Dil

Starring: Anupam Kher, Birbal Director: Indra Kumar Original UK Premiere: 1990 Dvd Release: 1st January, 2003 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: PAL, Region 2 Encoding

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Anupam Kher is an actor in Hindi films in India. He has acted in nearly 200 Hindi films. He made his acting debut in the 1984 Hindi movie Saaransh. He also served as the chairman of the Indian censor board till recently, when he was replaced by sharmila tagore. He has won the Filmfare award 8 times. His first Filmfare award was for his first film Saaransh. He was also critically acclaimed for his work in Daddy. In 2004, he was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India for his contribution to Indian cinema.

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Raja Birbal was a minister in the administration of the Mughal Emperor Akbar & one of the members of Akbars inner council of nine advisors, known as navaratana, a Sanskrit word, which means nine jewels. Witty & humorous interaction between Akbar & Birbal resulted into Birbal being called as a court jester. Born an impoverished Brahmin, Maheshdas was a poet & author whose wit & wisdom led the Emperor to invite him to be a part of the royal court & to bestow upon him a new name, Birbal & conferred on him the title of Raja, meaning a king. The exchanges between Akbar & Birbal have been recorded in many volumes, which are still popular. Many of these have become folk stories in the Indian tradition. In these stories, In these stories, Akbar would usually ask a question on any matter, philosophical, witty, bizarre & even unusual & Birbal would provide either a funny or a very plausible answer. Birbals collections of poetry, published under the pen name Brahma, are preserved in Bharatpur Museum, Rajasthan, India.

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