Bhagwan Das Varma

Bhagwan Das Varma was born 1907 as Bhagwan Das Chawla to Laxmidas and Hukumdai Chawla in the Punjab Region of British India. He is one of the founders of Varma Films, best known for Sohag Raat (1948), Patanga (1949) and Badal (1951). He was married to Tarawanti and subsequently to Purnima. Children from Tarawanti include two sons (Jagdish & Satpal) and a daughter Nutan. Purnima was married earlier and had a son, Anwar Hashmi, from this marriage. Bhagwan Das died in 1962 in Bombay, India. Bhagwan Das is a patriarch of the Varma family, which includes members that have had careers in the Bollywood industry as producers, distributors, actors, film directors, writers and editors, debuting in the late 1940s and continuing into the 2020s, for a staying power that has extended to more than seven decades.