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Danny Denzongpa

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  3. Tshering Phintso "Danny" Denzongpa is an Indian actor of Sikkimese-Bhutia descent, working in Bollywood films though he has also appeared in several Nepali, Telugu and Tamil films as well. He has acted in around 190 Hindi films since 1971. Wikipedia
  5. Born: February 25, 1948 (age 66), Gangtok
  6. Spouse: Gawa Denzongpa
  7. Children: Pema Denzongpa, Rinzing Denzongpa
  8. Education: Film and Television Institute of India, Birla Vidya Mandir
  9. Awards: Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor
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Danny Denzongpa in 2010
BornTshering Phintso Denzongpa
25 February 1948 (age 67)[1]
Gangtok, Kingdom of Sikkim(now state of Sikkim in India)
ResidenceMumbai, Maharashtra, India
OccupationActor
Years active1963–present
Spouse(s)Gawa Denzongpa
ChildrenRinzing Denzongpa,
Pema Denzongpa
Tshering Phintso "Danny" Denzongpa [2] (born 25 February 1948) is an Indian actor of Sikkimese-Bhutia descent, working in Bollywood films though he has also appeared in several Nepali, Telugu and Tamil films as well. He has acted in around 190 Hindi films since 1971. He has also starred in some international projects, the most famous being Seven Years in Tibet where he acted alongside Hollywood actor Brad Pitt. In 2003, Denzongpa was awarded the Padma Shree, India's fourth highest civilian honour. Denzongpa is noted for his villainous and character roles.

Early life and education[edit]

Danny was born to a Buddhist family in the Kolkata, West Bengal[3] (the 22nd state of India since 1975) where he had his early schooling, and thereafter completed his schooling from Birla Vidya Mandir and St. Joseph's College, Darjeeling, in 1964. Denzongpa's love of horses and horse riding began at an early age, as his family was into horse breeding.
He nursed an ambition to join the Indian Army and won the Best Cadet award from West Bengal and participated in the Republic Day parade. In an interview to The Times of India newspaper, he said that he had qualified for prestigious Armed Forces Medical College, Pune but withdrew admission to join Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune. He decided to change his name to a simpler sounding "Danny" as his original name was tough to be pronounced by other students. The name has stuck since.[4]

Film and singing career[edit]

