Hashim Shah was a Punjabi writer and Sufi poet, best known for his story Sassi Punnun. His family migrated from Hold Madina to Punjab, India, where they began living at Jagdev Kalan, the biggest village in Ajnala tehsil, Amritsar district. Hashim Shah was born in Madina in 1735 and lived in that village his entire life. He wrote three stories "Kissa Kaw" named Sassi Punnu, Sohni Mahiwal, and Shirin Farhad.
Poonam Dhillon is an Indian Hindi film, theatre and TV actress. A former Femina Miss India (1977), Dhillon has acted in over 80 films. She is best known for her 1979 film Noorie, for her six films with Rajesh Khanna; Red Rose, Dard, Nishaan, Zamana , Awam and Jai Shiv Shankar (1990), Romance (1983), Sohni Mahiwal (1984), Teri Meharbaniyan (1985)Samundar (1986), Saveray Wali Gaadi (1986), Karma (1986), Naam (1986), Maalamaal (1988) etc.
Sanghar District is one of the largest districts of Sindh province, Pakistan. It has an area of 9874 square kilometres. It is located in the centre of Sindh and is bounded to the east by India. The district capital, |Sanghar, is itself a small city roughly 35 miles (56 km) east-south-east of the city of Nawabshah and the same distance north of Mirpur Khas. Its primary industry is agriculture.
Mirza Sahiba is one of the three popular tragic romances of Punjab. The other two are Heer Ranjha, Sohni Mahiwal. There are six other popular folklore stories in Punjab: Momal Rano, Sassi Punhoon, Umar Marvi, LiLa Chanesar, Noori Jam Tamachi and Dhaj, Ror Kumar. These nine tragic romances are popular in Punjab.
Mazhar Khan was an Indian film and television actor, producer and director.
Anwar Hussain,
known more by his first name Anwar, is a playback singer who rose to prominence in the Hindi playback industry because of the uncanny resemblance of his voice with that of singer Mohammed Rafi. His most popular song to date are
"Dosti imtihan leti hai" from Manmohan Desai directed Amitabh Bachchan and Shatrughan Sinha-starrer Naseeb (1981), and "Aisa bhi dekho waqt" from Mahesh Bhatt directed Aditya Pancholi-starrer Saathi (1991).
Mehar Mittal was an Indian Punjabi actor and producer. He is known for playing comic roles in Punjabi Cinema.
Phir Subah Hogi is a 1958 Indian drama film produced and directed by Ramesh Saigal and starring Raj Kapoor and Mala Sinha in lead roles. The film is an adaption of Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel Crime and Punishment.
Anupama Deshapande is a Bollywood playback singer who has won the Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer for her folk song "Sohni Chinab De" in the film Sohni Mahiwal (1984).
The 32nd Filmfare Awards were held in 1985. Sai Paranjpye's Sparsh walked away with the big prizes. The film's release was delayed by almost 4 years. Anupam Kher won the Best Actor award for his first film, Saaransh. Anil Kapoor also won his first Filmfare Award this year. This year, the trend backed away from Parallel Cinema as more commercial films won awards.
Umesh Mehra is an Indian film director and producer of Bollywood. He was prominent in the 1980s and 1990s with many Mithun Chakraborty starrers like Ashanti (1982), Mujrim (1989), Guru (1989) and Yaar Gaddar (1994). He directed Akshay Kumar in three films in the Khiladi series: Sabse Bada Khiladi (1995) Khiladiyon Ka Khiladi (1996) and International Khiladi (1999). In 1998 he directed the veteran actor Dilip Kumar in Qila which was Kumar's last film. Mehra's last film as director was 2002's Yeh Mohabbat Hai.
Fazal Shah Sayyad (1827–1890) was a Punjabi poet known for his qissas on tragic romances such as Sohni Mahiwal, Heer Ranjha and Laila Majnu. Of this body of work, the poem Sohni Mahiwal "has been considered his best".
Begum Para was an Indian Hindi film actress who was active mostly in the 1940s and 1950s. After 50 years, she returned to films with her last role in Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Saawariya (2007) as Sonam Kapoor's grandmother. In her times in 1950s, she was considered a glamour girl of Bollywood, so much so, that Life magazine had a special session with her devoted to her fine sensuous photographs.
Madhav S Shinde, credited as M. S. Shinde, was a Bollywood film editor who edited over 100 films, notably the cult hit Sholay (1975). Other notables films he worked on include Seeta Aur Geeta, Brahmachari, Shaan and Chamatkar. He received the Filmfare Best Editor award for Sholay in 1975.
Raja Nawathe was an Indian film producer, director, assistant film director, in Bombay's Hindi film industry, long before it came to be known as Bollywood. He is known for films like Raj Kapoor-Nargis starrer Aah (1953) and thriller Gumnaam (1965).
Ishwarlal was a Bollywood Hindi actor, director and producer, active from 1930 to 1966. He was born 9 October 1911 at Waghania, Gujarat, India as Hariprashad Joshi. He died on 22 January 1969 in Bombay (Mumbai), India. He acted in 86 films, directed 11 and sang in 14.
