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'Bhogleekay' was the word, whatever it means...quite funny play, its called Zahoor Ka Hotal' by Pervaiz Alam, at watermans.
Kabeer introduces Sajjad: Sajjad Dakini. Rehney waaley hein Shikarpur ke. Magar kyunki Shikarpur ke chootiye mash-hoor hein, issliye khud ko 'Wali Dakini' ki tarz par Sajjad Dakini kehtey hein. Sher sunaatey waqt pehla misra badey zor-o- shor se utthaatey hei. Lekin, doosra misra aisey giraatey hein jaisey sheeghra patan ho gaya ho.
as Kabeer speaks for Zafar: Zafar biscuit waaley. Aatey ko apni hawas ka shikaar banaaney ke liye mash-hoor hein. Din bhar thakney ke baad, jab bijli chali jaaye, aur neend na aaye, to phir ye maindey ki bori khol kar, biscuits ke liye aata goondhney khadey ho jaatey hein. Paseeney mein sharaabor, sirf underwear pehan kar, geeley aatey mein laatein maartey hein. Aatey ki chhati ko aisey rondhtey hein jaisey, voh aata na ho, Madaar Gate mein aayei koi nai tawaif ho. Agar aap inhein mainda goondhtey dekhl lein to zindagi bhar ke liye biscuit khana tark kar dein.
and at the end Amin Sayani: Bhaiyyo aur behno aaj pehli paaydaan par aaney se pehley Zahoor Bhai ke naam do shabd. (ZKH is shell shocked. Zahoor is stunned.) Jee haan, Aligarh shehr mein Zahoor Bhai ke hotal par jitney dost aaj Binaca Geetmala sun rahey hein un sub ko Ameen Sayani ka salaam. Zahoor bhai mujhey ilm hei ke aap aur aapkey saathi bahut chaav se humara ye programme suntey hein. Yaqeen maaniye dono taraf hei aag barabar lagi hui. Harr programme se pehley merey zehn mein Zahoor bhai aap jaisey mohabbat karney waaley shrotaaon ka chehra aata hei aur istarah yeh aapka hardil aziz programme tarteeb hota chala jaata hei. Kabeer mian, bahut bahut shukriya Zahoor bhai se ta'aaruf karaaney ke liye. Aaj pehli paaydaan ka gaana Zahoor ke Hotel ke naam!
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That is where the elderly couple found the support they needed. Fortunately for them, the women’s organization SAATHI, had located their multi-purpose women’s centre, supported by UN Women and in coordination with the Government of Nepal, on the same premises of the district health post, where the Dangals landed. The multi-purpose women’s centres function in five locations, and provide trauma counselling, information, legal and medical referrals. Centre staff asked the district health post to allow the couple to stay on the premises until they could return home.
Photo: UN Women/N. Shrestha
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Meena Kumari or Mahjabeen Bano (1 August 1932 - 31 March 1972), was an Indian movie actress and poetess. She is regarded as one of the most prominent actresses to have appeared on the screens of Hindi Cinema. During a career spanning 30 years from her childhood to her death, she starred in more than ninety films, many of which have achieved classic and cult status today.
Kumari gained a reputation for playing grief-stricken and tragic roles, and her performances have been praised and reminisced throughout the years. Like one of her best-known roles, Chhoti Bahu, in Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam (1962), Kumari became addicted to alcohol. Her life and prosperous career were marred by heavy drinking, troubled relationships, an ensuing deteriorating health, and her death from liver cirrhosis in 1972.
Kumari is often cited by media and literary sources as "The Tragedy Queen", both for her frequent portrayal of sorrowful and dramatic roles in her films and her real-life story.[1
Childhood
Mahjabeen Bano was the third daughter of Ali Baksh and Iqbal Begum; Khursheed and Madhu were her two elder sisters. At the time of her birth, her parents were unable to pay the fees of Dr. Gadre, who had delivered her, so her father left her at a Muslim orphanage, however, he picked her up after a few hours.
