Amol Palekar is best known for his simplistic acting and smart comedy in Indian cinema. He has earned millions of accolades over the decades in the field of acting and direction. Through his movies, he has portrayed the image of a common man and the day-to-day problems faced by middle-class society in a very realistic way. He has given us some of the best movies like Golmaal, Choti si baat, Baato Baato mein, Naram Garam, Rangbirangi, Rajnigandha, and many more. These movies turned out to be major hits in the 1970 and 80s.
Amol Palekar was born on 24th November 1944 in Mumbai. He is a graduate of Sir JJ School of Arts, Mumbai. He made his debut with the Marathi film ‘Shantata! Court Chalu Aahe’ in the year 1971 directed by Satyadev Dube. In 1974, he entered Bollywood with Basu Chatterjee’s Rajnigandha. Most of his movies were directed by Basu Chatterjee and Hrishikesh Mukherjee. For Golmaal, he won the Filmfare Best Actor Award. In 1979, he was paired with Sridevi in Solva Saawan. This movie was her debut movie and was a remake of a Tamil movie.
Apart from Hindi, he has given brilliant performances in regional language films including Marathi, Bengali, Malayalam, and Kannada. From 1986 he focused more on filmmaking than acting. He is also known for directing several television serials like Kachchi Dhoop, Mrignayani, Naquab, Paool Khuna, and Krishna Kali. Kachchi Dhoop was the debut of film star Bhagyashree. She got recognition later, with the superhit film, Maine Pyaar Kiya. He directed many Hindi and other regional movies. Some of them are path-breaking movies like Ankahee, Daayraa, Anahat, Paheli, and Samaantar.
On the occasion of his birthday, I have listed melodious songs from his movies. Hope you like them
Hi
Nostalgic trip down 80s and 90s , prime years of amol palekar and our youth. Being from middle class family , amol palke kar was a next door guy, who was shy but smart we could relate to him , entirely in our teens when we ourselves were finding love . He used to take us on roler coaster ride of emotions and ultimately winning hearts.
Cherry on the cake was the songs , simple , melodious , memorable and full of romance , good that you brought few of them forward in your blog.
Kachhi dhoop had the most relatable plot like in our life that time in class 11 th and 12th, it used to come at 1030 hr on tv and we used to watch at our Bhagyshree’s house😊
फिर घूम आये हम
उस यादों के गली में।
जो छोड़ आये थे पीछे
जिंदगी के हड़बड़ी में।
Happy birthday to Amol ji
Thanks ashwini