Lekh Tandon

Lekh Tandon

Born	13 February 1929 Lahore, British India
Years active	1947 - present

Lekh Tandon (born 13 February 1929)^[1] has directed numerous Bollywood movies and Indian TV Serials. Recently he has acted in movies such as Rang De Basanti, Chennai Express and Chaarfutiya Chhokare. He is brother of Urdu playwright Yograj Tandon.^[2]

Biography

Lekh's father F. C. Tandon had studied with Prithviraj Kapoor at Khalsa High School, (Lyallpur, Punjab, British India), and had been friends. Prithviraj Kapoor inspired Lekh to work in Bollywood. Around same time, Lekh's brother Yograj was working as assistant director and secretary to Prithviraj Kapoor.

Lekh started as Assistant Director in Hindi movie industry in 1950s and became a director of several hit movies. Then he moved onto nascent TV scene and started directing TV Serials. His first offering was Phir Wahi Talash on Indian National TV Channel Doordarshan. Lekh is also credited with discovering Shahrukh Khan by casting him his TV serial Dil Dariya.

Awards and recognition

He shared the 1978 Filmfare Best Screenplay Award for his movie, Dulhan Wahi Jo Piya Man Bhaye, with Vrajendra Gaur and Madhusudan Kalekar.^[3]
His biopic, Amrapali starring Vyjayanthimala and Sunil Dutt, was India's submission to the 39th Academy Awards for the Best Foreign Language Film

Filmography

As Director

Do Rahain (1997)
Uttarayan (1985)
Agar Tum Na Hote (1983)
Doosri Dulhan (1983)
Khuda Kasam (1981)
Sharada (1981)
Ek Baar Kaho (1980)
Dulhan Wahi Jo Piya Man Bhaaye (1977)
Andolan (1975)
Jahan Pyar Mile (1969)
Prince (1969)
Jhuk Gaya Aasman (1968)
Amrapali (1966)
Professor (1962)

As Actor

Swades — Dadaji (Village People's Grandfather)
Paheli — Wise Man
Rang De Basanti — Daljeet "DJ's" Grandfather
Halla Bol — Lekh Tandon
Chaarfutiya Chhokare — Kailash Babu
Chennai Express — Y.Y Mithaiwala (Rahul's Grandfather)

References

↑ Star Birthdays
↑ "I am in love with movies". Indian Express. March 19, 1999.
↑ "Best Screenplay Award". Filmfare Award Official Listings, Indiatimes. Retrieved April 28, 2014.

External links

Lekh Tandon at the Internet Movie Database
Official Website

Filmfare Award for Best Screenplay

1969–1980	Nabendu Ghosh (1969) Hrishikesh Mukherjee (1970) Vijay Anand (1971) Basu Chatterjee (1972) Arvind Mukherjee (1973) Salim-Javed (1974) Shama Zaidi & Kaifi Azmi (1975) Salim-Javed (1976) Basu Chatterjee (1977) Lekh Tandon, Vrajendra Kaur & Madhusudan Kalekar (1978) Kamleshwar (1979) Girish Karnad & B. V. Karanth (1980)

1981–2000	Vijay Tendular (1981) K. Balachander (1982) Salim-Javed (1983) Vijay Tendular (1984) Mrinal Sen (1985) Goutam Ghose & Partha Banerjee (1986) no award (1987) no award (1988) Nasir Hussain (1989) Shiv Kumar Subramaniam (1990) Basu Chatterjee (1991) Tapan Sinha (1992) Aziz Mirza & Manoj Lalwani (1993) Robin Bhatt, Javed Siddiqui & Akash Khurana (1994) Sooraj Barjatya (1995) Aditya Chopra (1996) Rajkumar Santoshi (1997) Subhash Ghai (1998) Karan Johar (1999) John Matthew Matthan (2000)

2001–present	Honey Irani & Ravi Kapoor (2001) Farhan Akhtar (2002) Mani Ratnam (2003) Rajkumar Hirani, Vidhu Vinod Chopra & Lajan Joseph (2004) Mani Ratnam (2005) Nina Arora & Manoj Tyagi (2006) Jaideep Sahni (2007) Anurag Basu (2008) Yogendra Vinayak Joshi & Upendra Sidhaye (2009) Rajkumar Hirani, Vidhu Vinod Chopra & Abhijat Joshi (2010) Anurag Kashyap & Vikramaditya Motwane (2011) Akshat Verma (2012) Sanjay Chauhan & Tigmanshu Dhulia (2013) Chetan Bhagat, Abhishek Kapoor, Supratik Sen & Pubali Chaudhari (2014) Rajkumar Hirani, Abhijat Joshi (2015) Juhi Chaturvedi (2016)

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 51285930

Legendary Bollywood Film Maker Lekh Tandon

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