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Residence  Mumbai
Name  Manoj Kumar
Other names  Bharat Kumar
Role  actor
Occupation  Actor, Director
Spouse  Shashi Goswami
Years active  1957-1995

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Full Name  Harikishan Giri Goswami
Born  24 July 1937 (age 85) (1937-07-24) Abbottabad, North-West Frontier Province, British India
Children  Kunal Goswami, Vishal Goswami
Movies  Purab Aur Paschim, Sanyasi, Upkar, Kranti, Sajan

Manoj Kumar (born Harikrishna Giri Goswami on 24 July 1937) is an award-winning Indian actor and director in Bollywood. He is remembered for his films Hariyali Aur Raasta, Woh Kaun Thi?, Himalaya Ki God Mein, Do Badan, Upkar, Patthar Ke Sanam, Neel Kamal, Purab Aur Paschim, Roti Kapda Aur Makaan, and Kranti. He is known for acting in and directing films with patriotic themes, and has been given the nickname Bharat Kumar.

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In 1992, he was honoured with the Padma Shri by the Government of India. India's highest award in cinema, the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, was bestowed him in 2015.

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Early life

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Kumar was born in Abbottabad, a town in the North-West Frontier Province (now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa), Pakistan, then part of pre-partition India. His original birth name was Harikishan Giri Goswami. When he was 10, his family had to migrate from Jandhyala Sher Khan to Delhi due to the Partition. His family lived as refugees in Vijay Nagar, Kingsway Camp and later moved to Old Rajendra Nagar area of New Delhi.

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After graduating from Hindu College, University of Delhi, he decided to enter the film industry.

Career

As a youngster, he admired Dilip Kumar, Ashok Kumar and Kamini Kaushal and decided to name himself Manoj Kumar, after Dilip's character in Shabnam (1949).

After making a little-noticed début in Fashion in 1957, Manoj landed his first leading role in Kaanch Ki Gudia (1960) opposite Saida Khan. Piya Milan Ki Aas and Reshmi Roomal followed, setting the stage for the Vijay Bhatt-directed Hariyali Aur Raasta (1962) opposite Mala Sinha. Kumar then appeared with Sadhana in Raj Khosla's Woh Kaun Thi (1964), and reunited with Vijay Bhatt and Mala Sinha in Himalaya Ki God Mein (1965). Manoj Kumar and Raj Khosla repeated their successful Actor-Director partnership with the film Do Badan, which was remembered for many reasons, including Raj Khosla's direction, Manoj Kumar and the heroine Asha Parekh's excellent display of histrionics, an outstanding musical score by Ravi and immortal songs by the lyricist Shakeel Badayuni, among others.

In the 1960s his successful films included romantic films like Honeymoon, Apna Banake Dekho, Naqli Nawab, Paththar Ke Sanam, Sajan and Sawan Ki Ghata and social films such as Shaadi, Grihasti, Apne Huwe Paraye, Pehchaan and Aadmi and thrillers such as Gumnaam, Anita, and Woh Kaun Thi.

The patriotic hero

Kumar's image as the patriotic hero started with the 1965 film Shaheed, based on the life of Bhagat Singh, the Independence revolutionary. After the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965, Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri asked him to create a film based on the popular slogan Jai Jawan Jai Kissan (hail the soldier, hail the farmer).

The result was Kumar's magnum opus and directorial debut Upkaar (1967). In it, he played both a soldier and a farmer. The film was also noted for the famous song "Mere Desh Ki Dharti", written by Gulshan Bawra, composed by Kalyanji-Anandji and sung by Mahendra Kapoor. Upkaar was a hit and won Kumar his first Filmfare Best Director Award.

Manoj returned to patriotic themes in Purab Aur Paschim (1970), in which life in the East and West are juxtaposed. In 1972, he starred in Be-Imaan (for which he won the Filmfare Best Actor Award) and directed and starred in Shor (1972). The latter, opposite Nanda, was not a huge box office success on its release, but has gained cult status over the years. It featured the memorable song "Ek Pyar Ka Nagma Hai", a duet by Lata Mangeshkar and Mukesh, which was composed by Laxmikant-Pyarelal and written by Santosh Anand.

