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	User Reviews and comparison blog on Balraj Sahni - Movie Personalities by indian1969 on MouthShut.com
		And Balraj Sahni?s greatest achievement was that he imbued his portrayals with a sensitivity and dignity rarely found in Bollywood.
		Balraj Sahni was one of the pioneers of neo realistic movies and his first such appearance was in the 1995 movie Garam Coat an off beat story of a postal clerk who hankers after a winter coat.
		Balraj Sahni was a Titan among actors and it would be a Herculean task for any to even reach his heights.
	www.mouthshut.com /review/Balraj_Sahni-69693.html (1229 words)

	3to6 A Complete Movie Portal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Balraj Sahni was the first hero who refused to fit the mould.
		Born in Rawalpindi, Balraj Sahni studied at the Government College of Lahore, graduating in Literature.
		Balraj Sahni plays the patriach of a Muslim family who must decide whether to continue living in India or migrate to the Pakistan.
	www.3to6.com /final_retro/balraj.htm (823 words)

	A life of commitment: Bhisham Sahni, 1915 - 2003.
		Sahni's was easily one of the most influential voices in contemporary Hindi fiction.
		Sahni, who participated in the Quit India Movement of 1942 and served time in jail, went on to become a district secretary of the Congress.
		Perhaps Sahni derived a special satisfaction from the virulence of the campaign against Tamas, for despite his gentle public persona his convictions were rock-like in their firmness.
	www.flonnet.com /fl2015/stories/20030801003612900.htm (1492 words)

	rediff.com, Movies: The immense talent of Balraj Sahni
		Yudhisthir Sahni, rechristened Balraj Sahni for the screen, was born in Rawalpindi May 1, 1913.
		Sahni's wife Damyanti also worked with him in the film but she, unfortunately, did not live to see Sahni's subsequent success.
		During the making of the film, Sahni was arrested for his leftist leanings and K Asif had to take special permission from the court for Balraj Sahni to shoot, albeit under police escort.
	www.rediff.com /entertai/2002/sep/20dinesh.htm (836 words)

	Balraj Sahni: Man of myriad roles : HindustanTimes.com/UK: News for UK Asians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Balraj Sahni can easily be referred to as one of the true precursors of parallel cinema movement, so far as acting in Indian cinema is concerned.
		Sahni also tried his hand at direction with Lal Batti (1957) – a film set in a train and on a lonely railway platform where passengers are forced to spend a night at the time of India's Independence.
		Sahni plays the central role of an elderly Muslim shoe manufacturer who must decide whether to continue living in India or to migrate to the newly formed state of Pakistan.
	www.hindustantimes.com /2005/Jul/05/5983_244402,004300060005.htm (816 words)

	BASANTI
		In a resolution that is both moving and dignified, she demonstrates her firm grip on life as well as her quick ripening into a mature being unlikely to be deluded by myths about class, caste, love, marriage, and the welfare state.
		Bhisham Sahni was born in Rawalpindi in 1915.
		Sahni resides in Delhi with his wife Sheela to whom Basanti was dedicated in its original edition.
	www.exoticindiaart.com /book/details/IDG808 (451 words)

	rediff.com, Movies: Classics Revisited: Kabuliwala
		When a Kabuliwala (Balraj Sahni) knocks at their door to sell his spices and dry fruits, Mini, dressed in a mini sari and blouse, hides below her father's writing desk -- her favourite hideaway.
		The film's biggest strength is the evocative story and the heartfelt performances by Balraj Sahni as Kabuliwala and Sonnu as Mini.
		Sahni's interactions with Mini are suffused with tenderness, his laughter robust, his walk, regal.
	www.rediff.com /entertai/2002/may/30dinesh.htm (1118 words)

	Garam Hawa
		Balraj Sahni, Farouque Sheikh, Gita Siddharth, A.K. Hangal, Shaukat Kaifi
		Balraj Sahni most of the other cast members had hardly any film acting experience and were drawn from the Indian People's Theatre Association, IPTA.
		Balraj Sahni himself agreed to do the film for a pittance and was so enthused that at the conclusion of shooting he organised a strike among the shoe factory workers of Agra demanding better wages.
	www.upperstall.com /films/garamhawa.html (1063 words)

	Balraj Sahni - Moviefone
		Balraj Sahni is perhaps the best known film actor in India to emerge from the...
		Balraj Sahni had a handsome, radiant face and transparent personality and the warm, carefree abandon with which he mixed with others endeared him to all.
		Balraj Sahni - Filmography, Biography, News, Photos, Birth date, Relationships, Balraj Sahni Film Clips, and Fun Facts on Moviefone.
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	Remembering Balraj Sahni
		Prem Bhatia, Balraj and myself were class fellows in Government College, Lahore, in the early Thirties.
		In early 1937, Balraj, along with his newly married wife Damyanti, came to my house and we went to the improvised hut of our common friends, the Bedis.
		Balraj and myself, B.P.L. Bedi and his British wife Freda (the parents of the famous screen actor Kabir Bedi), with Ramesh Chander, formed the group that launched the paper.
	www.punjabilok.com /misc/movies/rem_balraj.htm (554 words)

