Young Ashok Kumar

Ashok Kumar is mostly known for his portryal of character roles. Many of the present generation are not aware how he was looking when he was young. I came across a photo of broad-faced young Ashok Kumar and tried with my pencil.
 

Vasant Desai - legendary composer

 Tribute to Legendary composer 'Vasant Desai' on his birth anniversary - pencil sketch

Vasant Desai (1912–1975) was an Indian film music composer, most remembered for his score in V. Shantaram films like Do Aankhen Barah Haath (1953), Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baaje (1955), Vijay Bhatt's Goonj Uthi Shehnai (1959), Sampoorna Ramayan (1961), Hrishikesh Mukherjee's Guddi (1971) and Aashirwaad.  For more details please click the following link. courtesy DNA India.

https://www.dnaindia.com/entertainment/column-bollywood-retrospect-10-impactful-songs-by-vasant-desai-2219758

Tribute to Indian classical legend 'Padma Bhushan' Jagjit Singh on his birth anniversary today. (Pencil drawing) Singh is considered to be the most successful ghazal singer and composer of all time in terms of critical acclaim and commercial success. With a career spanning five decades and many albums, the range and breadth of his work has been regarded as genre-defining..

Sudha Malhotra - Singer

 

Sudha Malhotra - My charcoal pencil sketch

My brief write up on the legendary singer.

My respects and regards to Sudha Malhotra ji, yesteryear playback singer. (my charcoal pencil sketch).

Who can forget her excellent songs 'Tum mujhe bhool bhi jao: with Mukesh.. (Film 'Didi'), 'Kasthi ka khamosh safar hai' with Kishore Kumar (Film 'Girl Friend'), Salam-E-,Hasrat qubool karlo, Na main dhan, and qawali 'Na to karavan ki talash hai' in Barasat ki Raat, bhajans 'Na main dhan chahoon' with Geeta Dutt, Darsan do ghan shyam with Manna De and Hemant Kumar etc.

Apart from singing she also acted in some Bollywood films.

As a playback singer,. She sang popular songs for Bollywood movies in the 1950s and 1960s, like Arzoo, Dhool Ka Phool, Ab Dilli Door Nahin, Girl Friend, Barsat Ki Raat, Didi, Kala Pani, Prem Rog and Dekh Kabira Roya. She was last heard in Raj Kapoor's Prem Rog (1982) in the song "Yeh Pyar tha ya kuch aur tha". Apart from Hindi songs, Sudha sang many popular Marathi songs (Bhavgeet) with Arun Date.

V. Shantaram - legendary film personality - pencil sketch

V. Shantaram

My pencil sketch of the doyen of Indian film industry

 

Triute to the doyen of Indian cinema V. Shantaram on his birth anniversary today. (My pencil sketch)

He is most known for films such as Dr. Kotnis Ki Amar Kahani (1946), Amar Bhoopali (1951), Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baaje (1955), Do Aankhen Barah Haath (1957), Navrang (1959), Duniya Na Mane (1937), Pinjra (1972), Chani, Iye Marathiche Nagari and Zunj.

He directed his first film Netaji Palkar, in 1927. In 1929, he founded the Prabhat Film Company along with Vishnupant Damle, K.R. Dhaiber, S. Fatelal and S.B. Kulkarni, which made Ayodhyecha Raja, the first Marathi language film in 1932 under his direction. He left Prabhat co. in 1942 to form "Rajkamal Kalamandir" in Mumbai. In time, "Rajkamal" became one of the most sophisticated studios of the country.

శాంతారాం రాజారాం వణకుద్రే (నవంబరు 18, 1901 - అక్టోబరు 30, 1990) భారతీయ సినిమా రంగంలో చిత్రనిర్మాత,దర్శకుడు, నటుడు. ఈయన "డా.కోట్నిస్ కీ అమర్ కహానీ" (1946), "అమర్ భూపాలి" (1951), "దో ఆంఖె బారహ్ హాథ్" (1957), "నవరంగ్" (1959), "దునియా నా మానే" (1937), "పింజ్రా" (1972) వంటి చిత్రాలతో అందరికి పరిచితుడు.

