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Ram Gopal Bajaj is a Actor and Scriptwriter Indian born on 1 july 1940 at Darbhanga (Inde)
Ram Gopal Bajaj is a noted Indian theatre director, academician, and a Hindi film actor. He has also been a faculty member and a former director of National School of Drama, New Delhi (1995 – September 2001).
He was awarded the Padma Shri in 2003 and Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1996 for his contribution to theatre.
Over the years he directed numerous plays with the National School of Drama, NSD Repertory Company, starting with Surya Ki Antim Kiran Se, Surya Ki Pehli Kiran Tak in 1974, Jai Shankar Prasad’s Skand Gupta in 1977, followed by Quaid-E-Hayaat in 1989. His other noted production was Ashadh Ka Ek Din by Mohan Rakesh in 1992. He also remained the Chief of the National School of Drama, Repertory Company from 1988 to 1994.He also Translated Girish Karnad's Rakt Kalyan (Taledanda) in Hindi, first directed by Ebrahim Alkazi for National School of Drama rep., then by Arvind Gaur (1995) for Asmita Theater.
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Nationality Inde
Birth 1 july 1940 (83 years) at Darbhanga (Inde)
Awards Padma Shri, Sangeet Natak Akademi Award
Birth 1 july 1940 (83 years) at Darbhanga (Inde)
Awards Padma Shri, Sangeet Natak Akademi Award
Ram Gopal Bajaj is a noted Indian theatre director, academician, and a Hindi film actor. He has also been a faculty member and a former director of National School of Drama, New Delhi (1995 – September 2001).
He was awarded the Padma Shri in 2003 and Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1996 for his contribution to theatre.
Biography
Ram Gopal Bajaj was born on 5 March 1940 in Bajitpur Darbhanga. A very small child, he was adopted by the very big Marwari business family Bajaj of Nirmali Supaul in North Bihar and spent childhood there. He has three sons named Shanti Prakash Bajaj, Riju Bajaj (an Actor/Director) and Aseem Bajaj (a Cinematographer). Later he moved to Delhi, and graduated from National School of Drama (NSD) in 1965. After that remained in the faculty of National School of Drama for many years and later became its Director (November 1995 – September 2001). During his tenure as the head of NSD he has been credited to have started two theatre festival, Bharat Rang Mahotsava (National Theatre Festival) and Jashn-e-Bachpan (National Children Theatre Festival).Over the years he directed numerous plays with the National School of Drama, NSD Repertory Company, starting with Surya Ki Antim Kiran Se, Surya Ki Pehli Kiran Tak in 1974, Jai Shankar Prasad’s Skand Gupta in 1977, followed by Quaid-E-Hayaat in 1989. His other noted production was Ashadh Ka Ek Din by Mohan Rakesh in 1992. He also remained the Chief of the National School of Drama, Repertory Company from 1988 to 1994.He also Translated Girish Karnad's Rakt Kalyan (Taledanda) in Hindi, first directed by Ebrahim Alkazi for National School of Drama rep., then by Arvind Gaur (1995) for Asmita Theater.
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Login (2012)
Directed by Sanjeev Reddy
Themes Films about sexuality
Actors Rashmi Gautam, Nandini Rai, Ram Gopal Bajaj, Uttej
Rating57%
Login is a Hindi feature film about three different individuals and how the Internet and social networking sites changed their lives. True to its caption – "Connected online but disconnected in life", the film portrays how everyone is glued to Internet and hence getting away from their true selves. Jai is a young office going guy who seeks a girl friend through on line dating sites. Vandana is a housewife who spends her free time chatting on social networking sites. Debu is a guy working in a call centre who uses the Net to make money. How the usage of the Internet had affected the lives of these three characters forms the crux of the story.
