113-445: Yamla Pagla Deewana ( transl. Crazy mad lover ; Hindi pronunciation: [jəməlaː pəgəlaː d̪iːʋaːnaː] ) is a 2011 Indian Hindi -language action comedy film directed by Samir Karnik , featuring Dharmendra , Sunny Deol , and Bobby Deol in the lead roles. The film marks the second pair-up between the Deol family, after Apne (2007). The film's title is inspired by
226-595: A Member of the Indian Parliament ( Lok Sabha ) from Bharatiya Janata Party representing Bikaner in Rajasthan from 2004 to 2009. During his election campaign in 2004, he made an offensive remark that he should be elected dictator perpetuo to teach "basic etiquette that democracy requires" for which he was severely criticised. He rarely attended Parliament when the house was in session, preferring to spend time shooting movies or working at his farmhouse, for which he
339-471: A Punjabi author. Dharam and Paramvir help him woo her, and the two start a relationship. Soon enough, Gajodhar gets attacked by Saheba's brothers, who took Saheba back to Punjab. When Dharam sees that Gajodhar is hopeless, he breaks down and asks Paramvir to help and acknowledges that he is his father but he shouldn't tell Gajodhar anything about that, after which Paramvir and Gajodhar go to Punjab to get back his love. Saheba's elder brother Joginder Singh, who
452-469: A Superstar . 1973 proved to be the best year of his career with many successes. His first release which was A. Bhimsingh 's action crime film Loafer emerged a superhit with its songs, including "Aaj Mausam Bada Be-Imaan", "Main Tere Ishq Mein", "Koi Shehri Babu" becoming immensely popular among the masses and making its soundtrack one of the best selling Hindi film albums of the 1970s. This
565-482: A career spanning over six decades. Dharmendra made his debut in 1960 with Dil Bhi Tera Hum Bhi Tere . He first gained popularity in the mid-1960s for films, such as Ayee Milan Ki Bela , Kaajal and Phool Aur Patthar , and achieved greater stardom in later years, being dubbed India's "Garam Dharam" for several of his on-screen roles in Hindi films. He consistently starred in several successful Hindi films from
678-621: A blockbuster and despite playing the antagonist, Dharmendra got noticed by audience and received a nomination in the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor category. That same year, he played the lead role in Chetan Anand 's war-drama Haqeeqat . Based on the Sino-Indian War of 1962, the film proved to be a major critical and commercial success, eventually emerging a superhit with one of its song " Ab Tumhare Hawaale Watan Saathiyon ",
791-591: A blockbuster and one of the top earners of 1970. His next two films, Bhappi Sonie 's Tum Haseen Main Jawan and Asit Sen 's Sharafat , both opposite Malini proved to be superhits at the box office. This was followed by a flop in Ishq Par Zor Nahin alongside Sadhana and a hit in Kab? Kyoon? Aur Kahan? with Babita . His final release of that year was Raj Kapoor 's magnum opus Mera Naam Joker (in which he played
904-573: A core vocabulary of native Prakrit and Sanskrit-derived words. However, Hindi is written in the Devanagari script and contains more direct tatsama Sanskrit -derived words than Urdu, whereas Urdu is written in the Perso-Arabic script and uses more Arabic and Persian loanwords compared to Hindi. Because of this, as well as the fact that the two registers share an identical grammar, a consensus of linguists consider them to be two standardised forms of
1017-419: A different style of filmmaking. His longest collaboration was with director Arjun Hingorani from 1960 to 1991. Dil Bhi Tera Hum Bhi Tere was the debut film of Dharmendra as an actor and Arjun's first directorial venture with Dharmendra as the lead hero. They worked together in Kab? Kyoon? Aur Kahan? , Kahani Kismat Ki , Khel Khilari Ka , Katilon Ke Kaatil and Kaun Kare Kurbanie where Arjun Hingorani
1130-527: A guest appearance in the song "Deewangi Deewangi" from Farah Khan 's blockbuster reincarnation drama Om Shanti Om . In 2011, Dharmendra starred in Yamla Pagla Deewana and Tell Me O Kkhuda . While the latter was a commercial disaster, Yamla Pagla Deewana performed very well and emerged a box office hit. He then appeared in sequels to Yamla Pagla Deewana , Yamla Pagla Deewana 2 (2013) and Yamla Pagla Deewana Phir Se (2018), but unlike
1243-621: A larger amount are still used in Urdu poetry written in the Devanagari script. Many words borrowed from Persian in turn were loanwords from Arabic (e.g. muśkil "difficult", havā "air", x(a)yāl "thought", kitāb "book"). Hindi also makes extensive use of loan translation ( calqueing ) and occasionally phono-semantic matching of English . Many Hindustani words were derived from Portuguese due to interaction with colonists and missionaries: Dharmendra Dharmendra Kewal Krishan Deol (born 8 December 1935), known mononymously as Dharmendra ,
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#17328688421051356-529: A literary language in the 19th century. Earliest examples could be found as Prēm Sāgar by Lallu Lal , Batiyāl Pachīsī of Sadal Misra, and Rānī Kētakī Kī Kahānī of Insha Allah Khan which were published in Devanagari script during the early 19th century. John Gilchrist was principally known for his study of the Hindustani language , which was adopted as the lingua franca of northern India (including what
1469-559: A mark while Brij Sadanah 's big-budget actioner Professor Pyarelal ended up as an average grosser. This changed in 1982 as five of his films emerged commercial successes, these were - Rajput , Badle Ki Aag , Ghazab , Baghavat and Samraat . In 1983, Dharmendra delivered a hit in Rajkumar Kohli 's comedy film Naukar Biwi Ka , followed by another success, Qayamat , but his most anticipated film of that year, Kamal Amrohi 's period biographical film Razia Sultan
1582-523: A medium of expression for all the elements of the composite culture of India and to secure its enrichment by assimilating without interfering with its genius, the forms, style and expressions used in Hindustani and in the other languages of India specified in the Eighth Schedule, and by drawing, wherever necessary or desirable, for its vocabulary, primarily on Sanskrit and secondarily on other languages. It
1695-410: A part of the process of Sanskritisation , new words are coined using Sanskrit components to be used as replacements for supposedly foreign vocabulary. Usually these neologisms are calques of English words already adopted into spoken Hindi. Some terms such as dūrbhāṣ "telephone", literally "far-speech" and dūrdarśan "television", literally "far-sight" have even gained some currency in formal Hindi in
