Govinda

Name	Govinda
Birth Sign	Sagitarius
Birth	21 December 1963, Punjab, India
First Film	JUNG-BAAZ 1985
Family	Arun Kumar Ahuja(Father-Producer),Nirmala Devi(Mother-Singer)Kirti Kumar(brother-Director, Actor)
Hit Movies	Khuddar,Coolie No.1,Saajan Chale Sasural,Hero No.1,Aag,Deewana Mastana& Banarasi Babu
Height	5

A Sagittarian, Govinda was born on 21st December 1963 in Vihar, Thane, Mumbai. He was named Govind Arun Ahuja. His father was a Punjabi Arun Kumar Ahuja, who was an actor in the forties. His mother Nirmala came from Banaras and was a classical singer and dancer. She was also an actress and was cast opposite his father in the movie Savera and they got married in 1941. His father’s attempt at producing a movie failed after which he faced some health issues and the family moved to Virar.

Several relatives are in the movie business like his sister Kaamini Khanna, his brother Kirti Kumar besides nephews and nieces.

Govinda was rumoured to be interested in his co-star Neelam but he married Sunita in 1987. She was his maternal uncle Anand Singh’s wife’s sister. They have two children Narmada and Yashvardhan.

Govinda studied Commerce at the Annasaheb Vartak College. He developed a passion for dance after watching the movie Saturday Night Fever. He began circulating a tape and soon bagged a fertilizer ad followed by one for Allwyn.

He hosted the television show Jeeto Chappard Phardke on Sony Entertainment Television in 2001. He also has to his credit the 2007 Most Stylish Comeback Award at the MTV Lycra Style Awards. And took the tenth place in a survey conducted by BBC News Online to find the Top 10 Greatest Stars of Stage and Screen in the last 1000 years.

Govinda in Politics
Govinda is a supported of the Congress Party. He was a Member of Parliament for Mumbai North, India in 2004.He won the seat with 50000 votes. He quit politics in 2008.

Govinda’s Movies
1986 to 1990 Govinda’s first movie was Ilzaam in 1986 with Neelam that became a big hit. Love 86 released later that year was also a success. He acted in movies like Khudgarz (1987), Hatya (1988), Do Qaidi (1989) and Izzatdaar (1990).

1991 to 1995 He worked with Amitabh Bacchan in Hum (1991). He paired up with director David Dhawan in Shola Aur Shabnam (1992) and played the role of Michael Corleone in Zulm Ki Hukumat (1992) that was inspired by The Godfather. In 1993, his movie David Dhawan’s comedy Aankhen with Govinda in a double role became one of the biggest hits of the year.

He had another hit in his hands with Dhawan’s Raja Babu (1994) with Karishma Kapoor. He acted with Karishma Kapoor in Dulaara, Khuddar and Prem Shakti in 1994.

1996 to 2000 Gambler, Hathkadi, Andolan, Coolie No 1 were his releases in 1996. He acted in the remake of Rajnikanth’s Veera, Saajan Chale Sasural that was another directorial venture of David Dhawan. Govinda joined hands with Amitabh Bacchan in Bade Miyan Chote Miyan (1998). Haseena Maan Jaayegi (1999) with Sanjay Dutt won him a Filmfare Best Comedian Award. He took a villainous role in Shikari (2000). He worked with Rani Mukherji in Hadh Kar Dhi Aapne (2000).

2001 to 2005 He acted in several movies, a few of which were, Jodi No.1 (2001), Chalo Ishq Ladaaye (2002), Raja Bhaiyya (2003) and Khullam Khulla Pyaar Karenge (2005).

2006 to 2009 Govinda moved away from the screens for a while as he got involved in politics, made a comeback in Bhagam Bhag (2006). David Dhawan’s Partner (2007) cast him with Salman Khan and became one of the biggest hits of the year. Money Ho Tho Honey Hai (2008) was below average.

The line up for 2009 includes Main Aur Mrs. Khanna, Banda Yeh Bindaas Hai, Run Bhola Run and Raavan.

