Ramesh Sippy

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Ramesh Sippy (2012)
Sippy with his wife Kiran Juneja

Ramesh Gopaldas Sippy (born November 24, 1947 in Karachi ) is an Indian film director and producer . He came into the film business through his father, producer Gopaldas Parmanand Sippy , and directed the Bollywood classic Sholay (1975).

biography

After the partition of India in 1947, Sippy's family came to Bombay from Sindh Province . His father Gopaldas Parmanand Sippy, who had worked as a film producer since the early 1950s, brought him roles as a child actor in Amiya Chakravartys Shahenshah in 1953 and in Inder Sen Johars Bewaqoof in 1960 . He later worked as an assistant in his father's company for several years before directing Andaz himself for the first time in 1971 . The love story with Rajesh Khanna and Hema Malini as stars was extremely commercially successful, as was Seeta Aur Geeta , created in 1972 , in which Dharmendra took on the male lead alongside Malini. Sippy had already started his collaboration with the team of writers Salim Khan and Javed Akhtar (known as Salim-Javed ), who shaped the narrative patterns of Sippy's films until the 1980s.

In particular, his next film Sholay (1975), the opening sequence of which is based on a scene from the American film How the West Was Won (1962), is exemplary of the large-budget, star-shot Sippys of the 1970s and 80s that his father produced. The petty criminals Jai and Veeru, played by Dharmendra and Amitabh Bachchan , fight the violent villain Gabbar Singh, played by Amjad Khan , on behalf of Thakur Baldev Singh ( Sanjeev Kumar ) . The action-packed western- style film held the position of greatest box-office hit in Indian film for years . The subsequent sci-fi spy thriller Shaan (1980), Shakti (1982) and Sagar (1985) also belong to the series of large-scale productions of the Sippy family, but could not repeat the Sholay success.

1987/88 Sippy shot one of the first major Indian television series for Doordarshan . She played against the backdrop of the partition of India. Sippy's last four films as a director flopped at the box office. In the 2000s he turned to film production and launched his son Rohan Sippy with Tell me nothing of love ( Kuch Naa Kaho ) (2003) and Bluffmaster (2005) as a director.

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SURNAME Sippy, Ramesh
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sippy, Ramesh Gopaldas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian film director and producer
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Karachi