Sagar is a name for males from Nepali and Indian origin. It means "sea" in Sanskrit also mentioned in Bhagavad Gita (Hindu Holy Book) and other prayers of Hindu religion. Sagar may also refer to:

• Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, a city in Madhya Pradesh state of central India
  • Sagar District, an administrative unit headquartered in the city
  • Sagar Division, an administrative unit headquartered in the city
• Sagar Island, also known as Ganga Sagar, pilgrimage centre in West Bengal about 150 km south of Kolkata
• Sagar, Karnataka
• Sagar (caste)
• Sagar (film)
• Sagara, India, also known as Saggere, a town in Shimoga District of Karnataka, India
• Sagara, the name of a king who features in Hindu legend; see Ganges for a reference
• Sagar (Anglo-Saxon name)
• Sagar, an ancient alien world in the Filmation animated series, BlackStar

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Sagar Alias Jacky Reloaded
Directed by	Amal Neerad
Produced by	Antony Perumbavoor
Written by	S. N. Swamy
Starring	Mohanlal Shobana Bhavana Suman Sampath Raj Rahul Dev
Music by	Gopi Sundar
Cinematography	Amal Neerad
Editing by	Vivek Harshan
Distributed by	Maxlab Entertainments
Release date(s)	26 March 2009 (2009-03-26) (India) 15 April 2009 (International)
Country	‹See Tfd› India
Language	Malayalam
Budget	9 crores
Box office	2 crores

Sagar Alias Jacky Reloaded (Malayalam: സാഗര്‍ എലിയാസ് ജാക്കി റീലോഡഡ്) is a Malayalam action film directed by Amal Neerad who also did the cinematography. Mohanlal reprises the role of the eponymous Sagar alias Jacky from the 1987 blockbuster Irupatham Noottandu. The script was writtern by S. N. Swamy and the film was produced by Aashirvad Cinemas.^[1] Bhavana and Shobana play the female leads while Jyothirmayi plays a cameo role. The film was dubbed into Hindi.

Plot[link]

Sagar 'alias Jacky'(Mohanlal) is a gangster who is known for solving problems among big gangs. The Chief Minister's(Nedumudi Venu) son-in-law, Manu(Manoj K Jayan) is kidnapped and the police are unable to find a clue. Manu's wife Indu(Shobhana) realises that the police have been influenced by her brother Hari(Ganesh) who seems to know the kidnappers. Indu decides to call her best friend Sagar to help find her husband. Sagar calls his best henchmen from all over Kerala for the job. The gang then travels to Goa where Sagar's contact tells him that the kidnappers are the Rosario brothers(Sampath Raj,Sherveer Vakil) who run the most powerful gang in the Goa underworld. After considerable difficulties, Sagar and his gang locate the night club where Manu is held hostage and helps him to escape. This audacity does not sit well with the Rosarios who swear vengeance against Sagar. They kidnap one of Sagar's favourite gangsters and demand ransom. Sagar responds by kidnapping two of the three Rosario brothers and demands that his man be released at once. Realising that they would never be able to defeat Sagar in a heads-on battle, the Rosario brothers make a deal with Manu and Hari to deliver Sagar's current location. The Rosarios then try to assassinate Sagar but fail. Frustrated with repeated defeats, the Rosarios then approach Sagar's rival, Nanthakrishna Naina(Suman). Naina supplies them with a sniper, Sheikh Imran(Rahul Dev), who is also an internationally infamous assassin. Imran is asked to assassinate Manu so that the Sagar can be framed for the murder. But the Rosarios' plan backfires as Indu gives witness that Sagar was not responsible for her husband's murder. Imran is then asked to assassinate Sagar. He manages to kill Sagar's bodyguard but Sagar himself escapes. Sagar then hunts him down and kills him. The Rosarios then kidnap Sagar's love interest Arati(Bhavana), a BBC reporter. Sagar is asked to come to a place to work out a deal. When he reaches there, he finds Arati dead. Enraged, Sagar goes to the Rosarios' club and goes on a killing spree. Then he goes to Dubai where Naina is hiding on a yacht. With the help of some gangsters he plants explosives on the yacht and blows it up. The film ends when Sagar informs Indu that her husband has been avenged.

Cast[link]

• Mohanlal as Sagar alias Jacky
• Manoj K. Jayan as Manu
• Shobana as Indu, Manu's wife
• Bhavana as Arati Menon
• Jagathy Sreekumar as Ashok Kumar
• Nedumudi Venu as the Chief Minister of Kerala
• Suman as Nanthakrishna Naina
• Sampath Raj as Rosario
• Shereveer Vakil as David Rosario
• Ganesh as Hari
• Rahul Dev as Sheikh Imran
• Jyothirmayi (Special appearance in an Item number)
• Bala as the Superintendent of Police (Special appearance)
• Vinayakan in the song Sagar alias Jacky Reloaded
• Pranav Mohanlal (Special appearance)

Reception[link]

The film was one of the most expected and much-hyped films in the Malayalam industry. The film opened in 132 centres across Kerala and had an opening to the tune of 1.67 million on the first day. However,the film received average/negative reviews. The film which was made at a cost of 30 million, was declared as a an average grosser at the box-office however manages to gain high TRP's whenever telecast on television.

