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pran Press Release / Interviews

The Hindu
August, 2004





Dainik Bhaskar
August, 2004




Punjab Kesari
August, 2004




Rashtriya Sahara
August, 2004






Asian Age
August, 2004
         

 


 
       





pran Awards




YEAR     AWARD     AWARDED BY
1960     Best Villain     Andhra Pradesh Film Journalists Association
1961     Best Villain     Andhra Pradesh Film Journalists Association
1963     Best Villain     Uttar Pradesh Film Journalists Association
1967     Best Villain     Andhra Pradesh Film Journalists Association
1967    

Best Supporting Actor for Upkar
    Filmfare
1967    

Special Award for Upkar
    Uttar Pradesh Film Journalists Association
1969    

Best Supporting Actor for Ansoo Ban Gaye Phool
    Filmfare
1970     Top Awards Winner     Andhra Pradesh Film Journalists Association
1970    

Filmgoers AwardBest Supporting Actor for
Johny Mera Naam
    All-India Filmgoers’ Association
1970    

Lenin Centenary Awardfor services in the fields of art and culture
   

Lenin Centenary Committee,
Uttar Pradesh
1970    
The Nizam’s Gold Medal
   

Andhra Urdu Periodicals’ Association
1970     For his Supporting Portrayal in Ansoo Ban Gaye Phool    
Andhra Pradesh Film Journalists’ Award
1970     For his Supporting Portrayal in Ansoo Ban Gaye Phool    

Social And Cultural Bureau’s (Bombay) Award

1970-71
   

Best Supporting Actor forJohny Mera Naam
   

Maharashtra Film Fan Club
1970/71    

Best Supporting Actor for Ganwaar
    Bhavnagar Cine Circle
1971    

Best Supporting Actor for Adhikar
    Filmgoers Award
1972    

Best Supporting Actor for Victoria No: 203
    Filmgoers Award
1972    

Best Supporting Actor for Be- Imaan
   

Shama - Sushma Film Award
1972     Most Outstanding Supporting Actor of 1972    

Lion’s Club Of Bombay (Colaba)
1972     Be-Imaan     Crystal Association Trophy
1972    

Best Supporting Actor
forBe-Imaan [Pran refused to accept this Award]
    Filmfare
1972-73     Best Character Artiste Award    

Chitralok Cine Circle (Ahmedabad)

March 24,1973
   

Best Supporting Actor
   

Lion’s Club Of Bombay(Cumballa Hill)
1973     Actor of The Year — Everest Award    
Filmgoers Award
1973    

Best Supporting Actor for Zanjeer
    Shama - Sushma Film Award
1973    
Zanjeer
   

Crystal Association Trophy
1973     Outstanding Supporting Actor    
Lion’s Film Awards
1973    

Best Performance in Zanjeer
    Bengal Film Journalists Award (Calcutta)
1973     Best Actor of the Decade — for Zanjeer    

Uttar Pradesh Film Journalists Association
1974    

A Perfect Actor
    Filmgoers Award
1974    

Best Supporting Actor for Dharma
   

Shama - Sushma Film Award
1974     Outstanding Supporting Actor    

Lion’s Film Awards
1975     Outstanding Supporting Actor    

Lion’s Film Awards
1975     Best Supporting Actor    

Mehendi (Gujarati Monthly)
1975-76     Most Versatile Actor    

Bombay Film Award
1976     Outstanding Supporting Actor    

Lion’s Film Awards
1977-78     Most Versatile Actor    

Bombay Film Award
1978     Best Character Actor    

North Bombay Jaycees
1980    

Shiromani Award for Outstanding Motion-Picture Performances
   
Presented by The Vice President of India
1983-84    

Best Character Actor for Lalach
   
Punjabi Kala Sangam(New Delhi)
1984    

Abhinay Samrat(King Of Acting)
   

All-India Filmgoers’ Association
1984    

Extra Ordinary Special Award as Wizard of Acting
    Bombay Film Awards
13th Oct. 1985    

Kala Bhushan Award
   

Presented by Punjabi Kala Sangam
1987    

Outstanding Performance of the Decade
    North Bombay Jaycees
-    
Vijayshree Award For Enriching Human Life and Outstanding Attainments
   

India International Friendship Society
-    

Excellence In Emotive Art
   

‘Ars Gratia Artis’ Award
1990    

For 50 Years in the Industry
   
The Punjab Association
1990    

Kala Rattan Award For Completing 50 Glorious Years In Cinema
   

Presented by Punjabi Kala Sangam
1990 (9/3/90)    