The Myth (2005)
, 1h58Directed by Stanley Tong
Origin Hong kong
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Martial arts
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films
Actors Jackie Chan, Tony Leung Ka-fai, Kim Hee-sun김희선, Mallika Sherawat, Ken Lo, Patrick Tam
Roles Senior Monk
Rating61%
During the Qin dynasty, the general Meng Yi is tasked with escorting Ok-Soo, a Korean princess, back to China to marry the Qin emperor. Along the journey, a Korean warrior attempts to seize her back but Meng Yi saves her. Ok-soo falls in love with Meng Yi and displays her affections for him openly, but Meng honourably rejects her and successfully completes his mission. The Qin emperor becomes critically ill later and he sends Meng Yi to find the elixir of immortality, the only thing that can save his life. The guards escorting the elixir are ambushed by rebels on the orders of the treacherous prince and chancellor. Meng Yi hands over the elixir to his deputy, Nangong Yan, before dying in the ensuing battle. Although Nangong Yan manages to bring the elixir to the emperor, the prince and chancellor wanted Nangong Yan and Ok-soo to test the validity of the elixir and force them to consume the elixir, condemning them to imprisonment in the Qin emperor's mausoleum for eternity.
Parzania (2005)
, 2h2Directed by Rahul Dholakia
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Films about religion
Actors Naseeruddin Shah, Sarika, Corin Nemec, Rajendranath Zutshi, Parzaan Dastur, Asif Basra
Rating74%
Allan (Corin Nemec), an American, arrives in Ahmedabad searching for answers, to find internal peace and to understand the world and his troubled life. He chooses India as his school and Gandhi as his subject of his thesis. It is here that he meets the Pithawala family — Cyrus (Naseeruddin Shah), his wife Shernaz (Sarika), son Parzan (Parzan Dastur) and daughter Dilshad (Pearl Barsiwala). The Pithawalas being Parsis follow Zoroastrianism. Through them and the teachings of an Gandhian, Allan starts to find peace of mind.
A Tale of a Naughty Girl (2003)
, 1h30Directed by Buddhadev Dasgupta
Origin Inde
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films
Actors Rituparna Sengupta, Samata Das, Tapas Paul, Ram Gopal Bajaj, Pradip Mukherjee, June Malia
Rating64%
Based on a short story by Bengali writer Prafulla Roy, the central idea developed by director Dasgupta, tells the story of a girl, Lati (Samata Das), whose mother Rajani (Rituparna Sengupta) is a prostitute living and working in a brothel in rural India. Rajani plans to offer her daughter to an older man, a rich husband and protector to her daughter. Lati, however, wants to return to school and finish her studies. Unwilling to pay such a price for material success, she runs away to Calcutta. The discovery of this new world is described parallel to other stories of emancipation, such as that of three young prostitutes, of an aged couple going nowhere and man's landing on the moon. In a surrealistic approach typical of the director, a clumsy cat and an intelligent donkey are also present in the film.
Nishad (2002)
, 1h58Directed by Shaji N. Karun
Genres Drama
Actors Rajit Kapur, Archana, Ram Gopal Bajaj, Talluri Rameshwari
Rating58%
Sati Gujaral is a music teacher in a school for Tibetan children run by the Tibetan government-in-exile and her husband Gopi Gujaral is a doctor in a government hospital. Their only son, Ashok is a pilot with the Indian Air Force. The atmosphere is tense with the possibility of a war between India and Pakistan. Ashok calls home unerringly every week bringing joy and some comfort to the anxious mother. One day she gets a mistaken call from a young boy trying desperately to reach his mother. The anxiety is compounded when her own son's call doesn't arrive at the appointed hour. The next call reveals that the child has died.
Fire (1997)
, 1h48Directed by Deepa Mehta
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about families, Feminist films, Films about music and musicians, Politique, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, LGBT-related films, Musical films, Political films, Bollywood, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Nandita Das, Shabana Azmi, Javed Jaffrey, Vinay Pathak, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Ram Gopal Bajaj
Roles Swamiji
Rating71%
The film opens with young Radha sitting in a mustard field with her parents. Her mother tells her a story of a person who wanted to see the ocean; then she explains that sometimes one must learn to see some things (through her mind's eye) without looking.
Chandni (1989)
, 3h7Directed by Yash Chopra
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Sridevi, Rishi Kapoor, Vinod Khanna, Waheeda Rehman, Sushma Seth, Anupam Kher
Roles Shiv Prasad Mathur
Rating66%
Rohit (Rishi Kapoor) meets Chandni (Sridevi) at a wedding of her relative and falls instantly in love with her. He pursues her relentlessly until she agrees to date him. Eventually they become engaged to be married. His family is very much against this because of the difference in their social status, but Rohit doesn't care. One day, Rohit calls Chandni and asks her to wait for him on the terrace of her house. As she's waiting, the afternoon's silence is broken by the roaring blades of a helicopter. Rohit appears and proceeds to shower Chandni in red rose petals from the copter. When he disappears, she is surrounded again by silence, but she has a feeling something has happened.
