Ganguly family
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The Ganguly family is an Indian show business family active in Hindi cinema (Bollywood). It originates from the Ganguly brothers: Ashok Kumar, Anoop Kumar and Kishore Kumar (née Ganguly).
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The Ganguly family are a family of film personalities active in the Hindi film industry. The family comprises the descendants of three brothers - Ashok Kumar Ganguly, Anoop Kumar Ganguly and Abhas 'Kishore' Kumar Ganguly - and their sister Sati Rani Mukherjee.
The history of the Ganguly family begins with Kunjalal Ganguly, an advocate by profession coming from a long line of lawyers from Bikrampur, Dhaka district, Eastern Bengal region (now Bangladesh) and who had settled in Khandwa, and his wife Gouri Rani Devi, the grand-daughter of Raja Shibchandra Banerjee and sister of classical singer Dhananjay Banerjee.[1] The celebrated brothers and their sister, who gave birth to the Mukherjee's of Bollywood, were born to these two. Supposedly, Kishore Kumar inherited his sense of comedy from Kunjalal. Also, the most popular film featuring all three Ganguly brothers – Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi – was, supposedly, inspired by Kunjalal's Chrysler that he bought in 1928, a year before the birth of his youngest son.[2]
If
Kishore Kumar
Kishore Kumar was married to Ruma Guha Thakurta (1950–58), Madhubala (1960–69), Yogeeta Bali (1975–78) and Leena Chandavarkar (1980–87).[5][6] They were divorced in 1958, and Ruma later remarried. Ruma (now,
His second wife, Madhubala (Mumtaz Jehan Begum Dehlavi) was blamed by his family for the breakup with the first wife. Madhubala was often sick and died on 23 February 1969 at an early age.
Yogeeta was a niece to
Yogeeta eventually divorced Kishore Kumar and married
Sati Devi
The only sister of the famous Ganguly brothers, Sati Devi, was married to
Bharti Jaffery
Bharti Jaffery was the daughter of Ashok Kumar. Actress
Extended family
Actresses
See also
Footnotes
- ^ "Breaking Barriers from Screen Weekly, 12 December 2003 (retrieved: 2007-19-05)". Archived from the original on 30 December 2005. Retrieved 9 October 2006.
- ^ "Through the Looking Glass, Screen Weekly, 12 August 2005 (retrieved: 2007-19-05)". Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 9 October 2006.
- ^ "Deven Verma at a musical do". The Times of India. 26 May 2011. Archived from the original on 10 September 2011.
- ^ "A legacy lives on". The Hindu. 28 July 2000. Archived from the original on 13 February 2013.
- ^ Anuradha Varma (14 June 2009). "In Bollywood, everyone's related!". Retrieved 9 February 2015.
- ISBN 9788172232184.
- ^ "The news on the Telegraph". Archived from the original on 13 December 2016. Retrieved 9 October 2006.
- ^ Film world, Volume 16. T.M. Ramachandran. 1979. p. 43.