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Known for
Actor
Gender
Male
Birthday
04 December
Location
Himachal Pradesh, India
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Biography
Motilal Rajvansh (4 December 1910 – 17 June 1965) was an Indian actor and the winner of the Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award for Devdas (1955) and Parakh (1960). He is credited with being among Hindi cinema's first natural actors.
He also directed the film Chhoti Chhoti Baten (1965), but died before its release. At the 13th National Film Awards, it won the award for Certificate of Merit for the Third Best Feature Film and he posthumously won the Certificate of Merit for the Best Story Writer.
Born in Shimla on 4 December 1910, Motilal came from a distinguished family. His father was a renowned educationist, who died when Motilal was one year old. He was brought up by his uncle who was a well-known civil surgeon in Uttar Pradesh.
At first, Motilal was sent to an English school at Shimla and later, to Uttar Pradesh (UP). Thereafter, he shifted to Delhi where he continued with school and college.
Motilal was very suave and polished, and moved in high society, though towards the end of his life, he was in financial difficulty. Although a thorough gentleman, he enjoyed gambling and races, and died almost penniless in 1965.
He was in a relationship for several years with the actress Nadira. He was later involved with actress Shobhna Samarth after she separated from her husband, and he played Samarth's real-life daughter Nutan's father in Hamari Beti, Shobhana's launch movie for Nutan. He also played her guardian in Anari, though this time the role had a villainous touch to it.
