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Balraj Sahni was born on May 1, 1913 in Rawalpindi, Punjab, India and died on April 13, 1973 in the age of 59 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. He was a famous Hindi film actor. His real name was Yudhishthir Sahni. He belonged to a Punjabi Khatri family from Bhera now in Pakistan Punjab. He was an actor and writer. He went from his native place Rawalpindi to study in the University of Harvard. He completed his Master Degree in English Literature from Lahore and then went back to Rawalpindi and joined his family business. He also hold a Bachelor’s degree in Hindi, followed by a Masters in English from Punjab University. Soon after, he married Damayanti Sahni. In the late 1930s, Sahni and his wife left Rawalpindi to join Tagore’s Shantiniketan in Bengal as an English and Hindi teacher. He also went to work with Mahatma Gandhi for a year in 1938. The next year, Sahni, with Gandhi’s blessings, went to England to join the BBC-London’s Hindi service as a Radio announcer. He returned to India in 1943. Balraj’s brother Bhisham Sahni was a well-known writer who wrote the book Tamas. His son Parikshat Sahni is also an actor.

Sahni was always interested in acting, and started his acting career with the plays of the Indian People’s Theatre Association. He started his film career in Mumbai with the film Insaaf (1946), followed by Dharti Ke Lal directed by K.A. Abbas in 1946, Door Chalein in 1946, and other films. But it was in 1953, with Bimal Roy’s classic Do Bigha Zameen, that his true forte as an actor was first recognized. The film won the international prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Sahni’s wife Damayanti died at a young age in 1947, who was the heroine of his film Gudiya (1947) and two years later he married his first cousin, Santosh Chandhok, later known as an author and television writer. Sahni’s acting was very well and appreciated in all his films. He act with top heroins like Nutan, Meena Kumari, Vyjayantimala and Nargis in the film like Seema, Satta Bazaar, Bhabhi Ki Chudiyan, Sone Ki Chidiya, Ghar Sansar, Lajwanti from 1958 to 1961. He is best remembered by the current generation for the picturization of the legendary song Ae Meri Zohra Jabeen from the movie Waqt (1965) on him. He also starred in the classic Punjabi film Nanak Dukhiya Sub Sansar (1970).

Sahni was a writer, his early writing was in English and later in life he switched to Punjabi, and became a writer of repute in Punjabi Literature. In 1960, after visit to Pakistan, he wrote Mera Pakistani Safar. His book Mera Rusi Safarnama, which he had written after a tour of the Soviet Union in 1969, won the Soviet Land Nehru Award. He contributed many poems and short stories in magazines and also penned his autobiography, Meri Filmi Aatmakatha. He was extremely well studied and politically conscious person. He was one of the founding fathers of the Indian People’s Theatre Association movement. Sahni also dabbled in screenwriting, he wrote the 1951 movie Baazi which starred Dev Anand and was directed by Guru Dutt. He was also a recipient of the Padma Shri Award. He wrote in Punjabi and contributed to the Punjabi magazine, Preetlari. Balraj Sahni died on April 13, 1973, at the age of 59. He had been depressed for some time by the death of his young daughter, Shabnam.

Some hit songs of his movies:-

1. Aage bhi jaane na tu peeche bhi ja na tu- Waqt.
2. Aaj ki raat ye kaisi raat- Aman.
3. Aaja re aa nindiya tu aa- Do Beegha Zameen.
4. aaye sajna hamaar leke doliya kahaar- Taksaal
5. ae husn pari chehra kyon itni dard manth ho- Aman.

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