Later career

In the mid-1970s Kumar starred in three hit films; Roti Kapda Aur Makaan (1974) which was a social commentary, featuring an all-star cast including Zeenat Aman, Shashi Kapoor and Amitabh Bachchan, that won him his second Filmfare Award for Best Director; Sanyasi (1975) had Kumar and Hema Malini in the lead roles of a religious-themed comedy; and Dus Numbri (1976) also gave Kumar and Hema top billing. In 1981, Kumar reached the peak of his career when he got the opportunity to direct his idol, Dilip Kumar, as well as star in Kranti, a story about the struggle for Indian independence in the 19th century. Kranti was the last notable successful film in his career. He also starred in the hit Punjabi film Jat Punjabi.

After Kranti, Kumar's career began to decline in the 1980s as all of his subsequent films failed at the box office. In 1989, he cast Pakistani actors Mohammad Ali and Zeba in his film Clerk. He quit acting after his appearance in the 1995 film Maidan-E-Jung. He directed his son, Kunal Goswami, in the 1999 film Jai Hind which had a patriotic theme. The film was a flop and was the last film Kumar worked on. That year he was awarded the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award for a career spanning over 40 years.

His trademark hand-covering-the-face was very popular and continues to be the butt of jokes of latter day stand-up comedians. In 2007, the Shah Rukh Khan film Om Shanti Om featured the lead character pretending to be Manoj Kumar so as to sneak into a movie premiere, by holding his hand over his face. Kumar filed a lawsuit, which was settled out of court.

Politics

Like many other Bollywood stars, Kumar decided to enter politics following his retirement. Before the 2004 general election in India, it was announced that he had officially joined the ranks of the Shiv Sena.

Personal life

Kumar is married to Shashi Goswami (originally from Jodhkan, Sirsa district, Haryana). He has two sons, Vishal and Kunal. Vishal tried his luck as a singer and Kunal as an actor. His brother, Rajiv Goswami, also entered the film industry, but none were able to gain a footing in Bollywood.

Civilian award

  • 1992 – Padma Shri by the Government of India
  • National Film Awards

  • 1968 – National Film Award for Second Best Feature Film for Upkaar
  • 2016 – Dadasaheb Phalke Award lifetime contribution to Indian cinema
  • State Awards

  • 2008 – National Kishore Kumar Award by the Government of Madhya Pradesh.
  • 2010 – National Raj Kapoor Award by the Government of Maharashtra.
  • Filmfare Awards

    Winner

  • 1968 – Filmfare Best Movie Award for Upkaar
  • 1968 – Filmfare Best Director Award for Upkaar
  • 1968 – Filmfare Best Story Award for Upkaar
  • 1968 – Filmfare Best Dialogue Award for Upkaar
  • 1972 – Filmfare Best Actor Award for Beimaan
  • 1972 - Filmfare Award for Best Editing for Shor
  • 1975 – Filmfare Best Director Award for Roti Kapda Aur Makaan
  • 1999 – Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award

  • Nominated

  • 1968 – Filmfare Best Actor Award for Upkaar
  • 1969 – Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award for Aadmi
  • 1973 – Filmfare Best Director Award for Shor
  • 1975 – Filmfare Best Movie Award for Roti Kapda Aur Makaan
  • 1975 – Filmfare Best Actor Award for Roti Kapda Aur Makaan
  • 1976 – Filmfare Best Actor Award for Sanyasi
  • Other awards

  • 1968 – BFJA Awards: Best Dialogue for Upkaar.
  • 2001 – Kalakar Awards for Lifetime Achievement.
  • 2008 – Star Screen Lifetime Achievement Award.
  • 2009 – Phalke Ratna Award by the Dadasaheb Phalke Academy.
  • 2010 – Lifetime Achievement Award at the 12th Mumbai Film Festival.
  • 2012 – Lifetime Achievement Award at the Apsara Film & Television Producers Guild Award.
  • 2012 – Lifetime Achievement Award at the Nashik International Film Festival.
  • 2012 – "Bharat Gaurav Award" in New Jersey, United States.
  • 2013 – Lifetime Achievement Award at the Jagran Film Festival.
  • Other honours

  • 2008 – To honour Manoj Kumar, the Government of Madhya Pradesh decided to institute a Rs 100,000 award in his name. The state government also recommended Kumar's name for Bharat Ratna to the central government.
  • 2011 – In recognition of the devotion of Manoj Kumar towards Shri Sai Baba, the Shri Saibaba Sansthan Trust in Shirdi renamed "Pimpalwadi Road" in Shirdi as "Manojkumar Goswami Road".
  • References

    Manoj Kumar Wikipedia