Manmohan Krishna

{{Short description|Indian film actor and director (1921–1990)}}

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{{Infobox person

| name = Manmohan Krishna Chadha

| image = Manmohan-Krishna.jpg

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| birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1921|08|11}}

| birth_place = Lahore, Punjab, British India

| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1990|11|03|1922|02|26}}

| death_place = Bombay, Maharashtra, India

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| other_names = Manmohan Krishan

|years_active = 1950–1989

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| occupation = actor, director }}

Manmohan Krishna (26 February 1922 – 3 November 1990) was an Indian film actor and director, who worked in Hindi films for four decades, mostly as a character actor. He started his career as a professor in Physics and held master's degree in physics. He anchored the radio show Cadbury's Phulwari, a singing contest. Many people don't know that Manmohan Krishna sang his first song, 'Jhat khol de' in Afsar (1950), a Dev Anand film with music by S.D. Burman.

He was a favourite with the Chopra brothers and played small or large roles in movies directed and/or produced by them. Deewar, Trishul, Daag, Hamraaz, Joshila, Kanoon, Sadhna, Kaala Patthar, Dhool Ka Phool, Waqt and Naya Daur are some examples.

He worked in nearly 250 films, notably Naya Daur (1957), Khandan (1965), Sadhana (1958), Waqt (1965) and Hamraaz (1967). He won acclaim for his work in Bees Saal Baad (1962) and won the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Abdul Rasheed in Dhool Ka Phool (1960), where the song epitomizing Nehruvian secularism, Tu Hindu banega na Musalman banega, insaan ki aulaad hai, insaan banega was picturised on him.{{cite news |title=Nehru's vision shaped many Bollywood golden oldies|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Nehrus-vision-shaped-many-Bollywood-golden-oldies/articleshow/5233286.cms |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130513230400/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-11-16/delhi/28068204_1_secularism-yash-chopra-big-dams |url-status=live |archive-date=13 May 2013 |work=The Times of India |date=16 November 2009 }} Beside these, he also acted in 12 Punjabi films, played a pivotal role in K. A. Abbas's Shehar Aur Sapna (1963), which won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film, and acted in the first Indo-Soviet co-production Pardesi (1957), which was nominated for the Golden Palm at 1958 Cannes Film Festival.{{cite web |url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/3489/year/1958.html |title=Festival de Cannes: Journey Beyond Three Seas |access-date=2009-02-13|work=festival-cannes.com}}

Later in his career he directed the hit film for Yash Raj Films, Noorie (1979), for which he was also nominated for Filmfare Award for Best Director.{{Cite web |url=http://deep750.googlepages.com/FilmfareAwards.pdf |title=List of Filmfare Award Winners and Nominations, 1953-2005 |access-date=31 July 2012 |archive-date=12 June 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090612065210/http://deep750.googlepages.com/FilmfareAwards.pdf |url-status=dead }}

He died at Lokmanya Tilak Hospital, Mumbai at the age of 68 in 1990. His son Dr Ram Chaddha is a famous spine surgeon at Lilavati Hospital in Mumbai. {{cite news |title=Obituary: Manmohan Krishna |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=DoBlAAAAIBAJ&pg=1578,1866961&dq=manmohan+krishna+actor&hl=en |publisher=Indian Express |date=4 November 1990}}