Zohra Sehgal

Zohra Sehgal

Born: April 27, 1912
Died: July 10, 2014
in Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India

Movies for Zohra Sehgal...

Saawariya
Title: Saawariya
Character: Lilian
Released: November 9, 2007
Type: Movie
Two souls arrive in a small town, one on vacation, the other to meet a lover. They spend the most magical dream-like days of their lives in that town... with each other.
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Cheeni Kum
Title: Cheeni Kum
Released: May 25, 2007
Type: Movie
Buddhadev Gupta, a 64-year-old chef, falls in love with a 34-year-old software engineer, Nina. However, their future becomes uncertain when he discovers that her father is six years his junior.
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The Mistress of Spices
Title: The Mistress of Spices
Character: First Mother (as Zohra Segal)
Released: September 11, 2005
Type: Movie
Tilo is an Indian shopkeeper in America with an ability to see the future and a magical connection to powerful spices, which she uses to help her customers satisfy their various needs and desires. One day she falls in love with an American man. But the spices forbid it.
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Chicken Tikka Masala
Title: Chicken Tikka Masala
Character: Grandmother
Released: April 22, 2005
Type: Movie
Jimi (Chris Bisson), the Chopra family's only son, gets caught off guard when his high-handed parents (Saeed Jaffrey and Jamila Massey) announce an arranged marriage to Simran (Jinder Mahal), a lovely girl from a respectable family. Problem is, Jimi's gay, so to hide his homosexuality, he spins an ever-more elaborate web of deceit -- but how long can he conceal the truth?
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Kaun Hai Jo Sapno Mein Aaya
Title: Kaun Hai Jo Sapno Mein Aaya
Released: January 1, 2005
Type: Movie
Kuldeep lives comfortably with his family.One day his friend asks him to look after his niece for a month. Mahek moves into the Khanna household and notices that the family is dysfunctional. She begins to reform the youngest one and succeeds.
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Veer-Zaara
Title: Veer-Zaara
Character: Bebe
Released: November 12, 2004
Type: Movie
Squadron Leader Veer Pratap Singh, a pilot in the Indian air force, rescues the stranded Zaara, a woman from Pakistan, following a bus accident, and their lives are forever bound.
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Saaya
Title: Saaya
Character: Sister Martha
Released: July 4, 2003
Type: Movie
Tanya is a rich woman who is married to another rich man named Vinod. But their lives change by Vinod's death. Tanya than starts falling in love with a doctor named Akash. But Akash is in love with a woman named Maya and after some time gets married to her. But their marriage does not last long. Because, first Maya leaves him to travel to another part of India to help people who are sick; and then Akash receives news that she is dead. Tanya comes up to console Akash and hopes that he will now love, accept and marry her. But Akash does not do so, as he is still immersed in Maya's memories, and believes that Maya is still alive and calling out to him. Is Akash going out of his mind?
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Anita and Me
Title: Anita and Me
Character: Nanima
Released: November 22, 2002
Type: Movie
Meena, a 12-year-old living in a mining village in the English Midlands in 1972, is the daughter of Indian parents who've come to England to give her a better life. This idyllic existence is upset by the arrival in the village of Anita Rutter and her dysfunctional family.
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Chalo Ishq Ladaaye
Title: Chalo Ishq Ladaaye
Character: Dadi
Released: November 7, 2002
Type: Movie
Popular but lonely Bollywood actress, Rani, lives a fairly isolated life, through publicly she is thronged by fans, and has taken to drinking alcohol in a big way. Thus intoxicated she runs her vehicle into a young man named Pappu, who suffers minor injuries. He recognizes her, and tells her that he is her number one fan, and will do anything for her. She wants him to kill her double-timing boyfriend, Rahul. He agrees to do so, provided she kills his overbearing, aged grandmother, to which she agrees. After Pappu completes his gruesome task, he meets with Rani, only to be told that she does not recognize him, but when presented with proof, she relents and agrees to fulfill her part of this trade.
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The Mystic Masseur
Title: The Mystic Masseur
Character: Auntie
Released: October 5, 2001
Type: Movie
Circa 1940 in Trinidad, still a British Colony, lives Ganesh Ramseyor, of East Indian origin, along with his wife, Leela. He longs to reach out to people, especially to Hindus, in order to promote the Hindu Faith, and be known as a writer. He does get considerable success, so much so that he becomes famous as a miracle worker, having cured a man of sharing intimacy with his bicycle; prevented a man from believing that he can fly; and convincing a young woman to end her fast. His fame spreads all over the island and thousands throng to seek his blessings, which he does dole out quite benevolently, without charging any fees from the poor and the needy. He then decides to spread his wings by challenging the local politician Pandit Narayan Chandrashekhar alias Cyrus T., and takes over The Hindu Organization, thence opening his way to a seat in the prestigious Member of the Legislative Assembly
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Tera Jadoo Chal Gayaa
Title: Tera Jadoo Chal Gayaa
Character: Elderly Lady
Released: August 18, 2000
Type: Movie
When ad agency executive Pooja (Kirti Reddy) attends a wedding and meets lovable but broke Kabir (Abhishek Bachchan), it's love at first sight -- but only for Kabir. Pooja heads back to her fast-track life and gets in dutch with the head honcho for prolonging her vacation. To save her job, a co-worker explains Pooja's delay with a phony story about her engagement to Kabir, and all's well till she meets her dream man: the boss' son (Sanjay Suri).
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Dillagi
Title: Dillagi
Released: November 8, 1999
Type: Movie
Two brothers -- Ranvir and Rajvir along with their parents move to Mumbai. They endure numerous hardships, but their will to survive prevails and they succeed. Soon, their parents pass away, leaving young Rajvir in the care of Ranvir. Now wealthy beyond any means, Ranvir runs the business and Rajvir lives recklessly. When Rajvir falls in love, Ranvir arranges his marriage, but to his dismay finds out that he has arranged his brother to marry the girl he loves.