Her father, a Shia Muslim, was a veteran of Parsi theater, played harmonium, taught music, and wrote Urdu poetry. He played small roles in films like Id Ka Chand and composed music for films like Shahi Lutere.
Her mother, Prabhwati Devi, was the second wife of Ali Baksh. Before meeting and then marrying Ali Baksh, she was a stage actress and dancer, under the stage name, Kamini. After marriage, she converted from Hinduism to Islam, and changed her name to Iqbal Begum.
(It is said that Prabhwati Devi's mother, Hem Sundari, had been married into the Tagore family, but she was disowned by that family after being widowed.)
[edit] Career
[edit] Early work
When Mahjabeen was born, Ali Bakhsh aspired to get roles as an actor in Rooptara Studios. At the urging of his wife, he got Mahjabeen too into movies despite her protestations of wanting to go to school. Young Mahjabeen is said to have said, "I do not want to work in movies; I want to go to school, and learn like other children."
As Mahjabeen embarked on her acting career at the age of 7, she was renamed Baby Meena. Farzand-e-Watan or Leatherface (1939) was her first movie, which was directed for Prakash Studios by Vijay Bhatt. She became practically the sole breadwinner of her family during the 1940s. Her early adult acting, under the name Meena Kumari, was mainly in mythological movies like Veer Ghatotkach (1949), Shri Ganesh Mahima (1950), and fantasy movies like Alladin and The Wonderful Lamp (1952).
Meena Kumari gained fame with her role as a heroine in Vijay Bhatt's Baiju Bawra (1952). This heroine always negated herself for the material and spiritual advancement of the man she loved and was even willing to annihilate herself to provide him the experience of pain so that his music would be enriched. She became the first actress to win the Filmfare Best Actress Award in 1953 for this performance.
Meena Kumari highly successfully played the roles of a suffering woman in Parineeta (1953), Daera (1953), Ek Hi Raasta (1956), Sharda (1957), and Dil Apna Aur Preet Parayi (1960). Though she cultivated the image of a tragedienne, she also performed commendably in a few light-hearted movies like Azaad (1955), Miss Mary (1957), Shararat (1959), and Kohinoor (1960).
One of her best-known roles was in Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam (1962), which was produced by Guru Dutt. Kumari played Chhoti Bahu, an alcoholic wife. The film was a major critical and commercial success, which was attributed by critics to Kumari's performance, which is regarded as one of the best performances of Hindi Cinema.[3] The role was famous for its uncanny similarity to Meena Kumari's own life. At that time, she herself was on a road to gradual ruin in her own personal life. Like her character, she began to drink heavily, though she carried on. In 1962, she made history by getting all the three nominations for Filmfare Best Actress Award, for her roles in Aarti, Main Chup Rahungi, and Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam. She won the award for Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam. Upperstall.com wrote about her performance,
While each of the performances are spot on, if there is one person who is the heart and soul of the film, it is Meena Kumari. Her portrayal of Chhoti Bahu is perhaps the greatest performance ever seen on the Indian Screen. The sequence where Chhoti Bahu dresses for her husband singing Piya Aiso Jiya Main is a poignant exploration of a woman's expectations and sexual desire. And later on when she has become a desperate alcoholic, you cannot help but cry with her in the sequence where she pleads with her husband to stay with her and then angrily turns on him to tell him how she has prostituted her basic values and morals to please him. However the common factors between the actress's life and Chhoti Bahu are too dramatic to be merely coincidental - The estranged marital relationship, the taking of alcohol, turning towards younger male company, the craving to be understood and loved - all elements evident in Meena Kumari's own life.[4]
[edit] Later work
For four more years, Kumari performed successfully in Dil Ek Mandir (1963), Kaajal (1965), and Phool Aur Patthar (1966), all of which earned her Filmfare nominations, with Kaajal garnering her a fourth and last win of the Best Actress award. However, after divorcing her husband in 1964, her addiction to alcohol became stronger, and she often dulled her senses with liquor. She also relied more and more on intimate relationships with younger men like Dharmendra. Her subsequent releases, including Chandan Ka Palna and Majhli Didi did not do well.[1]
Kumari's heavy drinking had badly damaged her liver, and in 1968 she fell seriously ill.[1][5] She was taken to London and Switzerland for treatment. Back home, she started settling her debts and made peace with her estranged sister, Madhu, whom she had not spoken to for two years.[5] Because of her heavy drinking, she increasingly lost her good looks, and when she returned, she began playing character roles in movies like Jawab (1970) and Dushmun (1972).[1]
She developed an attachment to writer-lyricist Gulzar and acted in his directorial debut Mere Apne (1971). Kumari presented an acclaimed portrayal of an elderly woman who got caught between two street gangs of frustrated, unemployed youth and got killed, her death making the youth realise the futility of violence.