	Bhisham Sahni -- Hindi writer: The South Asian Literary Recordings Project (Library of Congress New Delhi Office)
		Bhisham Sahni, born on Aug 08, 1915 at Rawalpindi in present day Pakistan, is a distinguished Hindi fiction writer, playwright, translator, teacher and polyglot.
		Sahni participated in the freedom struggle, joining the Indian National Congress during the Quit India Movement.
		Bhisham Sahni wrote in English the biography of Balraj Sahni, his elder brother and well-known writer-actor under the title Balraj my brother (1981).
	www.loc.gov /acq/ovop/delhi/salrp/bhishamsahni.html (554 words)

	The Sunday Tribune - Spectrum - Lead Article
		In a way, and like his own life, Bhisham Sahni was a democrat who gave full autonomy to each of his readers to view episodes in his book, as well as the full book, in whichever way they wanted to.
		So self-effasive was Bhisham Sahni that in a friendship that spanned 35 years, not even once did he speak about his own work or even ask if I had read any of his recent works.
		Though Bhisham Sahni wrote in Hindi and was placed in the Hindi literary tradition, his defining sensibility, milieu and moorings were that of a thoroughbred Punjabi.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2003/20030727/spectrum/main1.htm (2626 words)

	Do Bigha Zameen
		In a small village in West Bengal, Shambhu, (Balraj Sahni) a small farmer, owns two acres of land.
		However, the landlord in the village plans to sell a large plot to a city contractor to build a factory and Shambhu's two acres are cutting into the land.
		Balraj Sahni plays perhaps his best-known role as the peasant Shambhu and gives a performance of a lifetime.
	www.upperstall.com /films/dobighazameen.html (631 words)

	Balraj Sahni
		Balraj Sahni is perhaps the best known film actor in India to emerge from the post World War II Left Cultural Movements.
		In the film, Balraj Sahni plays the peasant Shambhu who becomes a rickshaw puller in Calcutta in order to earn money and save his land in the village.
		In the unforgettable ending of the film, the wretchedness of human defeat is writ large on Sahni's face as he sees the factory built on his land.
	www.upperstall.com /people/bsahni.html (735 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Opinion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Few of the obituaries on Bhisham Sahni have bothered to mention that he was the sibling of Balraj Sahni.
		In the case of Bhisham Sahni, the commanding influence was of course Premchand’s.
		It was a different kind of address, no written script, the Sahni who spoke to the girls and boys and the assembled glitterati spoke extempore, but he spoke from the heart.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1030725/asp/opinion/story_2196036.asp (1204 words)

	Daily Excelsior... Editorial
		There is an educative story by late Balraj Sahni who had taught at Shantiniketan apart from writing literature and acting in films.
		During their inter-action Tagore was surprised that Sahni wrote in Hindi and not in his native Punjabi language.
		It is only from them that he can perceive the warmth and feeling of being one of them." Sahni had kept quiet but he was not impressed because the country was in the midst of freedom struggle and he felt like many others that there was the need for developing Hindi as the national language.
	www.dailyexcelsior.com /web1/05july12/edit.htm (4761 words)

	SSNews
		Way back in the 1960s, when late Balraj Sahni, a famed film actor, came to Punjab from Bollywood, renowned Punjabi novelist Jaswant Singh Kanwal and poet Prof Mohan Singh handed over to him a Punjabi book, which became a cherished gift for him.
		After reading the book, Sahni invited the author of the book to stay with him in Mumbai.
		Sahni, himself a man of letters, was not the only eminent person to hail ‘Mera Pind’.
	www.sikhsangat.org /publish/article_1380.shtml (565 words)

	Balraj Sahni - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He also went to work with Mahatma Gandhi for a year in 1938.
		Sahni appeared opposite Achala Sachdev in the number.
		He was looked up to as a role model as he was never involved in any scandal.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Balraj_Sahni (553 words)

	eBay — Balraj Sahni Movies DVDs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In this 1966 Bollywood production, an overprotective mother tries to stop her son from having a romantic relationship so he can continue lavishing all his attentions on her.
		Three brothers have been raised by a man named Rattan Lal (Balraj Sahni) after their father unexpectedly dies; BHABHI follows their individual tales.
		This 1971 action movie from Rajendra Bhatia stars Balraj Sahni as a hitman who adopts a baby, the only survivor of one of his "jobs," and finds himself suddenly reformed--and running afoul of his old business partners.
	artist.ebay.com /Balraj-Sahni_movies_W0QQcZ1355047642 (409 words)

