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Pran (born Pran Krishan Sikand on 12 February 1920) is a multiple Filmfare and BFJA award-winning Indian actor, who is one of the most popular villains of Hindi cinema. He has appeared in over 350 films. Pran played the leading man in films like Pilpili Saheb, Halaku (1956), Dharma(1973), Jangal Mein Mangal (1972), Gaddar and Ek Kunwari Ek Kunwara (1973). His pivotal roles in the films such as Jis Desh Mein Ganga Behti Hai (1960), Half Ticket (1962), Manoj Kumar’s Upkaar (1967) and Purab Aur Paschim, Aurat(1967), Ansoo Ban Gaye Phool, Kab? Kyoon? Aur Kahan?, Johny Mera Naam(1970), Victoria No. 203, Zanjeer (1973), Chori Mera Kaam(1975) , Amar Akbar Anthony (1977), Chor Ke Ghar Chor(1978), Don (1978), Maan Gaye Ustaad(1981) and Duniya(1984) are considered to be among his best performances.
In 2010, he has been named on the list of CNN's "Top 25 Asian actors of all time".
He won the Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award in 1967, 1969, and 1972 and was awarded the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award in 1997. In 2001, he was honoured with the Padma Bhushan by the Government of India, for his contribution to Indian cinema. Contrary to the villainous characters he played in his early films, he is very social, a member of various organizations, and even has his very own football team, 'Bombay Dynamos Football Club'.
Actors: David Hoberman (producer), Ryan Kavanaugh (producer), Dan Marshall (actor), Melissa Leo (actress), Ron Shimshilashvili (actor), Ken Halsband (producer), Amy Adams (actress), Mark Wahlberg (actor), Joseph Basile (actor), Christian Bale (actor), George Foreman (actor), Jack McGee (actor), Michael Buffer (actor), Mark Wahlberg (producer), Tucker Tooley (producer),
Plot: The Fighter is a drama about boxer "Irish" Micky Ward's unlikely road to the world light welterweight title. His Rocky-like rise was shepherded by half-brother Dicky, a boxer-turned-trainer on the verge of being KO'd by drugs and crime.
Keywords: 1990s, actor-playing-himself, adidas-clothing, american-abroad, anger, apartment, applause, arrest, assault-on-police-officer, atlantic-city-new-jerseyActors: Vinod Mehra (actor), Bharat Kapoor (actor), Jayshree Gadkar (actress), Khushboo (actress), Manmauji (actor), Swapna (actress), Minoo Mumtaz (actress), Yunus Parvez (actor), Rajesh Puri (actor), Gulshan Grover (actor), Manohar Naidu (miscellaneous crew), Surendra Sharma (actor), Lilliput (actor), Ram Govind (director), Ram Govind (writer),
Genres: ,Actors: Dev Anand (actor), Mohan Choti (actor), Hiralal (actor), Jeevan (actor), I.S. Johar (actor), I.S. Johar (actor), Raj Kapoor (actor), Rajesh Khanna (actor), Kishore Kumar (actor), Kishore Kumar (actor), Rajendra Kumar (actor), Moolchand (actor), Mukri (actor), Murad (actor), Asit Sen (actor),
Plot: The year is 1942 and Advocate M.L. Gupta lives a wealthy lifestyle along with his wife, Maya, in Churchgate, Bombay. One day he travels to Calcutta, and during an air raid by Japanese fighter aircraft, takes shelter with a prostitute, Panna, who drugs and then seduces him. The next day Gupta returns home and decides to forget about this affair. Shortly thereafter he and Maya become parents of a male child and name him Johar. Four years later Gupta finds out that Maya has adopted a male child, Kishore, and suspects her of having an affair and asks her to leave. Johar keeps asking for his mom, so Gupta has him re-located to America. Twenty years later the Gupta family is fated to meet again. With Kishore being recruited by Gupta to tutor an irresponsible Johar, who instead of becoming an Advocate, has forsaken the worldly possessions, and become a Sadhu. Kishore soon finds out that Johar is pulling wool over his dad's eyes, both become friends and woo two young women, Asha and Lata respectively. The two women live with their respective widower dads, Major Champala Rai and Diwan Jeevanlal. Johar hires a private investigator to try and locate his mom, then elopes with Lata and marries her much to the chagrin of her dad who wants her to marry a man named Pran. Johar does find his mother living with Kishore but before he could inform her that he is her son, she is arrested for killing Jeevanlal, and the eye-witness is none other than Lata.