Pakeezah, starring Kumari and directed by her ex-husband Kamal Amrohi, took 14 years to reach the silver screen. First planned by Amrohi in 1958, the film went on the studio floors in 1964, but the shooting came to a standstill after their separation in March 1964, when it was more than halfway complete.[5] In 1969, Sunil Dutt and Nargis previewed some reels of the shelved film and convinced the estranged Amrohi and Kumari to complete it.[1] Hindustan Times described the meeting which Dutt had organised between the two:
“ Not much was said, but streams of tears were shed... Amrohi greeted her with a token payment of a gold guinea and the promise that he’d make her look as beautiful as the day she had started the film.[5] ”
Gravelly ill, Kumari was determined to complete the film and, well aware of the limited time left for her to live, went out of her way to complete it at the earliest. Despite her rapidly deteriorating health, she gave the finishing touches to her performance. Initially, after its release in February 1972, Pakeezah opened to a lukewarm response from the public; however, after Meena Kumari's death less than two months later, people flocked to see it, making it a major box-office success. The film has since gained a cult and classic status, and Kumari's performance as a golden-hearted Lucknow prostitute drew major praise. She posthumously received her twelfth and last Filmfare nomination.
Throughout her life, Kumari had a love-hate relationship with movies, and besides being a top-notch actress, she was a talented poetess, and recorded a disc of her Urdu poems, I write, I recite with music by Khayyam.
[edit] Death
Three weeks after the release of Pakeezah, Meena Kumari became seriously ill, and died on 31 March 1972 of cirrhosis of the liver. At her death, she was in more or less the same financial circumstance as her parents at the time of her birth: It is said that when she died in a nursing home, there was no money to pay her hospital bills.
[edit] Relationship with Kamal Amrohi
In 1952, on the sets of one of her films, Meena Kumari fell in love with and married film director, Kamal Amrohi, who was fifteen years elder than her and was already married. She wrote about Amrohi:
Dil saa jab saathi paya
Bechaini bhi woh saath le aaya
When I found someone like my heart
He also brought sorrow with him
Soon after marriage, Kamal Amrohi and Meena Kumari produced a film called Daera (1953), which was based on their love story. They also planned another film, Pakeezah. However, it took sixteen years (1956 to 1972) before Pakeezah reached the silver screen. (The scenes in Pakeezah's popular song, Inhi logon ne, were originally filmed in black and white, and were later reshot in color.)
It is said that Amrohi did not want children with Meena Kumari because she was not a Syed. They raised Kamal Amrohi's son, Tajdaar, who was greatly attached to his chhoti ammi (younger mother).
Due to their strong personalities, however, Meena Kumari and Kamal Amrohi started to develop conflicts, both professionally and in their married life. Their conflicts led to separation in 1960, and ultimately divorce in 1964. Highly affected Meena Kumari, who, once a happy woman, became depressed and found solace in heavy drinking.They remarried, but Meena Kumari had become an alcoholic by then.
