Zohra Sehgal

Zohra Sehgal

Nacimiento : 1912-04-27, Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India

Muerte : 2014-07-10

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Zohra Sehgal

Películas

Saawariya: Almas Gemelas
Lilian
Saawariya nos cuenta la historia de Raj, un chico solitario que llega como cantante al Bar RK de la onírica ciudad de Simla, alguien que aunque solitario es feliz, risueño y alegre. Todo cambia de sentido cuando una noche conoce en el puente a la mujer más hermosa de su vida: Sakina, la cual constantemente esta triste y cada noche se dedica a esperar a su gran amor que hace un año la dejó con la promesa de volver por ella. ¿Podrá esta historia de corazones incompletos florecer? Tienen que verlo ustedes mismos.
Cheeni Kum
Buddhadev Gupta, a 64-year-old chef, falls in love with a 34-year-old software engineer, Nina. However, their future becomes uncertain when he discovers that her father is six years his junior.
La joven de las especias
First Mother (as Zohra Segal)
Tilo es una bella joven formada en el antiguo y mágico arte de las especias. Ordenada con poderes especiales para ayudar a los que acuden a ella, Tilo tiene una habilidad sorprendente para sentir los problemas de los demás y visualizar su futuro y su pasado. Tilo trabaja en San Francisco, en una pequeña tienda llamada El Bazar de las Especias donde, guiada por los consejos de sus especias, encuentra el remedio perfecto para todo el que cruza su puerta. Para que sus poderes funcionen, debe obedecer siempre tres simples, aunque estrictas, reglas: sólo debe utilizar las especias para ayudar a los demás, no debe tocar nunca la piel de otra persona y nunca debe abandonar la tienda. Cuando Doug, un guapo y enigmático arquitecto, estrella su Harley Davison fuera de su tienda de San Francisco, Tilo tiene que curarle las heridas y su vida cambia para siempre.
Chicken Tikka Masala
Grandmother
Jimi (Chris Bisson), the Chopra family's only son, gets caught off guard when his high-handed parents (Saeed Jaffrey and Jamila Massey) announce an arranged marriage to Simran (Jinder Mahal), a lovely girl from a respectable family. Problem is, Jimi's gay, so to hide his homosexuality, he spins an ever-more elaborate web of deceit -- but how long can he conceal the truth?
Kaun Hai Jo Sapno Mein Aaya
Kuldeep lives comfortably with his family.One day his friend asks him to look after his niece for a month. Mahek moves into the Khanna household and notices that the family is dysfunctional. She begins to reform the youngest one and succeeds.
Veer-Zaara
Bebe
Veer, un piloto de la Armada India, conoce a Zaara, una chica Pakistaní que viaja hacia un pequeño pueblo para enterrar las cenizas de una antigua criada, y decide guiarla. En ese viaje surge el amor, pero Zaara está comprometida.
Saaya
Sister Martha
Tanya is a rich woman who is married to another rich man named Vinod. But their lives change by Vinod's death. Tanya than starts falling in love with a doctor named Akash. But Akash is in love with a woman named Maya and after some time gets married to her. But their marriage does not last long. Because, first Maya leaves him to travel to another part of India to help people who are sick; and then Akash receives news that she is dead. Tanya comes up to console Akash and hopes that he will now love, accept and marry her. But Akash does not do so, as he is still immersed in Maya's memories, and believes that Maya is still alive and calling out to him. Is Akash going out of his mind?
Anita and Me
Nanima
Meena, a 12-year-old living in a mining village in the English Midlands in 1972, is the daughter of Indian parents who've come to England to give her a better life. This idyllic existence is upset by the arrival in the village of Anita Rutter and her dysfunctional family.
Chalo Ishq Ladaaye
Dadi
Popular but lonely Bollywood actress, Rani, lives a fairly isolated life, through publicly she is thronged by fans, and has taken to drinking alcohol in a big way. Thus intoxicated she runs her vehicle into a young man named Pappu, who suffers minor injuries. He recognizes her, and tells her that he is her number one fan, and will do anything for her. She wants him to kill her double-timing boyfriend, Rahul. He agrees to do so, provided she kills his overbearing, aged grandmother, to which she agrees. After Pappu completes his gruesome task, he meets with Rani, only to be told that she does not recognize him, but when presented with proof, she relents and agrees to fulfill her part of this trade.
The Mystic Masseur
Circa 1940 in Trinidad, still a British Colony, lives Ganesh Ramseyor, of East Indian origin, along with his wife, Leela. He longs to reach out to people, especially to Hindus, in order to promote the Hindu Faith, and be known as a writer. He does get considerable success, so much so that he becomes famous as a miracle worker, having cured a man of sharing intimacy with his bicycle; prevented a man from believing that he can fly; and convincing a young woman to end her fast. His fame spreads all over the island and thousands throng to seek his blessings, which he does dole out quite benevolently, without charging any fees from the poor and the needy. He then decides to spread his wings by challenging the local politician Pandit Narayan Chandrashekhar alias Cyrus T., and takes over The Hindu Organization, thence opening his way to a seat in the prestigious Member of the Legislative Assembly
Tera Jadoo Chal Gayaa
