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Motilal est un Acteur, Réalisateur, Ecrivain et Playback Singer Indien né le 1 janvier 1910

Motilal

Motilal
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Nom de naissance Motilal Rajvansh
Nationalité Inde
Naissance 1 janvier 1910
Mort 1 janvier 1965 (à 55 ans)
Récompenses Filmfare Awards

Motilal Rajvansh (1910–1965) was an Indian film actor and the winner of Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award for Devdas (1955) and Parakh (1960). He is credited with being among Hindi cinema’s first natural actors.

He also directed a film Chhoti Chhoti Baatein (1965) but died before its release. At the 13th National Film Awards, it won the award for Certificate of Merit for the Third Best Feature Film and he posthumously won Certificate of Merit for the Best Story Writer.

Biographie

Though he was very suave and polished, and moved in high society, towards the end of his life he was in financial difficulty. Although a thorough gentlemen, he enjoyed gambling and races, and died almost penniless in 1965.

He had a very intimate relationship for several years with the actress Nadira. He was involved with actress Shobhana Samarth after she separated from her husband, he played the role of Samarth's real-life daughter Nutan's father in Hamari Beti, Shobhana's launch movie for Nutan. He also played her guardian in Anari, though this time the role had a villainous touch to it.

Le plus souvent avec

Sabita Devi
Sabita Devi
(7 films)
Raj Kapoor
Raj Kapoor
(4 films)
Iftekhar
Iftekhar
(5 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmographie de Motilal (39 films)

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Acteur

Waqt
Waqt (1965)
, 3h26
Réalisé par Yash Chopra
Genres Drame, Policier, Romance
Acteurs Balraj Sahni, Achala Sachdev, Sunil Dutt, Sadhana Shivdasani, Sadhana, Raaj Kumar
Rôle Public Prosecutor
Note75% 3.790433.790433.790433.790433.79043
Lala Kedarnath Prasanta (Balraj Sahni) has three sons whose birthdays are on the same day. On the occasion of their birthday celebration, they are visited by a well-known astrologer, who advises Lala Kedarnath not to be proud for his past achievements and to not be too optimistic about the future as fate (kismat) plays a key role in life. Lala Kedarnath ignores the prediction and is busy making plans for an even wealthier future. Later that night as he is proclaiming his grand plans for the future to his wife, Laxmi (Achala Sachdev), there is a sudden earthquake and the whole town crumbles. When Lala Kedarnath regains consciousness, his house has been destroyed and his family is gone.
Leader
Leader (1964)
, 2h56
Thèmes Politique
Acteurs Dilip Kumar, Vyjayanthimala, Sapru, Nasir Husain, Jankidas, Motilal
Note71% 3.574623.574623.574623.574623.57462
Vijay Khanna is a law graduate-cum-tabloid editor he falls in love with Princess Sunita, while general election are underway. Vijay becomes accused of a political leaders murder. Gradually the couple tries to expose a criminal-politician nexus.
Asli Naqli
Asli Naqli (1962)

Réalisé par Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Genres Drame, Romance
Acteurs Dev Anand, Sadhana Shivdasani, Mukri, Sandhya Roy, Leela Chitnis, Indira
Note75% 3.771253.771253.771253.771253.77125
Anand (Dev Anand) is a spoiled grandson of a rich businessman Rai Bahadur (played by Nazir Hussain). His grandfather wants him to marry Rekha (Sandhya Roy), only daughter and heiress of a rich man despite of Anand's disinterest for her. In the ensuring fight, Anand leaves his house to prove his worthiness and ends up in the streets of Bombay (present day Mumbai). There one person meets Anand and takes Anand to his house in poor neighborhood.
Parakh
Parakh (1960)

Réalisé par Bimal Roy
Origine Inde
Genres Drame
Acteurs Sadhana Shivdasani, Motilal, Nazir Hussain, Durga Khote, Leela Chitnis, Asit Sen
Rôle Haradhan / Sir Jagdish Chandra Roy
Note72% 3.6395453.6395453.6395453.6395453.639545
The central character is the Post Master who is given a mysterious cheque for ₹500,000 to be given to anyone who will use it to benefit the people of the village. There is a postman who pretends to be lame and is secretly rich and may have sent the cheque. Then there is the postmaster's wife, who is sick and would rather use the money to cure her illness, and his beautiful daughter Seema (played by Sadhana), who has a crush on the village school master. Meanwhile all the greedy and influential people of the village are busy trying to convince everybody why they are most deserving of the money; they include the village priest, the land lord, the money lender, the village doctor and the school master, who is by far the most respected. They all decide democracy is the best means and decide to hold an election where the winner gets the money. The movie is a satirical look at democracy through various twists and turns in the plot, interweaved with a simple love story.
Anari
Anari (1959)