147 Hindi Movies are listed
Year	Film Name	Cast
2011	RUN BHOLA RUN	Govinda, Tusshar Kapoor, Tanushree Dutta, Amisha Patel, Celina Jaitley
2011	NAUGHTY @ 40	Govinda, Yuvika Chaudhary, Anupam Kher, Shakti Kapoor' Gurpreet Guggi, Smita Jaykar, Sanjay Mishra, Harish, Sayali Bhagat, Edward Lucia
2011	DELHI SAFARI	Govinda, Sunil Shetty, Urmila Matondkar, Ayesha Takia, Boman Irani, Akshaye Khanna, Swini Khara
2011	LOOT	Govinda, Sunil Shetty, Mahaakshay Chakraborty, Jaaved Jaaferi, Shweta Bhardwaj, Ravi Kissen, Mika Singh, Rakhi Sawant, Kim Sharma, Razzak Khan, Mahesh Manjrekar, Taufik Umar Bhatti, Dalip Tahil, Prem Chopra, Deepraj Rana, Shehzad Khan
2010	NAUGHTY @ FORTY	Govinda, Ayesha Takia, Anupam Kher, Shakti Kapoor
2010	RAAVAN	Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai, Govinda, Manisha Koirala, , Chiyaan Vikram, Nikhil Dwivedi, Ravi Kishan, Priyamani
2009	CHAL CHALA CHAL	Govinda, Reema Sen, Asrani, Murli Sharma, Rajpal Yadav, Om Puri, Manoj Joshi
2009	WANTED	Salman Khan, Om Puri, Mahesh Manjrekar, Sayaji Shinde, Aseem Merchant, Vinod Khanna, Ayesha Takia, Prakash Raj,Mahek Chahal ,Inder Kumar,Govinda, Anil Kapoor, Govind Namdeo
2009	LIFE PARTNER	Govinda, Fardeen Khan, Tusshar Kapoor, Genelia D Souza, Prachi Desai, Anupam Kher, Vikram Gokhale, Darshan Jariwala, Shoma Anand, Rajesh Jais, Sheetal Gori, Master Ali, Vivek Shauq, Jagdeep, Rana Jung Bahadur, Himani Shivpuri
2009	MAIN AURR MRS KHANNA	Salman Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Govinda, Sohail Khan
2009	DO KNOT DISTURB	Govinda, Ritesh Deshmukh, Sushmita Sen, Lara Dutta, Sohail Khan, Rajpal Yadav, Rituparna Sengupta, Ranvir Shorey, Himani Shivpuri, Manoj Pahwa
2009	CHAI GARAM	Govinda, Esha Deol, Celina Jaitley, Sunil Shetty, Raima Sen, Javed Jaffrey, Rajpal Yadav, Ravi Kissen, Anupam Kher
2008	HUMSEY HAI JAHAAN	Vishaka Singh, Govinda, Kiran Kumar, A. K. Hangal, Mukesh Rishi, Mac Mohan, Mashhoor Amrohi, Jackie Shroff, Shehzad Khan, Suved Lohia
2008	MONEY HAI TOH HONEY HAI	Aftab Shivdasani, Celina Jaitley, Govinda, Isha Koppikar, Kim Sharma, Manoj Bajpai, Ravi Kishan, Upen Patel,Govinda, Hansika Motwani, Sophie Chaudhary
2007	JAHAN JAAEYEGA HAMEN PAAEYEGA	Govinda, Sakshi Shivanand, Divya Dwivedi, Mukesh Rishi, Adi Irani, Razzak Khan, Dinesh Hingoo, Sharat Saxena, Kader Khan, Anil Dhawan, Vinay Anand, Krishna Abhishek
2007	PARTNER	Govinda, Salman Khan, Katrina Kaif, Lara Dutta, Dalip Tahil, Aarti Chabria, Deepshika
2007	OM SHANTI OM	Shahrukh Khan, Deepika Padukone, Shreyas Talpade, Kirron Kher, Arjun Rampal, Javed Sheikh, Bindu Desai, Asawari Joshi, Yuvika Chaudhary, Shawar Ali, Girija Sarangi, Govinda, Hrithik Roshan, Saif Ali Khan
2007	SALAAM-E-ISHQ	Salman Khan, Priyanka Chopra, Juhi Chawla, Anil Kapoor, Akshaye Khanna, Ayesha Takia, John Abraham, Vidya Balan, Govinda, Sohail Khan, Anjana Sukhani, Perizaad Zorabian
