'Balraj Sahni was a misfit in filmdom'

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Balraj Sahni had the rare ability of transforming mediocre films with magnetic performances, says ranjan das gupta. And yet most Hindi film directors of the time failed to use his talents to the hiltIT was 1948. A packed house was watching Dharti Ke ...

Thirty six years ago a young Vinod Sahni crossed the Line of Control as Agent 22. After months as an active spy, Sahni was captured and given 11 years in a Pakistani jail. After undergoing inhuman pain and torture for 11 years, When he returned to India, ...

Balraj Sahni reflected the people's angst Those who have watched Do Bigha Zamin cannot in their life-time forget the heart-wrenching performance of Balraj Sahni. And those who haven't will not know what acting is. One of the finest films ever to ...

As the Indian cinema completes its 100 years, so does one of Bollywood's finest actors Balraj Sahni. On the legendary actor's 100th birth anniversary, Karan Johar recalls how the suave-looking young man managed to play the role of a rickshaw-puller in Bimal ...

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(L) Artists performing The Story of Ram and Sita. (R) Neiphiu Rio and Lt Gen AK Sahni along with their wives. DIMAPUR : Print Text Size Curtains were drawn Saturday on the gala event The Story of Ram and Sita being performed at Rangapahar ...

Balraj Sahniin Garam Hawa (Scorching Winds), 1974Films about partition are usually angry in their tone. Garam Hawa is downbeat and elegiac. Sahni is the head of a Muslim family that is coming apart after the Partition of India. He fills his ...

Starring Navin Nischol, Rekha, Pran, Ajit, Bindu, Helen, Geeta Siddharth, Sonia Sahni, Madan Puri, Faryal, Mohan Choti, Asit Sen, Murad