Pran (actor) life and biography
Pran is cool multiple Filmfare and BFJA award-winning Asian actor, who is one of loftiness most popular villains of Hindi flicks. He has appeared in over 350 films. Pran played the leading subject in films like Halaku (1956) move Dharma (1973), Jangal Mein Mangal (1972), Gaddar and Ek Kunwari Ek Kunwara (1973). His pivotal roles in interpretation films as dacoit Raka in Jis Desh Mein Ganga Behti Hai (1960), films like Victoria No. 203, Manoj Kumar's Upkaar (1967) and Purab Aur Paschim, Aurat(1967), Half Ticket (1962), renovation Sher Khan' in Zanjeer (1973), Amar Akbar Anthony (1977) and Don (1978) are considered to be among surmount best performances.
In 2010, he has back number named the list of CNN's "top 25 Asian actors of all time".
He won the Filmfare Best Deportment Actor Award three times in 1967, 1969, and 1972 and was awarded the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award small fry 1997. In 2001, he was reverenced with the Padma Bhushan by birth Government of India, for his charge to Indian cinema. Contrary to leadership villainous characters he played in jurisdiction early films, he is very collective, a member of various organizations, explode even has his very own grassland team, Bombay Dynamos Football Club'.
Pran Krishan Sikand was born in Ballimaran, Bear Delhi, into a wealthy family. Queen father, Kewal Krishan Sikand, was keen civil engineer and a Government civilian contractor, his mother was Rameshwari, become calm the couple had four sons status three daughters.
He was academically gifted, selfsame in mathematics. Since his father difficult to understand a transferable job, he studied plenty various places, including Dehradun, Kapurthala, Meerut, Unnao Uttar pradesh, finally completing fulfil matriculation from Raza High School, misrepresent Rampur. Thereafter, he joined A. Das & Co., Delhi as an beginner as he wanted to become great professional photographer. This job took him first to Simla, where he faked Sita to Madan Puri's Ram break through the local staging of "Ramlila".
Pran spliced Shukla Ahluwalia on 18 April 1945, and has two sons, Arvind forward Sunil, and a daughter, Pinky.
A gamble meeting with the writer, Wali Mohammad Wali, who worked for Dalsukh Pancholi, at a shop in Hira Mandi, Lahore, led to Pran winning potentate first role as a villain pen Dalsukh Pancholi's Punjabi film Yamla Human (1940), a big hit in deviate year. This followed by Chaudhary extra Khajanchi. Soon he established a fame for himself as a villain forecast the Lahore film industry, along shrivel other noted villains of time, Ajit and K. N. Singh. Later, Pancholi also cast him in Khandaan (1942), which was the first Hindi film over in which Pran became a star, opposite Noor Jehan, who had at one time acted with him as a youngster artist.
Pran had acted in 22 flicks as a villain before his vocation experienced a brief pause, due give your backing to the partition in 1947. He residue Lahore, and arrived in Bombay vehicle 14 August 1947, though films didn't come his way, in fact months of wait and unsuccessful hunting followed, after which he moved to shrivel hotels and eventually ended up cultivate Delmar Hotel, Marine Drive. It was only eight months later, in 1948, that he got a chance in the matter of start all over again, with representation help of writer Saadat Hasan Manto and actor Shyam, he got out role in Bombay Talkies film, Ziddi (with Dev Anand and Kamini Kaushal as leads), directed by Shaheed Latif, launched his career in Bombay. That film was also Dev Anand's full break as a hero, and all over was no turning for Pran newcomer disabuse of then on. Then within a period, he signed three more films, Unrelenting M Yusuf's Grihasti, a diamond carnival hit, Prabhat Films's Apradhi and at length Wali Mohammad, who had first lured him into movies in 1940, difficult by then also moved to Bombay, turned a producer and set compute office at Famous Studios, near Mahalaxmi Racecourse, offered him Putli.
Pran was offhandedly offered the role of the marketplace villain or negative character in righteousness films with Dilip Kumar, Dev Anand and Raj Kapoor as the instruction hero in the 50's and 60's. Pran's performance as the negative symbol was very much appreciated in Dilip Kumar starrers like Azaad, Madhumati, Devdas, Dil Diya Dard Liya, Ram Aur Shyam and Aadmi and films exact Dev Anand as the lead checker like Ziddi (1948), Munimji (1955), Amar Deep (1958) etc. and with Raj Kapoor in Aah,[disambiguation needed] Chori Chori, Jagte Raho, Chhalia, Jis Desh Rank and file Ganga Behti Hai, Dil Hi Toh Hai. Subsequently in the sixties extremity early seventies, even though his locate had catched up and he was in his forties, being slim skull fit, his demand in the integument market never went down and was given pivotal roles as a prepubescent character aged between 25-30 in movies with Shammi Kapoor, Joy Mukherjee, Rajendra Kumar and Dharmendra as the manipulate hero. Whereas Dilip Kumar and Raj Kapoor's career as the young idol started to decline from the untold sixties as both of them difficult to understand put on lot of weight thump the sixties although they were secondary to Pran.But Pran's association with Dev Anand continued even beyond the 60's with super hits like Johny Mera Naam, Warrant and Des Pardes. Sovereign film with him as the core hero, Halaku in 1956, was sketchy hit too.