In Recognition of Invaluable Services to Charity at the Celebration of The Golden Jubilee of his Services to Film Industry
   

Southall Lion’s Club (London, U. K.)
-    

Honoured for Outstanding Achievement in Cinema
   

Slough Borough Council (U.K.)
1991    

Abhinay Samrat Award for Contribution to Indian Cinema for 50years
   

Indian Cinegoers Academy Awards
1992    

Outstanding Contribution to Indian Film Industry
   

IMMPA Indian Motion Pictures Producers Association
1997    

Filmfare Special Veteran’s Award
[This award is not the same as the Lifetime Achievement Awards, which incidentally were awarded to Dharmendra and Mumtaz that year]
   
Filmfare

2000(Jan)
   
Hero Honda-Stardust ‘Villain of the Millennium’ for Best Actor / Actress In A Negative Role
   
Hero Honda-Stardust Salute To Indian Cinema Millennium Honours

January
2000
   

Icon Of The Millenium — Pran The Versatile Actor
   

Rupa Filmgoers Millenium Awards 2000

March
2000(11.3.2000)
   
Lux — Zee Cine AwardLifetime Achievement Award For Excellence In Cinema [A Democratic Way]
    Lux — Zee Cine Awards
2000     Lifetime Achievement Award    
Screen

March 2001
    Padmabhushan    

The Government Of India Padmabhushan Awards
2001    

Felicitation on winning The ‘Padmabhushan’ at Rashtriya Bhavan, Delhi.
   

The Cine Artistes Association
2001    

Felicitation
On The Occasion Of The 43rd Baisakhi Celebrations in Mumbai
   

The Punjab Association

July
2004
[16.7.2004]
    The (late) Raj Kapoor Award     The Government Of Maharashtra

pran References

     a b Pran as a person (Official biography)
     Encyclopaedia of Hindi cinema, by Encyclopaedia Britannica (India) Pvt. Ltd, Gulzar, Govind Nihalani, Saibal Chatterjee. Published by Encyclopaedia Britannica (India) Pvt. Ltd., 2003. ISBN 8179910660.
     a b Pran Bollywood: yesterday - today - tomorrow, by Ramesh Dawar. Published by Star Publications, 2006. ISBN 190586301. Page 89.
     Padma Bhushan Pran -- Fine actor, finer man The Hindu, 28 January 2001.
     Pran chosen for Raj Kapoor award The Times of India, 15 July 2004.
     a b c A lifetime of villainy Prerana Trehan, The Tribune, 25 July 2004.
     Villains bollywoodprofilesite.com.
     My Best Year - PRAN:1948 India Today, 3 July 2006. "When Bombay Talkies approached me, all I could say was that I needed an advance.".
     a b ..In March 2000, he was honoured with the Zee Lifetime Achievement Award Rediff, 5 April 2000.
     Bollywood: a history, by Mihir Bose. Published by Lotus Collection, Roli Books, 2007. ISBN 8174365087.Page 161.
     Pran is eighty - His is the kind of life (pran) life will always be proud of Screen.
     Reel evil The Tribune, 24 October 2004."..Bimal Roy presents, Madhumati, starring Dilip Kumar, Vyjayanthimala, Johny Walker, Tiwari . . . and Pran."
     1962:25th Annual BFJA Awards - Awards For The Year 1961 BFJA Awards website.
     1967:30th Annual BFJA Awards - Awards For The Year 1966 BFJA Awards website.
     1974: 37th Annual BFJA Awards - Awards For The Year 1973 BFJA Awards website.
      a b Awards
      Lata, Bismillah Khan get Bharat Ratnas Rediff.com, 25 January 2001. "The Padma Bhushan...veteran actor Pran,".

pran Selected filmography




Main article: Pran Sikhand filmography

    Pran also worked in numerous Bengali films in 1960-1970, however they are not listed.

