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V. Manohar is a music director, lyricist, film director and actor in Kannada movies. He has scored music to several Kannada films. He is the recipient of several awards including the Karnataka State Award. He has written lyrics to more than 1000 songs in Kannada cinema.
Manohar is a native of Vitla village in Dakshina Kannada district of Karnataka state in India. He started his career as a cartoonist working for some leading newspapers and magazines. During the beginning of his career, he was very closely associated with the now popular Kannada cinema directors Kashinath and Upendra. His first film as a music director was the Jaggesh starrer Tharle Nan Maga (1992) directed by Upendra.
Manohar has composed music for over 100 Kannada movies such as O Mallige, Indra Danush, Janumada Jodi, Tharle Nan Maga, Swasthick, Duniya, Ee Sambhaashane, Banda nan Ganda, Janumada Gelathi, and Mathadana. He has also composed music and title songs for popular television serials Danda Pindagalu, Prema Pishachigalu, Daridra Lakshmiyaru directed by Pani Ramchandra and Pa pa Pandu, Silli Lalli and other comedy serials by Sihi Kahi Chandru.
Karan Thapar is one of India's television commentators and interviewers. He is the youngest child of General P. N. Thapar(who became General because of being near to Nehru's dynasty) and Mrs. Bimla Thapar.
An alumnus of The Doon School and the Stowe School, he graduated with a degree in Economics and Political Philosophy from Pembroke College, Cambridge in 1977. In the same year, he was also President of the Cambridge Union. He subsequently obtained a doctorate in International Relations from St Antony's College, Oxford.
He began his career in journalism with The Times in Lagos, Nigeria and later worked as their Leader Writer on the Indian subcontinent till 1981. In 1982 he joined London Weekend Television where he worked for the next 11 years. He then moved to India where he worked with The Hindustan Times Television Group, Home TV and United Television before setting up his own production house in August 2001, Infotainment Television, which makes programmes for amongst others BBC, Doordarshan and Channel News Asia.
Actors: B. Lenin (editor), M.S. Bhaskar (actor), Mahadevan (actor), L. Srinath (actor), Jagan (actor), Ajmal Ameer (actor), Ajmal Ameer (actor), Archana (actress), Aparna Bajpai (actress), Aparna Bajpai (actress), Deevandarshini (actress), Chetan (actor), Kannan (composer), Tha Prabhu Raja Cholan (director), Tha Prabhu Raja Cholan (writer),
Genres: ,Actors: Yuvan Shankar Raja (composer), B. Lenin (editor), Illavarasu (actor), Sampath Raj (actor), Venkat Prabhu (director), Venkat Prabhu (writer), Aravind Akash (actor), Premgi Amaren (actor), Jai (actor), Shiva (actor), Nitin Sathya (actor), S.P.B. Charan (producer), Vijay Vasanth (actor), Prabhakar (actor), Vijayalakshmi Agathiyan (actress),
Genres: Comedy, Romance, Sport,Actors: Priyadarshan (writer), Priyadarshan (director), Ilayaraja (composer), Karthik (actor), Mohanlal (actor), Nasser (actor), Bhanupriya (actress), Janagaraj (actor), Ramaswamy V.K (actor), N. Gopalakrishnan (editor), Suchitra (actress), Junior Balaiya (actor),
Genres: ,Actors: Reema Lagoo (actress), Alok Nath (actor), Ajit Vachani (actor), Mukhtar Ahmed (editor), Laxmikant Berde (actor), Harish Patel (actor), Huma Khan (actress), Mohnish Bahl (actor), Salman Khan (actor), Deep Dhillon (actor), Master Bhagwan (actor), Vijay Patil (composer), Jay Borade (miscellaneous crew), Rajeev Verma (actor), Tarachand Barjatya (producer),
Plot: Kishen Kumar Chaudhary and Karan are family like friends, when Kishen's wife Mrs. Kaushalya gives birth to a baby boy Prem, Karan helps the couple bring up there child with out- most care. Years later the two friends have parted ways, Karan likes in a shanty house, works as a mechanic and is the father to a young girl Suman while Kishen is a wealthy industrialist and lives in a spacious bungalow. In order to accumulate huge sums of fund abroad for good living Karan decides to leave Suman in the care of the Chaudhary's family. All is well there for Suman as she is befriend by Prem which eventually blossom to love, Kaushalya finds out about Prem and Suman's relationship and approve of Suman as her daughter-in-law but Kishen is quite unhappy with the relationship as he have plans to get Prem marry to his business partner's daughter Seema thus he insults Suman and throw her out of his house. Karan returns and is enraged at the treatment his daughter receive and leaves the house immediately with his daughter. Prem too is unhappy with his dad's decision and he also leaves the house opting to marry Suman with the blessings of Karan. But Karan refuses to accept Prem and the only way Prem can win Karan's approval is if he prove that he can earn money by his own sweat.
Genres: Family, Musical, Romance,Actors: Satyajeet (actor), I.S. Johar (actor), Dev Anand (actor), A.K. Hangal (actor), Vikas Anand (actor), Iftekhar (actor), S.N. Banerjee (actor), Manmohan Krishna (actor), Praveen Kumar (actor), Roopesh Kumar (actor), Hercules (actor), Pran (actor), Madan Puri (actor), Jagdish Raj (actor), Sudhir (actor),
Plot: Jailor Manmohan Krishan is responsible for looking after convicts undergoing sentences of rigorous imprisonment. He has a young, beautiful and captive daughter named Shalini. Shalini is a poet, one day while reciting her poetry, she meets with a young man, who introduces himself as Amar, who also happens to be a poet himself. The two of them spend beautiful moments together and finds themselves attracted to each other. Shalini wants to find out why Amar is in jail. She is told in no uncertain terms that Amar is in jail for murder - for killing the brother of his former lover, Sapna. She also found out that this is not true and would strive to the best of her merit to get Amar release from jail because she is in love with him and would like to marry him.
