Awards & Winners

Manmohan Krishna

Date of Birth 26-February-1937
Place of Birth Valsad
(India, Gujarat, Valsad district)
Nationality India
Also know as Man Mohan Krishna, Manmohan, Manmohan Krishin, Manmohan Krishen, Manmohan Krishan, Manmohankrishan, M.M. Krishna
Profession Actor, Film Director
Manmohan Krishna 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 worked in nearly 250 films, notably Naya Daur, Sadhana, Waqt and Hamraaz He won acclaimed for his work in Bees Saal Baad and won the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Abdul Rasheed in Dhool Ka Phool, 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, which won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film, and acted in the first Indo-Soviet co-production, Pardesi, 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 for which he was also nominated for Filmfare Award for Best Director. He died at Lokmanya Tilak Hospital, Mumbai at the age of 68.

Awards by Manmohan Krishna

Check all the awards nominated and won by Manmohan Krishna.

1980


Nominations 1980 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Filmfare Award for Best Director Noorie

1960


Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor
Honored for : Dhool Ka Phool

Nominations 1960 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor Dhool Ka Phool