Gujaratis in Bollywood

[Nirav Shah]

Actors/Actresses:

Sanjeev Kumar
Satish Shah
Asha Parekh
Dimple Kapadia
Parveen Babi
Deena Pathak
Supriya Pathak
Neelam Kothari
Jackie Shroff
Pooja Bhatt
Aruna Irani
Asrani
Paresh Raval
Rita Bhaduri
Kiran Kumar
Tiku Talsania
Jugal Hansraj (from Masoom)
Deepak Tijori

Directors:

Kundan Shah
Ketan Mehta

Please add more

- Nirav Shah
Raytheon Communication Systems
E-Mail: ns...@tif200.ed.ray.com

[s_patel]

Music Directors :

Kalyanji-Anandji
Viju Shah

Singers :

Alka Yagnik

[Nirav Shah]

In article <Aug.23.11.43....@flounder.rutgers.edu> mu...@flounder.rutgers.edu (Desi Dude) writes:

>I'm not so sure if Pooja Bhatt/mahesh Bhatt are gujjus.

Yes they are.

>>Aruna Irani
>She is probably parsi/irani

She's parsi. But parsi are Gujaratis.
She has starred in many gujarati movies.

>Deepak tijori is half gujju and half parsi

Again, Parsis are Gujaratis!

>Amar

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[Aniruddha Deglurkar]

mu...@flounder.rutgers.edu (Desi Dude) writes:

>nrs...@acs.bu.edu (Nirav Shah) writes:

>>Actors/Actresses:

>>Jackie Shroff
> I Think Jackie's dad is gujurati and his mom is Turkish(??)

>>Pooja Bhatt

>I'm not so sure if Pooja Bhatt/mahesh Bhatt are gujjus.

>>Aruna Irani
>She is probably parsi/irani

>Deepak tijori is half gujju and half parsi

>>Directors:

>>Kundan Shah
>>Ketan Mehta

>Manmohan desai

>Amar
>>Please add more

I do not see Asha Parekh's name in the list. How could the gujjus have
overlooked it?

-Ani
(who loves Dhokla ;-))

[avrat...@gmail.com]

Amisha Patel
Himesh Reshmiya
Paresh Raval
Vrajesh Heerji
Rajiv Mehta

[kanti...@googlemail.com]

Music

Jaikishan (Shankar-Jaikishan)
Avinash Vyas
Dilip Dholakia (also known as D.Dilip

There may be more MDs.

Kanti

[maild...@yahoo.com]

How could you have overlooked

'Mother of all mothers'

aka: Mere Paas Maa Hai


and by all ciounts, who managed to portray all Goddesses



Sudhir


p.s.: And the man with poison pen: BABUBHAI (and yes every producer
hated him, including the one who were Patels


and another Babubhai, who was a Mistry, who helped
Alladin's Gin come out from the lamp and later-on
fly on Magic Carpet/s




Yes, it is Sudhir

[maild...@yahoo.com]

Pathak (their tribe owned: Phatak Habash Khan.
an off street of Tilak Bazar (near Khari Baoli,
Old Delhi) are not Gujratis


Bhaduri, to the best of my knowledge, are from Bengal


ASRANI is a Sindhi name


Jugal Hansraj does not look like a Gujrati.
He Has 'Blue color' eyes, which it seems Gujratis
don't have


Sudhir

(I am not fro0m Gujrat)

[maild...@yahoo.com]

If you wish to include Parsees (almost all of them
speak Gujrati language), then the list can be made much
bigger:


All Suratwala Poonwalas Khambatawalas

Mistry (Jal, Fali)

Iranis


can be safely added



Sudhir