    Khandan (1942)
    Ziddi (1948)
    Barsaat Ki Ek Raat (1948)
    Bari Behen (1949)
    Sheesh Mahal" (1950)
    Biraj Bahu (1954)
    Azaad (1955)
    Munimji (1955)
    Chori Chori (1955)
    Halaku(1956)
    Devdas (1956)
    Tumsa Nahin Dekha(1957)
    Madhumati(1958)
    Chhalia (1960)
    Jis Desh Mein Ganga Behti Hai (1960)
    Jab Pyar Kisi Se Hota Hai (1961)
    Dil Tera Diwana (1962)
    Half Ticket (1962)
    Phir Wohi Dil Laya Hoon(1963)
    Mere Mehboob(1963)
    Kashmir Ki Kali (1964)
    Rajkumar (1964)
    Mere Sanam (1965)
    Shaheed (1965)
    Do Badan (1966)
    Dil Diya Dard Liya (1966)
    Love in Tokyo(1966)
    An Evening In Paris(1967)
    Pathar Ke Sanam(1967)
    Ram Aur Shyam (1967)

   

    Milan (1967)
    Upkar (1967)
    Safar (film)(1968)
    Brahmchari (1968)
    Anjaana(1969)
    Tum Se Achcha Kaun Hai (1969)
    Pyar Hi Pyar (1969)
    Ganwaar(1970)
    Tum Haseen Main Jawan(1970)
    Gopi (1970)
    Heer Raanjha (1970)
    Humjoli (1970)
    Johny Mera Naam (1970)
    Purab Aur Paschim (1970)
    Guddi(1971)
    Naya Zamana (1971)
    Ek Bechara (1972)
    Parichay (1972)
    Victoria No. 203 (1972)
    Jungle mein Mangal (1972)
    Zanjeer(1973)
    Bobby (1973)
    Jugnu (1973)
    Gaddar (1973)
    Jheel Ke Us Paar (1973)
    Majboor(1974)
    Zehreela Insaan(1974)
    Sanyasi(1975)
    Dus Numbari (1976)
    Amar Akbar Anthony(1977)

   

    Dharam Veer (1977)
    Des Pardes(1978)
    Don(1978)
    Ganga Ki Saugandh (1978)
    Vishwanath[disambiguation needed] (1978)
    Aap Ke Diwane (1980)
    Dostana(1980)
    Karz (1980)
    Kaalia (1981)
    Naseeb (1981)
    Andha Kanoon(1983)
    Naukar Biwi Ka(1983)
    Souten(1983)
    Nastik (1983)
    Sohni Mahiwal(1984)
    Insaaf Kaun Karega (1984)
    Raaj Tilak (1984)
    Sharaabi (1984)
    Bewafai(1985)
    Dosti Dushmani (1986)
    Paap Ki Duniya (1988)
    Shukriya(1988)
    Shahenshah(1988)
    Sanam Bewafa(1990)
    Hosa Raaga (1991, Kannada)
    Isi Ka Naam Zindgi (1992)
    1942: A Love Story (1994)
    Tere Mere Sapne (1996)
    Mrityudata (1997)

pran Awards and honours



     Filmfare Awards

    1967 - Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award for Upkaar
    1969 - Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award for Aanso Ban Gaye Phool
    1972 - Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award for Be-Imaan (Pran refused to accept)
    1997 - Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award

     Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards

    1961 - BFJA Awards: Best Actor in a Supporting Role: Jis Desh Men Ganga Behti Hai
    1966 - BFJA Awards: Best Actor in a Supporting Role: Shaheed
    1973 - BFJA Awards: Best Actor in a Supporting Role: Zanjeer
     Other awards and recognitions

    1973 - Chitrlok Cine Circle Ahmedabad: "Best Character Award".
    1976 - Bombay Film Award: Most Versatile Actor.
    1978 - Bombay Film Award: Most Versatile Actor.
    1978 - North Bombay Jaycees: Best Character Actor.
    1983 - Kala Bhushan Award presented by Punjabi Kala Sangam.
    1984 - "Extra Ordinary Special Award as Wizard of Acting" by Bombay Film Award.
    1984 - "Viyayshree Award" presented for enriching Human Life and Outstanding Attainments India Int. Friendship Society).
    1984 - "Ars Gratia Artis" for excellence in emotive Art.
    1984 - Filmgoers Award: Reigning "Abhinay Samrat".
    1987 - North Bombay Jaycees: Outstanding Performance of Decade.
    1990 - Kala Rattan Award presented by Punjabi Kal Sangam for 50 glorious Years.
    1990 - Punjab Association: an Award for 50 years in the Industry.
    1990 - Southall Lion's Club London: "In recognition of Invaluable Services to Charity at the  Celebration of Golden Jubilee of his services tot Film Industry.
    1991 - Cinegoers Award: "Abhinay Samrat Golden Jubilee Award".
    1992 - Outstanding contribution to Indian Film Industry, Indian Motion Pictures Producers'  Association.
    2000 - Star Screen Lifetime Achievement Award
    2000 - Zee Cine Award for Lifetime Achievement
    2000 - "Villain of the Millennium" by Stardust Award.
    2001 - Padma Bhushan, India's third highest civilian award from the Government of India.
    2004 - Lifetime Achievement Award instituted by the Maharashtra Government.
    2010 - Phalke Icon and Legendary Cine Versatile Cine Star Award by Dadasaheb Phalke Academy

pran Later Career (1967-2007)





