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Dilip Dhawan is a Actor and Producer Indian born on 1 january 1955
Dilip Dhawan (1955–2000) was a film and television actor.
Starting his career as a child artiste in Sangharsh (1968), featuring Dilip Kumar, Dhawan acted in over 50 films.
He acted as the hero in the movie Arvind Desai Ki Ajeeb Dastaan in 1978. Best known for his role as Guru in the television serial Nukkad, Dhawan also acted in serials like Janam, Deewar and Tere Mere Sapne. He was a well-known movie actor, known for mostly supporting roles (and a few major roles) in Ek Baar Kaho (1980), Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyon Ata Hai (1980), Sazaye Maut (1981), Saaheb (1985), Dak Bangla (1987), Hero Hiralal (1988), Swarg (1990), Izzatdaar (1990), Heena (1991), Madhosh (1994), Yash (1996), Virasat (1997), Hum Saath-Saath Hain: We Stand United (1999) and Raja Ko Rani Se Pyar Ho Gaya (2000).
He was also the producer of the movie Saath Saath made in 1982.
He died on February 15, 2000, in Mumbai, at the age of 45, of a heart attack.
He has two brothers in the film industry - Anil Dhawan and David Dhawan
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Starting his career as a child artiste in Sangharsh (1968), featuring Dilip Kumar, Dhawan acted in over 50 films.
He acted as the hero in the movie Arvind Desai Ki Ajeeb Dastaan in 1978. Best known for his role as Guru in the television serial Nukkad, Dhawan also acted in serials like Janam, Deewar and Tere Mere Sapne. He was a well-known movie actor, known for mostly supporting roles (and a few major roles) in Ek Baar Kaho (1980), Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyon Ata Hai (1980), Sazaye Maut (1981), Saaheb (1985), Dak Bangla (1987), Hero Hiralal (1988), Swarg (1990), Izzatdaar (1990), Heena (1991), Madhosh (1994), Yash (1996), Virasat (1997), Hum Saath-Saath Hain: We Stand United (1999) and Raja Ko Rani Se Pyar Ho Gaya (2000).
He was also the producer of the movie Saath Saath made in 1982.
He died on February 15, 2000, in Mumbai, at the age of 45, of a heart attack.
He has two brothers in the film industry - Anil Dhawan and David Dhawan
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Raja Ko Rani Se Pyar Ho Gaya (2000)
Directed by T. K. Rajeev Kumar
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Arvind Swamy, Manisha Koirala, Dilip Dhawan, Priya Tendulkar, Dina Pathak, Tanvi Azmi
Roles Rohit Kumar
Rating33%
Hum Saath Saath Hain (1999)
, 2h57Directed by Sooraj R. Barjatya
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Salman Khan, Karisma Kapoor, Saif Ali Khan, Tabu, Sonali Bendre, Mohnish Bahl
Roles Anurag
Rating62%
Movie starts with 25th anniversary of Mamta (Reema Lagoo) and Ramkishan's (Alok Nath) . They have 3 sons Vivek (Mohnish Behl) who is Mamta's stepson and disabled in one hand, because of a childhood accident, in which he had saved his brothers Prem (Salman Khan) and Vinod (Saif Ali Khan). This disability tends to put off most marriageable girls. Businessman Adarsh (Rajeev Verma) and his daughter Sadhna (Tabu) attends family function and gets impressed by the warmth and solidarity of Vivek and his family. This leads to a marriage between Vivek and Sadhna.
Virasat (1997)
, 2h48Directed by Priyadarshan
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Anil Kapoor, Amrish Puri, Tabu, Pooja Batra, Govind Namdev, Milind Gunaji
Roles Shakti's brother
Rating73%
After completing his studies in London, Shakti Thakur (Anil Kapoor) returns to the small Indian town where his family resides. Accompanying him is his girlfriend, Anita (Pooja Batra), whom he is in love with and wants to marry, much to the disapproval of his family. After a few days, Shakti starts to feel that nothing much has changed in this part of India and longs to leave. He tells his father that he would like to sell his share in the family land and would open Restaurant business and settle with his girlfriend, to this his Father(Amrish Puri) urges him to stay in the village and uplift it with his education, by saying "A man gets Education not to become a selfish being but to uplift his uneducated brothers and society". Shakti does not agree with his father and decides to leave. He is unable to bear the animosity between the townspeople in general and in particular between his Zamindar dad, Raja Thakur (Amrish Puri), and rival Zamindar Birju (Govind Namdeo), none other than Raja's crippled brother.