2006	SANDWICH	Govinda, Raveena Tandon, Mahima Choudhary, Kiran Kumar, Anant Mahadevan, Anang Desai, Satish Shah, Mushtaq Khan, Raj Zutshi, Mohnish Behl, Johnny Lever, Shweta Menon
2006	JAHAN JAAEYEGA HAMEN PAAEYEGA	Govinda, Sakshi Shivananda, Divya Dwivedi, Mukesh Rishi, Adi Irani,Razzak Khan
2006	BHAGAM BHAG	Akshay Kumar, Govinda, Sunil Shetty, Lara Dutta, Tanushree Dutta, Paresh Rawal
2005	SSUKH	Aarti Chabria, Jackie Shroff, Mahesh Anand, Rana Jung Bahadur, Govinda, Prem Chopra, Avtar Gill, Gauri Karekar, Preeti Jhangiani, Pratima Kazmi, Chunky Pandey, Gayetri Patel, Sharat Saxena
2005	KHULLAM KHULLA PYAR KAREN	Govinda, Preity Zinta, Kader Khan, Prem Chopra, Johnny Lever
2003	RAJA BHAIYA	Govinda, Aarti Chabria, Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Kiran Kumar
2003	EK AUR EK GYARAH	Govinda, Sanjay Dutt, Jackie Shroff, Amrita Arora, Gulshan Grover, Ashish Vidhyarthi, Nandini Singh
2002	ANKHIYON SE GOLI MAARE	Raveena Tandon, Shakti Kapoor, Govinda, Kader Khan, Johnny Lever
2002	CHALO ISHQ LADAAYEN	Govinda, Rani Mukherjee, Sanjay Suri, Mink, Kader Khan
2002	WAAH! TERA KYA KEHNA	Govinda, Shammi Kapoor, Kadar Khan, Raveena Tandon, Preeti Jhangiani, Shakti Kapoor, Ashish Rana, Jung Bahadur, Monish Behl, Navneet Nishan
2002	PYAR DIWANA HOTA HAI	Govinda, Rani Mukherjee, Apoorva Agnihotri, Om Puri,Smita Jaykar, Deepak Tijori, Johnny Lever, Farida Jalal, Rambha
2001	AAMDANI ATTHANNI KHARCHA RUPAIYA	Govinda, Chandrachur Singh, Juhi Chawla, Tabbu, Ketki Dave, Johnny Lever, Isha Koppikar , Vinay Anand
2001	ALBELA	Jackie Shroff, Govinda, Aishwarya Rai, Namrata Shirodkar
2001	SUNO SASURJI	Govinda, Amisha Patel, Aftab Shivdasani
2001	JODI NO. 1	Govinda, Twinkle Khanna, Sanjay Dutt
2001	KYO KII MAIN JHUTH NAHI BOLTA	Susmitha Sen, Govinda
2000	AAP JAISA KOI NAHIN	Puru Rajkumar, Sharbani Mukherjee, Govinda
2000	ANKHIYON SE GOLI MARE	Govinda, Raveena Tandon
2000	BETI NO. 1	Govinda, Rambha, Johnny Lever, Laxmikant Berde, Aruna Irani, Prem Chopra
2000	DIL KI DHADKAN	Govinda, Rambha, Johnny Lever
2000	DIL LAGAKE DEHO	Govinda, Manisha Koirala
2000	DULHAN DILWALON KI	Govinda, Raveena Tandon
2000	HERO ZINDABAD	Govinda, Raveena Tandon
2000	LONDON COOLIE	Govinda
2000	SAREGAMA	Govinda
2000	SHIKARI	Govinda, Karishma Kapoor, Tabbu, Shweta Menon
2000	CENSOR	Govinda, Jackie Shroff, Mink, Ayesha Jhulka, Pooja Batra
2000	JIS DESH MEIN GANGA REHTA HAI	Govinda, Sonali Bendre, Rinke Khanna, Shjvaji Satam, Ankush Chaudhary, Himani Shivpuri
2000	JORU KA GHULAM	Govinda, Twinkle Khanna, Johnny Lever, Kader Khan, Ali Asghar, Ashish Vidhyarthi, Rakhi Sawant
2000	KUNWARA	Govinda, Urmila Matondkar, Nagma
2000	DIL NE PYAR YAAD KIYA	Jackie Shroff, Govinda, Tabbu, Pooja Batra
2000	TERE ISHQ MEIN PAD GAYA RE	Govinda, Preity Zinta, Satish Kaushik
2000	HADH KARDI AAPNE	Govinda, Rani Mukherjee, Ritu Shivpuri
