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Vasant Desai is a Actor, Makeup Artist and Sound Indian born on 9 june 1912 at Sawantvadi (Inde)
Vasant Desai (1912–1975) was an Indian film music composer, most remembered for his score in V. Shantaram film, like Do Aankhen Barah Haath (1953), Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baaje (1955), Vijay Bhatt's Goonj Uthi Shehnai (1959), Sampoorna Ramayan (1961), Hrishikesh Mukherjee's Guddi (1971) and Aashirwaad.
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My Light (1936)
, 2h46Directed by V. Shantaram
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Musical
Actors Durga Khote, Chandra Mohan, Shanta Apte, Vasant Desai, Chandra Mohan
Rating63%
Saudamini (Durga Khote) is denied custody of her son by the Queen (Karuna Devi) and the tyrannical Minister of Justice Durjaya (Chandra Mohan) after she separates from her husband. Durjaya tells her that a woman is the slave of her husband and essentially has no rights. This enrages Saudamini and she vows vengeance and becomes a pirate. She and her pirates capture a ship which is supposed to be carrying the princess Nandini (Shanta Apte). However, she finds her old enemy Durjaya and takes him prisoner cutting off one of his legs. Nandini has been hiding in chest, and when she comes out of it, the imprisoned Durjaya sees her. He falls in love with her and offers her his food. Nandini however falls in love with a young shepherd boy Sudhir (Nandrekar). When she meets Saudamini and her helper Rekha (Vasanti) she joins them as a pirate and tells Sudhir off. Durjaya escapes with the help of Sudhir and arrives to arrest Saudamini. Saudamini is captured but the others along with Nandini and Rekha escape. It is finally revealed that Sudhir is Saudamini's long-lost son. Nandini and Sudhir marry and Rekha carries forward Saudamini's legacy.
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Tere Ghar Ke Samne (1963)
, 2h29Directed by Vijay Anand, Biren Nag
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical, Romance
Actors Dev Anand, Nutan, Rajendra Nath, Om Prakash, Jankidas
Roles Makeup Artist
Rating74%
Set in Delhi in 1962, Lala Jagannath (Om Prakash) and Seth Karam Chand (Harindranath Chattopadhyay), two wealthy businessmen, are bidding for the front plot in a government auction. One is westernised and wears black-rimmed spectacles, the other, traditional turban and linen. Adamant on getting the front plot of land, Lala Jagannath raises the price higher and higher. Seth Karam Chand irks him even further by raising the price by a paltry 1000 rupees, made worse by the fact that Seth Karam Chand raises his finger, leaving the auctioneer (Jankidas) and the crowd to interpret the meaning. Lala Jagannath winds up with the front plot, but at the last moment, Seth Karam Chand comes in and quotes an insane price for the back plot, leaving the rest to think something has gone wrong with him.
Nau Do Gyarah (1957)
, 2h50Directed by Vijay Anand, Biren Nag
Actors Dev Anand, Kalpana Kartik, Shashikala, Jeevan, Madan Puri, Lalita Pawar
Roles Makeup Artist
Rating72%
The film starts with Madan Gopal (Dev Anand) being thrown out of his house for not paying the rent. He goes to visit his friend, who has been helping him collect his mail, and finds a letter from his uncle, Manoharlal. Manoharlal writes that he is willing eleven lakh rupees (nine lakhs of cash and two lakhs worth of property), to Madan. It was originally willed to his sister-in-law's son, Kuldeep (Krishan Dhawan). After seeing Kuldeep's bad behaviour, though, Manoharlal decides to give the money to Madan.
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One, Many, and Unity (1977)
, 7minutesDirected by Vijaya Mulay
Origin Inde
Genres Animation
Themes Films about animals, Films about birds, Mise en scène d'une plante
Rating82%
Dans un jardin, un jeune garçon essaie d'attraper une mangue qui pend à un arbre, mais il n'y parvient pas seul. Sa sœur lui raconte l'histoire d'un groupe d'oiseaux qui parvient à échapper à un oiseau prédateur en s'alliant avec un groupe de souris. Comprenant que l'union fait la force, le garçon appelle ses amis à son aide. Ensemble, ils parviennent à cueillir toutes les mangues du jardin et se les partagent.
Shaque (1976)
Actors Vinod Khanna, Shabana Azmi, Utpal Dutt, Bindu, Durga Khote, Farida Jalal
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating68%
Rani and Lalpari (1975)
Directed by Ravikant Nagaich
Genres Fantasy, Musical
Themes Musical films, Children's films
Actors Rajendra Kumar Tuli, Preeti Ganguly, Asha Parekh, Jeetendra, Feroz Khan, Reena Roy
Roles Music
Rating66%
Rani, a young girl is being brought up by her mother while her father is studying abroad. They live in her abusive uncle's house. Her best friend Pappu tells her about Lalpari. After watching the plane carrying her father crash, her mother dies out of shock. Rani decides to go to heaven to bring her mother back. She succeeds to reach heaven with the help of Lalpari and manages to trick Yamraj (God of truth and death). However Rani's father was only injured in the plane crash. Rani lives happily after with her parents.
