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  1. 17 May 2009. (2009-05-17) (aged 69) Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. Prakash Mehra (13 July 1939 – 17 May 2009) was a legendary Indian film director and producer [1] known for his work in Hindi films. He was one of the pioneers of masala films, along with Nasir Hussain, and Manmohan Desai. [2]

  2. Legendary Bollywood producer-director Prakash Mehra, who gave Amitabh Bachchan his first success with 'Zanjeer', passed away in a hospital in Mumbai on Sunday, after prolonged illness.

  3. Prakash Mehra. By the time I started writing about movies, he had stopped making them. But Prakash Mehra could still spin a story. On the one occasion we spoke, over the phone, I brought up ...

  4. May 18, 2009 · An entire era of cinema passed away with him, that’s how superstar Amitabh Bachchan remembered his mentor director Prakash Mehra. Mehra,who passed away on Sunday after multiple organ failure,gave Bachchan his first success and the much loved ‘Angry Young Man’ image through blockbuster film ‘Zanjeer’.

  5. Mehra's health is said to have worsened after his wife's death over two years back. He died of pneumonia and multiple organ failure at 7.50 a.m. Sunday. He was 69.

  6. May 17, 2009 · Mumbai, May 17: Prakash Mehra, the architect of Indian cinema’s favourite icon of the angry young man and who helped shape the legend of Amitabh Bachchan, passed away in a hospital here today after prolonged illness.

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  8. If Prakash Mehra were alive today he would be 85 today, still making star-studded movies. But it was Prakash Mehra’s Zanjeer in 1973 that irreversibly changed the lives of everyone connected...