She expressed her sorrows prominently in her poetry. About Kamal Amrohi she wrote:
Tum kya karoge sunkar mujhse meri kahani
Belutf zindagi ke kisse hain pheeke pheeke
Why do you want to listen to my story:
Colourless tales of a joyless life
At the time of the divorce, she wrote:
Talaak to de rahe ho Nazare kahar ke saath
Jawani bhi mere lauta do Mehar ke saath
You are divorcing me with rage in your eyes
Return to me, also, my youth along with the bridal-price!
[edit] Filmography
1) Gomti Ke Kinare (1972) .... Ganga
2) Pakeezah (1972) .... Nargis/Sahibjaan
3) Dushmun (1971) .... Malti R. Din
4) Mere Apne (1971) .... Anandi Devi/Auaji (Aunt)
5) Jawab (1970) .... Vidya
6) Saat Phere (1970)
7) Abhilasha (1968) .... Mrs. Meena Singh
8) Baharon Ki Manzil (1968) .... Nanda S. Roy/Radha Shukla
9) Bahu Begum (1967) .... Zeenat Jahan Begum
10) Chandan Ka Palna (1967) .... Shobha Rai
11) Majhli Didi (1967) .... Hemangini 'Hema'
12) Noorjehan (1967)
13) Phool Aur Patthar (1966) .... Shanti Devi
14) Pinjre Ke Panchhi (1966) .... Heena Sharma
15) Bheegi Raat (1965)
16) Jadui Angoothi (1965)
17) Kaajal (1965) .... Madhavi
18) Purnima (1965) .... Purnima V. Lal
19) Maain Bhi Ladki Hun (1964) .... Rajni
20) Benazir (1964) .... Benazir
21) Chitralekha (1964) .... Chitralekha
22) Gazal (1964) .... Naaz Ara Begum
23) Sanjh Aur Savera (1964) .... Gauri
24) Akeli Mat Jaiyo (1963) Seema
25) Dil Ek Mandir (1963) .... Sita
26) Kinare Kinare (1963)
27) Aarti (1962) .... Aarti Gupta
28) Main Chup Rahungi (1962) .... Gayetri
29) Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam (1962) .... Chhoti Bahu
30) Bhabhi Ki Chudiyan (1961) .... Geeta, Shyam's wife
31) Pyaar Ka Saagar (1961) .... Radha/Rani B. Gupta
32) Zindagi Aur Khwab (1961) .... Shanti
33) Bahaana (1960)
34) Dil Apna Aur Preet Parai (1960) .... Karuna
35) Kohinoor (1960)
36) Ardhangini (1959) .... Chhaya
37) Chand (1959)
38) Char Dil Char Raahein (1959) .... Chavli
39) Chirag Kahan Roshni Kahan (1959) .... Ratna
40) Jagir (1959)
41) Madhu (1959)
42) Satta Bazaar (1959) .... Jamuna
43) Shararat (1959)
44) Farishta (1958)
45) Sahara (1958) .... Leela
46) Savera (1958)
47) Yahudi (1958) .... Hannah
48) Miss Mary (1957) .... Miss Mary/Laxmi
49) Sharada (1957) .... Sharada Ram Sharan
50) Bandhan (1956)
51) Ek-Hi-Rasta (1956) .... Malti
52) Halaku (1956) .... Niloufer Nadir
53) Mem Sahib (1956) .... Meena
54) Naya Andaz (1956)
55) Shatranj (1956)
56) Adil-E-Jahangir (1955)
57) Azaad (1955) .... Shobha
58) Bandish (1955) .... Usha Sen
59) Rukhsana (1955)
60) Baadbaan (1954)
61) Chandni Chowk (1954) .... Zarina
62) Ilzam (1954)
63) Daera (1953) .... Sheetal
64) Dana Paani (1953)
65) Do Bigha Zamin (1953) .... Thakurain
66) Foot Path (1953) .... Mala
67) Naulakha Haar (1953) .... Bijma
68) Parineeta (1953) .... Lalita
69) Aladdin Aur Jadui Chirag (1952)
70) Baiju Bawra (1952) .... Gauri
71) Tamasha (1952) .... Kiran
72) Hanumaan Pataal Vijay (1951)
73) Lakshmi Narayan (1951)
74) Madhosh (1951) .... Soni
75) Sanam (1951)
76) Anmol Ratan (1950)
77) Hamara Ghar (1950)
78) Magroor (1950)
79) Shri Ganesh Mahima (1950)
