{"id":39829,"date":"2022-11-27T10:53:05","date_gmt":"2022-11-27T05:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citybell.in\/?p=39829"},"modified":"2022-11-27T10:53:18","modified_gmt":"2022-11-27T05:23:18","slug":"artists-of-indian-cinema-murad-and-d-k-sapru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citybell.in\/?p=39829","title":{"rendered":"Artists of Indian cinema \u2013 Murad and D K Sapru."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/citybell.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/FB_IMG_1669526496473-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-39828\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citybell.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/FB_IMG_1669526496473-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/citybell.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/FB_IMG_1669526496473-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/citybell.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/FB_IMG_1669526496473-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/citybell.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/FB_IMG_1669526496473.jpg 860w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We often get confused between #Murad and #Sapru. Not only because of their looks, but also because of the similar kind of characters they played on screen. Here are some details on the works of two wonderful character artists of Indian cinema \u2013 Murad and D K Sapru.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u25c6Murad started his career with Najma (1943) and worked in over 100 films over the next five decades. His usual roles were that of father, judge, emperor, zamindar or police commissioner. In fact he played the role of Ashok Kumar\u2019s father in Najma \u2013 his first film. He played the role of Deputy saheb \u2013 the girls father in Mehboob Khan\u2019s Anmol Ghadi (1946) which was a musical hit starring Surendra, Noor Jahan and Suraiya.<br>Some of his other well known films include Andaz (1949), Deedar (1951), Aan(1952), Do Bigha Zameen (1953), Mirza Ghalib(1954) , Amar(1954) , Devdas(1955) and K Asif\u2019s magnum opus Mughal-E-Azam where he played the role of Raja Mann Singh.<br>Murad passed away sometime in the late 1990\u2019s.His son Raza Murad is also a well known actor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u25c6 Daya Kishan Sapru (1916-79) or Sapru was a Kashmiri pandit and went on to become a popular character artist from 1940\u2019s till 1970\u2019s.His debut film was the Prabhat Films marathi production RamShastri(1944).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He then moved over to hindi films and played various roles such as Judge , Police Commissioner and zamindar ; just like Murad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His notable films include Kalapani (1958), Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam(1962) ,Jewel Thief(1967) and Pakeezah(1972).<br>His role in Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam is still remembered by film lovers as he portrayed the role of the menacing Zamindar \u2013 Majhle Sarkar, the head of the haveli. Speaking very few lines but relying more on his intimidating presence, Majhle Sarkar ultimately orders the killing of choti bahu , the central character of the film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We often get confused between #Murad and #Sapru. Not only because of their looks, but also because of the similar kind of characters they played&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citybell.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citybell.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citybell.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citybell.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citybell.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citybell.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39830,"href":"https:\/\/citybell.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39829\/revisions\/39830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citybell.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citybell.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citybell.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}