Award[link]

• Kerala State Film Award for Best Choreography - Dinesh Kumar

Soundtrack[link]

The film's soundtrack features 6 songs composed by Gopi Sundar, with lyrics by Gopi Sundar, Jofy Tharakan, Santhosh Varma and Riya Joy.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• Sagar Alias Jacky Reloaded at the Internet Movie Database

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Ramanand Sagar (29 December 1917 – 12 December 2005) (born Chandramauli Chopra)^[1] was an Indian film director. He is most famous for making the extremely popular Ramayan television series, a 78-part TV adaptation of the ancient Hindu epic of the same name, starring Arun Govil as Lord Ram and Deepika Chikhalia as Sita.^[2]

Early life[link]

Ramanand Sagar was born at Asal Guru Ke near Lahore. His great-grandfather, Lala Shankar Das Chopra, migrated from Peshawar to Kashmir. Ramanand was adopted by his childless maternal grandmother and, although his original name was "Chandramauli," it was changed to "Ramanand" by his adoptive family.^[3] Sagar worked as a peon, truck cleaner, soap vendor, goldsmith apprentice etc. during the day and studied for his degree at night.

He was a gold medalist in Sanskrit and Persian from the University of Punjab in 1942. He was also editor of newspaper Daily Milap. He wrote many short stories, novels, poems, plays, etc. under names like "Ramanand Chopra", "Ramanand Bedi" and "Ramanand Kashmiri".^[3] In 1942 when he caught tuberculosis he wrote a subjective column “Diary of a T.B. patient” about his fight. The column was published in series in the magazine Adab-e-Mashriq in Lahore.^[3]

Career[link]

In 1932, Sagar started his film career as a clapper boy in a silent film, Raiders of the Rail Road.^[4] He then shifted to Bombay in 1949 after India's partition.

In 1940's, Ramanand Sagar started out as an assistant stage manager in Prithvi Theatres of Prithviraj Kapoor. Also, directed a few plays under the fatherly guidance of Kapoor. ^[5]

Along with other films that Sagar himself directed, he wrote the story and screenplay for Raj Kapoor's superhit Barsaat. He founded the film and television production company known as Sagar Films (Pvt. Ltd.) a.k.a. Sagar Arts in 1950. He produced and directed many successful films. He won the 1960 Filmfare Best Dialogue Award for Paigham which was directed by S. S. Vasan and starred Dilip Kumar, Vyjayanthimala and Raaj Kumar in lead roles. In 1968 he won the Filmfare Best Director Award for Ankhen. Ankhen was a spy-thriller starring Dharmendra and Mala Sinha. It was declared a "block buster" and was amongst the Top 10 Hindi films of 1960s.^[6]

In 1985 Sagar turned towards television. His Sagar Arts began producing serials based on Hindu mythology. His most popular Ramayan aired its first episode on January 25, 1987. The series became instantly popular amongst the Indian masses^[7] and won numerous national and international awards and felicitations.^[8] His next mythological tele-serials Krishna and Luv Kush also received good responses. Apart from mythology, he made fantasy dramas like Vikram Aur Betaal and Alif Laila.

Based on his experiences of Indo-Pak partition, Sagar published a Hindi-Urdu book Aur Insaan Mar Gaya (English: And Humanity Died) in 1948.^[9]

The government honored Sagar with the Padma Shri in 2000.

Awards[link]

Won[link]

• 1960 - Filmfare Best Dialogue Award for Paigham
• 1969 - Filmfare Best Director Award for Aankhen

Nominated[link]

• 1966 - Filmfare Award for Best Story for Arzoo
• 1966 - Filmfare Award for Best Director for Arzoo
• 1969 - Filmfare Award for Best Story for Aankhen

Filmography[link]

References[link]

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Preeti Sagar is a former Bollywood playback singer who won the Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer for the folk song Mhare gaon.. in Manthan in 1978 and was previously nominated for the hit song "My Heart is Beating" from Julie (1975).^[1]

Career[link]

Preeti is an accomplished singer with basic classical knowledge in music and singing. She shot to instant fame with her English song My Heart is Beating keeps on repeating in Rajesh Roshan's Julie. She won a special Filmfare award for the same.

In spite of all the accolades and the awards somehow she didn't really manage to sustain her position in bollywood. Comparison with Geeta Dutt and Asha Bhosle somehow stunted her growth as a singer and she couldn't carve a niche for herself in the industry.

She decided instead to focus on the children's entertainment and education industry. She worked with Sa Re Ga Ma to create several children's nursery rhyme collections in Hindi and English. She also created a Fairy Tales series.

