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Sudha Shivpuri is a Actor Indian born on 14 july 1937 at Indore (Inde)
Sudha Shivpuri (14 July 1937 – 20 May 2015) was an Indian actress who was most famous for her role as Baa in the Hindi TV serial Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi (2000–2008).
Om Shivpuri and Sudha got married in 1968 and continued work in Delhi theatre. They formed their own theatre company, Dishantar, which produced several important contemporary plays, including Aadhe Adhurey, Tughlaq, and Vijay Tendulkar's Khamosh! Adalat Jari Hai in which she played the lead role, all directed by Om Shivpuri.
In 1974, she shifted to Mumbai, as her husband had started getting many offers for Hindi films.
She made her film debut with Basu Chatterjee's Swami in 1977 and went on to act in films like Insaaf Ka Tarazu, Hamari Bahu Alka, Sawan Ko Aane Do, Sun Meri Laila, Burning Train, Vidhaata and Maya Memsaab (1993).
Thereafter she took a break from films and shifted to television, where she acted in a few serials like Aa Bail Mujhe Maar and Rajni (1985), in which she played Priya Tendulkar's mother-in-law.
After the death of her husband in 1990, she started acting again and went on to do many TV serials, including Missing, Rishtey, Sarhadein and Bandhan. Her big break in television came in 2000, when she was asked to perform the role of 'Baa', the old mother-in-law, in the TV serial Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi.
She has done many other shows like Sheeshe Ka Ghar, Waqt Ka Dariya, Daman, Santoshi Ma, Yeh Ghar, Kasamh Se, and Kis Desh Mein Hai Meraa Dil.
In 2003 she acted in the Hindi film Pinjar, based on Amrita Pritam's famous partition novel.
She was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 2009 for her Acting in Theatre, given by the Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's National Academy of Music, Dance & Drama.
Personal life
Sudha Shivpuri has a daughter, Ritu who is also an Hindi film actor and has a son Vineet. She had suffered a heart attack in 2014 and was not doing well for some time. She died from multiple organ failure on 20 May 2015 in Mumbai.
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Sudha Shivpuri
Nationality Inde
Birth 14 july 1937 at Indore (Inde)
Death 20 may 2015 (at 77 years) at Mumbai (Inde)
Awards Sangeet Natak Akademi Award
Birth 14 july 1937 at Indore (Inde)
Death 20 may 2015 (at 77 years) at Mumbai (Inde)
Awards Sangeet Natak Akademi Award
Sudha Shivpuri (14 July 1937 – 20 May 2015) was an Indian actress who was most famous for her role as Baa in the Hindi TV serial Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi (2000–2008).
Biography
Brought up in Rajasthan, Sudha Shivpuri started her career early, when she was in the eighth standard in school. Her father had died, and her mother had fallen ill, thus the onus of earning a living for the family fell on her.Om Shivpuri and Sudha got married in 1968 and continued work in Delhi theatre. They formed their own theatre company, Dishantar, which produced several important contemporary plays, including Aadhe Adhurey, Tughlaq, and Vijay Tendulkar's Khamosh! Adalat Jari Hai in which she played the lead role, all directed by Om Shivpuri.
In 1974, she shifted to Mumbai, as her husband had started getting many offers for Hindi films.
She made her film debut with Basu Chatterjee's Swami in 1977 and went on to act in films like Insaaf Ka Tarazu, Hamari Bahu Alka, Sawan Ko Aane Do, Sun Meri Laila, Burning Train, Vidhaata and Maya Memsaab (1993).
Thereafter she took a break from films and shifted to television, where she acted in a few serials like Aa Bail Mujhe Maar and Rajni (1985), in which she played Priya Tendulkar's mother-in-law.
After the death of her husband in 1990, she started acting again and went on to do many TV serials, including Missing, Rishtey, Sarhadein and Bandhan. Her big break in television came in 2000, when she was asked to perform the role of 'Baa', the old mother-in-law, in the TV serial Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi.
She has done many other shows like Sheeshe Ka Ghar, Waqt Ka Dariya, Daman, Santoshi Ma, Yeh Ghar, Kasamh Se, and Kis Desh Mein Hai Meraa Dil.
In 2003 she acted in the Hindi film Pinjar, based on Amrita Pritam's famous partition novel.
She was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 2009 for her Acting in Theatre, given by the Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's National Academy of Music, Dance & Drama.
Personal life
Sudha Shivpuri has a daughter, Ritu who is also an Hindi film actor and has a son Vineet. She had suffered a heart attack in 2014 and was not doing well for some time. She died from multiple organ failure on 20 May 2015 in Mumbai.
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Outsourced (2006)
, 1h43Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Josh Hamilton, Ayesha Dharker, Asif Basra, Arjun Mathur, Matthew Smith, Larry Pine
Rating69%
Todd Anderson (Josh Hamilton) has to travel to India when his department is outsourced. Todd is not happy but when his boss Dave informs him that quitting would mean losing his stock options, he goes to train his Indian replacement Puro (Asif Basra).
