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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 a popular Indian film director and producer who made many hits in the 70s and 80s. He was married to writer Jeevanprabha Gandhi, had a son and two daughters, and died in 1994.
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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.
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It is one of the most famous moments in Indian film. Superstar Amitabh Bachchan is in Coolie (1983), pacing through one of the many stylised fight sequences he shot for Manmohan Desai and other Bombay filmmakers.2 The locales rarely mattered – it could be a seedy tavern, a vast desert, a slum alley, an underground car park or a revolving restaurant...
Manmohan Desai was arguably the most successful and influential filmmaker of the Bombay Cinema. Of the 20 films he made between 1957 and 1988, 13 were among the top ten grossers of their year – the highest success ratio in the history of Bombay Cinema, and three were the most successful of the year: Amar Akbar Anthony (AAA, 1977), Suhaag (1979), an...
A teleological classification of Desai’s work into distinct ‘periods’ would see his work as heading towards what we now recognise as a ‘Manmohan Desai film’, although other elements may have been at play when the earlier films were made. Such a model would characterise Desai’s films from 1957 to 1968 as apprentice or inchoate works which contain el...
There is one idiosyncratic motif in Desai’s work that deserves further research – that of disability. Most of his films feature, and occasionally pivot on a character with a disability, whether suffering from polio or another form of paralysis, leprosy, blindness, mutism, or mental illness. Some of this is ‘metaphorical’ in a way that would be unac...
The whole Coolieepisode and Desai’s response to it is an extraordinary magnification of what was already standard practice in Desai’s cinema – namely, the foregrounding of cinema as cinema, and the relationship of cinema to life and to its audiences. In one sense, Desai is typical of his industry. Long before the term ‘post-modernism’ was coined, l...
Desai’s response to his disillusion was to create a cinema of carnivalesque attractions. If personal identities, social roles, and even gender (as in Kismat and Desh Premee) can be swapped, flipped or adapted as easily and frequently as they do in Manmohan Desai films, perhaps the most rigid, immemorial and immovable social forces can be resisted o...
Janam Janam Ke Phere (1957)Chhalia(1960)Bluff Master(1963)Budtameez(1966)Booth, Gregory D., ‘Traditional Content and Narrative Structure in the Hindi Commercial Cinema’, Asian Folklore Studies, Vol. 54, No. 2 (1995), pp. 169-190.Breckenridge, Carol A., ed., Consuming Modernity: Public Culture in a South Asian World(Minneapolis & London: University of Minnesota Press, 1995).Garga, B.D., So Many Cinemas: The Motion Picture in India(Mumbai: Eminence Designs, 1996).Booth, Gregory, ‘Religion, Gossip, Narrative Conventions and the Construction of Meaning in Hindi Film Songs’, Popular Music, Vol. 19, No. 2 (April 2000), pp. 125-145.A profile of Manmohan Desai, the most successful and influential filmmaker of the Bombay Cinema, who made 20 films between 1957 and 1988, 13 of them among the top ten grossers of their year. Learn about his artistic response to the accident of Amitabh Bachchan, his use of spectacle, genre, and star personae, and his legacy in Bollywood.
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Mar 2, 2022 · On the 28th anniversary of the death of legendary filmmaker Manmohan Desai, his son and filmmaker Ketan Desai shares his memories and insights into his father's life and work. Read the interview and watch the video of Ketan Desai talking about his father's legacy and influence on Bollywood.
Feb 26, 2020 · Learn about the life and career of Manmohan Desai, the blockbuster director and producer who made mainstream Indian cinema what it is today. He worked with the biggest stars of the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s, and was known for his family dramas, dreamy songs, and improbable action sequences.
Mar 4, 1994 · Manmohan Desai was a successful film director and producer in Bollywood, known for his fast-paced extravaganzas and the 'angry young man' films with Amitabh Bachchan. He died in 1994 after a long career of entertaining and commercial hits.