In the late 1960s, with the character of Malang Chacha in Manoj Kumar's Upkaar in 1967, he turned to positive character roles, wherein the popular Kalyanji Anandji song, Kasme vaade pyaar wafaa was picturised on him. Ironically in this movie Kamini Kaushal also moved to character roles. Manoj Kumar continued to cast him in his films as the lead hero like Shaheed, Purab Aur Pachhim, Be-Imaan, Sanyasi, Dus Numbri and Patthar Ke Sanam. Many roles with him playing the supporting role to the hero were released and this way he reinvented himself as a character actor from being earlier the main villain. Pran from 1967 till 1997 became a well-known character actor in Hindi films and the most famous are the roles in Humjoli, Parichay, Aankhon Aankhon Mein, Jheel Ke Us Paar, Zinda Dil, Zehreela Insaan, Hatyara, Chor Ho To Aisa, Dhan Daulat, Jaanwar(1983), Raaj Tilak, Insaaf Kaun Karega, Bewafai, Imaandaar, Sanam Bewafa, 1942: A Love Story, Tere Mere Sapne(1997), Lav Kush. His films with Shashi Kapoor as the lead actor, too were big hits, notable being Biradari, Chori Mera Kaam, Phaansi, Shankar Dada, Chakkar Pe Chakkar, Rahu Ketu, Apna Khoon and Maan Gaye Ustaad.

In the seventies, Pran was also offered the role of leading man, on whose shoulders the film ran like Dharma(1973), Ek Kunwari Ek Kunwara, Jangal Mein Mangal, Rahu Ketu. Since the fifties till late eighties, Pran was often casted with Ashok Kumar, to play either the role of two friends,around whom the story revolved, in films like Victoria No. 203, Chori Mera Kaam, Chor Ke Ghar Chor, Apna Khoon, Aap Ke Deewane and Raja Aur Rana or as two different characters in films like Pooja Ke Phool, Purab Aur Pachhim, Adhikar, Naya Zamana and Aansoo Ban Gaye Phool.The two veteran actors, Ashok Kumar and Pran were very close friends in both professional and real life too and have acted in 17 films together.

Pran recommended the then newcomer Amitabh Bachchan to Prakash Mehra for the character of Vijay in Zanjeer, which was earlier offered to Dev Anand and Dharmendra but was rejected by them due to some reason. Pran acted with Amitabh in 15 films, the most notable being Zanjeer, Don, Amar Akbar Anthony, Majboor, Dostana, Naseeb, Kaalia and Sharaabi. He was at the peak of his career in the 1970s,when he acted in action thriller, Don, and in those days Pran was paid much more money than Amitabh Bachchan.The actors to be paid higher than Pran was Rajesh Khanna in the 70's and 80's and in the 50's and 60's it was the trio of Dilip Kumar, Dev Anand and Raj Kapoor along with Rajendra Kumar.Pran remains the only male actor in Hindi Cinema to have tasted many box office success throughout his active career for six decades without any dip or low phase in his long career.

Pran had started accepting more of versatile roles since the late sixties but occasionally continued to accept the role of a bad man in the 70's, 80's and 90's too in films like Kab? Kyoon? Aur Kahan?, Gaddar, Andhaa Kanoon(1983), Duniya (1984), Hoshiyar, Dharm Adhikari and Azaad Desh Ke Ghulam. Director Prakash Mehra always casted Pran in most of his directorial ventures in his career like in Ek Kunwari Ek Kunwara, Zanjeer, Aan Baan, Khalifa,[disambiguation needed] Jwalamukhi, Sharaabi, Jaadugar. Pran was a hot favourite with Manmohan Desai too having directed Pran regularly in his directorial ventures like Chhalia, Bluff Master, Dharam Veer, Naseeb, Amar Akbar Anthony.Subhash Ghai casted him in Vishwanath,[disambiguation needed] Karz and Krodhi.