Aurat Aurat Aurat (1996)
Directed by K. Viswanath
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Rekha, Rakesh Roshan, Sadashiv Amarapurkar, Vinod Mehra, Dr. Shriram Lagoo, Dilip Dhawan
Rating57%
Yash (1996)
Actors Kartika Rane, Ajit Vachani, Sonu Walia, Mangal Dhillon, Dina Pathak, Dilip Joshi
Rating58%
Vikram Rai (Mangal Dhillon) is a talented singer, unknown however in the singing world. Kalpana (Sonu Walia), the daughter of Kailashnath Sahai (Ajit Vachani) who is the owner of a singing company, is however won over by his singing and marries him against her father's wishes. They have a son whom they name Yash (Bijay Anand). As time passes Kalpana realises that she has married the wrong man. She leaves her husband and son and returns to her father's house. Kalpana's desertion is a real challenge for Vikram and after sending Yash to a hostel, he works hard and eventually becomes the owner of a company. Yash turns out to be a handsome young man in love with a girl, Angel (Kartika Rane), who is the daughter of a music teacher. Yash now feels rejected by both his parents - his mother who is more in love with money and his father who has fallen in love with Asha (Natasha Sinha). After taking training in music from Mr. Joseph, he becomes pop singer and gets a lot of fame. Seeing this his mother and grandfather wish to bring him into their company, but he refuses. In order to take revenge, Kailashnath destroys Vikram. When Yash learns of this, he comes to his father's help. Is Yash able to re-establish his father? Was he able to bring his parents together? This is the climax of Yash.
Madhosh (1994)
Directed by Vikram Bhatt
Genres Drama, Action, Musical, Romance
Actors Faisal Khan, Dilip Dhawan, Kiran Kumar, Supriya Pathak, Parikshit Sahni, Mushtaq Khan
Rating68%
Henna (1991)
, 3h4Directed by Randhir Kapoor
Origin Pakistan
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Actors Rishi Kapoor, Zeba Bakhtiar, Ashwini Bhave, Saeed Jaffrey, Farida Jalal, Kulbhushan Kharbanda
Rating61%
The story revolves around the mistaken straying (due to a car accident which also caused him to suffer amnesia) of Rishi Kapoor into the Pakistani side of Kashmir from his own home in Srinagar . A native girl called Henna (Zeba Bakhtiar), falls in love with him , amidst the controversial Indian-Pakistani tension on Kashmir which leads him to be suspected by the Pakistani police of being an Indian spy.
Shiva (1990)
, 2h41Directed by Ram Gopal Varma
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Actors Akkineni Nagarjuna, Amala Paul, Amala Akkineni, Raghuvaran, J. D. Chakravarthy, 'Subhalekha' Sudhakar
Roles Shiva's Brother
Rating76%
The film opens with a bunch of gangsters, led by Ganesh., waiting outside the (fictional) VAS college of Arts & Sciences. A college student JD (JD Chakravarthy) gestures to the goons and they proceed to savagely assault another student and his friends.
Izzatdaar (1990)
, 2h53Directed by K. Bapaiah
Genres Action, Crime
Actors Dilip Kumar, Govinda, Madhuri Dixit, Raghuvaran, Anupam Kher, Mukri
Rating50%
Dilip Kumar plays the role of a man set up and framed for a murder for which he is jailed, because of his scheming son-in-law, Raghuvaran. His Daughter Swapna is also killed at the hands of Raghuvaran, when Raghuvaran slaps and tries to molest Madhuri Dixit, when she confronts him about his evil deeds. Dilip Kumar avenges the death of his daughter and the years spent in prison. Against this backdrop, Govinda is a man who works for the underworld after he is shot as a child by Tej Sapru. After finding love with Madhuri Dixit, Govinda changes his ways and joins up with Dilip Kumar to take revenge as he too has been wronged by the same group of villans.
Swarg (1990)
Directed by David Dhawan
Genres Drama
Actors Rajesh Khanna, Juhi Chawla, Govinda, Madhavi Alladurgam, Neena Gupta, Paresh Rawal
Rating66%
Living in a luxurious mansion named Swarg, this is the story of Mr. Kumar or Sahabji (Rajesh Khanna) a rich businessman and his wife (Madhavi) sister Jyoti (Juhi Chawla), two brothers Vicky (Raja Bundela) and Ravi (Dilip Dhawan), and a sister-in-law (Neena Gupta). He also has a loyal servant, Krishna (Govinda). Sahabji has a clash of wits with Dhanraj (Paresh Rawal), a dishonest man who successfully schemes with Sahabji's two brothers and sets fire in Sahabji's factory, citing short circuit as the reason and takes over the luxurious mansion and vast business empire, leaving Sahabji virtually penniless, and devastated with the passing away of his wife. His brothers have now taken over the money, the mansion and his business. Krishna was scolded & slapped very painfully and was asked by sahabji to leave the mansion because he was charged of stealing Jyoti's necklace by Sahabji's brothers and sister-in-law. Later, he comes to know that Sahabji intentionly banished him so that he can do something better in life. Krishna moves to Mumbai and meets a man (airport) and become friends. He works hard, becomes a superstar and returns to find his Sahabji and teaches a good lesson to Dhanraj (sets fire in Dhanraj mills) and buys the mansion. He also teaches a nice lesson to Sahabji's cheater brothers by committing fraud in business with them (as they did not know that their partner was krishna because they never saw him). Later, Krishna buys Sahabji's former bungalow. He finds Sahabji and Jyoti in a pitiable condition. He brings them back to the bungalow. Sahabji's brothers realise their mistake. Krishna forgives them and brings them back to the bungalow. The brothers ask for forgiveness from Sahabji. At this point, Sahabji suffers from heart attack. He forgives his brothers. He also approves Jyoti and Krishna's relationship and tells them to marry. Later, Sahabji dies leaving his family.
