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Balraj Sahni

1913 - 1973

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Balraj Sahni (born Yudhishthir Sahni; 1 May 1913 – 13 April 1973) was an Indian film and stage actor, who is best known for Dharti Ke Lal (1946), Hum Log (1951), Do Bigha Zameen (1953), Chhoti Bahen (1959), Kabuliwala (1961), Waqt (1965) and Garm Hava (1973). He was the brother of Bhisham Sahni, the Hindi writer, playwright, and actor. He won a Filmfare Special Award for outstanding contribution to Indian films in 1970. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Balraj Sahni is the 6,511th most popular actor (down from 4,562nd in 2019), the 110th most popular biography from Pakistan (down from 78th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Pakistani Actor.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Balraj Sahni ranks 6,511 out of 13,578Before him are Marcia Strassman, Adriana Esteves, Park Jin-young, Regina Hall, Julie Strain, and Helene Costello. After him are Rachelle Lefevre, Tammy Grimes, Denis Ménochet, Roopa Ganguly, Chen, and Nicholas Tse.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Balraj Sahni ranks 355Before him are Fred Davis, Dave Albritton, Lawrence H. Aller, Rafael Gil, Ioachim Moldoveanu, and Humberto Mariles. After him are Alice Marble, Aleksandr Chakovsky, Frank Tashlin, Lynn Bari, Frank Swift, and Dorothy Comingore. Among people deceased in 1973, Balraj Sahni ranks 261Before him are Armando Segato, Nasif Estéfano, Conrad Aiken, Folke Rogard, Aleksandr Ponomarev, and Yulia Ryabchinskaya. After him are Steven Geray, C. H. Dodd, John Heysham Gibbon, Alfred Schmitt, Manuel Rojas, and Eddie Condon.

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In Pakistan

Among people born in Pakistan, Balraj Sahni ranks 110 out of 217Before him are Valerian Gracias (1900), Raja Pervaiz Ashraf (1950), Asma Jahangir (1952), Bhisham Sahni (1915), Manorama (1926), and Parveen Shakir (1952). After him are Mir Hazar Khan Khoso (1929), Ali Zafar (1980), Qandeel Baloch (1990), Iqbal Masih (1983), Noor Jehan (1926), and Mirza Masroor Ahmad (1950).

Among ACTORS In Pakistan

Among actors born in Pakistan, Balraj Sahni ranks 16Before him are Prithviraj Kapoor (1906), Art Malik (1952), Vinod Khanna (1946), Margaret Lockwood (1916), Raaj Kumar (1926), and Manorama (1926). After him are Ali Zafar (1980), Qandeel Baloch (1990), Noor Jehan (1926), Prem Chopra (1935), Sadhana Shivdasani (1941), and Fawad Khan (1981).