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Hrishikesh Mukherjee (30 September 1922 – 27 August 2006) was an Indian film director, editor and writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of Indian cinema.
Hrishikesh Mukherjee. Director: Anand. By no means is he any glamorous director, yet Hrishikesh Mukherjee is one of the most popular and beloved filmmakers in Indian cinema.
A cohort of engineering students graduate a few months before Independence. Satyapriya and Naren are among the graduate engineers. The principality of Bhawanigarh is run by a cruel, dissolute man, Vikram Singh, who knows his days of absolute power are numbered.
May 6, 2024 · Hrishikesh Mukherjee (born September 30, 1922, Calcutta [now Kolkata], India—died August 27, 2006, Mumbai, India) was an Indian filmmaker who, in a Bollywood career that spanned more than four decades (1953–98), made some 50 Hindi-language films.
Sep 30, 2022 · At a time when mainstream Hindi cinema was populated by potboilers and formula-driven escapism, Mukherjee carved a niche of his own, telling stories set in grounded, relatable universes with a middle-class ethos. The best of Mukherjee’s films were those that steered away from commercial cinema tropes.
Aug 27, 2019 · This dialogue, immortalised by Rajesh Khanna who played the namesake in the 1971 classic-Anand, sums up the life of its legendary director Hrishikesh Mukherjee. It’s a moment in the film which evokes an amalgam of pathos and hope.
Hrishikesh Mukherjee. Director: Anand. By no means is he any glamorous director, yet Hrishikesh Mukherjee is one of the most popular and beloved filmmakers in Indian cinema. His magic lay not in the glamor or largeness so often associated with cinema, but in its simplicity and warmth.
Sep 30, 2022 · One of Mukherjee’s best realised films, Namak Haraam, explores the experience of Somu (Rajesh Khanna), who pretends to be a worker to avenge his beloved friend Vicky (Amitabh Bachchan)....
Aug 26, 2017 · Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s (Hrishi-da to friends and acquaintances) films were simple but never simple-minded. The much-loved director of Satyakam, Anand, Chupke Chupke, Bawarchi and Gol Maal was a father-figure to a retinue of stars of the 1970s, including Gulzar, the Bachchans, Dharmendra, Rajesh Khanna and Amol Palekar.
Sep 2, 2006 · Hrishikesh Mukherjee, who produced and directed memorable and successful Hindi films in a career of more than five decades, died on Aug. 27 in Mumbai. He was 83.