	The Tribune - Windows - Sight & Sound
		F I pay a tribute to Bhisham Sahni, who passed away last week, in a TV column, it is because his Tamas will always remain a classic for Indian television.
		But while Shimla was my first encounter with Sahni in person, it was many years before that I received his biography of his brother Balraj Sahni which came out after Balraj’s death.
		Apart from the fact that Balraj was one of the finest actors who has ever graced the Indian cinema, he had been a warm personal friend and Bhisham’s quiet tribute to his brother was something which was very much worth reviewing.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2003/20030719/windows/sight.htm (738 words)

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		A police officer (Balraj Sahni) is devastated when his daughter is kidnapped and forced to become a prostitute.
		Nirmal (Balraj Sahni) is a solicitor who is so busy in his career that he neglects his wife Kavita (Nargis) and their marriage suffers as a result of this.At the same time Suneel arrive, an old friend of Nirmal and Kavita As t...
		Lala Kedarnath (Balraj Sahni) is a wealthy and respected trader, a self-made man who prides himself on being the archi...
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		The actor, director, writer Balraj Sahni was born in the year 1913 and he has the nationality of Pakistan.
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	SouthAsianCinema
		Directors, actors, scriptwriters, lyricists, music directors and dance directors – a large spectrum of the talent that went into filmmaking – came from the IPTA, moulding the vision of the world that the film presented Among the well-known actors who had an allegiance to the IPTA were Balraj Sahni, A. Hangal, Utpal Dutt.
		We had different trucks – one with Prithviraj Kapoor, the doyen of the film industry, and his teenaged sons – Raj Kapoor and Shammi Kapoor – beating the drum.
		The IPTA truck had Balraj Sahni and Prem Dhawan and Chetan Anand and Dev Anand.
	www.southasiancinema.com /sacjournal.htm (770 words)

	Indiantelevision dot com's Breaking News : (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		MUMBAI: Bhishm Sahni noted writer of the acclaimed television series Tamas passed away on Friday 11 July at New Delhi after a heart ailment.
		On Thursday, Sahni was admitted to Escorts hospital in New Delhi where he breathed his last after suffering a massive stroke.
		Brother of well-known actor Balraj Sahni, Bhishm Sahni had authored several novels including Tamas, which fetched him the prestigious Sahitya Academy award in 1978.
	www.indiantelevision.com /headlines/y2k3/july/july92.htm (132 words)

	India News: Balraj Sahni News, Articles, Information
		Indian Peoples' Theatre Association (IPTA), the leftist theatre group which can boast of its association with such illustrious actors as Balraj Sahni, Utpal Dutta, A. Hangal, to name a few, has made history.
		Think Balraj Sahni in Kabuliwala, Pran in Zanjeer and Amitabh Bachchan in Khuda Gawah.
		It begins with the rambunctious qawwali immortalized by Manna Dey as singer and Balraj Sahni as actor, `Ae meri zohra jabeen...' and the haunting Asha diamond...
	www.dailyindia.com /news/balraj-sahni.php (234 words)

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	Indian Cinema Database: M.S.Sathyu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Born in Mysore, Karnataka, M S Sathyu moved to Mumbai during the '50s and directed several plays there.
		He associated with the IPTA, Balraj Sahni's Juhu Art Theatre and various other offshoots like Left Organisation Bombay Youth.
		His best known work, Garam Hava, is one of the last titles of the '50s Marxist cultural activists including Balraj Sahani and Kaifi Azmi.
	www.chaosmag.net /sathyu.html (260 words)

	Planet-Bollywood - Film Review - Garam Hawa
		His is a character who wishes so much that life would go just like how it used to be in the past.
		In these scenes, Sahni talks straight to the camera and the visual appearance of the other person (a bank manager and a landlord) is never revealed.
		It is quite an effective gesture by Sathyu because it drives home the impersonal faceless-ness of Indian Hindus who have begun to distrust an honest man like Salim.
	www.planetbollywood.com /Film/GaramHawa (1472 words)

	Balraj Sahni National Award for Prem Chopra : HindustanTimes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Balraj Sahni National Award for Prem Chopra : HindustanTimes.com
		Actor Prem Chopra has been selected for Balraj Sahni National Award 2005-06 for his contribution to Indian cinema by All India Artists Association.
		Ashwani Dheer, script writer and director of popular TV serial "Office-office", has been selected for the award for his contribution towards television, president of the Association Sudarshan Gaur said.
	www.hindustantimes.com /news/181_1736625,0006.htm (160 words)

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