During his early film career, Danny used to practice learning Hindi by talking to the ocean.
He started out with B-grade movies such as B.R. Ishara's Zaroorat in 1971(released in 1972), and had positive role in Mere Apne(1971). He had his first major negative role which he played in B.R.Chopra's 'Dhundh'(1973), a role which showed his power to emote. He got his major break in Gulzar's Mere Apne and later in B R Chopra's Dhund where he played a crippled and frustrated husband. Danny, in the 1970s period was increasingly open to do versatile roles but chose to do more positive roles. It is said Danny was the first choice to play the iconic role of Gabbar Singh in the film Sholay. However since he was away on the shoot of Feroz Khan film Dharmatma, eventually Gabbar's role went to Amjad Khan. He played more positive roles in commercially successful critically acclaimed films like Chor Machaye Shor, 36 Ghante, Fakira, Sangram(1976), Kalicharan, Kala Sona and Devata(1978).
Danny's film career spans more than 4 decades. After his performance in the film Devata (1978) he started getting more significant lengthy roles. He was simultaneously part of big budget movies like Aashiq Hoon Baharon Ka, Paapi, Bandish, The Burning Train and Chunoti in negative roles.
In the early 1980 period, he had thought of quitting films. He said in an interview, when asked why he decided to direct a film, "I remember in 80′s I was so fed up of the films I was doing. Those days every villain was a dacoit and I remember going on the sets where an actor called Tiwari was my henchmen and my den was a cave with lanterns. Next day I went on another set and I saw Tiwari again as my henchman, and the same lanterns. I asked myself what was I doing? I left Mumbai. I did lot of trekking and did not do films for a couple of years. I told NN Sippy about a script that I had in mind. and he asked me to direct. I made Phir Wohi Raat with Rajesh Khanna and my then girlfriend Kim." [5] After the success of his directorial debut, he received offers to act as the hero again in the films like Bulundi and Hum Se Badkar Kaun in 1981, which became successful. He played double role in the film Bulundi. However, most of the subsequent films of Danny between 1981-83 were not successful. Hence Danny started accepting supporting roles, often playing a character quite elder to his real age. He played Kumar Gaurav’s father in law in Love Story(1981) and Mithu Chakrabothy’s father in Boxer(1984). He started increasingly getting offers to play the negative character in Hindi films, post success of films Phir Wohi Raat, Jeeo Aur Jeene Do and Dharm Aur Qanoon. He then went on to play the roles of the villain many times since 1984. Since 1984 and through the 1990s, Danny mainly featured as the lead negative character opposite all the leading actors of those times such as Rajesh Khanna, Dharmendra, Jeetendra, Mithun Chakraborthy, Vinod Khanna, Anil Kapoor and Sunny Deol.
His most applauded negative characters are in Dharm Aur Qanoon (1984) as SP Karan, Kanoon Kya Karega (1984) as Raghuvir Singh, Andar Baahar (1984) as Shera, Oonche Log (1985) as Thakur Maan Singh, Aandhi Toofan (1986), Bhagwan Dada (1986) asGangwaa, Agneepath (1990) as Kancha Cheena, Hum (1991) as Bakhtawar, Ghatak: Lethal as Kaatya, Krantiveer (1994) as Chatur Singh , Pukar (2000) as Abhrush and Indian as Shankar Singhania. He was pitted against Pran in the film Sanam Bewafa and 1942:A Love Story. His command over the Hindi language came in handy in films such as Sawan Kumar's Sanam Bewafa and Mukul Anand's Khuda Gawah.
At a time, when he was increasingly doing negative lead roles, Rajkumar Santoshi cast him as the positive role in China Gate(1998). In the early 2000s, Danny gave stellar performances in movies such as Asoka and 16 December (2002). Some of the antihero roles he played were an unscrupulous politician, corrupt policeman, traitor, and mingy landlord.He has also starred in some international projects, the most famous being Seven Years in Tibet where he acted alongside Hollywood actor Brad Pitt.
Danny in the early 2003 decided to take a break from films as he wanted to do different but strong roles, even if it was a negative character. He appeared in only 10 films between 2003-2009.
He is an accomplished singer having sung with Lata Mangeshkar, Mohammed Rafi and Asha Bhonsle, three stalwarts of Indian music. He has released Nepalese songs and has sung for Nepalese movies. His two most famous songs recorded in the 1970s but still hit are "Chiso Chiso Hawama" ("In the cool air") and "Manko kura lai bandhi narakha..."("Do not keep the words of the heart tied"). He is also a painter, a writer and a sculptor.
He wrote and acted in the Nepali film Saino which was super hit. His nephew Ugyen Chhopel directed it. He has sung its title song and a duet with Deepa Narayan, wife of Udit Narayan. Later, this film was made in Hindi as Ajnabi as a telefilm for Doordarshan. He has sung a Nepali duet with Asha Bhosle, "Aage aage topai ko gola pachhi pachhi machinegun barara". R.D.Burman composed the song -Sang Mere Nikle The Sajan from the film Phir Wohi Raat - after getting inspired from melody of the Nepali folk song sung by Danny 'Aage Aage Topaiko Gola'. His all-Nepali songs are hits and people like them even today: "Hiun vanda chiso, Aago vanda taato..." ("Colder than snow, hotter than fire.."), "Naachana hoi maichyan hau nachana"' ("Dance o lovely girl"), "Jhimkai deu pareli manma bajchha mitho murali..." ("Please blink your eyes and sweet sound of flute plays in the heart), "Rato rani pulhya" etc. are his few hit numbers. He gained popularity as a singer in the period 1975-1990 especially in places like Nepal, Darjeeling, Sikkim and Assam.
He then made a strong comeback as the villain with his role in Enthiran.He made his debut in the Tamil films with Enthiran, co-starring Rajinikanth and Aishwarya Rai in the leads. Denzongpa played the antagonist role of Bohra, a prominent scientist who transforms Chitti (played by Rajinikanth) into an evil robot. He then started playing villain in big budget movies like Jai Ho (2014) co-starring Salman Khan, Bang Bang (2014) co-starring Hrithik Roshan.