Genres: ,Actors: Shankarsingh Raghuwanshi (composer), Prem Chopra (actor), Raj Kapoor (actor), Surya Kumar (miscellaneous crew), Achala Sachdev (actress), Mehmood (actor), Raj Mehra (actor), Jaikishan Dayabhai Pankal (composer), Om Prakash (actor), Pran (actor), Jagdish Kanwal (writer), Ameeta (actress), Chandu (miscellaneous crew), Rajshree (actress), Pachhi (director),
Plot: Raj Singh is the nephew and heir apparent of multi-millionaire J.J. Singh. J.J. Singh has to travel worldwide for business purposes, and he asks Raj to join him in Tokyo. An employee, Pran, who has been asked to take care of Raj's travel needs, decides to sabotage this trip in order to embarrass Raj. When Raj lands at Tokyo, he misses his uncle, who has had a change in plans, and is now in Europe. Raj must re-book his flight to go to Europe. Raj finds that he has no money for an air-ticket, or to go anywhere. All he has is $8 American dollars, which will not even be able to buy him a meal in Japan, leave alone travel anywhere.
Genres: Family, Romance,Actors: Jaikishan Dayabhai Pankal (composer), Madan Puri (actor), Sachin Bhowmick (writer), Sachin Bhowmick (writer), Dhumal (actor), Pran (actor), Mehmood (actor), Asit Sen (actor), Mohan Choti (actor), Ulhas (actor), Murad (actor), Shubha Khote (actress), Asha Parekh (actress), Lalita Pawar (actress), Shankarsingh Raghuwanshi (composer),
Plot: Gayetridevi sends her son, Ashok to get her grandson from Japan. Gayetridevi had an elder son, who married a girl of Japanese origin without her blessings. She wants Ashok to get married to Sarita, but Ashok does not show any interest in Sarita. In Japan, Ashok meets with Asha and both fall in love. Asha's uncle wants Asha to marry Pran, but Asha does not like Pran and runs away with Ashok. Pran runs down Ashok with his car, and Ashok is hospitalized and may lose his eye-sight. Gayetridevi will soon find out which of the two girls - Asha - who she does not approve of - or Sarita, will take of her blind son.
Keywords: city-name-in-title, tokyo-japanActors: Madhumati (actress), Abhi Bhattacharya (actor), Agha (actor), Waman B. Bhosle (editor), Manmohan Krishna (actor), Madhumati (actress), Pradeep Kumar (actor), Sujit Kumar (actor), Pran (actor), Badri Prasad (actor), Asit Sen (actor), Johnny Whisky (actor), Laxmi Chhaya (actress), Laxmi Chhaya (actress), Padmadevi (actress),
Plot: Kumar lives a poor lifestyle in a village in India along with his mom, dad, Badri, and a younger brother, Arun. Kumar studies in Bombay, and is in love with wealthy Prabha, whose dad approves of him, and is even willing to loan him money to go abroad for further studies. But before the marriage could take place, Badri passes away, and as a result Kumar returns to the village so that Arun can go to Bombay, study, and make a better life for the entire family, leaving behind a heartbroken Prabha. Years later Kumar and Prabha are fated to meet again. This time Prabha will be a married woman - married to Bombay's Public Prosecutor, Mathur - who is prosecuting Kumar for using a gun to kill a woman named Kalpana!!
Genres: Drama,Actors: Krishna Kumari (actress), Helen (actress), Leela Chitnis (actress), Bipin Gupta (actor), Hiralal (actor), Mukri (actor), Rajan Haksar (actor), I.S. Johar (actor), Pran (actor), Rajan Kapoor (actor), Asit Sen (actor), Kishore Kumar (actor), Ulhas (actor), Vinod Mehra (actor), Mala Sinha (actress),
Plot: In his quest for a heir, Rai Bahadur has an affair with a prostitute Meher. When Meher becomes pregnant he promises to take the child and educate him. But fate has other plans, for his wife Meena also becomes pregnant at the same time, and shortly thereafter both women give birth to two boys. Meher threatens to expose him if he does not take her son, and leave Meena's son in an orphanage. However, both children end up in his palatial home. He belittles Meher's son and finally accuses him of stealing. Fed up of these accusations, Meena leaves the house with Kishore, and ironically ends up with Meher. In the meantime, Rai's son has grown up to be an arrogant, and a champion boxer. And it is in the boxing ring that both half-brothers will meet again -- for a match of their lives -- as the trophy is none other than the beautiful Mala -- who both love and hope to marry.