1999	PARDESI BABU	Govinda, Raveena Tandon, Shilpa Shetty
1999	TUMHARE LIYE	Govinda, Amitabh Bachchan, Rani Mukherjee, Urmila Matondkar
1999	HASEENA MAAN JAAYEGI	Sanjay Dutt, Govinda, Karisma Kapoor, Pooja Batra, Anupam Kher, Kader Khan, Aruna Irani
1999	HUM TUM PE MARTE HAIN	Govinda, Urmila Matondkar, Dharmendra, Dimple Kapadia
1999	DIL KE AAS PAS	Govinda, Jackie Shroff, Mahima Choudhary
1999	ANARI NO.01	Govinda, Raveena Tandon, Simran, Aruna Irani
1999	RAJAJI	Govinda, Raveena Tandon, Dinesh Hingoo, Aruna Irani
1998	BANARASI BABU	Govinda, Ramya, Shakti Kapoor
1998	DULHE RAJA	Govinda, Raveena Tandon, Kader Khan
1998	JUNGLEE	Govinda, Kajol
1998	NASEEB	Govinda, Mamta Kulkarni, Saeed Jaffrey
1998	BADE MIYAN CHOTE MIYAN	Amitabh Bachchan, Govinda, Raveena Tandon, Madhuri Dixit
1998	AUNTY NO. 1	Govinda, Raveena Tandon, Harish
1998	MAHARAJA	Govinda, Manisha Koirala, Shakti Kapoor, Aruna Irani
1998	ACHANAK	Govinda, Manisha Koirala, Farha Naaz, Rahul Roy, Johnny Lever, Sanjay Dutt, Shahrukh Khan
1998	DIL DEEWANA MANE	Govinda, Manisha Koirala, Jaspal Bhati
1997	HERO NO.1	Govinda, Karisma Kapoor, Kader Khan, Paresh Rawal
1997	DEEWANA MASTANA	Anil Kapoor, Govinda, Juhi Chawla, Johnny Lever, Anupam Kher, Salman Khan, Kader Khan, Saeed Jaffrey, Reema Lagoo
1997	AGNI CHAKRA	Naseeruddin Shah, Govinda, Dimple Kapadia
1997	KAUN ROKEGA MUJHE	Chunky Pandey, Govinda, Nagma
1997	LOHA	Govinda, Dharmendra, Mithun Chakraborty
1996	MAAHIR	Govinda, Farah, Hema Malini, Aruna Irani
1996	APNE DAM PAR	Mithun Chakraborty, Shilpa Shirodkar, Raza Murad, Govinda, Ayesha Jhulka, Sonali Bendre
1996	CHHOTE SARKAR	Govinda, Shilpa Shetty, Divya Dutt, Aruna Irani
1996	SAAJAN CHALE SASURAL	Govinda, Tabbu, Karishma Kapoor
1995	GAMBLER	Govinda, Shilpa Shetty, Aditya Panscholi
1995	KISMAT	Rekha, Govinda, Mamta Kulkarni
1995	DO AANKHEN BAARAH HAATH	Govinda, (intr.) Madhuvanti, (intr.) Roopali
1995	ROCK DANCER	Kamal Sadanah, Ritu Shivpuri, Ronit Roy, Govinda
1995	COOLIE NO.1	Govinda, Karishma Kapoor, Harish
1994	BHAGAYWAN	Govinda, Juhi Chawla, Kirti Kumar, Aruna Irani
1994	DULAARA	Govinda, Karishma Kapoor, Ranjeet
1994	KHUDDAR	Govinda, Karishma Kapoor, Shakti Kapoor
1994	PREM SHAKTI	Govinda, , Karishma Kapoor, Nitish Bhardwaj
1994	RAJA BABU	Govinda, Karishma Kapoor, Shakti Kapoor, Aruna Irani
1994	BRAHMA	Govinda, Madhoo, Ayesha Jhulka, Aruna Irani
1994	EKKA RAJA RANI	Govinda, Vinod Khanna, Ayesha Jhulka
1994	AAG	Govinda, Shilpa Shetty, (intr.) Sonali Bendre
1994	BETA HO TO AISA	Govinda, Varsha Usgaonkar, Anjana Mumtaz
1994	ANDOLAN	Sanjay Dutt, Somy Ali, Govinda, Mamta Kulkarni, Rami Reddy, Asha Parekh, Dilip Tahil
1994	HATHKADI	Govinda, Shilpa Shetty, Madhoo
1994	ZORDAAR	Govinda, Neelam Kothari, Aditya Panscholi
1993	AADMI KHILONA HAI	Govinda, Jeetendra, Reena Roy, Meenakshi Sheshadri
1993	AANKHEN	Govinda, Chunky Pandey, Raj Babbar