Personal life[edit]

Danny, who married Gawa Denzongpa, a Sikkimese princess and niece of the last chogyal from her hometown of Gangtok, currently resides in Juhu in Mumbai. Since the 2003, he has become more selective of the roles he plays.In the movies he chooses, he works on his own terms. His brother owns a bouj and beer factory in Melli, Sikkim.

Honours[edit]

YearFromAwardWon/Honored
2003Government Of IndiaPadma ShriHonoured

Awards[edit]

YearFromAwardFilmWon
1979Filmfare AwardsFilmfare Best Supporting Actor AwardDevataNo
1985Filmfare AwardsFilmfare Best Supporting Actor AwardKanoon Kya KaregaNo
1990Filmfare AwardsFilmfare Best Supporting Actor AwardAgneepathNo
1992Filmfare AwardsFilmfare Best Supporting Actor AwardSanam BewafaYes
1992Filmfare AwardsFilmfare Best Villain AwardHumNo
1994Filmfare AwardsFilmfare Best Supporting Actor AwardKhuda GawahYes
1995Filmfare AwardsFilmfare Best Villain AwardKrantiveerNo
1995Filmfare AwardsFilmfare Best Villain AwardVijaypathNo
1996Filmfare AwardsFilmfare Best Villain AwardBarsaatNo
1997Filmfare AwardsFilmfare Best Villain AwardGhatakNo

As director[edit]

YearFilmDirector
1980Phir Wohi RaatYes
UnknownRamYes

Filmography[edit]