డా వి.శాంతారామ్‌ మహారాష్ట లోని కొల్హాపూర్కు సమీప గ్రామంలో తేదీ-18-11-1901వ సంవత్సరంలో జన్మించాడు. 1921లో నటుడిగా చిత్రరంగప్రవేశం చేసిన ఆయన మూకీ, టాకీలు అన్నీ కలిపి 25 చిత్రాల్లో నటించాడు. సుమారు 90 సినిమాలు నిర్మించాడు. వీటిలో 55 సినిమాలకు స్వయంగా ఆయనే దర్శకత్వం కూడా వహించాడు. కళాత్మక, వ్యాపార దృక్పథాలను మేళవించిన విలక్షణ దర్శకునిగా పేరుగాంచాడు. అమరజ్యోతి, ఆద్మీ, దునియా న మానే, పడోసీ, స్త్రీ, అమర్‌ భూపాలీ, డా కోట్నిస్‌కీ అమర్‌ కహానీ మొ. సినిమాలు శాంతారామ్‌ దర్శకత్వంలో వచ్చిన కొన్ని ఆణిముత్యాలు. నవరంగ్‌, గీత్‌ గాయా పత్థరోంనే, ఝనక్‌ ఝనక్‌ పాయల్‌ బాజే మొ. చిత్రాల్లో కళాకారుడి అంతరంగాన్ని, ఆవేదనను ఆవిష్కరించాడు. ‘శాంతారామ’ అనే పేరుతో తన ఆత్మకథను వ్రాసుకున్నాడు. చిత్రపరిశ్రమకు ఆయన చేసిన సేవలను గుర్తిస్తూ, 1985 లో కేంద్ర ప్రభుత్వం ‘దాదాసాహెబ్‌ ఫాల్కే పురస్కారంను బహూకరించింది. అంతేకాక నాగపూర్‌ విశ్వవిద్యాలయం నుండి గౌరవ డాక్టరేట్‌ పొందిన ఆయన అక్టోబరు 18, 1990 వ సంవత్సరంలో మరణించాడు.

(source : Wikipedia)

Hrishikesh Mukherjee - Great film personality - Pencil sketch

Here is my pencil drawing of the legendary film personality Hrishikesh Mukherji, a middle-class cinema's pioneer,  drawn on the occasion of his death anniversary on 30th September. 

I am giving here below a link courtesy The Print which in itself elaborates his contribution to Indian cinema. Please click the link and read the achievements of the great film personality of India.

https://theprint.in/theprint-profile/middle-class-cinemas-pioneer-hrishikesh-mukherjee-was-all-about-stories-with-heart/282343/

Thank you.

Asit Sen - Movie actor (comedian) / Director - Pencil sketch

 

#Asitsen #actordurector #comedian

Asit Kumar Sen, popularly known as Asit Sen,  My pencil sketch

Asit sen was born on 13th May, 1917 and passed away on 18th Sept. 1993.

Asit Sen was an Indian film director turned famous comedian in the Hindi film industry. He directed 2 films and starred in over 200 films between 1953 and 1993 until his death. As an actor/comedian, he often portrayed a character with authority, such as a police inspector or landlord, but with comic effect, mostly as a slow-speaking person. His acting career was particularly prolific in the 1960s, 1970s, and early 1980s. He had a very thin voice, in striking contrast to his huge physical frame and spoke his dialogues at a slow pace.

Sen started his career, assisting director-producer Bimal Roy in Kolkata, however, the Kolkata-based film industry was now on the decline, thus Roy shifted base to Bombay (now Mumbai) along with Roy's team in 1950, which included Sen, Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Nabendu Ghosh, Kamal Bose and later Salil Chaudhury. Along with doing small roles in films he directed two films for his mentor's production house, Parivar (1956) and Apradhi Kaun (1957), before choosing acting as his full time career, playing comic roles with almost every known name in the industry