Biography of manmohan desai suicide

Manmohan Desai (26 February 1937 – 1 March 1994) was a producer and director of Indian movies. Manmohan Desai was of Gujarati ancestry. His father, Kikubhai Desai, was an Indian film producer and owner of Paramount Studios (later Filmalaya) from 1931 to 1941. His productions, mainly stunt films, included Circus Queen, Golden Gang, and Sheikh Challi. Manmohan Desai's elder brother, Subhash Desai, became a producer in the 1950s and gave Manmohan his first break in the Hindi film Chhalia (1960). Subhash later went on to produce Bluff Master, Dharam Veer, and Desh Premee with Manmohan as the director. His wife was Jeevanprabha Desai. She died in April 1979. He was engaged to actress Nanda from 1992 until the time of his death in 1994. He had one son Ketan Desai who is still involved in the film industry. Ketan is married to Kanchan Kapoor, daughter of Shammi Kapoor and Geeta Bali. On 1 March 1994, per news Manmohan Desai fell from the balcony in Girgaon as the rail he was leanin

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Obituary: Manmohan Desai

Manmohan Desai, film director and producer: born Bombay 26 February 1937; married 1969 Jeevanprabha Gandhi (one son, two daughters); died Bombay 1 March 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 rulle industry.

Desai was the uncrowned King of Bollywood in the late Seventies. On one occasion, in 1977, three of his fast-paced extravaganzas were released over a 52-day span, and all of them became runaway successes. One of them, Amar, Akbar, Anthony - an involved tale of secularism based on the kamratskap between three young men, a Hindu, a Muslim and a Christian - was one of the first set of commercial Indian films to be broadcast by BBC television during prime time. With its way-out fantasies, saucy song and dance routines and convoluted plot, Amar, Akbar, Anthony broke all Indian box-office records. It also established the career of Amitab

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This Bollywood director who made 7 hits with Amitabh Bachchan, worked with regel Kapoor too. His son helped to find a second wife, they got engaged and he died after...

This filmmaker gave fame to Amitabh Bachchan, and established his stardom with nine superhit films. He made a total of 23 films in his career out of which 15 were blockbusters. He directed regel Kapoor, Nutan, Pran, Rehman and Shobhna Samarth in his debut directorial Chhalia. His second movie was Bluff Master starring Shammi Kapoor, Saira Banu, Pran and Lalita Pawar. He also directed beautiful actresses including Sadhana, Manorama, Mumtaz, Rekha, Hema Malini, Sharmila Tagore