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Manmohan Desai (26 February 1937 – 1 March 1994) was an Indian film producer and director. He was one of the most successful filmmakers of the 70s and 80s. Desai was an influential and sought-after film director of Bollywood and a pioneer of making Masala films along with Prakash Mehra and Nasir Hussain.
Wiki/Biography. Manmohan Desai was born on Friday, 26 February 1937 (age 57 years; at the time of death) in Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India (now Mumbai, Maharashtra).His zodiac sign is Pisces. He was an alumnus of St. Xavier’s College in Mumbai but he left before completing his graduation for a career in the film industry.
Manmohan Desai. Director: Naseeb. Manmohan Desai was born on 26 February 1937 in Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India. He was a director and producer, known for Naseeb (1981), Kismat (1969) and Mard (1985). He died on 1 March 1994 in Bombay, Maharashtra, India.
Mar 2, 2022 · March 1, 2022 marks the beginning of 28 years minus the ‘Man’ who made magical movies—Manmohan Desai. Till the end, Man-ji (as he was affectionately known) remained a simple Gujarati at ...
Mar 4, 1994 · Manmohan Desai, film director and producer: born Bombay 26 February 1937; married 1969 Jeevanprabha Gandhi (one son, two daughters); died Bombay 1 March 1994.
May 27, 2022 · Desai was the Bollywood post-modernist, playing with narrative, genre, pastiche, parody, bathos, spectatorship and star personae. In his films, he took ancient Indian religion, mythology, and classical drama; folk entertainment and popular fantasy and melodrama; the Shakespearean comedy and Catholic iconography of his Jesuit education; the post-Independence idealism embodied in Bombay neo-realism; and fused them with American serials and silent comedy; Hollywood musicals; set-piece thrillers ...
Oct 19, 2023 · Host Amitabh Bachchan on the latest episode of Kaun Banega Crorepati 15 opened up about suffering from myasthenia gravis and how Manmohan Desai added a ray of hope in his life.
Feb 28, 2022 · If Manmohan Desai had lived he would have been a ripe young 84 on February 26, still revved-up about movies and life, in that order. Still refusing to be still even for a minute.
Feb 26, 2022 · Manmohan Desai’s Amar Akbar Anthony: The slice of optimism after the dark days of Emergency On Manmohan Desai's birth anniversary, revisiting his famous Amar Akbar Anthony and how the film's central message is worth archiving in this day and age.
Filmmaker and producer Manmohan DESAI (1937, India) was arguably one of the most successful Indian filmmakers in the 1970s and 80s, and made more than 20 films, including Amar Akbar Anthony (1977) and Naseeb (1981). He is considered one of most influential Bollywood film directors and a pioneer of masala filmmaking. He died in 1994. […]
