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Gajanan Jagirdar is a Actor and Director Indian born on 2 april 1907

Gajanan Jagirdar

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Nationality Inde
Birth 2 april 1907
Death 13 august 1988 (at 81 years)

Gajanan Jagirdara (1907–1988) was a veteran Indian film director, screenwriter and actor. He worked in Hindi Cinema, also called Bollywood as well as Marathi cinema. The period of 1942 to 1947, saw him rise as a film director with Prabhat Films.

At the 1962 National Film Awards, his film Vaijayanta was awarded the Second Best Marathi Feature Film.

Usually with

Lalita Pawar
Lalita Pawar
(9 films)
Madan Puri
Madan Puri
(10 films)
Jagdish Raj
Jagdish Raj
(10 films)
Iftekhar
Iftekhar
(10 films)
Dev Anand
Dev Anand
(4 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Gajanan Jagirdar (59 films)

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Actor

Aap Ke Saath
Aap Ke Saath (1986)
, 2h13
Actors Anil Kapoor, Vinod Mehra, Smita Patil, Rati Agnihotri, Amrish Puri, Utpal Dutt
Rating55% 2.7918752.7918752.7918752.7918752.791875
Ashok and Vimal are two grandsons of K.k. Vimal is womanizer. Ashok and Ganga are in love but when Ashok was about to propose Ganga for marriage, he finds that Ganga has complained against him in police station for sexual molestation. Ashok pays some money to Ganga and hope never to see her. K K bring home a girl named Deepa as K K want Deepa and Ashok to marry. But Deepa falls in love with Vimal. Vimal frequently visit a courtesan. When Ashok goes to courtesan to bring home Vimal, Ashok finds that courtesan is none other than Ganga.
Bepanaah
Bepanaah (1985)
, 2h10
Genres Drama
Actors Shashi Kapoor, Mithun Chakraborty, Poonam Dhillon, Rati Agnihotri, Kader Khan, Suresh Oberoi
Roles Brahmprakash Bharadwaj
Rating62% 3.1347853.1347853.1347853.1347853.134785
Bepanaah is an action family drama, featuring Shashi Kapoor, Mithun Chakraborty, Poonam Dhillon, Rati Agnihotri, Dheeraj Kumar, Kader Khan and Suresh Oberoi.
Lal Chunariyaa
Lal Chunariyaa (1983)
, 2h15
Actors Zarina Wahab, Aruna Irani, Parikshit Sahni, Pradeep Kumar, Mithun Chakraborty, Arun Govil

Lal Chunariya is a family drama. Written by Rajvansh
Sun Sajna
Sun Sajna (1982)
, 2h5
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Mithun Chakraborty, Ranjeeta "Robby" Kaur, Iftekhar, Syed Ishtiaq Ahmed Jaffery, Kishore Namit Kapoor, Dinesh Hingoo
Rating62% 3.12133.12133.12133.12133.1213
Basanti (Ranjeeta Kaur), a lively young woman, lives in Madhupur with her father and uncle. Basanti owns a little shop called "Basanti's Shop". Here she sells various types of merchandise, most popularly dolls, that her blind neighbour (who she looked up to as her grandfather) made. Her childhood friend, Gopi, also owns a shop close to hers. He is secretly in love with Basanti and wants to marry her but Basanti does not have any interest in him, as her friend,Champa,is in love with him although he doesn't accept her love. One day, Basanti meets a singer named Raj Kumar (Mithun Chakraborty) at the hotel, "Tin Min". Raj Kumar instantly falls in love with Basanti and she does with him also, but she does not show it. Raj Kumar tries different ways into getting Basanti to admit she loves him and for him to get closer to her and her family, which involves him paying a gang of men to pretend to tease Basanti and then when he tries to save her, he'll beat them up, so Basanti's father and uncle would see Raj's bravery and how he wants to protect Basanti. Gopi, who sees Raj and Basanti were getting too close, pays the men more money than Raj was paying them to actually beat Raj. Basanti's father and uncle arrive and try to help Raj. Basanti's uncle cuts one of the men with a blade. The man vows that he'll get revenge and leaves. Basanti's family takes Raj home and makes him comfortable as he got hurt in the fight. Basanti and Raj have a little conversation where she tells him that she knows he paid the men. Soon enough, Basanti admits her love for Raj and the love birds spend some happy times until Gopi poisons Basanti's family against Raj. They tell Basanti she could never see Raj again, but they still meet on the sly and are caught. Raj says that he truly loves Basanti and he won't take advantage of her at all. Her family believes him and fixes his marriage with Basanti.
Umrao Jaan
Umrao Jaan (1981)
, 2h25
Directed by Muzaffar Ali
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Rekha, Farooq Sheikh, Naseeruddin Shah, Shaukhat Kaifi, Dina Pathak, Prema Narayan
Roles Maulvi
Rating76% 3.830273.830273.830273.830273.83027
In the year 1840, a girl named Amiran (Seema Sathyu) is kidnapped from her family in Faizabad, Oudh by their neighbour, Dilawar Khan (Satish Shah), and sold to Madam Khanum Jaan (Shaukat Kaifi) who owns a brothel in Lucknow where she trains courtesans (tawaif). Amiran, renamed Umrao Jaan, learns to read, write, dance, and sing. She is a cultured woman trained to captivate men of wealth and taste.
Dostana
Dostana (1980)
, 2h33
Directed by Raj Khosla
Genres Drama
Actors Amitabh Bachchan, Shatrughan Sinha, Zeenat Aman, Prem Chopra, Pran Krishan Sikand, Amrish Puri
Roles High School Principal
Rating63% 3.196863.196863.196863.196863.19686
Vijay (Amitabh Bachchan) and Ravi (Shatrughan Sinha) are best friends who do not question each other about their careers. Vijay is a police officer and Ravi is a lawyer. While Vijay catches criminals, Ravi bails those criminals out and is employed by Daaga (Prem Chopra). One day both Vijay and Ravi meet Sheetal (Zeenat Aman) at different places and times, and both fall in love with her. While Vijay's love is more vocal and is reciprocated by Sheetal, Ravi has one-sided crush on Sheetal.
Saanch Ko Aanch Nahin
Saanch Ko Aanch Nahin (1979)
, 2h18
Directed by Satyen Bose
Genres Drama
Actors Arun Govil, Om Shivpuri, Urmila Bhatt, Sundar, Gajanan Jagirdar, Om Puri
Roles Hariram
Rating68% 3.409823.409823.409823.409823.40982
Manoharlal Agarwal (played by Om Shivpuri) and Satyaprakash Agarwal (played by Arvind Deshpande) are wealthy businessmen and close friends. Manoharlal enters in a dispute with Hariram and to solve this he asks his friend Satyaprakash to be the sole arbitrator. To bond their friendship more, Manoharlal proposes to wed his daughter Nirmala (played by Madhu Kapoor) with Satyaprakash's son Ajay (played by Arun Govil). He also proposes this in order to get favour from Satyaprakash in his case.
Naiyya
Naiyya (1979)

