death_place death_date years_active birth_place other_names birth_date article_title name
mumbai , india 03 november 1990 1950 -- 1989 lahore , british india manmohan krishan 26 february 1922 manmohan krishna
 manmohan krishna chadha
manmohan krishna

manmohan krishna -lrb- february 26 , 1922 -- november 3 , 1990 -rrb- , often credited as manmohan , was a popular indian film actor and director , who worked in hindi films for four decades , mostly as a character actor .
anchored radio show cadbury 's phulwari , a singing contest .
he was favourite with the chopra brothers and played small or big roles in movies , directed and/or produced by them .
` deewar ' , ` trishul ' , ` daag ' , ` humraz ' , ` joshila ' , ` kanoon ' , ` kala patthar ' , ` dhool ka phool ' , ` waqt ' , ` naya daur ' etc. , are the examples to prove this .
he worked in nearly 250 films , notably `` naya daur '' -lrb- 1957 -rrb- , `` sadhana '' -lrb- 1958 -rrb- , `` waqt '' -lrb- 1965 -rrb- and `` hamraaz '' -lrb- 1967 -rrb- he won acclaimed for his work in `` bees saal baad '' -lrb- 1962 -rrb- and won the filmfare award for best supporting actor for his role as abdul rasheed in `` dhool ka phool '' -lrb- 1960 -rrb- , where the song epitomizing nehruvian secularism , `` tu hindu banega na musalman banega , insaan ki aulaad hai , insaan banega '' was picturized on him .
besides this , he also acted in 12 punjabi films , played a pivotal role in , k. a. abbas 's `` shehar aur sapna '' -lrb- 1963 -rrb- , which won the national film award for best feature film , and acted in the first indo-soviet co-production , `` pardesi '' -lrb- 1957 -rrb- , which was nominated for the golden palm at 1958 cannes film festival .
towards his later career he directed , hit film for yash raj films , `` noorie '' -lrb- 1980 -rrb- for which he was also nominated for filmfare award for best director .
he died at lokmanya tilak hospital , mumbai at the age of 68 in 1990 .
