Motilal was born on December 4, 1910 in Simla, India as Motilal Rajvansh. He was an actor and director, known for Devdas (1955), Anari (1959) and Waqt (1965). He died in 1965.
[On his screen career] Married a 100 times, died almost twice, never born but always brought down aby a parachute.
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Fact
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Actors Amitabh Bachchan and Naseeruddin Shah count Motilal among their favorite and one of the finest actors of Hindi cinema.
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He used to have a horse called Traitor, because the animal had the nasty habit of looking back at Motilal exactly at the time of reaching the winning post and losing the race in the effort! He gave up racing when his dearest friend Chandramohan, a character actor, died.
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Motilal was involved with actress Nadira, and later actress Shobhana Samarth after she separated from her husband Kumarsen Samarth. He played the role of Samarth's real-life daughter Nutan's father in Hamari Beti, Shobhana's launch movie for Nutan.