Manmohan Krishna

Who was Manmohan Krishna?

Manmohan Krishna often credited as Manmohan 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 was favourite with the Chopra brothers and played small or big roles in movies, directed and/or produced by them. 'Deewar', 'Trishul', 'Daag', 'Humraz', 'Joshila', 'Kanoon', 'Kala Patthar', 'Dhool Ka Phool', 'Waqt', 'Naya Daur' etc., are the examples to prove this.

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.