Genres: Drama, Family, Thriller,Actors: Neetu Singh (actress), Ravi (composer), Hari Shivdasani (actor), Seema Deo (actress), Helen (actress), Manorama (actress), Praveen Paul (actress), Brahmachari (actor), Ramesh Deo (actor), Nazir Kashmiri (actor), Sanjay Khan (actor), Moolchand (actor), Om Prakash (actor), Pran (actor), Babita Kapoor (actress),
Plot: Grey-haired, comically parsimonious widower Gokulchand lives a middle-class lifestyle in Agra, India, runs a shop selling essential food items, along with his sons, Manohar and Kishore. While Manohar is employed and married to Devki, and has two children, Roopa and Munna, Kishore is studying Engineering. Gokulchand would like to get rich and enjoy life to it's fullest, in order to this he invests in a lottery - which he does not win - but ends up inheriting his brother, Nihalchand's estate and wealth - over 10 Lakh Rupees. The family move into a palatial mansion, Manohar quits his job, and Gokulchand closes down his shop. Shortly thereafter Gokulchand announces that he wants to go to Kashmir for a holiday. Kishore is in love with Rita and would like to get married to her. The family know that Gokulchand will never approve of this as Rita comes from a poor family and lives with her widowed aunt, so they decide to get them engaged in Gokulchand's absence. Devki borrows an expensive diamond necklace from her friend, Savitri, and, in turn, lends it to Rita. For a very long time, the family do not hear from Gokulchand, and when he returns home - they get a shock - for he has dyed his hair black, and has an Caucasian girlfriend, Dolly Little, along with her to-be son-in-law, Jerry; a son, William and daughter, Kitty. Chaos and acrimony reign when Gokulchand makes it clear that he is going to get married to Dolly, as well as the subsequent theft of twenty five Thousand Rupees, which Gokulchand suspects was both stolen by Kishore. Things get even more complicated when the family are asked to leave, and while re-locating to a shanty hut, they find the necklace missing. The questions remain what will be the outcome of Gokulchand's marriage; that of his estranged family; and how they will repay the cost of the missing necklace?
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical,Actors: Jaikishan Dayabhai Pankal (composer), C.S. Dubey (actor), Agha (actor), Shyam Kumar (actor), Nitin Bose (director), Shankarsingh Raghuwanshi (composer), Balraj Sahni (actor), Vyjayanthimala (actress), Vijay (actor), Robert (actor), Amiya Chakrabarty (director), Chandrakant (writer), Jawahar Kaul (actor), Sheila Kashmiri (actress), Kamala Kumari (actress),
Plot: Pushpa comes from a poor family, and is a good dancer and singer. She would like to assist a puppeteer with his makeshift dolls and puppet act. Unfortunately, he meets with an accident, and is hospitalized. Some of his puppets were also damaged during this accident. Pushpa approaches Loknath for work, and he gets her to work on stage, and would like her to become a movie star. Will Pushpa give up her simple life, and take on the glamorous route?
Genres: Drama, Family,Actors: Meena Kumari (actress), Shammi Kapoor (actor), Madan Mohan (composer), Kishore Kumar (actor), Ramanand Sagar (writer), Mehmood (actor), Kumkum (actress), Pratima Devi (actress), Om Prakash (actor), Randhir (actor), Shivraj (actor), J.S. Casshyap (writer), Radheshyam (actor), Gani (actor), R.C. Talwar (writer),
Plot: Bombay-based Meena lives a wealthy lifestyle along with her Chacha and Chachi in a mansion. When asked to marry, she places an advertisement in the local newspaper, and after interviewing many males, chooses Manohar to be her future husband. She shares this news as well as introduces him to her family - who disapprove and remind her that her late father had selected a groom named Sunder even before she was born. She scoffs at this and announces that she will marry Manohar soon. Then Sunder, who was living at an ashram for Brahmacharis, shows up at her home - complete with beard and traditional clothing - and is all set to get married to her. When facing rejection, he decides to change his lifestyle and be like Manohar - and does so - albeit with hilarious results. He is pleased when he notices a change in her and takes her home to introduce her to his mother - little knowing that the change is only superficial - and she an hidden agenda that she wants to accomplish deceptively.
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance,Actors: Kongara Jaggaiah (actor), S.V. Ranga Rao (actor), Ramana Reddy (actor), Jamuna (actress), Hemalatha (actress), B.N. Reddi (director), B.N. Reddi (writer), Padmaraju Palagummi (writer), Rama Rao Adepalli (composer), Padmaraju Palagummi (writer),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Ajit (actor), Manmohan Krishna (actor), I.S. Johar (writer), Tun Tun (actress), Yashodra Katju (actress), Ramlal (actor), Kathana (actress), Shyamlal (actor), Meena Shorey (actress), Mahendra (actor), Shakuntala (actress), Amir Banu (actress), Majnu (actor), Shyam Sunder (composer), Roop K. Shorey (director),
Plot: Manohar(Ajit) and Mona(Meena) are college and childhood friends. After passing out of college, Manohar tries his best to find a job but is turned down everywhere. After a long search, he does get a job in a college as a music teacher. But on one condition - that he is a married man.
Genres: Romance,