Achanak (1973)
Directed by Gulzar
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Vinod Khanna, Farida Jalal, Om Shivpuri, Asrani, Iftekhar, Lily Chakravarty
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating70%
Major Ranjeet Khanna (Vinod Khanna) is in love with his wife Pushpa, who seems to love him as well. His commanding officer, also his father-in-law, is played by Iftekar. Ranjeet is happy with his marriage, until he finds out about his wife's affair with his best friend. He kills them both and turns himself in to the police. Then, he escapes from the police to find the Ganges River, because he wanted to fulfill his wife's wish of dropping her wedding necklace into the river. However, the police shoot him first and he is hospitalized, where he becomes emotionally attached to the doctors (Om Shivpuri, Asrani) and the nurse (Farida Jalal), who are also devastated when he is sentenced to hang.
Guddi (1971)
, 3h8Directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Jaya Bachchan, Pran Krishan Sikand, Dharmendra, Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Sumita Sanyal, Utpal Dutt
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating71%
Kusum (aka Guddi) (Jaya Bachchan) is a spunky and carefree schoolgirl who lives with her father (A. K. Hangal), brother and sister-in-law (Sumita Sanyal). Guddi has a crush on film star Dharmendra, whom she regards as a superman who can do no wrong, unable to distinguish between his on-screen image and the real person behind the star.
Aashirwad (1968)
, 2h26Directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee
Genres Drama
Actors Ashok Kumar, Sanjeev Kumar, Sumita Sanyal, Suchitra Sen, Sarika, Abhi Bhattacharya
Roles Music
Rating75%
Jogi Thakur (Ashok Kumar) is a simple man of high principles. He is a resident son-in-law who, with his wife, has been bequeathed property and estates by his father-in-law. He breaks his marriage to an autocratic landlady (Veena) when he finds out that on her wife's order, the chief accountant of the estate has cunningly obtained his signatures on an order that the houses of the poor be burnt. He leaves home, vowing never to return as long as he lives, leaving his daughter Neena behind. He moves to Mumbai where he makes a living by entertaining children in a park(the famous song "Rail Gaadi", said to be India's first rap number). He is specially fond of a girl whose name, incidentally, is Neena (played by baby Sarika), too. Unfortunately the girl takes ill and dies.
Yaadein (1964)
, 2h11Directed by Sunil Dutt
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Sunil Dutt, Nargis
Roles Original Music Composer
Rating72%
Anil (Sunil Dutt), un homme d'affaires prospère, rentre un soir dans sa maison somptueuse pour retrouver sa femme Priya (Nargis) et leurs deux enfants. Mais à son arrivée, il constate que sa famille n'est pas à la maison ; il suppose que sa femme est partie définitivement avec les enfants et est effrayé de sa vie sans eux et regrette ses absences répétées.
Sampoorna Ramayanam (1961)
, 3h3Directed by Babubhai Mistry
Themes Films based on mythology, Films about religion
Actors Mahipal Singh, Anita Guha, Sulochana, Lalita Pawar, Helen Khan, Achala Sachdev
Rating74%
Goonj Uthi Shehnai (1959)
, 2h54Directed by Vijay Bhatt
Genres Musical, Romance
Actors Rajendra Kumar Tuli, Anita Guha, I. S. Johar, Manmohan Krishna Chadha, Leela Mishra, Krishna Kumari
Roles Music
Rating72%
Two Eyes Twelve Hands (1957)
, 2h23Directed by V. Shantaram
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Crime
Themes Prison films
Actors V. Shantaram, Sandhya Shantaram, Phaldut Sharma, Sunil Dutt
Roles Music
Rating83%
The film portrays a young jail warden, Adinath, who rehabilitates six dangerous prisoners released on parole into persons of virtue.
Toofan Aur Diya (1956)
Actors Nanda, Rajendra Kumar Tuli, P. Santha Kumari
Rating66%
When their mother dies, a brother and sister are left orphaned. Having sold all their possessions to settle debts they also become homeless and destitute. They set out to find a better life, away from their painful memories. Taking shelter in a remote temple, they encounter an ascetic holy man who allows them to stay there. With the spiritual help of the ascetic and the monetary assistance of an unhappy dancer, the boy's indomitable spirit and indefatigable energy enable the pair to overcome a series of setbacks including the loss of the girl's sight and the sickness of her fiancé. Such is the example set by the boy that both the dancer and the ascetic feel their lives have been enriched by knowing him.