Ramanand Sagar

Ramanand Sagar

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Ramanand Sagar Profile

  • Name:
  • Ramanand Sagar
  • Other Name:
  • Chandramauli Chopra
  • Born:
  • December 29, 1917
  • Died:
  • December 12, 2005
  • Spouse:
  • Leelavathi

Ramanand Sagar Biography

Ramanand Sagar was a producer and director of Bollywood. He was a script writer and dialogue writer also. He is the producer and director of popular epic serial of Doordarshan – Ramayana that was telecasted in Doordarshan during middle 80’s. As a film director/script writer/dialogue writer, his most successful movies are Arzoo, Zindagi, Charas, Bhagawat, Prem bandhan, Aakhein, Lalkaar, Geet and Paigam. He has won Filmfare awards in multiple categories for the movies Aarzoo, Aakhein and Paigham. As a serial producer/director, he has also given numerous television serials to Doordarshan including Alif laila, Krishna, Luv Kush and Vikram aur Betaal.

 

Ramanand Sagar was born at Asal Guru Ke near Lahore. He was adopted by his childless maternal grandmother. During his early days, he had to strive hard and did numerous jobs as well. It included the jobs of peon, truck cleaner, soap vendor, goldsmith apprentice etc. However he was good in studies and studied for his degree classes during night. He was a gold medalist in Sanskrit and Persian from the University of Punjab in 1942. Then he became editor of the newspaper, Daily Milap. He has also written many short stories, novels, poems and plays under the pen name - Ramanand Chopra", "Ramanand Bedi" and "Ramanand Kashmiri".

 

In 1932, Sagar started his film career as a clapper boy in a silent film, Raiders of the Rail Road. After partition, he shifted to Mumbai. He has worked as an assistant stage manager in Prithvi Theatres of Prithviraj Kapoor. His first major work was Barsaat which starred Raj Kapoor and Nargis in leading roles. He worked as Writer, Dialogue writer and Screenplay writer of this super hit movie. Barsaat was one of the first major hit films directed by Raj Kapoor. After that Ramanand Sagar didn’t look back and he served as script writer and dialogue writer of a series of movies like - Jan Pahchan, Raj tilak, Paigham and Sangdil. As a director, Mehmaan (1953) was his debut movie. He is the director of Blockbuster hits like Aarzoo and Aankhein. He has won Filmfare Best Dialogue Award for Paigham and Filmfare Best Director Award for Aankhen. Arzoo received best story and best director nomination too. Aankhen has also received best story nomination. He has also produced and scripted both these movies. His other hits as a director include Geet, Ghunghat and Zindagi.  

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Updated: May 28, 2018

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