Sudhir Dalvi
Acting
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Known For
The Discovery of India
Bharat Ek Khoj is a 53-episode Indian historical drama based on the book The Discovery of India by Jawaharlal Nehru, that dramatically unfolds the 5000 year history of India from its beginnings to the coming of independence in 1947. The drama was directed, written and produced by Shyam Benegal with cinematographer V. K. Murthy in 1988 for state-owned Doordarshan. Benegal's regular script collaborator Shama Zaidi also co-wrote the script.
Param Dharam
Savitri (Moushumi Chatterjee) falls in love with Vijay (Mithun Chakraborty), who saves her sister from a dacait named Shamshera (Amrish Puri). Both get very intimate, and then decide to marry. Before the marriage could take place, Shamshera kills Vijay, and Savitri gives birth to a baby boy, but is told that the child was born dead. She then marries Thakur Prem Singh (Navin Nischal), who is responsible for blinding Shamshera in one eye, and sending him to prison. Subsequently Savitri gives birth to another baby boy, Rajesh (Sumit Saigal). Years later, she comes across a young man named Ravi (also Mithun Chakraborty)
Suryaa: An Awakening
Thakur Gangadhar Choudhary rules a small community in rural India with an iron hand, and will never permit anyone to speak up against him. He owns most of the land surrounding his palatial home - save for the small patch of land owned by Veer Singh. He summons Veer to his house, and offers him substantial compensation for his land, but Veer refuses, and the Thakur has him killed. Veer's widow dies of shock, leaving behind a young Suraj to be brought up by a kindly widow Mrs. Salma Khan, who is also the mother of Iqbal. Years go by, Suraj grows up joins the Indian Armed Forces, and after a meritorious career, he resigns and returns home to avenge his father's death. What he does not know that he must first come to terms with the local Police Inspector Iqbal Khan, and then the wealthy Collector of the District, Rajpal Chauhan, before he can even think of touching a single hair of Gangadhar Choudhary.
Hawalaat
Geeta works for a newspaper as a reporter and exposes the drug-running crimes of Dharamdas and others involved with him, and as a result she is abducted, imprisoned, and raped repeatedly by both the criminals and a police inspector. Who will save her and others from the clutches of the criminals?
Gandhi
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with armed resistance from the British government, Gandhi adopts a policy of 'passive resistance', endeavouring to win freedom for his people without resorting to bloodshed.
Yadon Ki Kasam
When Ravi (Mithun Chakraborty) saves the life of the beautiful and mute Chandni (Zeenat Aman), the two fall in love but are soon separated. Years later, Ravi's wife unwittingly hires Chandni, sparking a series of events that could destroy them all. Directed by Vinod Dewan, this remarkable drama also features Madan Puri, Shakti Kapoor, G. Asrani and Ashalata.
Kranti Kshetra
Due to his excellent performance in the Indian Armed Forces, Major Barkat Singh is thrust the responsibility to capture a notorious criminal. Post assignment, he faces numerous challenges.
Ganga Tere Desh Mein
Inspector Ajay lives with his widowed mother in a city in India. He has been assigned the task of bringing in notorious bandit and gangster named Cobra, who has been terrorising and killing people all over India. He does succeed in arresting him, and holds him in a cell, only to find out that he is insane, and must be institutionalised. Thereafter, Ajay awaits Cobra's treatment so that he can proceed with his investigation. One day while his mother packs his lunch, he finds out that it was poisoned, it did not affect him, but it kills another colleague. His mother, relieved to find out that Ajay is alright, is more concerned about Cobra, who was also sent some food. Ajay is baffled as to why his mother would feed a senile criminal, and he sets out to find out why. The truth will devastate him, make him lose his job, and change his outlook on life forever.
Agnee
When Shekawat learns that his parents have left all their estates and properties to his sister due to the pending birth of her son, he plots to keep the money.
Kaala Patthar
Vijay Singh is a disgraced former Merchant-Navy officer who is branded as a coward after he abandons his crew during an emergency. Guilt-ridden and trying to forget his past, he takes up work at a coal mine where he gets trapped with other miners after a flood hits them.
Filmography
as Dr. Shastri
as Kelkar
as Neelam's uncle
as Doctor
as Commissioner of Police
as Doctor
as Guruji
as Police Constable,
as Teacher
as Prof. Nasrul Hassan, Scientist
as Bapusaheb
as Police Commissioner
as Radha's father
as Dattu's father
as Inpector Tarde
as Father Francis
as Shankar
as Police Commissioner
as Army Senior Officer
as Pandit
as Ram Nath
as Commissioner of police
as Bahadur Shah Zafar
as Shahjahan
as Thakur
as Raja Pratap
as Deshmukh
as P.C. Mathur
as Mr. Mishra
as Kailash
as Dr. Anand
as Sardar
as Tribal Leader, Jyoti's Dad
as Gopi
as Master (Kaza) (uncredited)
as Doctor
as Shrikanth
as Police Commissioner
as Rahim
as Tamran - Zamindar
as Mine worker
as Judge
as Sai Baba
as Sanjay's friend