Elderly Lady
When ad agency executive Pooja (Kirti Reddy) attends a wedding and meets lovable but broke Kabir (Abhishek Bachchan), it's love at first sight -- but only for Kabir. Pooja heads back to her fast-track life and gets in dutch with the head honcho for prolonging her vacation. To save her job, a co-worker explains Pooja's delay with a phony story about her engagement to Kabir, and all's well till she meets her dream man: the boss' son (Sanjay Suri).
Dillagi
Two brothers -- Ranvir and Rajvir along with their parents move to Mumbai. They endure numerous hardships, but their will to survive prevails and they succeed. Soon, their parents pass away, leaving young Rajvir in the care of Ranvir. Now wealthy beyond any means, Ranvir runs the business and Rajvir lives recklessly. When Rajvir falls in love, Ranvir arranges his marriage, but to his dismay finds out that he has arranged his brother to marry the girl he loves.
Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam
Dadi
Nandini has to choose between Sameer, the man who taught her to fall in love; and Vanraj, the man from whom she learnt how to abide and fulfill promises of love.
Dil se..
Amar's Grandmother
Amar es un periodista que investiga un grupo terrorista del norte de la India. En el curso de sus viajes él encuentra Meghna y se enamora de ella. Él sospecha que ella siente lo mismo, sin embargo ella repetidamente se escapa de él. Un matrimonio arreglado lo espera en Delhi, y el 50 aniversario de la independencia de India, Amar debe decidir que hacer tanto personalmente como políticamente. (FILMAFFINITY)
Bhaji on the Beach
Pushpa
A group of South Asian women try but cannot escape their problems on a day trip to a British beach resort.
Masala
Grandma
An Indian-Canadian heroin addict becomes involved in the lives of his mother's family, watched over by the god Krishna.
Partition
The tumultuous events surrounding the sub-continent's partition in 1947 into India and Pakistan are re-imagined in Ken McMullen's complex and visually striking film. A lunatic asylum in the city of Lahore becomes a mirror image of events in the outside political world, with the same actors playing both inmates and rulers. Adapted by Tariq Ali and McMullen from famous Urdu writer Saadat Hasan Manto's short story 'Toba Tek Singh', Partition speaks for the countless millions that the usual British Raj films sweep out of sight. Released to mark the 60th anniversary of the partition of the Indian sub-continent, this is the film's first-ever release on DVD.
Caravaggio
Jerusaleme's Grandmother
El pintor Michelangelo Merisi, nacido en Caravaggio, se está muriendo lejos de su hogar. En el lecho de muerte recuerda los comienzos de su vida como pintor. El niño Michelangelo dejó su Caravaggio natal al quedar huérfano, y se traslada a Milán, donde se inicia como pintor en diferentes talleres, hasta que establece un taller propio, en la Roma de los Papas, ganándose el favor de la Iglesia, que le encarga numerosas obras. Llegan entonces la fama, el dinero, sus amores homosexuales, las intrigas políticas y religiosas, la envidia y el crimen.
Harem
Affaf
El Príncipe Selim, nacido en el seno de una familia real de Oriente, hereda una palacio donde pretende revivir el Oriente que ya no existe, salvo en su memoria. Prisionero de su familia, encadenado a su pasado, Selim sueña con la libertad. Durante uno de sus frecuentes viajes a Nueva York, decide secuestrar a una joven americana, Diane. Diane se encuentra de repente sumida en mitad del harén, un lugar secreto y sagrado a partes iguales donde pronto descubre otro mundo, con sus ritos y tradiciones. Un extraño duelo comienza entre ambos.
The Courtesans of Bombay
Herself
In the Mumbai, India, tenement community of Pavanpul, young female courtesans sing, dance and perform sexual favors for male clientele. Directors James Ivory and Ismail Merchant blend documentary footage and dramatic reenactments in their exploration of this seamy underworld, the flip side of the Bollywood film industry, where aspiring actors and dancers -- some even sold into prostitution by their own families -- end up, with their innocence lost and their hopes for movie stardom shattered.
Las orgías de la locura
Malia (segment "Luau")
Un psiquiatra que regenta una moderna clínica mental recibe la visita de un colega de profesión. Durante la conversación, el director del manicomio expone diversas teorías con las que trata de explicar por qué se volvieron locos tres pacientes.
La leyenda de un valiente
Devi
Durante los años veinte, las tropas inglesas destacadas en la India mantienen durísimos combates contra los nativos que luchan por liberar a su patria del invasor. Entre ellos se encuentra el Sultán de Bhanta, cuya mujer e hijo están prisioneros en un fuerte británico. La mujer, que está esperando su segundo hijo, espera que su marido ataque el fuerte para poder dar a luz en libertad.
Baazi
Choreographer
Madan comes from a poor family background. Unable to find employment, he takes to gambling in order to pay for his sister's medical expenses. Soon, he forms a bond with Leena, a dancer, and is falsely accused of her murder.
Dharti Ke Lal
Based on plays by Bhattacharya and the story Annadata by Krishan Chander
Neecha Nagar
Bhabi
Wealthy landlord Sarkar decides to direct all waste into the village to make space for his real estate project. However, the poor villagers agitate against his plan and the protest is led by Balraj.