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Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam
Title: Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam
Character: Dadi
Released: June 18, 1999
Type: Movie
Nandini has to choose between Sameer, the man who taught her to fall in love; and Vanraj, the man from whom she learnt how to abide and fulfill promises of love.
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Dil Se..
Title: Dil Se..
Character: Amar's Grandmother
Released: August 22, 1998
Type: Movie
Journalist Amar falls for a mysterious woman on an assignment, but she does not reciprocate his feelings. However, when Amar is about to get married, the woman shows up at his doorstep asking for help.
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Title: Little Napoleons
Character: Jayaben Shah
Released: June 7, 1994
Type: TV
Labour councillor Judith Silver invites N.K. Edwards and Vijay Shah to stand for election to the local council. Who will win the seat? And will Tory councillor Edward Feathers have the last laugh?
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Bhaji on the Beach
Title: Bhaji on the Beach
Character: Pushpa
Released: September 11, 1993
Type: Movie
A group of South Asian women try but cannot escape their problems on a day trip to a British beach resort.
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Masala
Title: Masala
Character: Grandma
Released: September 6, 1991
Type: Movie
An Indian-Canadian heroin addict becomes involved in the lives of his mother's family, watched over by the god Krishna.
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Partition
Title: Partition
Released: August 19, 1987
Type: Movie
The tumultuous events surrounding the sub-continent's partition in 1947 into India and Pakistan are re-imagined in Ken McMullen's complex and visually striking film. A lunatic asylum in the city of Lahore becomes a mirror image of events in the outside political world, with the same actors playing both inmates and rulers. Adapted by Tariq Ali and McMullen from famous Urdu writer Saadat Hasan Manto's short story 'Toba Tek Singh', Partition speaks for the countless millions that the usual British Raj films sweep out of sight. Released to mark the 60th anniversary of the partition of the Indian sub-continent, this is the film's first-ever release on DVD.
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Caravaggio
Title: Caravaggio
Character: Jerusaleme's Grandmother
Released: August 29, 1986
Type: Movie
A retelling of the life of the celebrated 17th-century Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and his flirtations with the underworld.
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Harem
Title: Harem
Character: Affaf
Released: November 6, 1985
Type: Movie
Diane is a sophisticated trainee on the New York Stock Exchange who is suddenly kidnapped and held captive in a North African desert hideaway by Selim, an Arab mogul.
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Title: Tandoori Nights
Released: July 4, 1985
Type: TV
Tandoori Nights was a television sitcom broadcast on Channel 4 between 1985 and 1987. It consisted of two series of six episodes each. The series was directed by Jon Amiel and written by Farrukh Dhondy. It is the story of two rival restaurants in London, and starred Saeed Jaffery, Tariq Yunus, Rita Wolf and Zohra Sehgal. It was Channel 4's first Asian comedy series.
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Title: The Bill
Released: October 16, 1984
Type: TV
The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and drug raids to the routine demands of policing this ground-breaking series focuses as much on crime as it does on the personal lives of its characters.
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The Courtesans of Bombay
Title: The Courtesans of Bombay
Character: Herself
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
In the Mumbai, India, tenement community of Pavanpul, young female courtesans sing, dance and perform sexual favors for male clientele. Directors James Ivory and Ismail Merchant blend documentary footage and dramatic reenactments in their exploration of this seamy underworld, the flip side of the Bollywood film industry, where aspiring actors and dancers -- some even sold into prostitution by their own families -- end up, with their innocence lost and their hopes for movie stardom shattered.
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Title: Mind Your Language
Released: December 30, 1977
Type: TV
Jeremy Brown, a language teacher, tries to make a living by teaching English to immigrants. With pupils from India, France, China, and many other countries, his lessons do not always go as planned.
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Tales That Witness Madness
Title: Tales That Witness Madness
Character: Malia (segment "Luau")
Released: October 31, 1973
Type: Movie
Dr. Tremayne is an enigmatic psychiatrist running an asylum that houses four very special cases. Visited by his colleague Nicholas, Tremayne explains his amazing and controversial theories as to why each of the four patients went mad.
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Title: The Regiment
Released: February 21, 1972
Type: TV
The Regiment was a British television drama series produced by the BBC. First broadcast on BBC One in 1972 it starred Christopher Cazenove and followed the story of a British Army regiment from the view of two families.
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The Long Duel
Title: The Long Duel
Character: Devi
Released: July 27, 1967
Type: Movie
An idealistic colonial police officer is sent to capture a rebel leader who threatens the stability of the Raj's north-west frontier. Despite his official colonial capacity, the policeman is impressed by the ingenuity and integrity of his enemy and is determined to arrest him alive rather than bring him in dead as his superiors might wish.
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Neecha Nagar
Title: Neecha Nagar
Character: Bhabi
Released: September 29, 1946
Type: Movie
Wealthy landlord Sarkar decides to direct all waste into the village to make space for his real estate project. However, the poor villagers agitate against his plan and the protest is led by Balraj.
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Dharti Ke Lal
Title: Dharti Ke Lal
Released: January 2, 1946
Type: Movie
Based on plays by Bhattacharya and the story Annadata by Krishan Chander