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Ashok Kumar (13 October 1911 – 10 December 2001), born Kumudlal Ganguly and also fondly called Dadamoni, was an Indian film actor who attained iconic status in Indian cinema. He was honoured in 1988 with the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, the highest national award for cinema artists, by the Government of India and also received the Padma Bhushan in 1999 for his contributions to Indian cinema. He is considered to be one of India's finest ever actors, playing leading, negative and character roles with equal panache.
Ashok Kumar was born Kumudlal Ganguly in Bhagalpur, then in the Bengal Presidency and now lying in Bihar. His father, Kunjlal Ganguly, was a lawyer while his mother, Gouri Devi, was a home-maker. Kumudlal (as he was then known) was the eldest of four children. A couple of years younger to him was his only sister, Sati Devi, who was married at a very young age to Sashadhar Mukherjee and became the matriarch of a large "film family". More than fourteen years younger than Kumudlal was his next brother, Kalyan (b.1926), who later took the screen name Anoop Kumar, and youngest of all was Abhas (b.1929), whose screen name was Kishore Kumar and who became a phenomenally successful playback singer of Hindi films. Although the eldest of the three brothers by several years, Ashok Kumar outlived his siblings. In fact, he stopped celebrating his birthday after his youngest brother, Kishore, died on that very day (Ashok's birthday) in 1987.
Actors: Atul Kulkarni (actor), Ajith Kumar (actor), Yuvan Shankar Raja (composer), Murli Sharma (actor), Mahesh Manjrekar (actor), Jayesh Pradhan (miscellaneous crew), Nayanthara (actress), A.M. Rathnam (producer), Suman Ranganathan (actress), Aarya (actor), Lee Whittaker (actor), Kishore (actor), A.N. Balakrishnan (writer), Rana Daggubati (actor), Tapsee Pannu (actress),
Plot: The story is set in Mumbai. AK alias Ashok (Ajith) a former bomb disposal specialist and a Dirty Harry type who shoots-the-scums of earth is on a revenge romp. Along with his lady love Maya (Nayanthara), he forcibly ropes in a computer hacker Arjun (Arya) and his lover Anita (Taapsee) into his nefarious plans. How they take revenge on the Home Minister (Mahesh Manjrekar) and his acolytes ( Atul Kulkarni) forms the rest of the story.
Keywords: chennai, conspiracy, government, india, scam, tamilActors: Ajay (actor), Suhasini (actress), Sadhu Kokila (composer), Mithun D'Souza (miscellaneous crew), Sarath Kumar (actor), Suman Ranganathan (actress), Nithya Menon (actress), Jai Jagadish (actor), Tabla Nani (actor), Arun Sagar (actor), Jassie Gift (composer), Nagashekar (director), Malavika Avinash (actress), Chethan Kumar (actor), Joni Harsha (editor),
Genres: Romance,Actors: Ron Kalish (editor), Nardeep Khurmi (actor), Suraj Das (editor), Suraj Das (producer), Suraj Das (writer), Suraj Das (director), Hunter Drago (actress), Elizabeth Masucci (actress), Julie Bersani (actress), Lee Brooks (composer), Tashfin Ikram (actor), Christine Evangelista (actress), Sai Rao (actress), Ananda Milsa (actress), Rakesh Dhingra (actor),
Plot: Ashok's very traditional Indian parents are pressuring him into an arranged marriage - with a girl he's never seen or met before. Shortly before he's supposed to meet his bride-to-be, he runs into Maya, a fun, free-spirited, and head-strong girl. They spend the day together and really hit it off - but Ashok fails to get her number at the end of the night. And so Ashok embarks on an obsessive search to find Maya, his last shot at escaping the dreaded arranged marriage. Will Ashok find Maya before it's too late? Or will he have no choice but to succumb to his parents' designs?
Keywords: arranged-marriage, bollywood-comedy, dance, new-york-cityActors: Bhavana (actress), Manoj K. Jayan (actor), Mohanlal (actor), Shobana (actress), Jagathi Sreekumar (actor), Suman (actor), Nedumudi Venu (actor), S.N. Swamy (writer), Sampath Raj (actor), Jyothirmayi (actress), Antony Perumbavoor (producer), Vinayakan (actor), Vivek Harshan (editor), Vanitha (actress), Sherveer Vakil (actor),
Genres: Action,Actors: Geetha (actress), Khushboo (actress), Vijayakumar (actor), P. Vasu (actor), Suneel (actor), Tanikella Bharani (actor), Vadivelu (actor), Santhanam (actor), Jagapathi Babu (actor), Nizhalgal Ravi (actor), M.S. Narayana (actor), Brahmanandam (actor), Prabhu (actor), Rajnikanth (actor), Meena (actress),
Plot: Kuselan revolves around the tale of a beautiful friendship between a popular actor and a poor barber.
