Rajkumar Kohli

The well known Director Rajkumar Kohli was born in then Lahore, Pakistan (now India) in the year 1930 on 14th of September. This 85 years old Director & producer is well known for directing movies with eminent actors of 1970-80s. He also performed the job of professional Bhangra dancer in movies. His successful works comprise of Nagin (1976), Jaani Dushman (1979), Naukar Biwi Ka (1984), Raaj Tilak (1984). He worked with the stars of that time. He married to a Hindi & Punjabi movie actress Nishi. He has two children Armaan Kohli What Lady Luck had in store for Bollywood supersta >> Read More... & Gogi Kohli. His last movie as a director was Jaani Dushman: Ek Anokhi Kahani (2002) which collapsed on the box office despite being a multi-starer movie. He was criticized for copying from various famous Hollywood movies.

He launched his son Armaan Kohli in multi-starer movie Virodhi (1992) starring Dharmendra & Sunil Dutt Sunil Dutt was a great actor, director, producer, >> Read More... , but it proved a huge disaster on box-office. Later with two more movies Aulad Ke Dushman (1993), Qahar (1997) he tried to fuel his son’s career, but that was again a flop. He directed 17 movies & produced 14 movies (mostly his directed movies). He also wrote the screenplay of movie Jaani Dushman: Ek Anokhi Kahani (2002) & acted in the movie Qahar (1997). He appeared as a presenter in the movie Moojrim (1970). He has also done works with name Raj Kumar Kohli in various of his ventures. His son Armaan Kohli later became part of Big Boss 7 & was even jailed for a controversy with the other Big Boss contestant Sofia Hayat  Sofia Hayat is a famous celebrity in both Hollywo >> Read More... , although he got the bail very next day.

Rajkumar Kohli filed a defamation case against Sofia Hayat, British actor-cum-singer stating that she tried to tarnish the image of his son for cheap publicity. Armaan's recent appearance was in the Super hit movie Prem Ratan Dhan Payo (2015). His few works in Bollywood includes Nagin (1976): The movie has a great cast that includes Sunil Dutt, also Jeetendra, Feroz Khan Feroz Khan is a legendary Indian film actor, edito >> Read More... & Sanjay Khan An actor, director, and a producer Sanjay Khan is >> Read More... in the lead with Music Direction from the Duo Laxmikant-Pyarelal.

It was a huge hit of the year on box-office. This movie was later remade in Telugu & Tamil. Jaani Dushman (1979): Again the movie blended with Horror, Thriller & fantasy having an ensemble cast like Actor turned politician Sunil Dutt, Sholay’s Thakur, Sanjeev Kumar Sanjeev Kumar was born on July 9th, 1938 in Mumbai >> Read More... , also Jeetendra & Shotgun Shatrughan Sinha in lead roles with Music of Laxmikant-Pyarelal creating the box-office Superhit. Raaj Tilak (1984): Kohli’s film always created curiosity as he used to cast various actors. Hence, being a multi-starer movie it again proved to be a successful movie.

Ahead of the pack parts were South Indian star Kamal Hassan with the then genius of Bollywood Raaj Kumar, Late Sunil Dutt, He-man of Bollywood, Dharmendra, and the excellence diva Hema Malini Hema Malini is perhaps the only dream girl of the >> Read More... . It was an action movie & having the melodious music of Anandji-Kalyanji. Naukar Biwi Ka (1983): A remake of Pakistani Punjabi movie Naukar Wohti Da, which was a hit. It was a box-office hit with a special appearance of Rishi Kapoor Rishi Kapoor is an actor born in the prominent Kap >> Read More... & Danny Denzongpa For Danny Denzongpa the voyage to the glittering w >> Read More... . Jaani Dushman: Ek Anokhi Kahani (2002): The last Directorial venture of Rajkumar Kohli that collapsed badly in the box office & even a huge star-cast could not help the movie that had his son in the villain role. It had a supernatural thriller plot with an ensemble cast. A few others to name Muqabla, Badle Ki Aag, Saazish, Qahar, etc.

Kohli Family Tree (Infographic Family Tree)