1808-573: A reason". Mayank Shekhar of Hindustan Times rated it 2.5/5. Rajeev Masand of CNN-IBN says " Yamla Pagla Deewana is enjoyable" giving it 2.5 out of 5 stars. Pankaj Sabnani of Glamsham.com gave 3 out of 5 stating "The right dose of action, drama and comedy, combined with a fine story make Yamla Pagla Deewana a paisa vasool entertainer. Go for it!" Yamla Pagla Deewana opened to a good response in India, raking in ₹ 240 million net over its first weekend and approximately ₹ 350 million net at
1921-712: A righteous man in Hrishikesh Mukherjee 's social drama film Satyakam , which is widely considered to be his career-best performance by fans as well as critics and went on to win National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi . The year 1970 was a notable one for Dharmendra as he delivered four major successes and formed a hit pair with Hema Malini . His first release was Satyen Bose 's crime drama Jeevan Mrityu . An adaptation of Alexandre Dumas 's novel The Count of Monte Cristo , it proved to be major critical and commercial success, eventually emerging
2034-723: A saleable star. He received his first nomination in the Filmfare Award for Best Actor category for the film. The success of Phool Aur Patthar was followed by hits in Mamta , Devar , Anupama and Aaye Din Bahar Ke , the same year. He was also given a souvenir at the 14th National Film Awards in recognition of his performance in Anupama . The next year, he worked in commercially unsuccessful, but critically acclaimed films like - Dulhan Ek Raat Ki opposite Nutan and Majhli Didi , Chandan Ka Palna , both opposite Kumari. Dharmendra hit
2147-496: A second language. A Hindi proponent, Indian-born Paramananda Jha , was elected vice-president of Nepal. He took his oath of office in Hindi in July 2008. This created protests in the streets for 5 days; students burnt his effigies, and there was a general strike in 22 districts. Nepal Supreme Court ruled in 2009 that his oath in Hindi was invalid and he was kept "inactive" as vice-president. An "angry" Jha said, "I cannot be compelled to take
2260-434: A significant comic track in the form of " slapstick " comedy which led to it being referred as a "masterpiece in comedy". In 1976, Dharmendra reunited with Ramanand Sagar for the action thriller Charas . Set against the backdrop of the expulsion of Indian community from Uganda by its dictator Idi Amin in 1972, it opened to bumper response all over the nation and emerged a superhit at the box office. His other release of
2373-600: A silver jubilee at over 100 theatres. It was shown continuously at Bombay's Minerva Theatre for over five years and also ran in Kolkata's Jyoti Cinema for 103 weeks. Sholay was the Indian film with the longest theatrical run until Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995) broke its record of 286 weeks in 2001. Before the end of year, he delivered another blockbuster in Pratiggya . The film along with its strong action scenes also had
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#17328688421052486-459: A solo by Mohammed Rafi becoming hugely popular among the masses. In 1965, he had another superhit in Ram Maheshwari's romantic drama Kaajal . The film also had Meena Kumari , Raaj Kumar and Padmini in the lead. In 1966, Dharmendra reunited with Kumari for O. P. Ralhan 's Phool Aur Patthar . The film topped the box office chart in 1966, becoming a major blockbuster and making him
2599-569: A standardised form of Hindustani separate from Urdu took form. In 1881, Bihar accepted Hindi as its sole official language, replacing Urdu, and thus became the first state of India to adopt Hindi. However, in 2014, Urdu was accorded second official language status in the state. After independence, the Government of India instituted the following conventions: On 14 September 1949, the Constituent Assembly of India adopted Hindi written in
2712-495: A superhit as well as one of the top 5 highest earners of that year. Its song, "Zeehale Muskin Makun ba-Ranjish", sung by Lata Mangeshkar and Shabbir Kumar was a chartbuster and dominated the musical charts. The following year, he had another commercial success with Ambrish Sangal's Begaana (1986), co-starring Kumar Gaurav and Rati Agnihotri . Dharmendra returned to the big league in 1987 by delivering eight successful films in
2825-459: A superhit at the box office. The following year, Dharmendra added one more blockbuster in his kitty with Dulal Guha 's social drama Dost co-starring Shatrughan Sinha and Hema Malini. The huge box office success of Dost was followed by moderate successes in Patthar Aur Payal and Resham Ki Dori . For his performance in the latter, Dharmendra received his 4th and final nomination in
2938-473: A supporting role). Although the film was a disaster at the time of release, it attained cult status in later years, with many critics hailing it as one of the best Indian films of all time. In 1971, Dharmendra starred in Raj Khosla 's action drama Mera Gaon Mera Desh . The film went on to become an All Time Blockbuster and established his image of an action hero. The large success of this film also made
3051-455: A thief who had robbed him when he went to tour in Banaras . Upon hearing this news, Paramvir's mother sends him to Banaras to find his father and younger brother. When Paramvir reaches Banaras, he meets a youngster who cons him off all his money. Seeking help, Paramvir lands up at a bar, where he sees both Dharam Singh and his brother Gajodhar Singh , who has now grown up. Paramvir realises Gajodhar
3164-458: Is mutually intelligible with standard Urdu , another recognised register of Hindustani, as both Hindi and Urdu share a core vocabulary base derived from Prakrit (a descendant of Sanskrit). Hindi is also spoken, to a lesser extent, in other parts of India (usually in a simplified or pidginised variety such as Bazaar Hindustani or Haflong Hindi ). Outside India, several other languages are recognised officially as "Hindi" but do not refer to
3277-545: Is a non-resident Indian (NRI) living happily with his Canadian wife Mary along with his two kids Karam and Veer and his mother in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada . Years ago, after the birth of Paramvir's younger brother Gajodhar, Paramvir's father, Dharam Singh, had run away from home and taken Gajodhar with him due to difficulties with the family. Back in present, a Canadian comes to visit Paramvir at his home, where he sees Dharam Singh's photo. The Canadian recognises Dharam as
