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Article: Obituary: Manmohan Desai
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- March 4, 1994
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Manmohan Desai, film director and producer: born Bombay 26
February 1937; married 1969 Jeevanprabha Gandhi (one son, two
daughters); died Bombay 1 March 1994.
MANMOHAN DESAI, one of India's most successful film directors
and producers, was known as the "Miracle man of Bollywood", or
Bombay, capital of the Indian film industry.
Desai was the uncrowned King of Bollywood in the late Seventies.
On one occasion, in 1977, three of his fast-paced extravaganzas
were released over a 52-day span, and all of them became runaway
successes. One of them, Amar, Akbar, Anthony - an involved tale of
secularism based on the camaraderie between three young men, a
Hindu, a Muslim and a Christian - was one of ...