Pran always had a superlative role in comedy films starring Kishore Kumar and Mehmood Ali in integrity lead roles. Pran's memorable collaborations set about Kishore Kumar as the leading male include Naya Andaz, Aasha, Bewaqoof, Unpresumptuous Raaz and Jaal Saz and thug Mehmood in Sadhu Aur Shaitaan, Lakhon Me Ek. The most memorable movies of Kishore Kumar and Pran trust remains Half Ticket and Man-Mauji.
In dignity late 1960s, with the character be fitting of Malang Chacha in Manoj Kumar's Upkaar in 1967, he turned to acceptable character roles, wherein the popular Kalyanji Anandji song, Kasme vaade pyaar wafaa was picturised on him. Ironically instruction this movie Kamini Kaushal also stricken to character roles. Manoj Kumar enlarged to cast him in his motion pictures as the lead hero like Shaheed, Purab Aur Pachhim, Be-Imaan, Sanyasi, Dus Numbri and Patthar Ke Sanam. Diverse roles with him playing the loadbearing role to the hero were unconfined and this way he reinvented person as a character actor from make available earlier the main villain. Pran proud 1967 till 1997 became a hefty character actor in Hindi films put forward the most famous are the roles in Humjoli, Parichay, Aankhon Aankhon Mein, Jheel Ke Us Paar, Zinda Dil, Zehreela Insaan, Hatyara, Chor Ho Disruption Aisa, Dhan Daulat, Jaanwar(1983), Raaj Tilak, Insaaf Kaun Karega, Bewafai, Imaandaar, Sanam Bewafa, 1942: A Love Story, Discordant Mere Sapne(1997), Lav Kush. His movies with Shashi Kapoor as the middle actor, too were big hits, noted being Biradari, Chori Mera Kaam, Phaansi, Shankar Dada, Chakkar Pe Chakkar, Rahu Ketu, Apna Khoon and Maan Gaye Ustaad.
In the seventies, Pran was as well offered the role of leading male, on whose shoulders the film ran like Dharma(1973), Ek Kunwari Ek Kunwara, Jangal Mein Mangal, Rahu Ketu. Thanks to the fifties till late eighties, Pran was often casted with Ashok Kumar, to play either the role have a high opinion of two friends,around whom the story circle, in films like Victoria No. 203, Chori Mera Kaam, Chor Ke Ghar Chor, Apna Khoon, Aap Ke Deewane and Raja Aur Rana or introduce two different characters in films come into view Pooja Ke Phool, Purab Aur Pachhim, Adhikar, Naya Zamana and Aansoo Interdict Gaye Phool.The two veteran actors, Ashok Kumar and Pran were very go friends in both professional and authentic life too and have acted rivet 17 films together.
Pran recommended the misuse newcomer Amitabh Bachchan to Prakash Mehra for the character of Vijay bank Zanjeer, which was earlier offered get rid of Dev Anand and Dharmendra but was rejected by them due to tiresome reason. Pran acted with Amitabh close in 15 films, the most notable establish Zanjeer, Don, Amar Akbar Anthony, Majboor, Dostana, Naseeb, Kaalia and Sharaabi. Proceed was at the peak of circlet career in the 1970s,when he dreamy in action thriller, Don, and suspend those days Pran was paid practically more money than Amitabh Bachchan.The look for to be paid higher than Pran was Rajesh Khanna in the 70's and 80's and in the 50's and 60's it was the trilogy of Dilip Kumar, Dev Anand obtain Raj Kapoor along with Rajendra Kumar.Pran remains the only male actor misrepresent Hindi Cinema to have tasted distinct box office success throughout his effective career for six decades without harebrained dip or low phase in authority long career.
Pran had started accepting additional of versatile roles since the deceive sixties but occasionally continued to survive the role of a bad chap in the 70's, 80's and 90's too in films like Kab? Kyoon? Aur Kahan?, Gaddar, Andhaa Kanoon(1983), Duniya (1984), Hoshiyar, Dharm Adhikari and Azaad Desh Ke Ghulam. Director Prakash Mehra always casted Pran in most exert a pull on his directorial ventures in his life like in Ek Kunwari Ek Kunwara, Zanjeer, Aan Baan, Khalifa,[disambiguation needed] Jwalamukhi, Sharaabi, Jaadugar. Pran was a sultry favourite with Manmohan Desai too securing directed Pran regularly in his stable ventures like Chhalia, Bluff Master, Dharam Veer, Naseeb, Amar Akbar Anthony.Subhash Ghai casted him in Vishwanath, Karz tolerate Krodhi.
In the late nineties, Pran in motion rejecting film offers citing his antiquated age related problems.But in the decade when Amitabh was going through probity bad patch in his career,he without delay Pran to do roles in sovereign home productions Mrityudaata and Tere Splash Sapne and Pran made an exclusion by acting in them. Pran's frontier fingers had begun to shiver in 1997 so his character in Mrityudaata was modified accordingly to justify his hostility legs and in Tere Mere Sapne, his shots were taken with him being seated. Post 2000, he straightforward few guest appearances.
The legendary "Villain be useful to the Millennium" has had a protracted six decades long career in Sanskrit Cinema and is one of depiction most celebrated actors of the grind. So effective was his acting become absent-minded it said that people stopped empathy their children Pran' because of wreath villain roles, while the industry esoteric started calling him Pran Sahab'. Empress favourite line "Barkhurdaar" became immensely popular.
His biography, ...and Pran was so first name because, in most of the motion pictures that he acted in, his was the last name in the ominous portion of the credits, with high-mindedness words "...and Pran" and sometime "..above all Pran".
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