. She was brought up in such a way that she does not know of her father's unlawful habits. Kiran runs into one of the Police Inspector's son Suraj, they both fall in love. When Kiran's father finds out that his child is in love with an honest police officer's son, who has been assigned to find him, he is shocked, but decides to give up all his unlawful activities for his daughter's future. However, his own goons not liking this, kill the honest police officer and frame Kiran's father. Now Suraj joins the police department and gets things done in his manner.
Sadak (1991)
Directed by Mahesh Bhatt
Genres Thriller, Action, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Sanjay Dutt, Pooja Bhatt, Deepak Tijori, Sadashiv Amarapurkar, Neelima Azeem, Avtar Gill
Rating63%
The film was made famous by the excellent portrayal of the eunuch, Maharani (Sadashiv Amrapurkar), an evil madam running a brothel that employs many girls like Pooja (Pooja Bhatt) and Chanda (Neelima Azeem). Ravi (Sanjay Dutt), a taxi driver, meets Pooja before she is bought by Maharani, and his friend Gotya (Deepak Tijori) is in love with Chanda. Ravi witnessed his sister Roopa (Soni Razdan) plunge to her death after being diagnosed with a sexually transmitted disease. She had eloped with her lover who sold her off at a brothel and forced her to become a prostitute. This violent incident has left Ravi traumatised and scarred for life, as he has become an insomniac who keeps having disturbing visions of his sister's death and is restless and violent on occasions.On one of his taxi plying days, he meets Inspector Irani (Pankaj Dheer), who Ravi recognises from an article that was published about the cop when he had won a medal. Ravi drops him off to his destination, refuses to take any money from him and the cop tells him to come to him if he ever needs help of any kind.
Kasba (1991)
, 2h1Directed by Kumar Shahani
Origin Inde
Genres Drama
Actors K. K. Raina, Manohar Singh, Shatrughan Sinha, Mita Vashisht, Raghubir Yadav
Rating69%
The story centers around a small town entrepreneur named Maniram who makes a major profit by cheating people and selling them tainted food. His business is run by his daughter-in-law Tejo, who is married to Maniram's mentally challenged younger son. When Maniram's elder son comes back into town to get married, things start to go awry. He runs away from his wife after their marriage night and ends up being arrested in Delhi. The police, with further investigation, start to crack down on Maniram's corrupt business all the while Tejo starts to become mad with power and greed.
Lekin... (1990)
, 2h51Directed by Gulzar
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Vinod Khanna, Dimple Kapadia, Hema Malini, Amjad Khan, Alok Nath, Beena Banerjee
Rating78%
The movie takes place in the Indian desert state of Rajasthan, which gives it something in common with Rudaali, another off-beat drama set in Rajasthan that was released around the same time and also featured Dimple Kapadia and Amjad Khan.