In the late nineties, Pran started rejecting film offers citing his old age related problems.But in the nineties when Amitabh was going through the bad patch in his career,he requested Pran to do roles in his home productions Mrityudaata and Tere Mere Sapne and Pran made an exception by acting in them. Pran's legs had begun to shiver in 1997 so his character in Mrityudaata was modified accordingly to justify his shivering legs and in Tere Mere Sapne, his shots were taken with him being seated. Post 2000, he made few guest appearances.

The legendary "Villain of the Millennium" has had a marathon six decades long career in Hindi Cinema and is one of the most celebrated actors of the industry. So effective was his acting that it said that people stopped naming their children 'Pran' because of his villain roles, while the industry had started calling him 'Pran Sahab'. His favourite line "Barkhurdaar" became immensely popular.

His biography, ...and Pran was so named because, in most of the movies that he acted in, his was the last name in the cast portion of the credits, with the words "...and Pran" and sometime "..above all Pran".

pran Early Career (1940-1966)



A chance meeting with the writer, Wali Mohammad Wali, who worked for Dalsukh Pancholi, at a shop in Hira Mandi, Lahore, led to Pran winning his first role as a villain in Dalsukh Pancholi's Punjabi film Yamla Jat (1940), a big hit in that year. This followed by Chaudhary and Khajanchi. Soon he established a name for himself as a villain in the Lahore film industry, along with other noted villains of time, Ajit and K. N. Singh. Later, Pancholi also cast him in Khandaan (1942), which was the first Hindi movie in which Pran became a hero, opposite Noor Jehan, who had earlier acted with him as a child artist.

Pran had acted in 22 films as a villain before his career experienced a brief pause, due to the partition in 1947. He left Lahore, and arrived in Bombay on 14 August 1947, though films didn't come his way, in fact months of wait and unsuccessful hunting followed, after which he moved to smaller hotels and eventually ended up in Delmar Hotel, Marine Drive. It was only eight months later, in 1948, that he got a chance to start all over again, with the help of writer Saadat Hasan Manto and actor Shyam, he got a role in Bombay Talkies film, Ziddi (with Dev Anand and Kamini Kaushal as leads), directed by Shaheed Latif, launched his career in Bombay. This film was also Dev Anand's big break as a hero, and there was no turning for Pran from then on.[3][8] Then within a week, he signed three more films, S M Yusuf's Grihasti, a diamond jubilee hit, Prabhat Films's Apradhi and finally Wali Mohammad, who had first lured him into movies in 1940, had by then also moved to Bombay, turned a producer and set up office at Famous Studios, near Mahalaxmi Racecourse, offered him Putli .
Pran was regularly offered the role of the main villain or negative character in the films with Dilip Kumar, Dev Anand and Raj Kapoor as the lead hero in the 50's and 60's. Pran's performance as the negative character was very much appreciated in Dilip Kumar starrers like Azaad, Madhumati, Devdas, Dil Diya Dard Liya, Ram Aur Shyam and Aadmi and films with Dev Anand as the lead man like Ziddi (1948), Munimji (1955), Amar Deep (1958) etc. and with Raj Kapoor in Aah,[disambiguation needed] Chori Chori, Jagte Raho, Chhalia, Jis Desh Men Ganga Behti Hai, Dil Hi Toh Hai. Subsequently in the sixties and early seventies, even though his age had catched up and he was in his forties, being slim and fit, his demand in the film market never went down and was given pivotal roles as a young character aged between 25-30 in films with Shammi Kapoor, Joy Mukherjee, Rajendra Kumar and Dharmendra as the lead hero. Whereas Dilip Kumar and Raj Kapoor's career as the young hero started to decline from the late sixties as both of them had put on lot of weight in the sixties although they were younger to Pran.But Pran's association with Dev Anand continued even beyond the 60's with super hits like Johny Mera Naam, Warrant[disambiguation needed] and Des Pardes. His film with him as the lead hero, Halaku[disambiguation needed] in 1956, was big hit too.

Pran always had a significant role in comedy films starring Kishore Kumar and Mehmood Ali in the lead roles. Pran's memorable collaborations with Kishore Kumar as the leading man include Naya Andaz, Aasha, Bewaqoof, Ek Raaz and Jaal Saz and with Mehmood in Sadhu Aur Shaitaan, Lakhon Me Ek. The most memorable films of Kishore Kumar and Pran together remains Half Ticket and Man-Mauji.