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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.
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.
Manmohan Desai (1937- 1994) was a popular Indian film director and producer with one of the most successful careers in filmmaking during the 70s and 80s. Films like Aa Gale Lag Jaa (1973), Dharam Veer (1977), Amar Akbar Anthony (1977), Naseeb (1981), Coolie (1983), and Mard (1985) were directed and produced by him.
Mar 1, 2024 · LEGENDARY filmmaker Manmohan Desai was at the forefront of popularising the masala entertainer in Bollywood, which is a genre that incorporates everything
Mar 2, 2022 · Remembering Manmohan Desai: 28 years later filmmaker son Ketan Desai, talks about his father “He never really fraternized with the film folk!” smiles filmmaker son Ketan Desai. “He could ...
May 27, 2022 · Manmohan Desai was arguably the most successful and influential filmmaker of the Bombay Cinema.
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.
Born on February 26, 1937, one of Indian cinema’s prime movers, filmmaker Manmohan Desai, popularly referred to as 'Manji' had created some of the most iconic films that audiences will cherish for generations to come. Desai mostly came up with movies of mix-genre familiarly called ‘masala films’.
Feb 26, 2022 · Bollywood Rewind revisits Manmohan Desai's Amar Akbar Anthony. The present generation of cinemagoers have accepted Rohit Shetty as the epitome of Bollywood masala; the audience who is a little older often calls him the present-day Manmohan Desai.
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.
