“The Fifties were a golden period for the Hindi/Hindustani film industry (It was not called Bollywood then). The three great stars — Dilip Kumar, Dev Anand and Raj Kapoor — occupied the top spot.

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Anil Ambani, the younger brother of Asia’s richest man, Mukesh Ambani, has not tasted the same level of success as his ‘more successful’ older sibling. Several businesses of Anil Ambani-led ...

Dr Shunty said, “The message he gave through his movies, whether it was Jai Jawan Jai Kisan, Shaheed-e-Azam, Roti Kapda Aur Makaan, or Shor, no one in this world can forget his movies.

"The message he gave through his movies, whether it was Jai Jawan Jai Kisan, Shaheed-e-Azam, Roti Kapda Aur Makaan, or Shor, no one in this world can forget his movies. Such people don't die.

"Jai Jawan Jai Kisan." This clarion call deeply moved Manoj Kumar. It is said that during a simple bus journey from Delhi to Mumbai, the entire story and screenplay of what would become the iconic ...

Of course, in the movie, the song rises to its crescendo with the cry of jai jawan, jai kisan. Shastri would’ve smiled from heavens. The NRIs of that generation had only scorn for India and Bharat got ...

Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri encouraged Manoj Kumar to create a film based on the slogan Jai Jawan Jai Kisan and this led to his directorial debut Upkaar in 1967. 7 – In 1989, Manoj Kumar made a ...

One of my last enduring memories of actor-filmmaker Manoj Kumar is of him wearing an orange Shirdi Sai Baba bandana, wheelchair-bound but in great cheer, receiving the Dadasaheb Phalke award for ...

Manoj Kumar avoided histrionics when he wanted to show strong emotion on screen. Brooding silences, furrowed brows, and his trademark move of covering his face with his hand did the trick. The gesture ...

was inspired by former prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri’s slogan “Jai Jawan Jai Kisan”. In the film, Kumar played Bharat, who was both a farmer and a soldier, the two pillars of the country.

asked Manoj Kumar to make a movie based on the slogan ‘Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan’ or ‘Hail the Soldier, Hail the Farmer.’ This sparked his directorial debut in 1967, Upkar. The film’s success cemented his ...