Balraj Sahni
Acting
Biography
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Born: May 1, 1913
Place of Birth: Rawalpindi, British India
Known For
Ghar Ghar Ki Kahani
Drama about 2 neighbouring families - one which is honest but poor, and the other uses any means to rise up the ladder of wealth quickly.
Shaadi
The life of an impoverished male undergoes drastic changes after he gets his siblings married.
Naunihal
The Principal of New Era High School in Panchgani finds an orphan, Raju, who had lost his parents to plague, brings him home, and enrolls him in the school. Raju notices that while every student has parents and visitors, he has no one to call his own. He gets distraught and is assured by the Principal that he does have a relative in Chacha Nehru (Jawaharlal Nehru, the Indian Prime Minister). Raju believes him, and when he finds out through his teacher, Uma, that Nehru will be delivering a speech in Chowpatty, Bombay, he sneaks off in the trunk of a car. Upon arrival he faces harsh realities, his money is almost stolen, and he is befriended by a cynical deranged male, who tells him that Nehru is now a speech-prone politician and is unable to hear what the common citizen has to say...
Hum Log
An impoverished family faces illness and financial challenges after one of them is sent to prison.
Naya Raasta
Chander, a criminal lawyer, gives up his successful career and returns to his ancestral village. There, he comes face-to-face with social problems such as casteism, untouchability and poverty.
Two Acres of Land
An impoverished man and his young son travel to Calcutta and look for work, in order to make money that'll save their ancestral land from being seized by a corporation.
Ek Phool Do Mali
Tale of one child with two fathers, one who gave birth to him and another who raised him.
Pavitra Papi
Kedarnath is employed with a local clock/watch repair shop, owned by a parsimonious Adarshan Lala. Kedarnath goes out of his way to help a destitute woman, Maya, who husband is missing, with two daughters, Veena and Vidya. Kedarnath rents a room with them, writes letters to her on behalf of her husband, Pannalal, and even arranges the marriage of Veena with the son of Daulatram. When Maya tells him that she has no money to pay for the marriage expenses, he steals cash from his employer, and tells Maya that the money is from Pannalal. And all along telling Maya that he is a close friend of Pannalal, even though he has never met Pannalal, leave alone know him, making one think as to what devious secret Kedarnath is hiding, and what is the reason behind Pannalal's disappearance.
Do Raaste
After his father’s death, Navendu devotes his life to raising his step-siblings and honoring his promise to care for his stepmother. However, as the siblings reach adulthood, the family bond is tested. Each must choose between the Road of Sacrifice and the Road of Selfishness, leading to a dramatic conflict between duty and personal greed.
Hamraaz
A stage actor from Bombay becomes entangled in a murder mystery after he falls in love with a mysterious woman in Darjeeling and marries her.
Filmography
as Udham Singh
as Suresh
as Salim Mirza
as Thomas
as Ravi Anand
as Govindram
as Panna Lal
as Baba
as Shankarnath
as Inspector General Chandrashekhar, Bharat's dad
as Banshi
as Ashok
as Subedar Varyam Singh
as Navendu Gupta
as Kailashnath Kaushal
as Dr. Ramnath
as Ganeshi N. Prasad
as Public Prosecutor Ramnath Sharma
as Mr. Raichand
as Police Inspector
as Gautamdas' dad
as Shukla
as Yasin Khan
as Kedarnath
as Andhe Baba
as Ganga
as Major Ranjit Singh
as Ratan
as Shankar
as Shyam
as Devraj
as Dr. Nirmal Chowdhary
as Panchu Dada
as Agent Rajan
as Rajendra
as Nirmal Kumar
as Radhe Mohan
as Sakaram
as Loknath
as Narrator
as Ashok 'Babuji'
as Dayal
as Doctor Thomas
as Shambhu Maheto
as Raj
as Jailor
as Niranjan, the eldest son of Samaddar
as Abdul Rehman Kahani