Naksh Lyallpuri was born on February 24, 1928, and was a lyricist for Indian Ghazal and Bollywood films. Jaswant Rai Sharma, popularly known by his pseudonym Naqsh Lyallpuri, was born on February 24, 1928, in Lyallpur (now Faisalabad and present-day Pakistan) into a Punjabi Brahmin family. His father was a mechanical engineer. He disapproved of Jaswant's affinity for literature. The...
Sapan Sengupta was a part of the famous Duo Sapan Jagmohan, who were very famous music composers of 1970. They both started their career as singers in Salil Chowdhury's Bombay Youth Choir. They were also singers in Hindi films. They are popularly known for their massive hits like "Main Toh Har Mod Par" from Chetna (1970), "Hum Hai Jahan" from...
Sanjay Khanna's career in film began with assisting internationally acclaimed filmmaker Shekhar Kapur in the fiction film 'Mr. India,' where he was in charge of the entire shoot from pre-production to post-production. Shekhar Kapur provided Sanjay Khanna an opportunity to direct 'Dushmani,' starring Sunny Deol and Manisha Koirala while working on 'Bandit Queen.' Sanjay went on to work with Shekhar Kapur's...
Being the offspring of a famous parent is always fraught with the threat that one’s own capabilities may get undervalued in the eyes of others, the general perception being that any claim to fame is basically a sort of reflected glory. The case of Amit Kumar, (or Amit Kumar Ganguly as his full name stands) would very much fall in...
Ali Asgar or Ali Azgar is known for his character as Dolly Daadi in Comedy Nights with Kapil. He was born on July 25, 1966 and presently working as an Indian actor. He also worked as a comedian in various Bollywood Indian films and TV serials. He won in the Comedy Circus 1 TV series together with Pakistani, Kashif Khan...