Main Azaad Hoon (1989)
Directed by Tinnu Anand
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists
Actors Amitabh Bachchan, Shabana Azmi, Anupam Kher, Manohar Singh, Ajit Vachani, K. K. Raina
Roles Rambhau Kaka
Rating72%
The movie begins with a female journalist named Subhashini (Shabana Azmi) working for a daily newspaper and mostly in controversy due to her bold and open mouthed articles against corrupt politicians.
Mirch Masala (1987)
, 2h8Directed by Ketan Mehta
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Naseeruddin Shah, Smita Patil, Om Puri, Suresh Oberoi, Raj Babbar, Deepti Naval
Roles Factory owner
Rating76%
The film is set in Colonial India in the early 1940s. The plot begins with an arrogant subedar (Naseeruddin Shah) (local tax collector in colonial India) and his henchmen rampaging through a village. The subedar has an eye for women and soon spots Sonbai (Smita Patil) on the riverbank. Sonbai is an intelligent, beautiful and strong woman. Her confidence intrigues the subedar.
New Delhi Times (1986)
, 2h3Directed by Romesh Sharma
Genres Drama
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists, Political films
Actors Shashi Kapoor, Sharmila Tagore, Om Puri, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, A. K. Hangal, Manohar Singh
Roles The Minister
Rating77%
The film tells the story of an honest journalist Vikas Pande (Shashi Kapoor) from Ghazipur in eastern Uttar Pradesh who moves to Delhi to run a newspaper, and soon uncovers a political assassination, and in the process, falls prey to a corrupt system and the nexus between politicians and media barons.
Masoom (1983)
, 2h45Directed by Shekhar Kapur
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Musical theatre
Themes Films about families, Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood, Children's films
Actors Naseeruddin Shah, Shabana Azmi, Jugal Hansraj, Urmila Matondkar, Supriya Pathak, Tanuja
Rating83%
Indu (Shabana Azmi) and DK (Naseeruddin Shah) have a happy marriage and two daughters — Rinky and Minni — and live in Delhi. The tranquility of their life is interrupted when DK receives word that he has a son, the result of an affair with Bhavana (Supriya Pathak) during his visit to Nainital when his wife Indu was about to give birth to their first child Rinky. Bhavana did not tell DK about their son as she did not want to disturb DK's matrimonial life. Now that she has died, her guardian Masterji sends word to DK informing him that his son, Rahul (Jugal Hansraj), who is eight years old, needs a home. Despite the objections of Indu, who is devastated to learn of her husband's infidelity, DK brings the boy to stay with them in Delhi. Rahul is never told that DK is his father as he bonds with DK and his daughters. But Indu can't bear to look at him, a tangible reminder of DK's betrayal.
Hip Hip Hurray (1983)
Directed by Prakash Jha
Genres Drama
Themes Sports films
Actors Raj Kiran., Deepti Naval, Shafi Ali Inamdar, Ram Gopal Bajaj
Roles School Principal
Rating74%
A computer engineer, Sandeep Chowdhary (Raj Kiran) waiting to start his first job, takes up a temporary job as sports instructor in a school at Ranchi, where he encounters an apathetic school principal (Ram Gopal Bajaj) and develops a relationship with history teacher Anuradha Roy (Deepti Naval). Eventually he leads the football team to victory.
, 1h10Directed by Girish Karnad
Themes Films based on plays, Children's films
Actors Ram Gopal Bajaj
The story is set in rural Karnataka background and shows a bunch of children playing enacting adult life through a game, innocently depicting social dogmas of the prevailing era, such as child marriage, dowry and superstitions.
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Jaya Ganga (1998)
, 1h34Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Anupam Shyam Saikia, Jean-Claude Carrière
Rating69%
The story is about Nishant, a young Indian writer from Paris who undertakes a journey along the river Ganges, right from its source in the Himalayas. He is constantly haunted by the fantasy of a woman called Jaya from Paris.