3390-509: Is a cruel landlord of his village, and her other brothers want to marry her to an NRI. Upon hearing this, Paramvir disguises Gajodhar as Punjabi, and they both go to Saheba's house, with Gajodhar pretending to be an NRI named Karamveer. On the other hand, Joginder has an arch-rival Minty who wants to take Joginder's place and doesn't want Joginder to win in upcoming elections. Joginder, after meeting both of them, decides that they would marry their sister to Paramvir, not to Gajodhar. However, Paramvir
3503-642: Is a standard register of the Hindustani language; additionally, Indian media are widely viewed in Pakistan. A sizeable population in Afghanistan , especially in Kabul , can also speak and understand Hindi-Urdu due to the popularity and influence of Bollywood films, songs and actors in the region. Hindi is also spoken by a large population of Madheshis (people having roots in north-India but having migrated to Nepal over hundreds of years) of Nepal . Apart from this, Hindi
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3616-625: Is about to attack Joginder, Gajodhar rescues him, earning approval to marry Saheba. In the end, Dharam, Gajodhar, Paramvir, Mary, Saheba, Karam, and Veer go to Canada, where they live as one happy family. The filming started in February 2010. Director Samir Karnik along with the lead cast of Dharmendra and Sunny Deol started shooting in Varanasi in April 2010. The shooting was disrupted twice, first in March, due to
3729-491: Is already married. One night, Paramvir gets drunk and beats up Saheba's brothers, but that only makes Joginder like him more. So Paramvir tells Gajodhar to elope with Saheba one night. While they are making their escape, Dharam shows up with a band of musicians, thus preventing Gajodhar and Saheba from running away because Dharam thinks Gajodhar is the one getting married, not knowing that Saheba's family has chosen Paramvir. Dharam tells Paramvir and Gajodhar that Paramvir should be
3842-522: Is also an actor. After moving to Bombay and entering films, Dharmendra married Hema Malini , which caused controversy at the time since he was already married. Rumours began to circulate about Dharmendra and Hema Malini converting to Islam for this marriage. He and Malini starred together in a number of movies in the early 1970s, including Sholay . The couple has two daughters, Esha Deol (an actress, born in 1981) and Ahana Deol (an assistant director, born in 1985). His grandson, Bobby Deol's son,
3955-693: Is also named "Dharam", after him. In 2019, Dharmendra's grandson, Sunny Deol's elder son, Karan Deol, made his debut as an actor with Pal Pal Dil Ke Paas , which was directed by Sunny Deol. In 2023, Sunny Deol's younger son, Rajveer Deol, made his debut as an actor with Dono , directed by Avnish R. Barjatya, Sooraj R. Barjatya 's son. Dharmendra has a farmhouse in Lonavala , where he now generally resides. His family resides in Juhu , Mumbai. In 2023, he expressed that Bollywood neglected his family and never appreciated his family's contribution to cinema. Dharmendra
4068-598: Is an Indian actor, producer, and politician who is primarily known for his work in Hindi films. Nicknamed the "He-Man" of Bollywood, Dharmendra is widely regarded as one of the greatest actors of Indian cinema and to be among the most handsome Indian actors of all time. In 2012, he has received the Padma Bhushan , India's third highest civilian honour, from the Government of India . Dharmendra has worked in more than 200 films in
4181-409: Is an official language of Gujarat , along with Gujarati . It acts as an additional official language of West Bengal in blocks and sub-divisions with more than 10% of the population speaking Hindi. Similarly, Hindi is accorded the status of official language in the following Union Territories : Delhi , Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu . Although there
4294-408: Is available on ZEE5 . In 1983, Dharmendra set up a production company known as Vijayta Films . In its maiden venture Betaab , released in 1983, Vijayta Films launched Dharmendra's elder son Sunny Deol as the lead actor. The film was the second highest-grossing film of the year. In 1990 he produced the action film Ghayal , also starring Sunny. The film won seven Filmfare Awards , including
4407-542: Is based on the language that was spoken in the Ganges-Yamuna Doab ( Delhi , Meerut and Saharanpur ) called Khariboli ; the vernacular of Delhi and the surrounding region came to replace earlier prestige languages such as Awadhi and Braj . Standard Hindi was developed by supplanting foreign loanwords from the Hindustani language and replacing them with Sanskrit words, though Standard Hindi does continue to possess several Persian loanwords. Modern Hindi became
4520-623: Is borrowed from Sanskrit as tatsam borrowings, especially in technical and academic fields. The formal Hindi standard, from which much of the Persian, Arabic and English vocabulary has been replaced by neologisms compounding tatsam words, is called Śuddh Hindi (pure Hindi), and is viewed as a more prestigious dialect over other more colloquial forms of Hindi. Excessive use of tatsam words sometimes creates problems for native speakers. They may have Sanskrit consonant clusters which do not exist in Hindustani, causing difficulties in pronunciation. As
4633-455: Is commonly used to specifically refer the modern literary Hindi language, as opposed to colloquial and regional varieties that are also referred to as Hindi in a wider sense . Like other Indo-Aryan languages, Hindi is a direct descendant of an early form of Vedic Sanskrit , through Shauraseni Prakrit and Śauraseni Apabhraṃśa (from Sanskrit apabhraṃśa "corrupt"), which emerged in the 7th century CE. The sound changes that characterised
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4746-475: Is in fact the youngster who had earlier conned him and is disappointed to see both his father and brother are con-men. When Paramvir sees Dharam alone, he confronts him and tells him his identity. However, Dharam refuses to acknowledge him as his son. Soon, Paramvir saves Gajodhar from getting attacked by goons, to which Gajodhar befriends him and accepts him to their team, not knowing that he is his elder brother. During this time, Gajodhar falls in love with Saheba,
