ULHAAS
He was known as ULHAAS and his real name was M N Kaul.He belonged to a kashmiri Pandit family from Ajmer. As a young boy, he moved to pune in 1937 and joined Prabhat Pictures as an actor. His first movie as an actor was " Wahan ".He worked with stalwarts like A R Kardar and Sohrab Modi.
Chander Mohan Wattal , another actor of 1930s and 1940s helped him a lot to settle in films .In fact he intervened and requested V Shantaram for his role in “WAHAN”. Ulhaas remained loyal to Chander Mohan wattal for this favour till later’s death in 1949.
When Bombay Talkies decided to start their New film BASANT, Ulhaas and Mumtaz Shanti were signed as lead pair.Again in the movie PARBAT pE APNAA DERA , he was signed as hero.
Thereafter , he started doing charactet roles. He played memorable character roles in GUIDE , AMAR, AADMI, ,SHAMA PARVANA, SEHRA, ZIDDI, GOONJ UTHI SHEHNAAYI, RANI ROOPMATI, DAKKA KI MALMAL, SAMRAAT PRITHVI RAJ CHAUHAN, KUNDAN, HEER.MIRZA GHALIB ,JHANSI KI RAANI , NAI UMAR KI NAI FASAL,SANGARSH , PREM PUJAARI, BADI DEEDI, DO AANKHEIN BAARAH HAATH, AMAR AND JOHAR MEHMOOD IN GOA .
In his 38 years of career, he acted in many hit movies. His last movie was Sawaal (1982)..
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