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Usha Mangeshkar is a Producer and Playback Singer Indian born on 15 december 1935
Usha Mangeshkar (Marathi: उषा मंगेशकर, Hindi: उषा मंगेशकर) is an Indian singer who has recorded many Hindi, Marathi, Nepali and Gujarati songs.
She is the daughter of Pandit Deenanath Mangeshkar and Shevanti (Shudhamati).Deenanath's father was a brahmin and mother maratha. She is the younger sister of singers, Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle and elder to her music-director brother Hridaynath Mangeshkar. She gained spotlight as a playback singer after singing some devotional songs for the low-budget movie Jai Santoshi Maa (1975), which became an all-time blockbuster. She was nominated for the Filmfare Best Female Playback Singer award for her song "Main to Aarti" in that film. She sang the same songs for that movie's remake in 2006.
Usha has a strong interest in painting. She is known for her famous song "Mungla" and all the songs for the Marathi movie Pinjara.
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Usha Mangeshkar
She is the daughter of Pandit Deenanath Mangeshkar and Shevanti (Shudhamati).Deenanath's father was a brahmin and mother maratha. She is the younger sister of singers, Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle and elder to her music-director brother Hridaynath Mangeshkar. She gained spotlight as a playback singer after singing some devotional songs for the low-budget movie Jai Santoshi Maa (1975), which became an all-time blockbuster. She was nominated for the Filmfare Best Female Playback Singer award for her song "Main to Aarti" in that film. She sang the same songs for that movie's remake in 2006.
Usha has a strong interest in painting. She is known for her famous song "Mungla" and all the songs for the Marathi movie Pinjara.
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Jait Re Jait (1977)
Directed by Jabbar Patel
Genres Drama
Actors Mohan Agashe, Smita Patil, Sulabha Deshpande, Nilu Phule, Siddharth Ray
Roles Producer
Rating82%
The story revolves around a tribal caste called the Thakar. Nagya (Mohan Agashe) is a drummer who has a passion for being a "pure one" (punyavant). He meets Chindhi (Smita Patil), who has abandoned her husband as she considers him useless. They both fall in love and strive hard to be united. Once when Nagya goes to jungle for wood-cutting, a queen honey bee attacks him and one of his eyes is injured. He decides to take revenge. The beehives are located high on a nearby difficult to climb peak {Lingoba}. He decides to cut all the beehives so that the queen-bee runs away. Meanwhile, Chindhi becomes pregnant with Nagya, but she still supports his dangerous attempt to climb the peak. Nagya then climbs the peak and cuts the hives. Chindhi is waiting at the base of the peak, but the disturbed honey-bees attack her and she dies in the incident. Nagya, in search of Queen honey-bee, loses his own queen[wife] in the end. This is a classic paradox, where he succeeds (Jait re jait, means WIN-WIN) in his revenge, but loses wife.
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The Burning Train (1980)
, 2h57Genres Thriller, Action
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films
Actors Asrani, Parveen Babi, Danny Denzongpa, Dharmendra, Simi Garewal, Jeetendra
Roles Playback Singer
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.
Kartavya (1979)
Genres Action
Actors Dharmendra, Rekha, Utpal Dutt, Vinod Mehra, Aruna Irani, Ranjeet
Roles Playback Singer
Rating70%
Aafat (1977)
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Navin Nischol, Leena Chandavarkar, Amjad Khan, Mehmood Ali, Faryal, Jayshree T.
Roles Playback Singer
Rating60%
Inspector Amar and Inspector Chhaya are after criminal Hardayal. Amar and Chhaya fall in love. Amar goes beyond call of his duty to catch Hardayal and hence suspended. Amar is caught by Hardayal and imprisoned. Now Chhaya is supposed find criminal Hardayal.