4859-470: Is listed by Indiatimes as one of the " top 25 must see Bollywood films of all time " . In 2005, the judges of the 50th annual Filmfare Awards awarded Sholay the special distinction of Filmfare Best Film of 50 years . When Dilip Kumar was giving Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award to Dharmendra, he commented "whenever I get to meet with God Almighty, I will set before him my only complaint – why did you not make me as handsome as Dharmendra?". One of
4972-575: Is mirror to a hand with bangles, What is Persian to a literate. The emergence of Modern Standard Hindi in the 19th century went along with the Sanskritisation of its vocabulary, leading to a marginalisation of Persian vocabulary in Hindi, which continued after Partition when the Indian government co-opted the policy of Sanskritisation. However, many Persian words (e.g. bas "enough", khud "self") have remained entrenched in Standard Hindi, and
5085-597: Is no specification of a national language in the constitution, it is a widely held belief that Hindi is the national language of India. This is often a source of friction and contentious debate. In 2010, the Gujarat High Court clarified that Hindi is not the national language of India because the constitution does not mention it as such. Outside Asia , the Awadhi language (an Eastern Hindi dialect) with influence from Bhojpuri , Bihari languages , Fijian and English
5198-513: Is now present-day Pakistan ) by British colonists and indigenous people. He compiled and authored An English-Hindustani Dictionary , A Grammar of the Hindoostanee Language , The Oriental Linguist , and many more. His lexicon of Hindustani was published in the Perso-Arabic script , Nāgarī script , and in Roman transliteration .In the late 19th century, a movement to further develop Hindi as
5311-713: Is spoken by the large Indian diaspora which hails from, or has its origin from the "Hindi Belt" of India. A substantially large North Indian diaspora lives in countries like the United States of America , the United Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates , Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Suriname, South Africa, Fiji and Mauritius , where it is natively spoken at home and among their own Hindustani-speaking communities. Outside India, Hindi speakers are 8 million in Nepal ; 863,077 in
5424-523: Is spoken in Fiji. It is an official language in Fiji as per the 1997 Constitution of Fiji, where it referred to it as "Hindustani"; however, in the 2013 Constitution of Fiji , it is simply called " Fiji Hindi " as the official language. It is spoken by 380,000 people in Fiji. Hindi is spoken as a first language by about 77,569 people in Nepal according to the 2011 Nepal census , and further by 1,225,950 people as
5537-854: Is the dominant form of Hindi online. In an analysis of YouTube comments, Palakodety et al., identified that 52% of comments were in Romanised Hindi, 46% in English, and 1% in Devanagari Hindi. Traditionally, Hindi words are divided into five principal categories according to their etymology: Hindi has naturally inherited a large portion of its vocabulary from Shauraseni Prakrit , in the form of tadbhava words. This process usually involves compensatory lengthening of vowels preceding consonant clusters in Prakrit, e.g. Sanskrit tīkṣṇa > Prakrit tikkha > Hindi tīkhā . Much of Standard Hindi's vocabulary
5650-566: Is written in the Devanagari script, an abugida . Devanagari consists of 11 vowels and 33 consonants and is written from left to right. Unlike Sanskrit, Devanagari is not entirely phonetic for Hindi, especially failing to mark schwa deletion in spoken Standard Hindi. The Government of India uses Hunterian transliteration as its official system of writing Hindi in the Latin script. Various other systems also exist, such as IAST , ITRANS and ISO 15919 . Romanised Hindi , also called Hinglish ,
5763-681: The 15th Lok Sabha of India , representing the Bikaner constituency in Rajasthan from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Dharmendra was born as Dharmendra Kewal Krishan Deol in Nasrali , a village in Ludhiana district , Punjab , British India on 8 December 1935. He was born to Kewal Krishan and Satwant Kaur into a Punjabi Jat family. His ancestral village is Dangon , near Pakhowal Tehsil Raikot , Ludhiana . He spent his early life in
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#17328688421055876-483: The 2011 census of India . The term Hindī originally was used to refer to inhabitants of the Indo-Gangetic Plain . It was borrowed from Classical Persian هندی Hindī ( Iranian Persian pronunciation: Hendi ), meaning ' of or belonging to Hind (India) ' (hence, ' Indian ' ). Another name Hindavī ( हिन्दवी ) or Hinduī ( हिन्दुई ) (from Persian هندوی 'of or belonging to
5989-520: The Filmfare Award for Best Actor category. The 1975 Emergency had angered the public, and this helped films featuring the lead character revolting against corruption and establishment become successes. The shift from romantic and social movies to action-oriented multi-starrers changed the box office. The year saw the rise of another superstar, Amitabh Bachchan , but Dharmendra remained rock-steady and continued to deliver huge hits. In 1975, Dharmendra appeared alongside Bachchan in two films. The first
6102-407: The Filmfare Award for Best Film . It won the National Film Award for Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment . Dharmendra then launched the career of his younger son, Bobby , in 1995 with Barsaat , which was again a super hit at the box office. He was the presenter for his films like Satyakam (1969) and Kab Kyun Aur Kahan (1970). Dharmendra is widely regarded as one of
6215-575: The Hindi Belt ), as well as an official language of the Government of India, along with English. In Northeast India a pidgin known as Haflong Hindi has developed as a lingua franca for the people living in Haflong , Assam who speak other languages natively. In Arunachal Pradesh , Hindi emerged as a lingua franca among locals who speak over 50 dialects natively. Hindi is quite easy to understand for many Pakistanis , who speak Urdu, which, like Hindi,
6328-501: The Hindustani language , which itself is based primarily on the Khariboli dialect of Delhi and neighbouring areas. It is an official language in nine states and three union territories and an additional official language in three other states. Hindi is also one of the 22 scheduled languages of the Republic of India . Apart from the script and formal vocabulary, standard Hindi