Keywords: boxing, boxing-ring, court-of-law, courtesan, dancing, disguise, false-accusation, helicopter, hospital, hunterActors: David Abraham (actor), Dev Anand (actor), Bipin Gupta (actor), Anwar Hussain (actor), Anwar Hussain (actor), Mukri (actor), Om Prakash (actor), Pran (actor), Padmini (actress), Ragini (actress), Vyjayanthimala (actress), C. Ramchandra (composer), Randhir (actor), Shivraj (actor), Johnny Walker (actor),
Plot: Aruna lives a wealthy lifestyle with her paternal grandfather. She has come of marriageable age and he wants her to get married to a young man named Pran. But Aruna finds him possessive, controlling, and hot-tempered, and will not have anything to do with him, so she decides to run away. Her grandfather asks Pran to search everywhere for her, and Pran takes a oath that he will not return home until he finds her. He does find her and brings her back home. Shortly thereafter, her grandpa develops complications and passes away, leaving her in the care of Pran and a servant named Harriya. When Pran offers to marry her, she refuses and tells him that she loves another man, Ashok, she met when she ran away, the one who lives in an abandoned bus in the country. When they locate Ashok, he is unable to recognize her, and is in the company of a beautiful street dancer, Roopa, who he hopes to get married to soon. Was her romance with Ashok all a dream for Aruna, or is there some other reason why Ashok is refusing to recognize her?
Keywords: abandoned-bus, remakeActors: Vyjayanthimala (actress), Vyjayanthimala (actress), Ratan Gaurang (actor), Harbans Darshan M. Arora (actor), C.S. Dubey (actor), Tun Tun (actress), Kishore Kumar (actor), Om Prakash (actor), Pran (actor), Randhir (actor), Shivraj (actor), Dara Singh (actor), Tun Tun (actress), Shammi (actress), Rajendra Krishan (writer),
Plot: When Chand, the only child of wealthy widower, Jwalaprasad Raiseazam, insists on seeing his to-be bride, Beena, who meets with him and refuses to marry him. Unable to face her father, Kedarnath, she runs away and ends up coming to the rescue of a woman, Roopa, and moving in with her. She then gets to meet Roopa's brother, Rajan, a petty thief and gambler, and both are slowly drawn to each other and fall in love. She accomplishes herself as a dancer/singer and is able to improve their lives, while Chand gets married to Girja. Then their lives will be changed with the entry of a male named Pran - who has a diary that holds dark secrets from the past, which he will soon misuse for blackmail - changing everyone's lives forever.
Genres: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama,Actors: Jaikishan Dayabhai Pankal (composer), Ratan Gaurang (actor), Raj Kapoor (actor), Ramanand Sagar (writer), Ramanand Sagar (writer), Ramanand Sagar (writer), Prem Nath (actor), Raj Kapoor (director), K.N. Singh (actor), B.M. Vyas (actor), Shankarsingh Raghuwanshi (composer), Cuckoo (actress), Nargis (actress), Nimmi (actress), Raj Kapoor (producer),
Plot: Pran and Gopal are traveling in a convertible in the Indian countryside but the car breaks down. Near Satpur they come across a village and rest there for a few days. While there Gopal meets with Neela, while Pran meets with Reshma, and the couples fall in love with each other. Gopal, who fancies himself a Casanova of sorts, has no qualms whatsoever of leaving Neela and going out with other women, while Pran is unable to get Reshma out of his mind. The two leave, promising to return during the monsoon season. While in the city, Pran is unable to make up his mind about returning to Reshma, and Gopal prefers the company of two dancing girls, Lily and Ruby, not knowing that Reshma is shortly to be married to Bholu, while Neela, on the verge of killing herself, is anxiously awaiting Gopal's return. Watch what happens when Bholu takes Reshma to the city.
Keywords: bollywood, famous-song, local-blockbusterLook through the window and who do I see
Amber friend Amber waiting there for me
Look through the window and who do I see
Abby friend Abby another friend for me
Hello , Hello , Hello and how are you