80) Veer Ghatotkach (1949) .... Surekha
81) Bichchade Balam (1948)
82) Piya Ghar Aaja (1947)
83) Bachchon Ka Khel (1946)
84) Duniya Ek Sarai (1946)
85) Lal Haveli (1944)
86) Pratiggya (1943)
87) Garib (1942)
88) Bahen (1941) (as Baby Meena) .... Bina
89) Kasauti (1941)
90) Nai Roshni (1941)
91) Ek Hi Bhool (1940)
92) Pooja (1940)
93) Leatherface (1939)
[edit] Filmfare Awards
Awards won
* 1954 Filmfare Best Actress Award - Baiju Bawra
* 1955 Filmfare Best Actress Award - Parineeta
* 1963 Filmfare Best Actress Award - Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam
* 1966 Filmfare Best Actress Award - Kaajal
Awards nominated
* 1956 Filmfare Best Actress Award - Azaad
* 1959 Filmfare Best Actress Award - Sahara
* 1960 Filmfare Best Actress Award - Chirag Kahan Roshni Kahan
* 1963 Filmfare Best Actress Award - Aarti
* 1963 Filmfare Best Actress Award - Main Chup Rahungi
* 1964 Filmfare Best Actress Award - Dil Ek Mandir
* 1967 Filmfare Best Actress Award - Phool Aur Patthar
* 1973 Filmfare Best Actress Award - Pakeezah (posthumous nomination)[6]
[edit] Biography
One of the first biographies of Meena Kumari was written just after her death by Vinod Mehta in the year 1972. It was simply titled Meena Kumari.
Singer Chandermohan is born in a well-off family and is the only child. Since he is of marriageable age, both he and his parents want him to get married. But since he was born with a strong & adverse influence of Mars (Mangalik) during his birth his horoscope has not been compatible with any suitable woman. On his friend's Gafoor's, who has two wives, advice he re-locates to Bombay, sings at the Tejpal Auditorium, meets and falls in love with wealthy Asha, who lives with her widower dad, ironically named Colonel Mangal Singh and her paternal grandma. Mangal would like Asha to get married to an army officer. His attempts fail and Asha and his mom convince him to let Asha, who is also Manglik, get married to Chandermohan. He reluctantly falls in line with them, but then a series of events makes everyone change their mind about Chandermohan, namely a fake astrological chart that shows he is not Manglik, and his accusations about Mangal, who he alleges is leading a double life, romancing, wooing, and having a child with wealthy Nisha, Nirmala from Jeevan Saathi matrimonial bureau and Rina respectively, apart from being an alcoholic, robbing Chandermohan, stealing from his own house, and exhibiting goon-like behavior. Hilarious chaos results as Mangal's mom and daughter attempt to figure out why Chandermohan is spreading these tall tales about their son and father respectively.
Written by rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)
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from wikipedia
Gavin Packard (8 June 1964 – 18 May 2012) was an Indian actor of Irish descent noted for the villain roles he portrayed in many super hit Bollywood films of the 1990s like Mohra, Tadipaar and Chamatkar. He had also acted in several Malayalam films like Aayushkalam, Season, Aanaval Mothiram and Aryan. However, he left the industry in the early 2000s.