Do Chehere (1977)
Genres Drama, Musical
Actors Dharmendra, Prem Nath, Bindu, Mahipal Singh, Veerinder Singh Legend of punjabi cinema, Aruna Irani
Roles Playback Singer
Farishta Ya Qatil (1977)
Genres Action
Actors Shashi Kapoor, Rekha, Jayshree T., Yunus Parvez, Utpal Dutt, Bindu
Roles Playback Singer
Rating20%
For Your Sake (1977)
Directed by Sudhendu Roy
Genres Drama, Romantic comedy
Actors Vinod Khanna, Rekha, Florence Ezekiel Nadira, Helen Khan, Mac Mohan, Asrani
Roles Playback Singer
Rating64%
Sagar (Vinod Khanna) defies his wealthy family by marrying a poor girl named Sarita (Rekha) and therefore is cut out of his family's inheritance. He then decides to make a living by driving a cab. Sarita feels guilty that he left his wealth behind to marry her. She raises Rs.10,000 from a loan shark but lies to her husband saying she got it from her uncle. She then asks her husband to give the money to a stockbroker friend to invest. When the investment doesn't result in healthy dividends, Sarita becomes desperate to raise the money to repay the loan shark. She inadvertently gets hooked up with a madam (Nadira) who sends clients to her apartment. Sarita gets into humorous incidents as she avoids contact with her male clients.
Pandu Hawaldar (1975)
Directed by Dada Kondke
Genres Comedy
Actors Dada Kondke, Ashok Saraf, Usha Chavhan
Roles Playback Singer
Rating81%
Chameli Memsaab (1975)
, 2h24Genres Drama
Actors George Baker, Rakhee Gulzar, George Baker, Anil Chatterjee
Roles Playback Singer
Rating77%
The film is set in a tea garden in Assam, where Berkeley is a British owner, he falls in love with Chameli is local girl who works in the tea estate. Subsequently, they marry, however later he is accused of her murder.
Jai Santoshi Maa (1975)
, 2h10Genres Drama
Themes Films based on mythology, Films about religion
Actors Kanan Kaushal, Bharat Bhushan, Anita Guha, Mahipal Singh, Leela Mishra
Roles Playback Singer
Rating63%
The film opens in Dev Lok or "the world of the gods," a Hindu heaven located above the clouds, where we witness the "birth" of Santoshi Ma as the daughter of Ganesha, the elephant headed god of good beginnings, and his two wives Riddhi and Siddhi ("prosperity" and "success"). A key role is played by the immortal sage Narada, a devotee of Vishnu, and a cosmic busybody who regularly intervenes to advance the film's two parallel plots, which concern both human beings and gods. We soon meet the maiden Satyavati (Kanan Kaushal), Santoshi Ma's greatest earthly devotee, leading a group of women in an aarti (song and ceremony of worship) to the goddess. This first song, "Main To Arti Utaru", "I perform Mother Santoshi's arti," exemplifies through its camerawork the experience of darshan —of "seeing" and being seen by a deity in the reciprocal act of "visual communion" that is central to Hindu worship.
Jeevan Sangram (1974)
Genres Drama
Actors Tarun Bose, Iftekhar, Shashi Kapoor, Padma Khanna, Radha Saluja, Asit Sen
Roles Playback Singer
Rating65%
Jangal Mein Mangal (1972)
Genres Adventure, Romance
Actors Kiran Kumar, Reena Roy, Pran Krishan Sikand, Balraj Sahni, Gulshan Bawra, Jagdish Raj
Roles Playback Singer
Rating66%
Pyaar Diwana (1972)
Genres Comedy
Actors Kishore Kumar, Mumtaz, Iftekhar, Padma Khanna, Sundar
Roles Playback Singer
Rating68%
Punishment (1972)
Genres Crime
Actors Kabir Bedi, Yogeeta Bali Chakraborty, Ashok Kumar, Jeetendra, Rekha, Rajendra Nath
Roles Playback Singer
Rating28%
Arundhati (1967)
Genres Drama, Musical
Actors Sarat Pujari, Minati Mishra
Roles Playback Singer
Rating66%
Arundhati & Manoj are lovers and part of an Odishi dance troupe. Manoj desperately loves Arundhati. One day while the troup is performing in front of action packed audience, one Biswajeet claims Arundhati is to be his wife Madhumati. Actually Madhumati died in a train accident, but Biswajeet still believes that Madhumati is still alive. In suspicion, Manoj left Arundhati and disappear. Arundhati tries to convince Biswajeet that she is not Madhmati and she has deep love interest with Manoj. Later Biswajeet finds Madhumati & Arundhati are twin sisters and Madhumati actually dies in accident. Biswajeet left the troupe to search for Manoj. Biswajeet find Manoj in a small railway station and persuade Manoj to reunite with Arundhati.