Today is the birthday of Manmohan Desai, popularly known as ‘Manji’ in Bollywood. Desai was born on 26 February 1937 in Mumbai. In 1960, when Manmohan was 24 years old, he got a chance to direct the film ‘Chhaliya’ being produced by his brother Subhash Desai. He made films like Roti, Chacha Bhatija, Parvarish, Amar Akbar Anthony, Dharam Veer, Suhaag, Naseeb and Mard in his career.
Manmohan had a big hand in taking Amitabh Bachchan’s career to the heights. Amitabh Bachchan did many successful films with Manmohan Desai, but the most successful was ‘Amar Akbar Anthony’, this film made many records. ‘Amar Akbar Anthony’ ran for 25 consecutive weeks in 25 theaters only in the city of Mumbai. However, in the beginning, when Desai had reached Amitabh with this film, then Amitabh had said – who will watch such films?
Loved Nanda immensely
Manmohan Desai and actress Nanda loved each other very much but due to being married, Manmohan Desai did not express his love. However, when his wife died, he expressed his love for Nanda and the two also got engaged, at that time Nanda was 53 years old. But perhaps fate had something else in mind. Manmohan Desai died two years after the engagement. After this Nanda remained unmarried.
Manmohan Desai died under mysterious circumstances
The news of the death of Manmohan Desai, which came on 1 March 1994, shook the entire Bollywood. Desai died after falling from the balcony of his house. At that time such things were also happening that he had committed suicide. It was said that many of his films were flopping, as well as he was also battling with back pain for a long time. Manmohan committed suicide then he was dropped, till date it is not clear
However, the police did not find anything in the investigation and the case was closed. Desai was a producer as well as a director. Who knew this director, who touched the pinnacle of success, would die like this. Overall, there were a lot of rumors but no evidence was found of anything.