Réalisé par Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Genres Drame, Comédie, Musical
Acteurs Raj Kapoor, Nutan, Motilal, Lalita Pawar, Shubha Khote, Sulochana
Rôle Seth. Ramnath Sohanlal
Note75% 3.788433.788433.788433.788433.78843
Raj Kumar is an honest, handsome and intelligent young man. He works as a sole trader and being a painter trade, he is unable to earn a living and unable to pay rent to his kind-hearted but talkative landlady Mrs. D'sa. One day Raj finds a wallet containing money and returns it to the owner Mr Ramnath. Ramnath admires Raj and pleased with his honesty, employs him to work in his office as a clerk. Raj meets with Ramnath's maidservant Asha and soon both fall in love. This all ends when Raj finds out that Asha is really Aarti, the niece of his employer. Unfortunately, his landlady dies consuming medicine manufactured by his employer Mr Ramnath and she passes away suddenly leaving Raj Kumar alone. The police conducts a post-mortem and as a result find out that Mrs. D'sa was poisoned. Raj became the prime suspect and is subsequently taken for questioning and is arrested and held in a cell. In the trial that he faces, however, Ramnath reveals the truth and thus Raj is saved.
Paigham
Paigham (1959)

Réalisé par Subramaniam Srinivasan
Genres Drame
Acteurs Dilip Kumar, Vyjayanthimala, Raaj Kumar, B. Saroja Devi, Subramaniam Srinivasan, Johnny Walker
Rôle Seth Sewakram
Note66% 3.3252553.3252553.3252553.3252553.325255
The movie traces the lives of the family of a widowed lady, her two sons and daughter.
Do Mastane
Do Mastane (1958)

Acteurs Geeta Bali, Motilal, Nigar Sultana, Begum Para, Johnny Walker, Mukri

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Ab Dilli Dur Nahin
Genres Drame
Acteurs Motilal, Sulochana, Yakub, Syed Ishtiaq Ahmed Jaffery, Amjad Khan, Nana Palsikar
Rôle Hariram
Note76% 3.82033.82033.82033.82033.8203
Ab Dilli Dur Nahin is the story of a journey in search of justice. Hariram, a poor labourer, loved his wife and son Rattan so much that he lavished them with all the comforts of life even though it meant he was constantly in debt. Hariram's life fell apart when he lost his wife. So grief-stricken was he that he even lost his job due to poor attendance. Misery drove him to seek solace in alcohol. When drunken Hariram reached home he found his son crying as an evil loan shark Sethji had beaten him up.
Jagte Raho
Jagte Raho (1956)
, 2h29
Réalisé par Sombhu Mitra
Genres Thriller, Comédie
Acteurs Raj Kapoor, Iftekhar, Pradeep Kumar, Motilal, Pran Krishan Sikand, Nargis
Rôle Drunkard
Note81% 4.080664.080664.080664.080664.08066
A poor peasant (Kapoor) from the village, who comes to the city in search of work, is looking for some water to quench his thirst. He unwittingly enters an apartment building, whose residents take him for a thief and chase him. He runs from one flat to the other trying to escape his predicament. Along the way, he witnesses many shady undertakings in the flats where he hides. Ironically, these crimes are being committed by the so-called "respectable" citizens of the city, who by day, lead a life totally in contrast to their nighttime deeds behind closed doors.
Devdas
Devdas (1955)
, 2h39
Réalisé par Bimal Roy
Origine Inde
Genres Drame, Musical, Romance
Thèmes Alcoolisme, Maladie, La musique, Psychotrope, Sexualité, Erotique, Prostitution, Musique, Bollywood
Acteurs Dilip Kumar, Vyjayanthimala, Suchitra Sen, Motilal, Nazir Hussain, Iftekhar
Rôle Chunni Babu
Note76% 3.835483.835483.835483.835483.83548
Set against the backdrop of rural Bengal during feudal times, Devdas is a young man from a wealthy Bengali Brahmin family in India in the early 1900s. Paro alias Parvati is a young woman from a middle class Bengali Brahmin family, but belonging to a slightly lower status in terms of caste, affluence and status. The two families lived in a village, and Devdas and Paro were childhood friends.
Ek Do Teen
Ek Do Teen (1953)
, 2h
Acteurs Motilal, Iftekhar, Meena Shorey
Rôle Motilal

Roma (Meena Shorey) is on her way home after celebrating with her friends at Asha's (Yashodra Katju) place when she is attacked by two robbers who try to steal her purse. She faints as one of them brandishes a knife. Motilal (Motilal) and his friend Hiralal (Majnu) are driving through there and scare away the robbers. After wondering what to do with the unconscious women, they take her to Moti’s house to render treatment. Roma makes a phone call to her father Seth Madanlal (K. N. Dhar) to tell him her whereabouts, but he is too angry to know the reason why she is there except to ask her the address. On arriving and seeing her with two men, he gets angry and starts shouting which wakes up Motilal’s father Seth Ramlal (Romesh Thakur) and he appears downstairs. The two fathers fight loudly and Roma is taken away by her father.