Danny Denzongpa was born on Tshering Phintso Denzongpa; 25 February 1948 and is an Indian actor, singer, and film director who primarily works in Hindi and occasionally in Bengali, Nepali, and Tamil films.
33 Facts About Danny Denzongpa
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In 2003, Denzongpa was awarded the Padma Shri, India's fourth-highest civilian honour.
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Danny Denzongpa has starred in some international films, the most famous being Seven Years in Tibet where he appeared alongside Brad Pitt.
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Danny Denzongpa's best known villainous roles are in Dhund, 36 Ghante, Bandish, Jeeo Aur Jeene Do, Dharm Aur Qanoon and Agneepath whereas his best known positive roles were in Fakira, Chor Machaye Shor, Devata, Kalicharan, Bulundi and Adhikar.
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Danny Denzongpa is a painter, a writer and a sculptor.
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Danny Denzongpa had an ambition to join the Indian Army and won the Best Cadet award from West Bengal and participated in the Republic Day parade.
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Danny Denzongpa decided to change his name to a simpler sounding "Danny", on recommendation from his then-classmate Jaya Bhaduri, as his original name of Tshering Phintso Denzongpa was considered difficult for some to pronounce.
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Danny Denzongpa's son Rinzing Denzongpa made his acting debut in the action film Squad.
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Danny Denzongpa got his major break in Gulzar's Mere Apne, where he had a positive role.
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Danny Denzongpa played the second lead hero and had more positive roles in commercially successful critically acclaimed films in the seventies, such as Chor Machaye Shor, 36 Ghante, Fakira, Sangram, Kalicharan, Kaala Sona and Devata.
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Danny Denzongpa was simultaneously part of big budget films such as Aashiq Hoon Baharon Ka, Paapi, Bandish, The Burning Train and Chunoti in negative roles.
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Danny Denzongpa played a double role in the film Bulundi.
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Danny Denzongpa was disappointed with the failure of his recently released film Abhi Toh Jee Ley, which had popular songs such as "Tu Laali Hai Saveriwali".
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Hence, Danny Denzongpa started accepting supporting roles, often playing a character quite older than his real age.
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Danny Denzongpa started getting more frequent offers to play the negative character in Hindi films, after the success of the films Phir Wahi Raat, Jeeo Aur Jeene Do and Dharm Aur Qanoon.
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Danny Denzongpa then went on to play the role of villain many times since 1984.
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From 1984 and through the 1990s, Danny Denzongpa mainly was featured as the lead negative character opposite all the leading actors of that time such as Rajesh Khanna, Dharmendra, Jeetendra, Mithun Chakraborty, Vinod Khanna, Anil Kapoor and Sunny Deol.
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Danny Denzongpa holds special place in my heart as he recognized and stood by me in my tough times which was early eighties.
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Danny Denzongpa was pitted against Pran in the film Sanam Bewafa, Paap Ki Duniya, Gurudev and 1942: A Love Story.
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Danny Denzongpa has starred in some international films, the most famous being Seven Years in Tibet, where he appeared.
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In early 2003 Danny Denzongpa decided to take a break from films as he wanted to do different but strong roles, even if it was a negative character.
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Danny Denzongpa appeared in only 10 films between 2003 and 2009.
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Danny Denzongpa then made a strong comeback as the villain with his role in Enthiran.
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Danny Denzongpa made his debut in Tamil films with Enthiran, co-starring Rajinikanth and Aishwarya Rai in the leads.
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Danny Denzongpa played the antagonist role of Bohra, a prominent scientist who transforms "Chitti", into an evil robot.
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Danny Denzongpa then started playing villains in big budget movies such as Jai Ho, co-starring Salman Khan and Bang Bang, co-starring Hrithik Roshan.
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Danny Denzongpa has recently played the role of a coordinator, "Feroz Khan" in the 2015 hit Baby co-starring Akshay Kumar.
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Danny Denzongpa reprised his role of "Feroz Khan" in the film's spin-off prequel Naam Shabana.
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Danny Denzongpa is an accomplished singer, having sung with Kishore Kumar, Lata Mangeshkar, Mohammed Rafi and Asha Bhosle, the stalwarts of Indian music.
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Danny Denzongpa advised me to produce a comic effect yet maintain melody whilst singing.
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Danny Denzongpa has released Nepalese songs, and has sung for Nepalese movies.
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Danny Denzongpa has sung a Nepali duet with Asha Bhosle, "Aage aage topai ko gola pachhi pachhi machinegun barara" in 1976.
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Danny Denzongpa has sung its title song and a duet with Deepa Narayan, wife of Udit Narayan.