6441-814: The United States of America ; 450,170 in Mauritius; 380,000 in Fiji; 250,292 in South Africa; 150,000 in Suriname; 100,000 in Uganda ; 45,800 in the United Kingdom; 20,000 in New Zealand ; 20,000 in Germany ; 26,000 in Trinidad and Tobago; 3,000 in Singapore . Linguistically , Hindi and Urdu are two registers of the same language and are mutually intelligible. Both Hindi and Urdu share
6554-709: The romantic comedy Teri Baaton Mein Aisa Uljha Jiya . The film received mixed to negative reviews from critics, but still did a lifetime business of ₹ 1.3 billion (US$ 16 million) worldwide to emerge a commercial success. His most successful pairing was with Hema Malini, who went on to become his wife. The couple played together in many films including Tum Haseen Main Jawaan , Sharafat , Naya Zamana , Seeta Aur Geeta , Raja Jani , Jugnu , Dost , Patthar Aur Payal , Sholay , Charas , Maa , Chacha Bhatija and Azaad . He has worked with various directors, each with
6667-454: The 1970s. On the other hand, Vijay Anand 's romantic thriller Blackmail was an unsuccessful venture critically and commercially, but reception later improved, with many calling it one of Anand's most underrated works. The song "Pal Pal Dil Ke Paas" filmed on Dharmendra and Raakhee was a chartbuster and remains popular till date. His final release of the year, Arjun Hingorani's actioner Kahani Kismat Ki continued his dream run and emerged
6780-612: The 50th birthday of Beohar Rajendra Simha on 14 September 1949, the efforts came to fruition following the adoption of Hindi as the official language. Now, it is celebrated as Hindi Day . Part XVII of the Indian Constitution deals with the official language of the Indian Union. Under Article 343, the official languages of the Union have been prescribed, which includes Hindi in Devanagari script and English: (1) The official language of
6893-623: The Devanagari script as the official language of the Republic of India replacing the previous usage of Hindustani in the Perso-Arabic script in the British Indian Empire . To this end, several stalwarts rallied and lobbied pan-India in favour of Hindi, most notably Beohar Rajendra Simha along with Hazari Prasad Dwivedi , Kaka Kalelkar , Maithili Sharan Gupt and Seth Govind Das who even debated in Parliament on this issue. As such, on
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#17328688421057006-402: The Hindi heartland. Persian borrowings reached a heyday in the 17th century, pervading all aspects of life. Even grammatical constructs, namely the izafat , were assimilated into Hindi. The status of Persian language then and thus its influence, is also visible in Hindi proverbs : हाथ कंगन को आरसी क्या, पढ़े लिखे को फ़ारसी क्या। Hāth kaṅgan ko ārsī kyā, Paṛhe likhe ko Fārsī kyā. What
7119-563: The Hindu/Indian people') was often used in the past, for example by Amir Khusrau in his poetry. The terms Hindi and Hindu trace back to Old Persian which derived these names from the Sanskrit name Sindhu ( सिन्धु ), referring to the Indus River . The Greek cognates of the same terms are Indus (for the river) and India (for the land of the river). The term Modern Standard Hindi
7232-530: The Official Languages Act of 1963, which provided for the continued use of English indefinitely for all official purposes, although the constitutional directive for the Union Government to encourage the spread of Hindi was retained and has strongly influenced its policies. Article 344 (2b) stipulates that the official language commission shall be constituted every ten years to recommend steps for
7345-542: The President may, during the said period, by order authorise the use of the Hindi language in addition to the English language and of the Devanagari form of numerals in addition to the international form of Indian numerals for any of the official purposes of the Union. Article 351 of the Indian constitution states: It shall be the duty of the Union to promote the spread of the Hindi language, to develop it so that it may serve as
7458-430: The Standard Hindi language described here and instead descend from other nearby languages, such as Awadhi and Bhojpuri . Such languages include Fiji Hindi , which has an official status in Fiji , and Caribbean Hindustani , which is spoken in Suriname , Trinidad and Tobago , and Guyana . Hindi is the fourth most-spoken first language in the world, after Mandarin, Spanish and English. If counted together with
7571-460: The Union shall be Hindi in Devanagari script. The form of numerals to be used for the official purposes of the Union shall be the international form of Indian numerals. (2) Notwithstanding anything in clause (1), for a period of fifteen years from the commencement of this Constitution, the English language shall continue to be used for all the official purposes of the Union for which it was being used immediately before such commencement: Provided that
7684-408: The United Kingdom, Dharam Veer had 23 shows in 5 cities. Driven by the success of Rafi's songs, the film took a record initial of £50,000 in the UK, equivalent to ₹ 438,140 (US$ 50,001.71). In addition, the film sold 32 million tickets in the Soviet Union . Post-1977, the quality of Dharmendra's films dropped and so the number of huge grossers, but his initial draw remained intact, owing to which
7797-429: The award from Dilip Kumar and his wife Saira Banu , he became emotional and remarked that he had never won the Filmfare Award for Best Actor despite having worked in so many successful films and nearly a hundred popular films. Speaking on this occasion Dilip Kumar commented, "Whenever I get to meet with God Almighty, I will set before him my only complaint – why did you not make me as handsome as Dharmendra?". Since
7910-495: The big league in 1968 with Atma Ram 's mystery thriller Shikar and Ramanand Sagar 's spy thriller Ankhen . Both the films opened to positive audience response and proved to be blockbusters at the box office with the latter being the top–earning film that year. His other commercially successful releases of 1968 were – T. Prakash Rao 's drama film Izzat (in which he played a double role) and Amar Kumar's romantic drama Mere Hamdam Mere Dost . The following year, saw
8023-497: The big screen for a brief period, he returned with three films in 2007. These were - Anurag Basu 's drama film Life in a... Metro , Anil Sharma 's sports drama Apne and Sriram Raghavan 's neo-noir thriller Johnny Gaddaar . Both, Life in a... Metro and Apne proved to be critical and commercial successes. On the other hand, Johnny Gaddaar , despite failing at the box office, received praise from critics and attained cult status in later years. The same year, he made