Pinjar (2003)
, 3h8Directed by Dr.Chandra Prakash Dwivedi
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Urmila Matondkar, Manoj Bajpayee, Sanjay Suri, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Isha Koppikar, Seema Biswas
Roles Rahim's mother
Rating78%
Pinjar tells the story of Puro, a young woman of Hindu background, living a lovely life — circling the time of the partition of 1947 — with her family. Puro is betrothed to a wealthy, sweet young man, Ramchand, from a promising family. Puro's bliss is shattered one day as a leisurely trip with Rajjo, her younger sister, turns traumatic as she is kidnapped by a mysterious Muslim man, Rashid. Rashid's family has an ancestral dispute with Puro's family. Puro's family had made Rashid's homeless by taking over their property. Puro's grand-uncle had even kidnapped Rashid's grand-aunt and then released her after defiling her. Rashid's family made him swear that he would kidnap Puro to settle the score.
Maya Memsaab (1993)
, 2h51Directed by Ketan Mehta
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, Films about suicide, Erotic films, Musical films, Madame Bovary, Bollywood
Actors Deepa Sahi, Farooq Sheikh, Raj Babbar, Shahrukh Khan, Paresh Rawal, Raghubir Yadav
Rating54%
Young, beautiful and intelligent Maya (Deepa Sahi) lives with her father in a palatial mansion in rural India. When her father suffers stroke, she calls for local Dr.Charu Das, who arrives on his bicycle and prescribes treatment for her father. He comes pretty often, more on the pretext of seeing her than her father. Eventually they get married. Years pass by and Charu is busy engrossed in treating patients, leaving Maya alone to ponder her own fate and life. And it is not long before a young man named Rudra enters her life and an affair follows. This does not last long, as a much younger man Lalit (Shah Rukh Khan) now enters her life and they begin a passionate affair. But again, Maya is not satisfied as she longs for more than bodily needs and it is perhaps this that leads to her sudden death, leaving two investigators to probe who or what really killed Maya.
Hamari Bahu Alka (1982)
Directed by Basu Chatterjee
Genres Drama
Actors Rakesh Roshan, Bindiya Goswami, Utpal Dutt, Asrani, Prema Narayan, Sudha Shivpuri
Roles Mrs. Badriprasad
Rating66%
Collegian Pratapchand alias Pratap lives with his father, Badriprasad, a building contractor, his housewife mom, and a younger brother named Ramu. Badriprasad is always critical of Pratap, and never a day passes without Pratap being reminded of his shortcomings. When Pratap's friend, Sunil gets married to Sudha, Badriprasad arranges Pratap's marriage with a village belle named Alka, much to Pratap's chagrin. After the marriage takes place, Pratap finds Alka attractive, and both fall in love with each other, and would like some time together. But that is not to be so, as Pratap has exams coming up, and Badriprasad will not permit them to be close to each other. So both of them scheme up a plot to leave on the pretext of visiting Alka's parents in another distant town. Instead both of them go to Bombay, rent a room, and decide to be intimate. But fate has other plans, rather comical, for them, and will make rue their decision of coming to Bombay.
Vidhaata (1982)
Directed by Subhash Ghai
Genres Drama, Action
Actors Dilip Kumar, Shammi Kapoor, Sanjeev Kumar, Sanjay Dutt, Padmini Kolhapure, Suresh Oberoi
Rating67%
Shamsher Singh (Dilip Kumar), his son Pratap Singh (Suresh Oberoi), and daughter-in-law lead a happy life in an Indian village. Shamsher works as an engine driver with his friend Gurbaksh Singh (Shammi Kapoor). Pratap is appointed as the new inspector-in-charge of the village but is killed brutally by Jagawar Chaudhary (Amrish Puri), a notorious local smuggler, after Pratap refuses to help Jagawar in his illegal activities. Seeing his son dead, Shamsher Singh is enraged and he kills some of Jagawar's goons whom he had seen throwing his son's dead body in the forest. When he is about to inquire from one of Jagawar's men about the person behind his son's murder, he is stopped by the police and is asked to surrender; Shamsher somehow manages to escape. His daughter-in-law dies while giving birth to Kunal Singh (Sanjay Dutt).
Scales of Justice (1980)
Directed by Baldev Raj Chopra
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction
Actors Raj Babbar, Zeenat Aman, Padmini Kolhapure, Dr. Shriram Lagoo, Simi Garewal, Deepak Parashar
Rating63%
Payal Ki Jhankaar (1980)
Directed by Satyen Bose
Genres Romance
Actors Rupini, Surinder Kaur, Shail Chaturvedi, Sudha Shivpuri
Roles Bhavani - Shyama's aunt
Rating59%
Swami (1977)
Directed by Basu Chatterjee
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Shabana Azmi, Girish Karnad, Hema Malini, Dharmendra, Utpal Dutt, Preeti Ganguly
Rating66%
'Saudamini' (Shabana Azmi) is a bright village girl with academic ambitions and an appetite for literature and philosophy. Her intellectual uncle (Utpal Dutt) indulges her brainy bent, encouraging her studies and running interference between Mini and her mother (Sudha Shivpuri), a pious widow whose only concern is to see Mini married, and quickly. Mini has a nascent love affair with her neighbor Narendra (Vikram), the zamindar's son, a student in Calcutta who on his frequent visits brings her Victorian literature, listens raptly to her discourse, and is bold enough to kiss her opportunistically when they are caught together in a rainstorm. Circumstances conspire against Mini and Narendra, though, and soon Mini finds herself married against her wishes to a wheat trader 'Ghanshyam' (Girish Karnad) from a neighboring village. Plunged into despair, Mini struggles to become accustomed to life in her unwanted marriage and her new home, where Ganshyam's stepmother seems to favor Mini's sisters-in-law and where her new husband treats her with a patience that she finds perplexing.