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Prabha lives a wealthy lifestyle with her widowed dad, Thakur Jasbir Singh and brother Kunwar Ranvir. She receives a marriage proposal from equally wealthy Thakur Shamsher Singh, but rejects him, gets married to Rajendra, re-locates to move-in with him and his widowed and principled mom, Amba Bhanupratap Singh, & wayward brother Suraj, where she soon gives birth to Rajat.

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Zindagi Ek Juaa translation: Life is a Gamble) is a Bollywood tragedy/drama, released 1992.After saving the life of his employer, Jagjit Singh alias JJ (Anupam Kher), Harikishan (Anil Kapoor) is promoted with a wage increase that he had only dreamt of. Anxious to please his employer Harikishan agrees to have his name changed to Harry, and does anything that he is instructed to do. Soon Harry realises that he has been aiding his employer in illegal activities. When he tries to break away, he is told that his mom (Asha Sharma) is and will be held captive to guarantee his cooperation. Harry must now come up with a scheme that will guarantee his safety as well as the freedom of his mom, and at the same time save himself from being arrested by the police.

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Mr. India is a 1987 Bollywood science fiction superhero film directed by Shekhar Kapur. It stars Anil Kapoor in the title role, Sridevi as his romantic interest and Amrish Puri in one of his best-known roles as the villain Mogambo.The film was the biggest hit of 1987 in India and remains a cult classic. The film was known for several of its lines and songs, including Sridevi’s Miss Hawa Hawaii performance, and Amrish Puri’s quote “Mogambo khush hua” (Mogambo is pleased), which is one of the most famous quotes of Bollywood and has become synonymous with Puri.The Mogambo character is also considered to be one of the best villains in Bollywood history.

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Parinda is an award-winning 1989 Indian film directed and produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra. Parinda is considered by many to be the turning point in reality in Hindi cinema, as the theme of the film discusses the real life of Indian underworld gangsters and the general life of residents in the city of Bombay (now Mumbai). The film stars Jackie Shroff, Anil Kapoor, Nana Patekar and Madhuri Dixit in the lead roles. The film won two National Film Awards and five Filmfare Awards, and was India’s official entry for the 1990 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

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True to the aforementioned saying, the age factor has nothing to do with our today’s birthday boy. He is someone whose mere screen presence makes the audiences go cheese; for he is none other than Bollywood’s one and only ageless wonder Anil ‘Jhakkaas’ Kapoor!Having started his career as early as in 1979 with Hamare Tumhare, Anil went onto do films that became more than Oscars’ equivalent! Each and every film of his only adds glittering testimony to the fact that ‘Legendary actors just cannot be made…they are simply born’.

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Saaheb is a 1985 Hindi movie directed by Anil Ganguly. The film stars Anil Kapoor, Rakhee, Amrita Singh, Utpal Dutt, Biswajit, Vijay Arora, Deven Verma, A. K. Hangal and Dilip Dhawan. The films music is by Bappi Lahiri.Mr. Sharma (Utpal Dutt) lives with his four sons (Biswajeet, Vijay Arora, Dilip Dhawan) and a daughter, Geeta or Butlie. Only the youngest son, Sunil (Anil Kapoor) and Geeta are unmarried.

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Andaz is 1994 Hindi Movie directed by David Dhawan and starring Anil Kapoor, Karishma Kapoor, Juhi Chawla, Kader Khan. Other cast members include Raj Babbar, Shakti Kapoor, Satish Kaushik, Ishrat Ali, Mahesh Anand, Vikas Anand, Tej Sapru.After completing his schooling from Nalanda, Ajay Kumar Saxena returns and is hired as a Teacher. He meets with savvy students, whose names are Jaya, Neelam, Shilpa, Sonam, Chunky, Govinda, with Jaya having a crush on him, and wants to wed him.He, instead, weds Saraswati, from a local orphanage, brings her home, while Jaya leaves the hostel and moves in next door. Jaya’s agenda is to befriend Saraswati and thus continue to be near her lover, and she meets this goal with considerable success. When Jaya’s dad is killed, Saraswati asks Jaya to move in, bringing chaos to Ajay’s life amidst threats from a terrorist named Captain - who will soon hold the school and all it’s inhabitants hostage.

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