Keywords: barber, childhood-friend, film-actor, film-star, friendship, remake, reunited-friends, rivalActors: Ganesh Kumar (actor), Augustine (actor), Raghu (actor), Innocent (actor), Johny (actor), Bobby Kottarakkara (actor), Cochin Hanifa (actor), Kunchan (actor), T.P. Madhavan (actor), Kalabhavan Mani (actor), Mohanlal (actor), Pappu (actor), Manian Pillai Raju (actor), Narendra Prasad (actor), Sadiq (actor),
Plot: A mafia henchman (Mohanlal) moves to a village and takes over a small temple complex inhabited by a young girl (Manju Warrier) and her surrogate father. Starting off as a mercurial grouch, he soon turns into a benevolent patriarch, protecting citizens from an evil landlord (Narendra Prasad).
Keywords: festival, landlord, love, number-in-title, palace, priest, rain, renovation, revenge, riverActors: Nanabhai Bhatt (director), Rajan Haksar (actor), Jankidas (actor), Ragini (actress), Rajan Haksar (producer), H.G. Wells (writer), Chitra Gupta (composer), Agha (actor), Ashok Kumar (actor), Murad (actor), Sajjan (actor), Ulhas (actor), Kumar (actor), Sailesh Kumar (actor), Padma Chavan (actress),
Plot: In love with Nemo, Bombay-based Ashok Kumar goes to meet his Nairobi-based prospective father-in-law, Jamnadas (Murad). Upon entry into the hotel room, he finds his dead body, and fearing an arrest, flees, makes himself invisible, and with the help of his wealthy friend, Murli (Agha), re-locates to Rangoon, Burma. Once there, he hopes to unravel the killer(s) identity - as well as meet with his girlfriend's sister, Ragini. Little does he know that soon he will not only be taken into custody by a Private Detective, Ramesh (Sailesh Kumar) and Inspector Kundan, but also be blamed for Nemo's sudden death.
Keywords: based-on-novel, foreign-language-adaptationActors: Nanabhai Bhatt (director), Rajan Haksar (actor), Jankidas (actor), Ashok Kumar (actor), Ashok Kumar (actor), Johnny Walker (actor), Helen (actress), Nalini Jaywant (actress), Ragini (actress), Chitra Gupta (composer), Agha (actor), Murad (actor), Pran (actor), Sajjan (actor), Ulhas (actor),
Plot: A wealthy businessman, Jamunadas, is killed by person(s) unknown. The police take up this investigation and are clearly baffled as the killer has left no clues for them to go on. Before they could any further action, Jamunadas' daughter, Nemo, is found dead in her bath-tub. The police suspect that this could be the work of the dreaded Mr. X, and want to question him. Their investigations take them to Rangoon where they are involved in a web of deceit and lies at the hands of one Ashok Kumar. Then they get a clue from a drunk, who claims he saw a woman floating and then being taken away in a driver-less convertible. The police do not know whether to believe this drunk or not. What they do not know is that the killer is in possession of a portion that turns him invisible, and this is not the first time that he has eluded the police through wild-goose chases. It looks like the police, who had nothing to go on in the first place, now are faced with a namely and unseen suspect, who may just be anyone known or unknown to them.
Genres: ,Actors: David Abraham (actor), Babu (actor), Ashok Kumar (actor), Kishore Kumar (actor), Om Prakash (actor), Shivraj (actor), Daisy Irani (actress), Nimmi (actress), Nirupa Roy (actress), Shyama (actress), Rajendra Krishan (writer), C.V. Sridhar (writer), Madan Mohan (composer), A.V. Meiyappan (producer), M.V. Raman (director),
Plot: Widowed Dayashankar is a businessman who lives in Madras with his two school-going sons, Raj and Ashok. One day he catches Raj stealing some money from his vault, he beats him, locks him in a room, and threatens to cut off his fingers. A terrified Raj breaks the window and runs away, never to be heard of again. Ashok goes on to take over his dad's business, Superior Motors, which also has a branch in Bombay; gets married to Laxmi, and soon has son named Munna. One day Ashok must travel to Bombay to meet with Bulbul, the Branch Manager, to discuss business. Laxmi and Munna see him off. Then several days later, Ashok returns home and he is not the same loving husband and father anymore. He decides to sell the business, has nothing to do with Munna and Laxmi, and asks them to take some money, while he returns to Bombay. Laxmi and Munna follow him to Bombay, but are unable to locate him. They are befriended by a petty thief and pickpocket by the name of Raja, who lives with a young street dancer named Rani and her dad, Baba. When Baba finds out that Laxmi may be related to Raja and that Munna may be their child, he asks them to leave the house. Raja then takes them to Ashok, and to Laxmi's shock she finds her once-loving husband living with another woman, much younger and prettier, by the name of Sangita. Watch what happens when Sangita asks Laxmi to be the maidservant, and Ashok refuses to recognize his wife and child.
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