Directed by Prashanta Nanda
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Prashanta Nanda, Zarina Wahab, Leela Mishra, Dinesh Hingoo, Shail Chaturvedi, Gajanan Jagirdar
Rating67% 3.350733.350733.350733.350733.35073
Lakhipur is a small community along the river banks of the holy river Ganges, where Sonu lives with his ailing mother. One day he rescues a woman named Geeta and brings her home with him. He and his mom look after her while she recuperates and find out that she comes from a wealthy family. When she gets better, he takes her home, only to find out that she is no longer welcome there by her paternal uncle and his wife, Ramkali, leaving him with no alternative but to take her home with him. His mom would like Geeta to get married to Sonu, but before she could arrange this, she passes away, leaving Sonu and Geeta to live together - and being shunned by the entire community - who would like Geeta to leave. Sonu then starts to find a suitable groom for her, and does find one when a doctor comes to their community to treat victims of plague, the doctor agrees to marry Geeta, but on the day of the marriage does not show up. A distraught Sonu must now find why the doctor did not fulfill his promise - in the midst of the community threatening to boycott him and possibly burning his brand new boat.
Des Pardes
Des Pardes (1978)

Directed by Dev Anand
Genres Drama
Actors Dev Anand, Tina Ambani, Pran Krishan Sikand, Gajanan Jagirdar, Amjad Khan, Ajit Khan
Roles Mr. Sahni
Rating71% 3.5652253.5652253.5652253.5652253.565225
Samir Sahni is a farmer living with his mom, dad, wife, Rama, a young daughter, and his younger brother, Veer. Samir gets an offer to work in the U.K., and departs accordingly. He would like to settle there, and after doing so, would like his family to also join him. The years go by, and Samir keeps in touch with his family regularly. Then the Sahni family stop receiving any letters from him, and are anxious to know what has happened to him. Veer is asked to travel to U.K. to find out, and he does so. What he finds are tens of thousands of East Indians on fake passports, working for less than minimum wages, poor unhealthy conditions, fear of being deported, and paying half of their earnings to fellow East Indians who had got them here through the underground. Veer finds no sign of his brother, and sets out to investigate, only to find deceit, murder, and his very own life in danger.
Aadmi Sadak Ka
Aadmi Sadak Ka (1977)

Directed by Devendra Goel
Actors Shatrughan Sinha, Deven Varma, Sujit Dhungana, Agha, Asit Sen, David Abraham
Rating59% 2.964852.964852.964852.964852.96485
The Nath family consists of Retired Commissioner Upendra, his wife, Savitri; elder son, Madan, who is married to Maya, and they have a son, Ashoo; a second son - Surendra, who is married to Kamla, and they have a daughter, Pinky; a third unmarried college-going son, Chander; and a school-going daughter, Namrata. They are a happy family, and everyone rejoices when Chander completes his M.A.. There is more to rejoice when Chander introduces them to the woman he loves, Vandana, the only daughter of wealthy Mr. Tandon. The marriage is arranged with a ceremony, attended by the family friend, Abdul, who home-delivers groceries.