1993	PRAKTIKSHA	Govinda, Shilpa Shirodkar, Moushumi Chatterji
1993	TERI PAYAL MERE GEET	Govinda, Meenakshi Sheshadri, Shakti Kapoor
1993	ZAKHMO KA HISAAB	Govinda, Farah, Kader Khan
1992	BAAZ	Govinda, Sonam, Anjana Mumtaz
1992	JAAN SE PYAARA	Govinda, Divya Bharti, Aruna Irani
1992	NAACH GOVINDA NAACH	Govinda, Mandakini, Raj Kiran
1992	SHOLA AUR SHABNAM	Govinda, (intr.) Divya Bharti, Anupam Kher
1992	ZULM KI HUKUMAT	Dharmendra, Govinda, Shakti Kapoor
1992	RADHA KA SANGAM	Govinda, Juhi Chawla, Mala Sinha
1992	MUQABLA	Govinda, Aditya Panscholi, Karishma Kapoor
1991	HUM	Amitabh Bachchan, Kimi Katkar, Rajnikant, Govinda
1990	AWAARGI	Govinda, Anil Kapoor, Meenakshi Sheshadri
1990	APMAAN KI AAG	Govinda, Sonam, Kader Khan
1990	KAUN KARE KURBANDI	Dharmendra, Govinda, Anita Raaj
1990	MOHABAT KI AAG	Govinda, Shatrughan Sinha, Poonam Dhillon
1990	NAYA KHOON	Govinda, Mandakini, Rita Bhaduri
1990	RAAIZAADA	Govinda, Sonam, Anupam Kher
1990	SWARG	Govinda, Juhi Chawla, Rajesh Khanna
1990	BHABHI	Govinda, Juhi Chawla, Bhanupriya
1990	KARZ CHUKANA HAI	Govinda, Juhi Chawla, Kader Khan
1990	TAQDEER KA TAMASHA	Jeetendra, Govinda, Aditya Panscholi
1990	KALI GANGA	Dimple Kapadia, Govinda, Suresh Oberoi
1990	IZZATDAAR	Dilip Kumar, Govinda, Madhuri Dixit
1990	MAHASANGRAM	Govinda, Vinod Khanna, Madhuri Dixit, Aditya Panscholi
1989	PAAP KA ANT	Madhuri Dixit, Govinda, Anupam Kher
1989	GAIR KANOONI	Sridevi, Govinda, Rajnikanth
1989	GOLA BAROOD	Govinda, Hemant Birje, Kimi Katkar, Sonam, Shilpa Shirodkar
1989	BILOO BADSHAH	Govinda, Shatrughan Sinha, Neelam Kothari
1989	DO QAIDI	Govinda, Sanjay Dutt, Neelam Kothari
1989	DOST GARIBON KA	Govinda, Neelam Kothari, Raza Murad
1989	FARZ KI JUNG	Govinda, Neelam Kothari, Shakti Kapoor
1989	GHARANA	Govinda, Rishi Kapoor, Neelam Kothari
1989	TAAQATWAR	Govinda, Sanjay Dutt, Neelam Kothari
1989	AAKHRI BAAZI	Govinda, Shatrughan Sinha, Kunal Goswami
1989	ASMAAN SE OONCHA	Jeetendra, Raj Babbar, Anita Raj, Govinda
1989	GENTLEMAN	Govinda, Anuradha Patel, Shakti Kapoor
1989	JAISI KARNI WAISI BARNI	Govinda, Kimi Katkar, Kader Khan
1989	JUNGBAAZ	Raaj Kumar, Govinda, Mandakini
1989	SACHAI KI TAQAT	Ashok Kumar, Dharmendra, Govinda
1988	GHAR GHAR KI KAHANI	Rishi Kapoor, Govinda, Jaya Prada
1988	JEETE HAIN SHAAN SE	Mithun Chakraborty, Mandakini, Sanjay Dutt, Govinda
1988	PYAR MOHABAT	Govinda, Mandakini, Rekha
1988	SHIVA SHAKTI	Shatrughan Sinha, Govinda, Kimi Katkar
1988	TOHFA MOHABBAT KA	Govinda, Kimi Katkar, Gulshan Grover
1988	HATYA	Govinda, Neelam Kothari, Raj Kiran
1987	DADAGIRI	Dharmendra, Govinda
1987	MERA LAHOO	Govinda, Kimi Katkar, Raj Kiran
1987	PYAR KARKE DEKHO	Govinda, Mandakini, Kader Khan
1986	LOVE '86	Govinda, Asrani, Dinesh Hingoo
1986	TAN BADAN	Govinda, Iftekhar
1986	ILZAAM	(intr.) Govinda, Neelam Kothari
1985	MOHABBAT KI AAG	Govinda, Kimi Katkar, Shakti Kapoor