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Dinesh Thakur is a Actor and Scriptwriter Indian born on 1 january 1947
Dinesh Thakur (1947 – September 20, 2012) was a noted Indian theatre director, actor in theatre, television and Hindi film, where most notably he appeared as one of the leads in Rajnigandha 1974 and directed by Basu Chatterjee, which won both Filmfare Best Movie Award and the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Movie. He was the founder-director of ANK productions, a Mumbai-based theatre company, established in 1976.
Though he mainly appeared as character roles in Hindi films, as a screenwriter and story writer, he is known for writing the story and screenplay of Ghar (1978), which won him the 1979 Filmfare Best Story Award.
He died on September 20, 2012 due to kidney failure.
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Dinesh Thakur
Dinesh Thakur (1947 – September 20, 2012) was a noted Indian theatre director, actor in theatre, television and Hindi film, where most notably he appeared as one of the leads in Rajnigandha 1974 and directed by Basu Chatterjee, which won both Filmfare Best Movie Award and the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Movie. He was the founder-director of ANK productions, a Mumbai-based theatre company, established in 1976.
Though he mainly appeared as character roles in Hindi films, as a screenwriter and story writer, he is known for writing the story and screenplay of Ghar (1978), which won him the 1979 Filmfare Best Story Award.
He died on September 20, 2012 due to kidney failure.
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Fiza (2000)
, 2h50Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about terrorism, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Jaya Bachchan, Karisma Kapoor, Hrithik Roshan, Neha, Asha Sachdev, Isha Koppikar
Rating60%
The film is about Fiza (Karisma Kapoor), whose brother, Aman (Hrithik Roshan), disappears during the 1993 Bombay riots. Fiza and her mother Nishatbi (Jaya Bachchan) desperately hold on to the hope that one day he will return. However, six years after his disappearance, Fiza, fed up with living with uncertainty, resolves to go in search of her brother. Driven by her mother Nishatbi's fervent hope and her own determination, Fiza decides to use whatever means she can—the law, media, even politicians—to find her brother, which brings her into contact with various characters and situations.
, 3h30Directed by Basu Bhattacharya
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution
Actors Rekha, Om Puri, Dinesh Thakur, Navin Nischol, Daisy Irani, Suparna Anand
Roles Dinesh
Rating63%
Mansi (Rekha) and Amar (Om Puri) have been married for years, and have a daughter by this marriage. Amar is employed full-time, while Mansi looks after the household chores and their daughter. Amar earns a steady income, which enables the family to live comfortably, but they cannot afford to be extravagant at all. One day while buying shoes for her daughter, Mansi realizes that shoes are really expensive, and wants to leave the store without purchasing them. Another woman customer named Reena (Daisy Irani) offers to pay for the shoes, as she feels sorry for Mansi. Mansi reluctantly accepts Reena's offer to pay for the shoes, not realizing that Reena has paid for these shoes with a secret agenda that will open a new door in Mansi's life dragging her to prostitution to satisfy materialistic needs.
Hum Se Na Takrana (1990)
, 2h15Directed by Deepak Bahry
Genres Drama, Action, Horror, Crime
Actors Dharmendra, Shatrughan Sinha, Mithun Chakraborty, Kimi Katkar, Anita Raj, Dinesh Thakur
Rating52%
Hum Se Na Takrana is an action film starring Dharmendra and Mithun Chakraborty in lead roles. The Story shows a young former losing all his land through a forged contract.
Aakhri Baazi (1989)
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Actors Shatrughan Sinha, Govinda, Moushumi Chatterjee, Mandakini, Sonam, Sadashiv Amarapurkar
Rating45%
Ram Kumar (Govinda) lives a wealthy lifestyle in Calcutta with his brother, Prashant (Shatrughan Sinha) and Parvati (Moushumi Chatterjee), his sister-in-law. Since his school-days he had befriended a young orphan named Laxman (Kunal Goswami), who also lives with them. Years later, Ram and Laxman have grown up, and Laxman joins the Police Force. Impressed with Laxman's dedication and diligence, the Police Commissioner assigns him to take down the crime empire of a notorious underworld don called Cobra. Laxman is killed trying to arrest Cobra and Ram swears to avenge Laxman's death, and sets forth to seek Cobra. It is then Ram finds out that the man called Cobra may be Prashant himself. A series of double cross and deceit leads to a plot much more sinister than what Ram could have ever imagined.
Nasihat (1986)
, 2h35Genres Drama
Actors Rajesh Khanna, Shabana Azmi, Mithun Chakraborty, Deepti Naval, Amjad Khan, Kader Khan
Rating53%
Indrani, a daughter of a multimillionaire Seth Ratanlal, falls in love with an ordinary but honest Dinesh and vows to marry him. Dishonest and cunning servant Mohanlal gets hurt to know this and starts bittering the cars of Seth Ratanlal against Indrani. Indrani confessing all this, gives a shocking news that she is going to be a mother of Dinesh's child.
Ulta Seedha (1985)
Directed by Subodh Mukherjee
Genres Comedy
Actors Raj Babbar, Rati Agnihotri, Aruna Irani, Deven Varma, Shubha Khote, Dalip Tahil
Rating55%
Aaj Ki Awaaz (1984)
Genres Drama, Action
Actors Raj Babbar, Smita Patil, Nana Patekar, Om Shivpuri, Dheeraj Kumar, Shafi Ali Inamdar
Rating56%
Manju (1983)
Directed by M. T. Vasudevan Nair
Actors Nanditha Bose, Kalpana, Dinesh Thakur
Set in Nainital, Manju is about Vimala Devi, a teacher in a boarding school, waits in hope for the winter of her discontent to vanish. Another important character is Buddhu, who waits for his Englishman father to return to Nainital. Loneliness and endless waiting are recurring motifs in the film.
