Motilal (actor)
Motilal Rajvansh
( 4 December 1910 – 17 June 1965) was an Indian film actor and the winner of Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award for" Devdas"( 1955) and" Parakh"( 1960).
He is credited with being among Hindi cinema's first natural actors.
He also directed the film" Chhoti Chhoti Baatein"( 1965), but died before its release.
At the 13th National Film Awards, it won the award for Certificate of Merit for the Third Best Feature Film and he posthumously won the Certificate of Merit for the Best Story Writer.
Alonso Mudarra
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He was an innovative composer of instrumental music as well as songs, and was the composer of the earliest surviving music for the guitar.
Amedeo Escobar
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Bert Grund
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Thomas Morse
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Abe Meyer
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Anil Biswas (composer)
Anil Krishna Biswas (अनिल कृष्ण विश्वास / অনিল বিশ্বাস; 7 July 1914 – 31 May 2003) was an noted Indian film music director and playback singer from 1935 to 1965, who apart from being one of pioneers of playback singing, is also credited for the first Indian orchestra of twelve pieces and introducing orchestral music and full-blooded choral effects, into Indian cinema.
A master in western symphonic music was known for the Indian classical or folk elements, especially Baul and Bhatiyali in his music.
Out of his over 90 films, most memorable were, "Roti" (1942), "Kismet" (1943), "Anokha Pyaar" (1948), "Taraana" (1951), "Waaris" (1954), "Pardesi" (1957) and "Char Dil Char Rahen" (1959).
He was also the pioneer in using the counter melody in film scores, employing technique of western music, ‘cantala’, where one line overlaps the other in contra-melody, recitative prose songs as in "Roti" (1942), besides he was the first one to start extensively using the Ragmala.
Another important element that he introduced was western orchestration, using indigenous instruments both in the songs as well as in their melodic interludes, a trend that soon caught on and paved way for the musicals of Indian cinema today.
He was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1986, given by the Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's National Academy of Music, Dance & Drama.
Chhoti Chhoti Baten
Chhoti Chhoti Baten is a 1965 Indian Hindi family drama film directed by actor Motilal.
It was his only film as director, writer and producer under his home banner, Rajvanshi Productions.
It starred Motilal, Nadira and Moti Sagar in lead roles.
The music of the film was by Anil Biswas, his last film before retiring from Bollywood and joining All India Radio.
It is noted for the song "Zindagi Khwab Hai Tha Hamein Bhi" performed by Mukesh, and the Lata Mangeshkar-Mukesh duet, "Zindagi Ka
Ajab Afsana Hai".
Dances were choreographed by Kathak exponent Lachhu Maharaj, who also choreographed "Mughal-e-Azam" (1960) and "Pakeezah" (1972).
Director Motilal Rajvashi, a noted character actor from the 1940s till the 1960s made his directorial debut through this film.
However, he died before film's release, and despite critical acclaim the offbeat family drama flopped at the box office.
Composer Anil Biswas said that the film's post-production was overseen by singer Mukesh, a distant cousin of Motilal, as the actor lay in hospital.
At the 13th National Film Awards, it won the award for Certificate of Merit for the Third Best Feature Film and Certificate of Merit for the Best Story Writer was awarded posthumously to Motilal.
The film explores theme of humanity, helping others, society, trust, importance of money and relationships.
It was featured in the book "
Take 2 – 50 Films That Deserve a New Audience" by Deepa Gehlot, who described the story as -"a story of one man’s good fortune, his attempts to help others and a tragic outcome".
In a 1963 interview, Motilal had said the following about the film, and his character -"He has an air of ineffable sadness and, inside of him, he is full of goodness to the world—a world which hasn’t been all good to him, in which he finds ultimate dignity only in death.
His name is Motilal, too.
I play him in “Chhoti Chhoti Batein”, the film I have laboured much to put together bit by bit.
This is my most recent role but the one I have wanted to do longest.
In visualising the Motilal of my film, a suburban philosopher, a man who is silently asking himself: “Where is peace?”
and is led on from corner to corner, I have borrowed of myself, of many echoes from all my yesterdays"
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Question: What is the award that the composer of film Chhoti Chhoti Baten received?
Answer: Sangeet Natak Akademi Award