Ramayan Tiwari


Ramayan Tiwari was a Bollywood actor who was more famous by his surname Tiwari. He worked in approximately 125 movies in his 36 year long film career. He has worked in Bollywood movies like Madhumati, Yahudi, Jis Desh Mein Ganga Behti Hai, Mera Saaya, Kal Aaj Aur Kal and many more. He was originally from Maner of Patna, Bihar, and was also a freedom fighter. He died on 9 March 1980 in Mumbai. His son's name was Bhushan tiwari, who too worked in bollywood movies as a character artist.

Early life

Ramayana Tiwari was born in a moderate farming family of Maner in Patna, Bihar. MANER is now a tourist's place. He was a freedom fighter and was associated with Azaad Hind Fauj apart from being a farmer. According to his grandson Sujit Tiwari he was approximately 30 years old when India became Independent in 1947.

Career

In Mumbai, firstly he got a job in a studio named 'Prabhat Studio' where many films were photographed. Once, shooting of a movie named Man Mandir was going on in the studio in which a character artist was absent one day. Consequently, the director of the movie offered Tiwari the same role which he joyfully accepted. This was his first movie. Later, he acted in many many big movies like Bimal Roy's Madhumati, Yahudi etc., Raj Kapoor's Jis Desh Mein Ganga Behti Hai, Kal Aaj Aur Kal, Raj Khosla's Mera Saaya and many more movies.

Filmography