Manmohan (actor)

Manmohan was an Indian actor of Bollywood, well known for his role as a villain. He also worked in Bengali, Gujarati and Punjabi films. He also acted in Movie Raja Rani, released in 1973. He was a regular in Rajesh Khanna's movies. He was born and brought up in Jamshedpur . Manmohan came from a well-to-do family, who had their own business. Totally different from his other three brothers, he was very keen on becoming an actor from childhood.

His son Nitin Manmohan was a producer, who produced films like Bol Radha Bol (1992), Laadla (1994), Deewangee (2001) and Bhoot (2003) etc. He moved to Bombay in 1950 and got acquainted with then personalities like Shankar-Jaikishen , Bhappi Sonie and G. P. Sippy . His close association with Jaikishen got him known to Keval Kayshap who cast him in his first film Shaheed . He was also in all of Bhappi Sonie's films. Through Bhappi Sonie, he met Shakti Samanta, Pramod Chakravarty and Manoj Kumar .

Then he got N. N. Sippy's film Gumnaam . He was at the top of his acting career in the '70s.