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Motilal is a Actor, Director, Writer and Playback Singer Indian born on 1 january 1910
Motilal Rajvansh (1910–1965) was an Indian film actor and the winner of Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award for Devdas (1955) and Parakh (1960). He is credited with being among Hindi cinema’s first natural actors.
He also directed a film Chhoti Chhoti Baatein (1965) but died before its release. At the 13th National Film Awards, it won the award for Certificate of Merit for the Third Best Feature Film and he posthumously won Certificate of Merit for the Best Story Writer.
He had a very intimate relationship for several years with the actress Nadira. He was involved with actress Shobhana Samarth after she separated from her husband, he played the role of Samarth's real-life daughter Nutan's father in Hamari Beti, Shobhana's launch movie for Nutan. He also played her guardian in Anari, though this time the role had a villainous touch to it.
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Motilal
Birth name Motilal Rajvansh
Nationality Inde
Birth 1 january 1910
Death 1 january 1965 (at 55 years)
Awards Filmfare Awards
Nationality Inde
Birth 1 january 1910
Death 1 january 1965 (at 55 years)
Awards Filmfare Awards
Motilal Rajvansh (1910–1965) was an Indian film actor and the winner of Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award for Devdas (1955) and Parakh (1960). He is credited with being among Hindi cinema’s first natural actors.
He also directed a film Chhoti Chhoti Baatein (1965) but died before its release. At the 13th National Film Awards, it won the award for Certificate of Merit for the Third Best Feature Film and he posthumously won Certificate of Merit for the Best Story Writer.
Biography
Though he was very suave and polished, and moved in high society, towards the end of his life he was in financial difficulty. Although a thorough gentlemen, he enjoyed gambling and races, and died almost penniless in 1965.He had a very intimate relationship for several years with the actress Nadira. He was involved with actress Shobhana Samarth after she separated from her husband, he played the role of Samarth's real-life daughter Nutan's father in Hamari Beti, Shobhana's launch movie for Nutan. He also played her guardian in Anari, though this time the role had a villainous touch to it.
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Chhoti Chhoti Baatein (1969)
, 2hDirected by Motilal
Genres Drama
Actors Florence Ezekiel Nadira, Motilal, Leela Mishra
Rating67%
Waqt (1965)
, 3h26Directed by Yash Chopra
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Actors Balraj Sahni, Achala Sachdev, Sunil Dutt, Sadhana Shivdasani, Sadhana, Raaj Kumar
Roles Public Prosecutor
Rating75%
Lala Kedarnath Prasanta (Balraj Sahni) has three sons whose birthdays are on the same day. On the occasion of their birthday celebration, they are visited by a well-known astrologer, who advises Lala Kedarnath not to be proud for his past achievements and to not be too optimistic about the future as fate (kismat) plays a key role in life. Lala Kedarnath ignores the prediction and is busy making plans for an even wealthier future. Later that night as he is proclaiming his grand plans for the future to his wife, Laxmi (Achala Sachdev), there is a sudden earthquake and the whole town crumbles. When Lala Kedarnath regains consciousness, his house has been destroyed and his family is gone.
Leader (1964)
, 2h56Themes Political films
Actors Dilip Kumar, Vyjayanthimala, Sapru, Nasir Husain, Jankidas, Motilal
Rating71%
Vijay Khanna is a law graduate-cum-tabloid editor he falls in love with Princess Sunita, while general election are underway. Vijay becomes accused of a political leaders murder. Gradually the couple tries to expose a criminal-politician nexus.
Yeh Rastey Hain Pyar Ke (1963)
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Actors Sunil Dutt, Shashikala, Ashok Kumar, Leela Naidu, Motilal, Rehman
Roles Prosecutor Ali Khan
Rating61%
Asli Naqli (1962)
Directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Dev Anand, Sadhana Shivdasani, Mukri, Sandhya Roy, Leela Chitnis, Indira
Rating75%
Anand (Dev Anand) is a spoiled grandson of a rich businessman Rai Bahadur (played by Nazir Hussain). His grandfather wants him to marry Rekha (Sandhya Roy), only daughter and heiress of a rich man despite of Anand's disinterest for her. In the ensuring fight, Anand leaves his house to prove his worthiness and ends up in the streets of Bombay (present day Mumbai). There one person meets Anand and takes Anand to his house in poor neighborhood.
The Test (1960)
Directed by Bimal Roy
Origin Inde
Genres Drama
Actors Sadhana Shivdasani, Motilal, Nazir Hussain, Durga Khote, Leela Chitnis, Asit Sen
Roles Haradhan / Sir Jagdish Chandra Roy
Rating72%
The central character is the Post Master who is given a mysterious cheque for ₹500,000 to be given to anyone who will use it to benefit the people of the village. There is a postman who pretends to be lame and is secretly rich and may have sent the cheque. Then there is the postmaster's wife, who is sick and would rather use the money to cure her illness, and his beautiful daughter Seema (played by Sadhana), who has a crush on the village school master. Meanwhile all the greedy and influential people of the village are busy trying to convince everybody why they are most deserving of the money; they include the village priest, the land lord, the money lender, the village doctor and the school master, who is by far the most respected. They all decide democracy is the best means and decide to hold an election where the winner gets the money. The movie is a satirical look at democracy through various twists and turns in the plot, interweaved with a simple love story.
