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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.
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 ...
Feb 26, 2020 · And one of the people we have to thank for making mainstream Indian cinema what it is today is Manmohan Desai, the blockbuster director and producer. Desai was born in Mumbai on 26 February 1937 into a filmy family.
Mar 4, 1994 · MANMOHAN DESAI, one of India's most successful film directors and producers, was known as the 'Miracle man of Bollywood', or Bombay, capital of the Indian film industry.
May 27, 2022 · It is not the purpose of this profile of Hindi director Manmohan Desai to simply rehash this oft-told story. What is important is Desai’s artistic response to the crisis.
Feb 26, 2022 · Shabana Azmi on Manmohan Desai: ‘He was such great fun to work with. A man of immense conviction.’. Advertisement. If Manmohan Desai had lived he would have been a ripe young 84 on 26 February, still revved-up about movies and life, in that order. Still refusing to be still even for a minute.
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.
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.