She now runs her own production company called Angela Films which does advertising, short films and feature-film dubbing. In the 1990s, Angela Films produced the hit children's TV show, Phulwari Bachcho Ki. She was part of jury of the 52nd National Film Awards.^[2]

In 2010, she sang for the UIDAI ID project's official theme song, Yeh Hai Meri Pehchaan.^[3]

Personal life[link]

Preeti Sagar lives in Mumbai with her husband and two daughters. She is daughter of film actor, Moti Sagar, cousin of actor Motilal, singer Mukesh, and who acted in films like, Apna Ghar, Burma Road, Chhoti Chhoti Batein in 1950s and 60s. Preeti has two other sisters including, youngest Namita Sagar who anchored Children TV series Phulwari Bacchon Ki (1992–1999), produced by her father.^[4][5]

Popular Tracks[link]

• Julie (1975) - My heart is beating
• Nishant (1975) - Piya Baaj Pyaala Piya Jaye Na
• Manthan (1976) - Mhare Gaon
• Bhoomika (1977) - Tumhare bin jee naa lage
• Kalyug (1981) - What's your problem
• Mandi (1983) - Shamsher Bhare Na Maang Ghazab

References[link]

1. ^ "Awards". IMBD. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0755995/awards. 
2. ^ "Juries for the selection of films for National Awards set up". Ministry of Information & Broadcasting. 29 June 2005. http://pib.nic.in/newsite/erelease.aspx?relid=9928. 
3. ^ To give every Indian a number, Team Nilekani has own number Indian Express, Sep 13 2010.
4. ^ Moti Sagar at the Internet Movie Database
5. ^ "Mumbai Notes: Thespian Moti Sagar dead". March 15, 1999. http://www.indianexpress.com/res/web/pIe/ie/daily/19990315/ige15081.html. 

External links[link]

• Preeti Sagar at the Internet Movie Database
• Preeti Sagar at last.fm

Vanraj Bhatia is an Indian music composer, who is best known for providing music for most of Shyam Benegal's films, and for his private albums with Music Today.

During the 1970s and 1980s he worked with many art film makers in India. In the 1990s he composed the music of Vijay Singh's international film Jaya Ganga. He won the National Film Award for Best Music Direction for Tamas in 1988, and was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1989.^[1] Padmashree for 2012 has been conferred upon him in field of Art - Music.

Biography[link]

Early life and education[link]

Born in 1927 in Bombay, Vanraj Bhatia trained in Western classical music while studying at the Elphinstone College in Mumbai for M.A. (English Honours); after graduating in 1949 he left for the Royal Academy of Music, London, to study music composition, which he passed with a Royal Academy Gold Medal in 1954.

Thereafter he entered the Paris Conservatory where he studied with Nadia Boulanger and Howard Ferguson between 1954 and 1959. During his studies abroad he received various scholarships, including the Sir Michael Costa Scholarship (1951-4), a Rockefeller Fellowship (1954-8), and a French Government Scholarship (1957-8).^[2]

Career[link]

In 1960, he started his career as Reader in Musicology in charge of Western Music, at the Faculty of Music Delhi University, where he stayed until 1965.

Meanwhile, in 1959, he created his first advertising jingle for Shakti Silk Sarees. From that point on he became one of the pioneering ad jingle makers in India, and also one of the most successful, later moving to Mumbai and working for the advertising industry. In all he has created over 7000 scores for advertising jingles, corporate and business films.

His first film as a music composer was Ankur (1974), and he soon became a regular composer for Shyam Benegal and other art film makers of the time. His most noted works in this period are Manthan (1976), Bhumika(1977), Junoon (1978), 36 Chowringhee Lane (1981), Trikal (1985) and Mandi (1983) and Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro (1983).

He has also created music for Indian theatre productions such as “Tughlak” and “Andha Yug” ^[3]

In the following decade, his work was heard constantly ^[4] on Indian television with the title scores for TV series like Khandaan, Yatra, Lifeline, Discovery Of India, Wagle Ki Duniya, and the made-for-TV film Tamas (1987), for which he received the National Film Award for Best Music Direction in 1988.

In the 1990s, he worked in many commercial Hindi films as well as providing background scores for many other films, working on over 40 films during his career. His most noted works were for Shyam Benegal's film Sardari Begum in 1996 and for Vijay Singh's international film Jaya Ganga.

In 2012, the first act of his opera Agni Varsha was premiered in Queens, New York.

Non-film albums[link]

• Sangit Raat (Night Music)
• The Elements - EARTH (1999)
• Indian Meditation Music (1999)
• Anant - The Endless (2001)
• The Bhagavad Gita (2002)
• The Spirit of Upanishads (2007)

Awards & recognition[link]

• Bengal Film Journalists Association Award for Music: Bhumika (1976), Manthan (1977)
• Sur Singar Samsad Awards: Best Classical Score /Song: 1986, 1987
• National Film Award for Best Music Direction: Tamas: 1988
• Sangeet Natak Akademi Award: 1989 ^[2]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Vanraj Bhatia at the Internet Movie Database
• Private albums of Vanraj Bhatia
• Vanraj Bhatia filmography at NY Times