Hero Hiralal (1988)
Directed by Ketan Mehta
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Action, Musical
Actors Naseeruddin Shah, Sanjana Kapoor, Saeed Jaffrey, Deepa Sahi, Johnny Lever, Kiran Kumar
Rating60%
Naseeruddin Shah is Hero Hiralal, a Hyderabadi Auto-driver, who meets an upcoming Bollywood starlet, Roopa (Sanjana Kapoor) and becomes her tour guide. Soon, the two fall in love.
Rest House (1987)
Genres Horror
Actors Rajan Sippy, Ranjeet, Viju Khote, Marc Zuber, Rajendra Nath, Mazhar Khan
Rating51%
The film opens with a young couple locked in intimate embrace at a large dak bangla (rest house). They are interrupted by a deep knocking sound from somewhere beneath the rest house. An evil force (we do not see who or what) suddenly issues from somewhere and murders both of them.
Saaheb (1985)
, 2h30Genres Drama
Actors Anil Kapoor, Amrita Singh, Rakhee Gulzar, Utpal Dutt, Deven Varma, Biswajit Chatterjee
Rating71%
Mr. Sharma (Utpal Dutt) lives with his four sons (Biswajeet, Vijay Arora, Dilip Dhawan) and a daughter, Geeta or Butlie. Only the youngest son, Sunil (Anil Kapoor) and Geeta are unmarried. Mr. Sharma arranges his daughter's marriage with a man who will be re-locating to London, U.K. The family requires Rs.50,000/- for the expenses, and will even go to the extent of selling their house. Sunil or Saaheb as he is referred to, is the black sheep of the family - unemployed & uneducated - only interested in playing football. None of the elder brothers have any means of coming up with money for the expenses, and two of them even scheme with their respective wives to take over the house. Mr. Sharma attempts to raise the money, in vain. Sunil then makes the ultimate sacrifice for the marriage of his sister, and brings the money to his dad. His dad believes that Sunil has stolen the money, and Sunil is forced to lie about where he got the money from. The family only finds out after the marriage ceremony is over, and do not hesitate to blame him. It is then Sujata (Raakhee) reveals the secret of how the money came to Sunil's possession.
Bade Dil Wala (1983)
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Actors Rishi Kapoor, Tina Ambani, Sarika, Madan Puri, Amjad Khan, Pran Krishan Sikand
Rating58%
Popular musician Amrit Kumar Saxena usually performs on stage to entertain his fans. On one occasion he red-handily caught Bhagwat Singh alias B.K. stealing priceless jewelery but instead of reporting this to the police Amrit keep this to himself. B.K. then schemes with his girlfriend, Luska to frame Amrit for the stolen jewelery resulting in him getting sentence to jail for two years. But Amrit gets release within a year due to good conduct; it is here he thinks about closing in on B.K. and Luska resulting in a physical exercise which ends up leaving Luska dead. For fear of another arrest Amrit flee the scene only to end up boarding a train; here he gets to meet his childhood friend Vijay, his wife, Juhi and their son, Munna. Unfortunately the train meets in an accident resulting in the death of Juhi and Vijay. Amrit then reaches Munna to Juhi's residence to be introduced to her father, Mr. Sinha who recognizes him as his son-in-law, Vijay and refuses to part with him; while Amrit is apprehensive to stay he is convinced by the family's doctor that Mr. Sinha is a heart patient. It is then Amrit decides to stay on and help Mr. Sinha pull together his business; it is here Amrit starts to develop feelings for this family and Mr. Sinha decides to make him his heir to all his assets. Time passes and Amrit starts to fall in love with Juhi's sister, Reshmi only to be told that Juhi is still alive albeit with a blank memory. Juhi returns home with Dr. Joshi who is none other than Bhagwat Singh who wants to utilize this opportunity to not only expose Amrit's true reality to the Sinhas but to settle scores with Amrit for the death of his girlfriend.
Death Penalty (1981)
Directed by Vidhu Vinod Chopra
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Naseeruddin Shah, Radha Saluja, Aanjjan Srivastav, Arun Bakshi, Dilip Dhawan, Mushtaq Khan
Roles Anil Suri
Rating73%
Malika Modi lives a very wealthy lifestyle with her widowed dad in India where they own vast acres of land and businesses. When Mr. Modi suddenly passes away, he leaves all the business's interests with his younger brother conditionally until Malika turns 25. Shortly before she turned 25, Malika is told by a young man, Uday Jagirdar, that she is about to get killed, and the person to kill her is none other than Uday himself. Malika disbelieves him and runs for her life. She finds out that Uday is not chasing her but another man, Anil Suri, an employee of her uncle's. Malika knows now that she has no choice but to seek help from Uday, her very own paid assailant. What Malika does not know is that Uday is not who he claims to be, but is actually a deranged former mental patient who is accused of murder.