O. P. Dutta
O.P. Dutta (1922 – 9 February 2012) was an Indian filmmaker and writer. He began his career in 1948, as director for the film, 'Pyar Ki Jeet', which starred actress-singer, Suraiya. The film catapulted her to a 'Super Star' sensation.[1] He directed nine films until 1959, after which he got into writing dialogues, scripts and stories for films. He wrote most of the films for his director son, J.P. Dutta, notably Border and LOC Kargil. In 2001, he won the International Indian Film Academy Award and the Filmfare Award for the film Refugee. In 2006, he won a Lifetime Achievement Award from Filmfare. Dutta died from pneumonia in Mumbai on 9 February 2012. He was 90.
O.P also made a film in Karachi post independence in the early 1950s, called 'Anokhi', and further helped build a studio in that city. He wrote scripts/dialogues for the films 'Mastana' ( *Mehmood Vinod Khanna ), 'Jeet' (* Randhir Kapoor Babita ), 'Chirag' (* Sunil Dutt, Asha Parekh) and 'Do Raaste' (* Rajesh Khanna, Mumtaz), among others. He did not figure in the credits due to differences with Raj Khosla, who insisted on him sharing credits with another writer.[2][3]
OP Dutta was the father of J.P. Dutta, producer and director of Indian films, and father-in-law of former actress Bindiya Goswami.
Filmography
- Umrao Jaan (2006) - writer
- LOC: Kargil (2003) - writer
- Refugee (2000) - writer
- Border (1997) - writer
- Kshatriya (1993) - writer
- Hathyar (1989) - writer
- Yateem (1988) - writer
- Ghulami (1985) - writer
- Aangan (1959)- director
- Hulare (1957) - director
- Lagan (1955) - director
- Malkin (1953) - director
- Parbat (1952) - director
- Ek Nazar (1951) - director
- Surajmukhi (1950) - director
- Hamari Manzil (1949) - director
- Pyaar Ki Jeet (1948) - director
References
- ^ "OTT | TV | Bollywood | Hollywood - News, Reviews, Gossips". 7 August 2021. Archived from the original on 6 January 2018. Retrieved 26 April 2017.
- ^ "Film-maker O.P. Dutta Dead at 90". Archived from the original on 8 March 2014. Retrieved 5 July 2012.
- ^ "Veteran filmmaker O P Dutta dies". Archived from the original on 13 February 2012. Retrieved 10 February 2012.
External links
- O. P. Dutta at IMDb
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- Rajinder Singh Bedi (1959)
- Ramanand Sagar (1960)
- Amanullah Khan, Kamal Amrohi, Wajahat Mirza & Ehsan Rizvi (1961)
- Wajahat Mirza (1962)
- Akhtar ul Iman (1963)
- Arjun Dev Rashk (1964)
- Govind Moonis (1965)
- Akhtar ul Iman (1966)
- Vijay Anand (1967)
- Manoj Kumar (1968)
- Ali Raza (1969)
- Pt Anand Kumar (1970)
- Rajinder Singh Bedi (1971)
- Gulzar (1972)
- Ramesh Pant (1973)
- Gulzar (1974)
- Kaifi Azmi (1975)
- Salim-Javed (1976)
- Sagar Sarhadi (1977)
- Vrajendra Gaur (1978)
- Rahi Masoom Raza (1979)
- Satyadev Dubey (1980)
- Shabd Kumar (1981)
- Kader Khan (1982)
- Dr. Achla Nagar (1983)
- Mahesh Bhatt (1984)
- Sai Paranjpye (1985)
- Rahi Masoom Raza (1986)
- no award (1987)
- no award (1988)
- Kamlesh Pandey (1989)
- Javed Akhtar (1990)
- Suraj Sanim (1991 )
- Rahi Masoom Raza (1992)
- Kader Khan (1993)
- Prof Jay Dixit (1994)
- K K Singh (1995)
- Aditya Chopra & Javed Siddiqui (1996)
- Gulzar (1997)
- Aditya Chopra (1998)
- Rajkumar Santoshi & K. K. Raina (1999)
- Hriday Lani & Pathik Vats (2000)
- O. P. Dutta (2001)
- Karan Johar (2002)
- Gulzar & Jaideep Sahni (2003)
- Abbas Tyrewala (2004)
- Aditya Chopra (2005)
- Prakash Jha (2006)
- Rajkumar Hirani & Abhijat Joshi (2007)
- Imtiaz Ali (2008)
- Manu Rishi (2009)
- Rajkumar Hirani, Abhijat Joshi (2010)
- Habib Faisal (2011)
- Farhan Akhtar (2012)
- Anurag Kashyap, Zeishan Quadri, Akhilesh Jaiswal & Sachin Ladia (2013)
- Subhash Kapoor (2014)
- Abhijat Joshi & Rajkumar Hirani (2015)
- Himanshu Sharma (2016)
- Ritesh Shah (2017)
- Hitesh Kewaliya (2018)
- Akshat Ghildial (2019)
- Vijay Maurya (2020)
- Juhi Chaturvedi (2021)
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