8136-587: The biggest stars of the time, Kshatriya was rejected by the audience and proved to be a flop. During this phase, he delivered average grossers in Policewala Gunda (1995) and Mafia (1996), but his other releases, including biggies, such as Maidan-E-Jung (1995) and Return of Jewel Thief (1996) proved to be critical and commercial failures. In 1997, Dharmendra received the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award . While accepting
8249-648: The emergence of superstar Rajesh Khanna , who stormed the nation with back-to-back blockbusters in Aradhana and Do Raaste . With his rise, a number of stars went through career decline. During this phase, Dharmendra and Manoj Kumar were the only actors who remained unaffected by Khanna's popularity. In 1969, he had a superhit in Aya Sawan Jhoom Ke , followed by three more successful films, which were - Yakeen , Pyar Hi Pyar and Aadmi Aur Insaan . Dharmendra also received immense acclaim for his portrayal of
8362-463: The end of its first week. The film did particularly well in Punjab , Delhi and UP . It grossed approximately ₹ 8.50 crore in its second weekend taking the total gross to ₹ 430 million in ten days. The film had a 300% increase in collections on Republic Day and grossed ₹ 495.0 million by the end of its second week. In its third week, the film collected ₹ 35.1 million. After seven weeks
8475-470: The expectations and ended up as an average fare, however gained cult status in later years. His next two releases were - Alibaba Aur 40 Chor and Ram Balram . While the former was a moderate success, the latter in which he reunited with Bachchan proved to be a box office hit. In 1981, he had a superhit in Kaatilon Ke Kaatil , but other releases, such as Aas Paas and Krodhi failed to leave
8588-496: The film also featured Dilip Kumar and Keshto Mukherjee in key roles. He has periodically appeared in films in his native tongue of Punjabi , starring in Kankan De Ohle (1970), Do Sher (1974), Dukh Bhanjan Tera Naam (1974), Teri Meri Ik Jindri (1975), Putt Jattan De (1982) and Qurbani Jatt Di (1990). He returned to Punjabi cinema after a gap with the 2014 film Double Di Trouble . Dharmendra served as
8701-497: The film's net collections were ₹ 549.3 million. In overseas markets, the film grossed around US$ 3,030,000. The total worldwide gross of the film amounted to ₹ 887.2 million. The music of the film is composed by Laxmikant-Pyarelal, Anu Malik , RDB , Nouman Javaid, Sandesh Shandilya, Rahul Seth, and Sanjoy Chowdhary. The lyrics are penned by Anand Bakshi , RDB , Rahul Seth, Nouman Javaid , Anu Malik , Irshad Kamil & Dharmendra . "Tinku Jiya" composed by Anu Malik
8814-495: The films received critical acclaim and emerged moderately successful. Towards the end of the year, Dharmendra appeared in Yaadon Ki Baaraat , Blackmail and Kahani Kismat Ki . Yaadon Ki Baaraat , directed by Nasir Hussain and written by Salim-Javed is widely identified as the first masala film of Indian cinema and proved to be another blockbuster for the actor as well as the second best selling Hindi film album of
8927-515: The first film, both the sequels received poor audience response. In 2023, he appeared in Karan Johar 's ensemble family drama Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani . It opened to a polarising response from reviewers but grossed over ₹ 3.5 billion (US$ 42 million) worldwide and proved to be a hit as well as the tenth highest-grossing Indian film of the year. The following year, Dharmendra co-starred alongside Shahid Kapoor and Kriti Sanon in
9040-549: The flow of successes continued till the early 90s. In 1978 and 1979, he had hits in Azaad co-starring Malini and Kartavya alongside Rekha , respectively. His other releases, including Phandebaaz (1978), Dillagi (1978) and Dil Kaa Heera (1979) also performed well commercially. Dharmendra began the 1980s with Ravi Chopra 's big-budget action thriller The Burning Train . The film co-starring Jeetendra , Vinod Khanna , Hema Malini and Parveen Babi didnt live upto
9153-476: The hospitalisation of Dharmendra, and then in July, when Sunny Deol faced back problems while filming an action sequence. The film received mostly positive reviews from critics. Taran Adarsh of Bollywood Hungama gave the film 3.5 stars out of 5 saying "it reminds the audience of the films of yesteryear with the typical masala." Gaurav Malani of the Times of India states, "This one is an entertainer and not without
9266-780: The industry shift to action from romantic films. Dharmendra received his second nomination in the Filmfare Award for Best Actor category for his performance in Mera Gaon Mera Desh . His flow of successes continued in the following year with another massive blockbuster in Seeta Aur Geeta , a superhit in Raja Jani and a hit film, Samadhi to go with the major grossers. The mass hysteria created by Mera Gaon Mera Desh in 1971, followed by back-to-back hits with Seeta Aur Geeta , Raja Jani and Samadhi in 1972 took Dharmendra to number 1 position among his contemporaries, thus making him
9379-531: The last 125 years, there are no academic studies of any of them – of their use in South Africa, their evolution and current decline. Hindi is adopted as the third official court language in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi . As a result of this status, the Indian workforce in UAE can file their complaints to the labour courts in the country in their own mother-tongue. Hindi is the lingua franca of northern India (which contains
9492-408: The late 1990s, he appeared in character roles in several successful and acclaimed films, such as Pyaar Kiya To Darna Kya , Life in a... Metro , Apne , Johnny Gaddaar , Yamla Pagla Deewana , Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani and Teri Baaton Mein Aisa Uljha Jiya . In 1997, he received the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to Bollywood . He was a member of
9605-665: The late-1960s to the 1980s, such as Ankhen , Shikar , Aya Sawan Jhoom Ke , Jeevan Mrityu , Mera Gaon Mera Desh , Seeta Aur Geeta , Raja Jani , Jugnu , Yaadon Ki Baaraat , Dost , Sholay , Pratiggya , Charas , Dharam Veer , Chacha Bhatija , Ghulami , Hukumat , Aag Hi Aag , Elaan-E-Jung and Tahalka , as well as some of his acclaimed performances, include Anpadh , Bandini , Haqeeqat , Anupama , Mamta , Majhli Didi , Satyakam , Naya Zamana , Samadhi , Resham Ki Dori , Chupke Chupke , Dillagi , The Burning Train , Do Dishayen and Hathyar . Beginning in