Aamne Samne (1982)
, 2h15Genres Drama, Action, Musical, Crime
Actors Mithun Chakraborty, Leela Mishra, Bindiya Goswami, Kamal Kapoor, Manoj Kumar, Dinesh Thakur
Roles CBI Officer Ashfraf Khan
Rating63%
Gopi (Mithun Chakraborty) is a simple minded villager who travels to Mumbai looking for a job. He is approached by some men who mistaken him for Johnny (also Mithun Chakraborty). Johnny is a criminal who works for the underworld don Supremo (Kamal Kapoor) and is also a stage performer by day to cover up his criminal activities. When he meets his lookalike, Johnny decides to use him as a fall guy in case the police discover who he is. Gopi is trained into becoming Johnny to convincingly impersonate him unknowingly becoming an accomplice to Johnny's crimes. When the police discover Johnny has stolen valuable statues, Gopi is blamed and must prove his innocence.
Baghavat (1982)
Directed by Ramanand Sagar
Genres Drama, Historical
Actors Dharmendra, Hema Malini, Reena Roy, Amjad Khan, Urmila Bhatt, Viju Khote
Rating63%
Agni Pareeksha (1981)
Actors Utpal Dutt, Amol Palekar, Bibhu Bhattacharya, Parikshit Sahni, Talluri Rameshwari, Iftekhar
Roles Dilip Thakur (Karuna's brother)
Rating61%
The Burning Train (1980)
, 2h57Genres Thriller, Action
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films
Actors Asrani, Parveen Babi, Danny Denzongpa, Dharmendra, Simi Garewal, Jeetendra
Roles Usman Ali
Rating69%
The plot is an intricately woven one. It starts from childhood with the story of Ashok (also called Shoki by his childhood friend Vinod) (Dharmendra) who is a wealthy industrialist's only son. He is passionate about cars from childhood befriends Vinod (Vinod Khanna) who is passionate about trains; its his dream to make India's fastest train. Rakesh (Vinod Mehra) shares same passion as Vinod. Randhir (Danny Denzongpa) is in a tussle from childhood to make a better train than Vinod's. Childhood turns into adulthood and one day both attend a dance function organised by the Indian Railways. This is where Ashok and Vinod fall in love with two beautiful women: Seema (Hema Malini) and Sheetal (Parveen Babi). Ashok is now deeply in love with Seema and they are planning to get married after their engagement. Vinod is married to Sheetal and they have a son Raju. One day Vinod, who is now a top notch railway engineer, gets awarded with the contract to build a super-fast express train between New Delhi and Mumbai. Rakesh (Vinod Mehra) is his assistant. Randhir, the losing engineer and ex-lover of Sheetal, swears revenge and leaves.
Sitara (1980)
, 2h5Genres Drama
Actors Mithun Chakraborty, Zarina Wahab, Agha, Dinesh Thakur, Mac Mohan, Yunus Parvez
Rating71%
Sitara is the love story of two childhood lovers, Dhania and Kundan. They comes to Bombay, due to their economic conditions and they start working in a Cinema hall. Dhania is fascinated by films and has hidden desire to become an actress, so she often imitates the dances shown on movies. One day Dhania plays the record of the songs and start dancing assuming herself as the heroine of the film. She pulls Kundan also to join her and both involves in the dance, forgetting every thing. One person related with films watches them and he is impressed by the skill of Dhania and he helps her to become a filmstar Sarita from Dhania. Now Kundan feels lonely in this glamour world and their love is lost somewhere. He still loves her, but she is lost in her dreams of becoming a superstar. Depressed Kundan decides to return to his village. Sitara, explores the life of actors coming from small towns and villages.
Meera (1979)
, 2h35Directed by Gulzar
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Themes Films about religion, Political films
Actors Hema Malini, Vinod Khanna, Dr. Shriram Lagoo, Shammi Kapoor, Dina Pathak, Om Shivpuri
Roles Jaimal Rathod
Rating65%
The story is set around 1580, in the time of King Akbar. Biramdev (Dr Shreeram Lagoo) is the king of Medta, a province in Rajasthan. He has two daughters, Meera (Hema Malini) and Krishna (Vidya Sinha) and a son, Jaimal (Dinesh Thakur). Meera is in deep emotional love with Lord Krishna, so much so that she considers Lord Krishna to be her husband. Akbar (Amjad Khan) is becoming stronger day by day and hence other small provinces are trying to join against him. Medta, in one such political agreement, decides to join hands with Raja Vikramajit (Shammi Kapoor). As a part of this agreement Meera is married (against her wish) to Vikramajit's son, Rana Bhojraj (Vinod Khanna). But even after getting married her love for Lord Krishna remains the same and she follows her own ideals and way of living which are not very acceptable to Bhojraj and his family. One thing leads to another and one day Meera is declared as an outcast and traitor who failed to play a wife's duties towards her husband, a bride's duties towards her family, and a woman's duties towards society. She is jailed and a public trial is ordered to decide her fate. But Meera is still unshakable and her spirituality keeps her going. She is not even afraid of death. Finally she is given a death sentence and is ordered to drink a cup of venom in front of the public.
Madhu Malti (1978)
Directed by Basu Bhattacharya
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Prema Narayan, Gulshan Grover, Sachin, Sarika, Dinesh Thakur, Arvind Deshpande
Roles Anil Sharma