He died of respiratory disorder on 18 May 2012 and was buried at the St. Andrews Burial Grounds in Bandra the next day. Despite his long and notable cinematic career, the funeral was conspicuous by the absence of any representative from the film industry.[1][2
Gavin was born in 1964 as the eldest of the five children of Earl and Barbara Packard. His father was a computer expert, while his grandfather John Packard was an Irish man who had come to India as a member of the US Army but later chose to settle down there.[4] He was married but his wife left him and moved to France with their daughter.[5]
Gavin was a national award winning bodybuilder and the winner of many state awards. In Bollywood, he was a trainer to Sanjay Dutt whom he met in Thane central jail, Sunil Shetty and Shera, Salman Khan’s trainer.[5]
Filmography[edit]
He made his debut onscreen through the Malayalam movie Aryan in 1988 in which he played the role of Martin, a local goon in Mumbai. His debut in Bollywood came in 1989 through Ilaaka. That year he also played the full length character of Fabien in P Padmarajan's Season, arguably his best cinematic performance.[4] His last film was Yeh Hai Jalwa released in 2002 and directed by David Dhawan.[6] He acted in nearly 60 films in English and Malayalam in a career that spanned nearly 15 years.[7]
Hindi films[edit]
Jaani Dushman[8] (2002) ...... Referee
Yeh Hai Jalwa[9] (2002) ...... Man Hired To Beat Up Raju
Kranti( 2002)
Kunwara (2000) [Actor]
Hadh Kar Di Aapne (2000) .... Guide
Baaghi (2000)
Kaala Samrajya (1999)
Nyaydaata[10] (1999)
Maa Kasam (1999)
Shera (1999)
Pardesi Babu (1998) .... Wrestler
Bade Miyan Chhote Miyan (1998) ...... (As Gavin)
Gharwali Baharwali (1998) ...... White Guy Beaten By Arjun Singh (As Gavin)
Sher-E-Hindustan (1998)
Qahar (1997) ...... (As Gavin)
Mrityudaata (1997) .... Raja's Gang
Yeshwant (1997) .... Salim's goon
Bhishma (1996) ...... Man Got Beaten By Bhola (As Gavin)
Shastra (1996) .... Gavin (College Punk)
Khiladiyon Ka Khiladi (1996)
Angaara (1996) Actor .... Jackie
Gaddar (1995) ...... Fighter (White Guy) (As Gavin)
Ek Tha Raja (1996) .... as Gavin
Jurmana (1996) .... Rona
Muqaddar (1996)
Vishwasghaat (1996) .... Foreign Tiger
Hulchul (1995) .... Hitman
Janam Kundli (1995) .... Goreybhai
Naajayaz (1995)
Karan Arjun (1995) ...... Boxer (As Gavin)
Aashique Mastane (1995) .... Gavin
Jallaad (1995)
Hum Hain Bemisaal (1994)
Mohra (1994)
Naaraaz (1994)
Cheetah (1994) .... Peter
Tadipaar (1993)
Waqt Hamara Hai (1993) .... Sambo
Krishan Avtar (1993) ......Peter
Platform (1993) ...... Cheetah
Aankhen (1993) ...... Tejeshwar'S Henchman
Jaagruti (1993) .... Shiva
Pehchaan (1993) .... Yogi's henchman
Anaam (1992) ...... Pasha'S Henchman (Uncredited)
Deedar (1992) ..... (As Gavin)
Tirangaa (1992) ..... (Uncredited)
Qaid Mein Hai Bulbul (1992)
Chamatkar (1992) .... Goonga
Dak(1991) ...... Maharani'S Henchman
Fateh (1991)
Saathi (1991)
Sadak (1991) ...... Maharani's Henchman
Patthar Ke Phool(1991) ...... Hitman (Uncredited)
Thanedaar (1990).... Saudagar
Jurm (1990) .... Minister's goon
Tridev (1989)
Na Insafi (1989) ...... Tarzan
Ilaaka (1989)
Malayalam films[edit]
FilmYear of ReleaseCharacter
Aryan1988Martin
Season1989Fabian Ramirez
Aanaval Mothiram1991Alberto Fellini
Aayushkalam1992Benjamin Bruno
Jackpot1993
Boxer1996Bruno
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