9718-509: The late-1990s, Dharmendra has appeared in character roles. His first film in such a role was Sohail Khan 's romantic comedy Pyaar Kiya To Darna Kya (1998), co-starring Salman Khan , Kajol and Arbaaz Khan . The film received positive reviews from critics and became a superhit at the box office. Dharmendra's first two major releases of the new decade were Kaise Kahoon Ke... Pyaar Hai (2003) and Kis Kis Ki Kismat (2004), both of which were box office failures. After an absence from
9831-520: The most influential personalities in Indian cinema. He was considered one of the most handsome men in the world during his early career and is widely known as the "He-Man" of Bollywood. In 2022, he was placed in Outlook India ' s "75 Best Bollywood Actors" list. Rediff.com placed him 10th in its "Top 10 Bollywood Actors of All Time" list. His most notable acting performances include Satyakam with Hrishikesh Mukherjee , and Sholay , which
9944-400: The mutually intelligible Urdu, it is the third most-spoken language in the world, after Mandarin and English. According to reports of Ethnologue (2022, 25th edition) Hindi is the third most-spoken language in the world including first and second language speakers. Hindi is the fastest growing language of India , followed by Kashmiri , Meitei , Gujarati and Bengali according to
10057-641: The oath now in Nepali. I might rather take it in English." Hindi is a protected language in South Africa . According to the Constitution of South Africa , the Pan South African Language Board must promote and ensure respect for Hindi along with other languages. According to a doctoral dissertation by Rajend Mesthrie in 1985, although Hindi and other Indian languages have existed in South Africa for
10170-569: The official language of the imperial court during the reign of Shah Jahan . It is recorded that Emperor Aurangzeb spoke in Hindvi . The Hindustani vernacular became an expression of Indian national unity during the Indian Independence movement , and continues to be spoken as the common language of the people of the northern Indian subcontinent, which is reflected in the Hindustani vocabulary of Bollywood films and songs. Standard Hindi
10283-529: The one running away. So Paramvir attempts to go to the market, but Poli brings him back home, causing Joginder to think that Gajodhar and Dharam are joking, as they said Paramvir is scared of marriage, but unbeknownst to Dharam and Gajodhar, he is standing right behind them. Joginder decides to get Poli married to Gajodhar, after which Gajodhar and Saheba decide they will escape that very night. Again, they fail as Paramvir's wife Mary shows up with Karam and Veer (Paramvir's sons). Paramvir, Gajodhar, and Dharam make up
10396-483: The place of the English borrowings (ṭeli)fon and ṭīvī . Hindi also features significant Persian influence, standardised from spoken Hindustani . Early borrowings, beginning in the mid-12th century, were specific to Islam (e.g. Muhammad , Islām ) and so Persian was simply an intermediary for Arabic. Later, under the Delhi Sultanate and Mughal Empire , Persian became the primary administrative language in
10509-522: The progressive use of Hindi language and impose restrictions on the use of the English language by the union government. In practice, the official language commissions are constantly endeavouring to promote Hindi but not imposing restrictions on English in official use by the union government. At the state level, Hindi is the official language of the following Indian states: Bihar , Chhattisgarh , Haryana , Himachal Pradesh , Jharkhand , Madhya Pradesh , Rajasthan , Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand . Hindi
10622-495: The same language, Hindustani or Hindi-Urdu. Hindi is the most commonly used scheduled language in India and is one of the two official languages of the union , the other being English. Urdu is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan and is one of 22 scheduled languages of India , also having official status in Uttar Pradesh , Jammu and Kashmir , Delhi , Telangana , Andhra Pradesh and Bihar . Hindi
10735-504: The song "Main Jat Yamla Pagla Deewana" from the 1975 film, Pratigya also starring Dharmendra. The theatrical trailer of the film was unveiled on 5 November 2010, while the film was released on 14 January 2011, and received a good response upon release. It turned out to be a box office hit. It is the first installment of the Yamla Pagla Deewana film series and the 11th highest-grossing Bollywood film of 2011. Paramvir Singh
10848-482: The story that she is their neighbour in Canada and that her husband is also named Paramvir, who went missing last year. Mary knows that Paramvir is in front of her but chooses not to say anything because it will ruin the whole plan. Joginder somehow finds out what has been on all this while and gets his men to attack Paramvir, Gajodhar, and Dharam. Paramvir and Dharam beat his men up until Minty and his men showed up. As Minty
10961-404: The third week onward, viewership picked up owing to positive word of mouth . During the initial slow period, the director and writer considered re-shooting some scenes so that Amitabh Bachchan's character would not die. When business picked up, they abandoned this idea. After additionally releasing a soundtrack containing dialogue snippets, Sholay soon became an "overnight sensation". The film
11074-471: The transition from Middle Indo-Aryan to Hindi are: During the period of Delhi Sultanate in medieval India , which covered most of today's north India, eastern Pakistan, southern Nepal and Bangladesh and which resulted in the contact of Hindu and Muslim cultures , the Sanskrit and Prakrit base of Old Hindi became enriched with loanwords from Persian , evolving into the present form of Hindustani. Hindi achieved prominence in India after it became
11187-424: The trio of Dharmendra , Sunny Deol and Bobby Deol reprising their roles, with Neha Sharma and debutant Kristina Akheeva as female leads. Yamla Pagla Deewana 2 released on 7 June 2013, and received mixed to negative response. The third installment of the series was released on 31 August 2018 reprising the original lead male actors and Kirti Kharbanda as actress. The film generally received negative reviews and
