ACTOR

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), Do Bigha Zameen (1953), Chhoti Bahen (1959), Kabuliwala (1961), Waqt (1965) and Garm Hava (1973). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Balraj Sahni has received more than 1,632,942 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Balraj Sahni is the 4,565th most popular actor (up from 5,917th in 2019), the 78th most popular biography from Pakistan (up from 80th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Pakistani Actor.

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  • 48.01

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  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.94

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.02

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Balraj Sahni ranks 4,565 out of 13,578. Before him are Wendie Malick, Patricia Routledge, Melissa Rauch, Igor Ilyinsky, Bai Yang, and Theresa Russell. After him are Alison Doody, Maria Bonnevie, Willy Birgel, Robert Guillaume, Aruna Irani, and Bibi Besch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Balraj Sahni ranks 258. Before him are Jacinto Convit, Erich Eliskases, Ellen Albertini Dow, Robert Nisbet, Fred Agabashian, and Mary Carew. After him are Suzan Kahramaner, Oscar Alfredo Gálvez, Sándor Tarics, Anni Steuer, Tibor Kemény, and Betty Field. Among people deceased in 1973, Balraj Sahni ranks 199. Before him are Jean Barraqué, Käthe von Nagy, Vera Panova, Washington Ortuño, Elise Ottesen-Jensen, and Théo Lefèvre. After him are Willy Birgel, Lon Chaney Jr., Lauri Lehtinen, Beulah Louise Henry, Aleksandr Ponomarev, and Josué de Castro.

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In Pakistan

Among people born in Pakistan, Balraj Sahni ranks 78 out of 217. Before him are Raaj Kumar (1926), Bahlul Lodi (1406), Ramanand Sagar (1917), Art Malik (1952), Sultan Bahu (1630), and Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi (1941). After him are Yousaf Raza Gillani (1952), Muhammad Mian Soomro (1950), Reginald Dyer (1864), Noor Jehan (1926), Shekhar Kapur (1945), and Babita (1947).

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Among ACTORS In Pakistan

Among actors born in Pakistan, Balraj Sahni ranks 12. Before him are Sunil Dutt (1929), Manoj Kumar (1937), Prithviraj Kapoor (1906), Vinod Khanna (1946), Raaj Kumar (1926), and Art Malik (1952). After him are Noor Jehan (1926), Babita (1947), Margaret Lockwood (1916), Sadhana Shivdasani (1941), Prem Chopra (1935), and Manorama (1926).

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Television and Movie Roles

Two Acres of Land
Shambhu Maheto
An impoverished man and his young son travel to Calcutta and look for work, in order to make money that'll save their ancestral land from being seized by a corporation.
Jan 2nd 19537.9 / 10
Waqt
Kedarnath
A businessman's family is torn apart by an earthquake and reunited years later in a courtroom where father and sons stand opposed in the roles of accused, lawyer, and witness.
Jul 28th 19656.4 / 10
Anuradha
Dr. Nirmal Chowdhary
There are moments in our lives when our whole being is put to the test. Our ideals, our ambitions, are forgotten and we crave for escape. Escape into our world of dreams. And such is Anuradha's (Leela Naidu) story. The daughter of a rich man, she has everything she desired, yet she goes on to marry Dr. Nirmal Chowdhary (Balraj Sahni), an idealistic doctor, who wants to serve the poor in the villages of India. Later when she is shown what she is missing by living with this poor doctor, she has to make the choice. The choice of her life or her love.
Jul 22nd 19605.9 / 10