Dara Singh

Dara Singh

Acting

November 19, 1928 — July 12, 2012
Amritsar, Punjab, British India
67 movies

Biography

Dara Singh Randhawa was an Indian professional wrestler, actor, director and politician. He started acting in 1952 and was the first sportsman to be nominated to the Rajya Sabha (upper house) of India. He worked as Hindi and Punjabi film producer, director and writer, and he acted in films and television. His role of Hanuman in the film Bajrangbali (1976) and in Ramanand Sagar's Ramayan made him popular. Singh was inducted into the Legacy wing of the WWE Hall of Fame Class of 2018.

🎬 Dara Singh's Filmography

67 movies sorted by popularity

Shehzaade
6.0

Suraj Singh lives with his widowed mother in a small hut in a Bombay city slum. He cannot stand injustice in any form and manner, and this places him in the bad books of Police Inspector Shankar Shrivastav . One day Suraj comes across an older male named Zorawar he feels sorry for him, and brings him home to live with them. What Suraj does not know that Zorawar is a former jailbird, who has completed his sentence - which was for multiple murders and a rape of a woman named Gauri Shrivastav, who had vowed to kill Zorawar by any means possible. Although Gauri is no longer alive, her vow to avenge the death of her Police Inspector brother, and her rape, are still alive and raging in Shankar. To complicate matters further Suraj finds out that his mother, Padmini, is having an affair with Zorawar. What will Suraj do under these circumstances, will he take steps to oust Zorawar and alert Shankar?

Shehzaade

1989
Hum Sab Ustad Hain
7.0

A wrongful conviction leads Romi to prison for 14 long years in jail, after his release he roams 8 long years being rejected by society and cannot find a job or assistance, then turns to violent crime. His gang is offered a large sum of money to smuggle national secrets out of the area, so he kidnaps a young child and forces her sister Roopa (Ameeta) to carry the goods. Roopa would rather die than become a traitor, loses control of her car and is cast into the river, washing ashore in the same village with Radha and Ram. Meanwhile, unemployed Kishore (Kishore Kumar) decides he will play detective to find the lost girl Radha and her sister, tracks her to the village and falls in love. Romi and his gang also track Roopa, and they flee to the city to save her sister, where Ram becomes employed as a wrestler. Romi tracks them down, kidnaps Radha, and realizes that it is his long lost family. He decides he will sacrifice himself to save them to show that his heart is still honest.

Hum Sab Ustad Hain

1965
THIEF OF BAGHDAD

After tyrannical Commander Jabbir kills his father, Mehmood, along with his brother, Mehboob; sister, Yasmin; friend, Badru, and others decide to become bandits and loot the rich. Mehmood, now known as Baghdad Ka Chor, falls in love with Shehzadi Rukhsana, who detests him, and sets out to hunt him down after she finds out that he has abducted her brother. She does locate her brother, finds out that Mehmood had actually rescued him from unknown assailants and falls in love instead. Their lives will soon be turned upside down when Mehboob decides to sexually molest Rukhsana; betrays Mehmood, has him arrested and sentenced to be hanged; while Commander Jabbir makes himself magically immortal and indestructible, takes over the kingdom, imprisons the emperor, the Shehzada, and abducts and holds Rukhsana in a secret location.

THIEF OF BAGHDAD

1969
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