Bharat Bhushan Biography

Bharat Bhushan

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Bharat Bhushan

Actor Bharat Bhushan.jpg

Born 14 June 1920

Meerut, United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, British India

(now in Uttar Pradesh, India)

Died 27 January 1992 (aged 71)

Bombay, Maharashtra, India

Nationality Indian

Occupation Actor

Years active 1941–1992

Known for Baiju Bawra

Home town Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India

Awards Filmfare Best Actor Award (1954)

Bharat Bhushan Bhalla (14 June 1920 – 27 January 1992) was an Indian actor in Hindi language films, scriptwriter and producer, who is best remembered for playing Baiju Bawra in the 1952 film of the same name.[1] He was born in Meerut, and brought up in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh.

Personal life

Bharat Bhushan was born on 14 June 1920 in a Baniya family at Meerut, Uttar Pradesh.

His father, Raibahadur Motilal, was the government pleader of Meerut. His mother died when he was two years old. His elder brother was film producer Ramesh Chandra,[2] who owned the Ideal Studio at Lucknow. The brothers left for Aligarh to stay with their grandfather after their mother's death. He did his studies and earned a graduate degree from Aligarh. After this he took to acting against his father's wishes. He first went to Calcutta to join cinema and later established himself in Bombay.

He married into a prominent family in Meerut, Zamindar Raibahadur Budha Prakash's daughter Sarla. They had two daughters, Anuradha and Aparijitha. Anuradha had polio-associated complications. Sarla died of labour complications after delivering their second child in the early 1960s, soon after the film Barsaat Ki Raat. In 1967, he married actress Ratna, his co-star in the movie Barsaat Ki Raat.

Bharat Bhushan owned bungalows in Bandra, Bombay and other areas. He was an avid reader and boasted of his collection of books, which he had to sell off like his cars and bungalows in bad times, after he turned co-producer on the ploddings of his brother. Two of his films, 'Basant Bahar' and 'Barsaat ki Raat' were immensely successful, but the rest flopped.[3] He died after he escaped his financial crisis, on 27 January 1992