YearFilmRole/Notes
2015BabyFiroz
2014Bang BangOmar
2014Jai HoHome Minister Dashrat Singh
2013BossBig Boss (Mentor of Boss-Akshay Kumar)
2010EnthiranProfessor Bohra (Tamil)
2009Acid FactoryOm
2008LuckTamang
2008KarzzzzKabira
2008ChamkuBaba
2007Big Brother
2007HattrickDavid Anna
2007FrozenKarma
2004Ab Tumhare Hawale Watan SaathiyoColonel Ashfaque Khan
2004ShikaarDarshan Damania
2003Sandhya
2003Ek HindustaniSpecial Appearance
2002SochNautiyal
2002Ab Ke BarasCBI Officer Sikander Baksh
200216 DecemberVir Vijay Singh
2002Yeh Mohabbat HaiAman Khan
2001MokshaBachelor Simon
2001IndianShankar Singhania
2001LajjaGajendra
2001AsokaVirat
2001PukarAbhrush
2001OfficerPratap Rai/Dushyant Singh
2000Tune Mera Dil Le Liya
1999Silsila Hai Pyar KaJabhal Khargoshi
1999Dahek: A Burning PassionJabbar Bahkshi
1999KohramMinister Virbhadra Singh
1998Zulm O SitumSikander
1998Vinashak - DestroyerJailer Lankeshwar
1998China GateMaj. Ranjir Singh Gurung
1997UdaanMr. Rana
1997Dhaal: The Battle of Law Against LawAdvocate Diwan
1997Himalay PutraRana
1996Ghatak: LethalKatya
1996Rajkumar
1996ArmyNaagraj
1996ShastraBabu
1996Army
1995Barsaat (1995 film)ACP Neghi
1995Sarhad: The Border of Crime
1994VijaypathDilawar Singh
1994ChaurahaBaba Bhatti
1994KrantiveerChatursingh
1994Mohabbat Ki ArzooJagpal Singh alias Jaggu dada
19931942: A Love Story
1993DhartiputraMajor Hisht
1993GurudevKhakan
1993PrateekshaDinesh Khanna
1993SangramMadhu's father
1993TahqiqaatBhanu Pratap
1992Drohi (Antham - Telugu)J.P. Sethi (Raghav's boss)
1992BalwaanBhaiji
1992Khule-AamInsp. Uday Singh/Insp. Ranvir Singh Rathod
1992Khuda GawahKhuda Baksh
1991LakshmanrekhaBirju
1991Vishnu-DevaaThakur Shamsher Singh/Samppat
1991HumBakhtawar
1991BahadurBahadur (Bengali)
1991Sanam BewafaSher Khan
1991First Love LetterThakur Ajit Singh
1991YodhaDaaga/Justice Dharmesh Agnihotri
1990AgneepathKancha Cheena
1990Pyaar Ke Naam QurbanPrince Yeshwant Singh
1990Chingariyan
1990Jagira
1990ShandaarDhaga
1990Shesh Naag
1989Shehzaade(uncredited) Thakur Roshan Singh
1989Jung BaazMahakal
1989Kasam Suhaag Ki
1989Galiyon Ka BadshahInspector Vijay
1989Khoj
1989Saaya
1989Ustad
1988CommandoNinja
1988ShoorveerShankar
1988Ek Hi MaqsadInspector. Deepak
1988Mardon Wali BaatRaja Sunder Singh
1988Gunahon Ka Faisla
1988Janam Janam
1988Jeete Hain Shaan SeJ.P.
1988Mera Shikar
1988Paap Ki DuniyaPasha
1988YateemGirivar Prasad Mathur
1987Saino(Nepali Film)
1987Itihaas
1987Faqir Badshah
1987Aag Hi AagDaulat Singh/Choudhury
1987Deewana Tere Naam KaShambhu
1986Chambal Ka BadshahSultan
1986Bhagwan DadaShambu Dada
1986Allah Rakha
1985Maha Shaktimanaka Maharudra (India: Bengali title)
1985YudhGama Maating/Mr. Chinoy
1985JawaabSeth. Jagmohan
1985Aandhi Toofan
1985AitbaarInspector Barua
1985Oonche LogThakur Maan Singh
1985Patthar DilJung Bahadur
1984Andar BaaharShera
1984Farishta
1984BoxerDharma
1984JagirDanny
1984Kanoon Kya Karega
1984Manzil ManzilGautam (Pahadi Baba)
1984Mera Dost Mera Dushman
1984Pyaar Jhukta Nahin
1983Mujhe Insaaf Chahiye
1983Lovers
1983Ganga Meri Maa
1983Andha KanoonAkhbar Ali
1982Raj Mahal
1982Kachche HeereArjun
1981Love StoryRam Dogra
1980Chunaoti
1980Kali GhataKishore
1980Abdullah
1980BandishKapil Kumar
1980BulundiLobo
1980The Burning Train
1980Choron Ki Baraat
1980Phir Wohi RaatAshok
1979Griha PraveshDanny
1979Aaj Ki DharaDanny
1979Lahu Ke Do Rang
1978Lal Kuthi(Bengali)
1978DevataInspector Lawrence
1978Naya Daur
1977Aashiq Hoon Baharon KaVikram (Jamunadas' son)
1977Abhi To Jee LeinDanny
1977Chandi Sona
1977Khel Khiladi Ka
1977Mit Jayenge Mitane Wale
1977PaapiAbdul
1976FakiraMunna/Ajay/Toofan
1976Kalicharan
1976Laila MajnuPrince Bahksh
1976SangramSalim/Altaf
1975Aakhri DaoRobert
1975Apne Rang Hazaar
1975Kala Sona
1975Ponga PanditRocky
1975Raftaar
1975Rani Aur Lalpari
1975Zorro
1974Chor Machaye Shor
197436 GhanteDilawar Khan
1974Khotte SikkayDanny
1973DhundThakur Ranjit Singh (crippled husband)
1973Khoon Khoonremake of Dirty Harry (English)
1972Milap
1972Rakhi Aur HathkadiRaja
1972Yeh Gulistan Hamara
1971Mere ApneSanju
1971Zaroorat

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