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India.com
02-05-2025
- Entertainment
- India.com
Meet Sholay 'Sambha's' elder daughter, a big star in the film industry, worked in many superhit films, now works as …, her name is…
When a film is made, the whole film revolves around the hero, heroine, and villain, but some character artists on screen grab the attention of the audience with just a few minutes of scenes. One such actor was Mac Mohan. Mohan Makijani alias Mac Mohan , born in Karachi before independence, he came to Bombay with a dream of becoming a cricketer, but fate pulled him towards acting. First he joined theatre and then entered Bollywood. He worked in nearly 200 films and gained recognition. Mac Mohan started working as an assistant director in the 60s and then tried his hand at acting. He gained the most popularity for his role as Sambha in the movie Sholay. He worked in films like Don, Karz, Satte Pe Satta, Zanjeer, Rafoo Chakkar, Shaan, Khoon Pasina and Sholay. Mac Mohan died of lung cancer in 2010. He was last seen in a cameo role in Ajay Devgn's movie 'Atithi Tum Kab Jaoge'. Mac Mohan may not be in this world today, but his daughters are making their father's name shine. Mac Mohan married Mini in 1986 and has three children with her. Two daughters, Manjari -Vinati, and a son, Vikrant. Both daughters of Mac Mohan are active in the film industry. Both Vinati and Manjari are active in films. Manjari has even made her place in the Emmys. Manjari, a writer, director, and producer by profession, has made many American and Hindi films. Manjari has had success from the films Skater Girl and Spin. She has also made many short films like The Last Marble, The Corner Table, and I See You. She has also worked as an assistant director in Wake Up Sid and Saat Khoon Maaf. She has been nominated for Emmy Awards for the movie Spin. Talking about Vinati, she has worked as a producer and actress in Shah Rukh Khan's My Name Is Khan, The Corner Table, and Skater Girl. She runs a production house named after her father, Mac Productions. She has 31.4 thousand followers on Instagram.
The Guardian
16-03-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
The big picture: a pioneering Indian skater girl shows off her prized board
For the past few years the Italian photographer Chantal Pinzi has been documenting the rebel spirit of female skateboarders, in a project she calls Shred the Patriarchy. Her original focus was on girls who skated in Morocco, in defiance of cultural norms. She continued that project in rural India, where a handful of women have used skateboarding to stake out public spaces for themselves. One pioneer of this is Asha Gond, who grew up in a farming family in the village of Janwaar in Madhya Pradesh. In 2014 a charitable organisation, the Rural Changemakers, helped to fund a skatepark in the village, built with the help of the community as a way of driving social and cultural development. Gond, one inspiration for the Netflix series Skater Girl, learned her skills at the park and became India's only female competitor at the world skateboarding championship. The park had two rules: 'No school, no skateboarding', and 'Girls first' – both rare sentiments in an area where girls often faced arranged marriages by the time they were of secondary school age. This picture of Gond's hands, with their traditional henna tattoos, clutching a skateboard, captures some of that story. Pinzi's project, for which she travelled more than 3,000 miles in India to find skating communities in cities and villages, is a finalist in the sport category in this year's Sony World Photography awards. Gond refused to follow the life that was mapped out for her by her family, and skating was a big part of her escape. She has recalled how her father would tell her to stop skateboarding, when villagers gossiped about her or made threats. 'I was thinking: 'Why can't I do what I want?' Boys do anything they want. Every day I was crying, but after crying I would feel stronger and new thoughts would come.' The 2025 Sony World Photography Awards exhibition is at Somerset House, London from 17 April to 5 May