11300-601: The village of Sahnewal and studied at Government Senior Secondary School at Lalton Kalan , Ludhiana , where his father was the village school headmaster. He did his matriculation in Phagwara in 1952. In those days, schools of Punjab came under Panjab University, Chandigarh . Dharmendra's first marriage was to Prakash Kaur at the age of 19 in 1954, before he had entered films. He had two sons from this marriage, Sunny Deol and Bobby Deol , both successful film actors; and two daughters, Vijeeta and Ajeeta. His nephew Abhay Deol
11413-591: The year, M. A. Thirumugam 's family drama film Maa was thrashed by critics, but still went on to become a success. The year 1977 proved to be a big one for Dharmendra with a mega blockbuster in Manmohan Desai 's action drama Dharam Veer , a superhit in another of Desai's masala film Chacha Bhatija , followed by two more successful films in Arjun Hingorani's mystery thriller Khel Khilari Ka and Pramod Chakravorty's action comedy Dream Girl . In
11526-458: The year. His first two releases were - Rajkumar Kohli's and Raj N. Sippy 's actioners Insaniyat Ke Dushman and Loha , respectively, both of which proved to be box office hits. He then appeared in Dadagiri , Hukumat and Aag Hi Aag . While Dadagiri was an average fare, the latter two went on to become superhits with Hukumat emerging as the highest-grossing film of the year . This
11639-461: Was Mukherjee's light-hearted comedy Chupke Chupke . It received positive response from critics and went on to become a hit at the box office. The second was Ramesh Sippy 's actioner Sholay . It released on 15 August 1975, Indian Independence Day , in Bombay. Due to lackluster reviews and a lack of effective visual marketing tools, it saw poor financial returns in its first two weeks. However, from
11752-486: Was a box office disaster . The next year, he had seven releases, out of which Baazi , Jagir and Jeene Nahi Doonga did reasonable business, but rest were critical and commercial failures. In 1985, Dharmendra starred in J.P. Dutta 's action drama film Ghulami which also had Mithun Chakraborty , Naseeruddin Shah , Reena Roy and Smita Patil in the lead. The film opened to positive reviews from critics and emerged
11865-404: Was a box office disaster. Hindi Modern Standard Hindi ( आधुनिक मानक हिन्दी , Ādhunik Mānak Hindī ), commonly referred to as Hindi , is the standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in Devanagari script . It is the official language of India alongside English and the lingua franca of North India . Hindi is considered a Sanskritised register of
11978-460: Was a chartbuster in 2011. The title song is the remake of the same song from the film Pratigya which was sung by Mohammed Rafi and incidentally featured Dharmendra. The sequel was announced after the success of the original, and the project began filming in September 2012. The first look of the film was also unveiled after its first schedule was completed also in September 2012. The sequel features
12091-437: Was also widely criticised. In 2011, Dharmendra replaced Sajid Khan as the male judge of the third series of popular reality show India's Got Talent . On 29 July 2011, the show aired on Colors TV with Dharmendra as the new judge and surpassed the opening ratings of the previous two seasons. In 2023, he appeared in his first television acting role as Salim Chisti in the historical series Taj: Divided by Blood which
12204-555: Was envisioned that Hindi would become the sole working language of the Union Government by 1965 (per directives in Article 344 (2) and Article 351), with state governments being free to function in the language of their own choice. However, widespread resistance to the imposition of Hindi on non-native speakers, especially in South India (such as those in Tamil Nadu ) led to the passage of
12317-777: Was followed by T. Rama Rao 's hit venture Watan Ke Rakhwale and two more successful films, Insaaf Kaun Karega with Rajinikanth and Insaf Ki Pukar , co-starring Jeetendra. His other hit ventures of the decade, include Khatron Ke Khiladi (1988) and Elaan-E-Jung (1989). With the advent of the 1990s, Dharmendra's star power began to wane. From 1990 to 1992, his successful films, included Naakabandi (1990), Humse Na Takrana (1990) and Kohraam (1991). The following year, he appeared in J. P. Dutta's ensemble action film Kshatriya co-starring Sunil Dutt , Vinod Khanna , Rakhee Gulzar , Sanjay Dutt , Sunny Deol , Meenakshi Seshadri , Raveena Tandon and Divya Bharti . Despite enormous expectations and presence of some of
12430-591: Was followed by mystery thriller Jheel Ke Us Paar and action drama Jugnu . While Jheel Ke Us Paar was a hit, the latter proved to be a blockbuster in India as well as Soviet Union , eventually taking 2nd spot at the box office in 1973. Owing to its huge success, Jugnu was also remade in Tamil and Telugu as Guru (1980). His next two releases were - Ravikant Nagaich 's spy thriller Keemat and Adurthi Subba Rao 's light-hearted drama film Jwaar Bhata . Both
12543-557: Was the producer and the director, and Sultanat and Karishma Kudrat Kaa , produced by Arjun Hingorani . He worked with director Pramod Chakravorty in Naya Zamana , Jugnu , Dream Girl and Azaad . Anil Sharma worked with him in many films including Hukumat , Elaan-E-Jung , Farishtay , Tahalka and Apne . In the starting of his film career he worked in the Bengali film Paari directed by Jagannath Chatterjee. Released in 1966,
12656-823: Was the winner of Filmfare magazine's nationally organised new talent award and went to Mumbai from Punjab to work in the movie. However, it was never made. He later made his film debut in 1960 with Arjun Hingorani 's romantic drama Dil Bhi Tera Hum Bhi Tere . The film largely went unnoticed and as a result, did not perform that well at the box office. He saw his first commercial success in 1961 with Ramesh Saigal 's Shola Aur Shabnam and followed it with hits, such as Mohan Kumar 's Anpadh (1962) and Bimal Roy 's Bandini (1963), which won National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi . His breakthrough came in 1964 when he co-starred alongside Rajendra Kumar and Saira Banu in another of Mohan Kumar's directional venture Ayee Milan Ki Bela . It went on to become
12769-421: Was then released in other distribution zones such as Delhi , Uttar Pradesh , Bengal , and Hyderabad on 11 October 1975. It became the highest-grossing Hindi language film of 1975, and film ranking website Box Office India has given the film a verdict of All Time Blockbuster . Sholay went on to earn a still-standing record of 60 golden jubilees across India, and was the first film in India to celebrate
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