Anari (1959)
Directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical
Actors Raj Kapoor, Nutan, Motilal, Lalita Pawar, Shubha Khote, Sulochana
Roles Seth. Ramnath Sohanlal
Rating75%
Raj Kumar is an honest, handsome and intelligent young man. He works as a sole trader and being a painter trade, he is unable to earn a living and unable to pay rent to his kind-hearted but talkative landlady Mrs. D'sa. One day Raj finds a wallet containing money and returns it to the owner Mr Ramnath. Ramnath admires Raj and pleased with his honesty, employs him to work in his office as a clerk. Raj meets with Ramnath's maidservant Asha and soon both fall in love. This all ends when Raj finds out that Asha is really Aarti, the niece of his employer. Unfortunately, his landlady dies consuming medicine manufactured by his employer Mr Ramnath and she passes away suddenly leaving Raj Kumar alone. The police conducts a post-mortem and as a result find out that Mrs. D'sa was poisoned. Raj became the prime suspect and is subsequently taken for questioning and is arrested and held in a cell. In the trial that he faces, however, Ramnath reveals the truth and thus Raj is saved.
Paigham (1959)
Directed by Subramaniam Srinivasan
Genres Drama
Actors Dilip Kumar, Vyjayanthimala, Raaj Kumar, B. Saroja Devi, Subramaniam Srinivasan, Johnny Walker
Roles Seth Sewakram
Rating66%
The movie traces the lives of the family of a widowed lady, her two sons and daughter.
Do Mastane (1958)
Actors Geeta Bali, Motilal, Nigar Sultana, Begum Para, Johnny Walker, Mukri
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Ab Dilli Dur Nahin (1957)
Genres Drama
Actors Motilal, Sulochana, Yakub, Syed Ishtiaq Ahmed Jaffery, Amjad Khan, Nana Palsikar
Roles Hariram
Rating76%
Ab Dilli Dur Nahin is the story of a journey in search of justice. Hariram, a poor labourer, loved his wife and son Rattan so much that he lavished them with all the comforts of life even though it meant he was constantly in debt. Hariram's life fell apart when he lost his wife. So grief-stricken was he that he even lost his job due to poor attendance. Misery drove him to seek solace in alcohol. When drunken Hariram reached home he found his son crying as an evil loan shark Sethji had beaten him up.
Jagte Raho (1956)
, 2h29Directed by Sombhu Mitra
Genres Thriller, Comedy
Actors Raj Kapoor, Iftekhar, Pradeep Kumar, Motilal, Pran Krishan Sikand, Nargis
Roles Singing Drunk
Rating81%
A poor peasant (Kapoor) from the village, who comes to the city in search of work, is looking for some water to quench his thirst. He unwittingly enters an apartment building, whose residents take him for a thief and chase him. He runs from one flat to the other trying to escape his predicament. Along the way, he witnesses many shady undertakings in the flats where he hides. Ironically, these crimes are being committed by the so-called "respectable" citizens of the city, who by day, lead a life totally in contrast to their nighttime deeds behind closed doors.
Devdas (1955)
, 2h39Directed by Bimal Roy
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about alcoholism, Medical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Films about drugs, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Dilip Kumar, Vyjayanthimala, Suchitra Sen, Motilal, Nazir Hussain, Iftekhar
Roles Chunni Babu
Rating76%
Set against the backdrop of rural Bengal during feudal times, Devdas is a young man from a wealthy Bengali Brahmin family in India in the early 1900s. Paro alias Parvati is a young woman from a middle class Bengali Brahmin family, but belonging to a slightly lower status in terms of caste, affluence and status. The two families lived in a village, and Devdas and Paro were childhood friends.
Ek Do Teen (1953)
, 2hActors Motilal, Iftekhar, Meena Shorey
Roles Motilal
Roma (Meena Shorey) is on her way home after celebrating with her friends at Asha's (Yashodra Katju) place when she is attacked by two robbers who try to steal her purse. She faints as one of them brandishes a knife. Motilal (Motilal) and his friend Hiralal (Majnu) are driving through there and scare away the robbers. After wondering what to do with the unconscious women, they take her to Moti’s house to render treatment. Roma makes a phone call to her father Seth Madanlal (K. N. Dhar) to tell him her whereabouts, but he is too angry to know the reason why she is there except to ask her the address. On arriving and seeing her with two men, he gets angry and starts shouting which wakes up Motilal’s father Seth Ramlal (Romesh Thakur) and he appears downstairs. The two fathers fight loudly and Roma is taken away by her father.
Mr. Sampat (1952)
Directed by Subramaniam Srinivasan
Genres Comedy
Actors Motilal, Padmini Ramachandran, Agha
Roles Mr. Sampat
Rating73%