Ramesh Sippy

Directing

Ramesh Sippy

Born 1947-11-24 · Karachi, Pakistan

Ramesh Sippy (born 24 November 1947) is a Pakistani film director and producer, best known for directing the popular and critically acclaimed film Sholay (1975). He is a winner of the civilian honour of Padma Shri in 2013.

Acting credits

Ekk Deewana Tha poster
4.6

Sachin is an engineering graduate from a middle class Mumbai family, but his passion is for the world of cinema. He is dreaming and planning for a future as a director, when he sees Jessie. It is love at first sight for Sachin. However, Jessie is from a strict Malayali Christian family, and her parents would never approve of their romance. The other problem is Jessie insists that she doesn't want a romantic relationship, but wants only to be friends. Of all the girls in the world why did Sachin have to fall for Jessie?

Ekk Deewana Tha

2012

Bollywood and Beyond: A Century of Indian Cinema poster
5.2

Indian cinema has the largest audience of any art form on the planet. With a population of over a billion, India has recently enjoyed an economic boom and its movie stars are treated like deities. Today their fame stretches across the diaspora, in what has become a truly global industry. As Indian cinema celebrates its centenary, Sanjeev Bhaskar travels across the subcontinent to get under the skin of the Indian movie business as never before. From young hopefuls in the slums of Mumbai to superstars like Kareena Kapoor and Aamir Khan, he meets the stars of the silver screen and the people behind the scenes - legendary producers, directors, musicians and choreographers - exploring the stories behind some of the greatest films ever made.

Bollywood and Beyond: A Century of Indian Cinema

2015

Celluloid Man poster
7.0

Indian documentary about Indian film history and P. K. Nair, the founder of the National Film Archive of India and guardian of Indian cinema. He built the archive can by can in a country where the archiving of cinema was considered unimportant.

Celluloid Man

2012

Follow That Star - Amitabh Bachchan poster
NR

Documentary on mega star Amitabh Bachchan by Nasreen Munni Kabir with interviews by Ramesh Sippy, Prakash Mehra, Manmohan Desai, Mukul Anand and Javed Akhtar

Follow That Star - Amitabh Bachchan

1989

Shahenshah poster
10.0

Prince Rashid fights to regain his kingdom

Shahenshah

1953

Behind the camera

Sholay poster
7.1

After his family is slain by notorious bandit Gabbar Singh, former Inspector Thakur Baldev Singh enlists low-level outlaws Jai and Veeru to capture Gabbar and seek revenge.

Sholay

1975

Dum Maaro Dum poster
5.6

ACP Vishnu is sent on a mission to investigate and clean the underbelly of Goa. During his investigation, he uncovers a huge racket and discovers the involvement of various politicians.

Dum Maaro Dum

2011

Chandni Chowk to China poster
4.9

A cook from Chandni Chowk gets mistaken for the reincarnation of an ancient peasant warrior by the residents of an oppressed Chinese village.

Chandni Chowk to China

2009

Sonali Cable poster
5.2

Sonali, a spunky self-made internet operator, proudly runs a small outfit along with her band of ghetto boys catering to a sprawling Mumbai suburb. Complications arise when Sonali's childhood sweetheart, Raghu returns from the United States and helps bring her small enterprise into the 21st century. But not all forces of modernization are as kind and as loving as Raghu. SHINING INC, a huge corporation wants her out to complete their monopoly of Shining Broadband in the city. Sonali refuses... and it's war! This is a character driven, edgy survival drama of an ordinary girl, a sizzling love interest and her rag-tag family of internet cable technicians for whom Sonali Cable Centre is more than a livelihood... it's their home.

Sonali Cable

2014

Seeta and Geeta poster
7.0

Long-suffering heiress Seeta is treated worse than a servant by her abusive money-grubbing aunt. Meanwhile, her long-lost twin sister Geeta grows up to be a gutsy street performer. One day, the girls unintentionally swap places.

Seeta and Geeta

1972

Taxi No. 9211 poster
6.3

A taxi driver and a businessman create havoc in each other's lives after a chance meeting.

Taxi No. 9211

2006

Bluffmaster! poster
5.9

Roy, a professional conman, gets dumped by his girlfriend after she find out the truth about him. After being diagnosed with a fatal disease, he resolves to do some good by helping an amateur conman to hoodwink the mobster who hurt his family.

Bluffmaster!

2005

Shimla Mirchi poster
NR

While on holiday, Avi meets Naina and falls in love with her. Smitten, he decides to stay and work in her cafe. He confesses his love in a letter, however it's Naina's mother who mistakenly reads it.

Shimla Mirchi

2020

Zamaana Deewana poster
6.0

A police commissioner enlists the aid of an eccentric inspector to end a gang war between bitter enemies.

Zamaana Deewana

1995

Akayla poster
5.2

Inspector Vijay Verma finally manages to capture criminal mastermind Jojo. But Jojo escapes from jail and kills Vijay's friends for revenge, leaving Vijay determined to fulfill a vendetta of his own.

Akayla

1991

Shakti poster
7.3

A policeman's son becomes a criminal after a childhood incident creates a rift between them.

Shakti

1982

Saagar poster
6.6

Raja, a fisherman is secretly in love with Mona. When wealthy Ravi comes to live with his grandmother, Kamladevi, he sees Mona and falls in love with her. Mona also reciprocates his love. Raja is devastated by this turn of events. But when Kamladevi gets to know that Ravi is seeing Mona, she puts pressure on Mona to give up Ravi and marry someone else.

Saagar

1985

Shaan poster
6.8

DSP Shiv Kumar returns home to his wife Sheetal and their young daughter and announces that he has been transferred to Bombay. Shiv Kumar has two brothers, Vijay and Ravi, who live in Mumbai. They are intelligent and capable guys, but spend their time loafing about the city and swindling unsuspecting people.

Shaan

1980

Bhrashtachar poster
3.4

Journalist Bhavani intends to expose and bring to justice a corrupt politician who pretends to be a social worker. However, she soon finds herself trapped in a web of conspiracies.

Bhrashtachar

1989

Nautanki Saala! poster
5.1

Ram, a successful theatre artist, saves Mandar from committing suicide. He then ends up developing a special bond with Mandar and even helps solve his problems.

Nautanki Saala!

2013

Andaz poster
6.8

Andaz or Andaaz is a 1971 Hindi romantic movie starring Shammi Kapoor, Rajesh Khanna, Hema Malini and Simi Garewal. The film was directed by Ramesh Sippy. The film was a considerable success and important in the career of Malini as an actress.

Andaz

1971

Fear poster
2.0

In director Vikram Bhatt's Bollywood spook fest, a supernatural spirit terrorizes a woman and forces her to confront the demons of her past.

Fear

2007