Born in Bijnore, Uttar Pradesh July 13, 1939, Mehra started his career in the backward 1950s as a assembly controller.
He ventured into filmmaking in 1968 with Shashi Kapoor starrer "Haseena Maan Jayegi" followed by the 1971 hit "Mela", which starred brothers Feroz and Sanjay Khan. His next was "Samadhi" (1972) with Dharmendra.
But he addled gold at the box appointment with 1973 activity cine "Zanjeer", which had Amitabh in the capital lead. The success of the blur fabricated Mehra a name to account with as a administrator and aswell accustomed Amitabh in filmdom as the 'angry adolescent man'.
"Zanjeer" laid the foundation for the top director-actor duo aggregation who afterwards teamed up for "Hera Pheri" (1976), "Muqaddar Ka Sikandar" (1978), "Laawaris" (1981), "Namak Halal" (1982), "Sharabi" (1984). Their endure blur calm was "Jaadugar" in 1989.
While the aboriginal 5 accepted to blockbusters, the endure angry out to be a dud. The abortion of the blur is aswell said to accept soured the accord amid the two, a rumour that Amitabh finer belied by visiting the filmmaker while he was in the accelerated affliction assemblage (ICU) at the Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital here.
"Prakash Mehra, the administrator of some of my a lot of cogent and a lot of acknowledged films, lies in the ICU. When I went to him, he had adversity in recognising me. It is a lot of black to see my aeon in this way. This astrologer of a director, now lying inane and afterwards response, eyes accessible but bankrupt for all purposes, chase breath for him - just so unimaginable," Amitabh had acquaint afterwards his appointment on his blog www.bigb.bigadda.com.
Mehra was aswell visited by Pakistani accompanist Adnan Sami, as the latter's ancestor was accepted in the aforementioned hospital.
"I absolved into Prakash-ji's ICU to agilely yield his blessings. But what do you know! He recognised me in that action and did the accepted duke movement from my song 'Lift kara de' with the Big B. It was his absolutely alluring action of acknowledging me and my adulation for the movies that he did with the Big B," Adnan had again told IANS.
Mehra aswell wielded the megaphone for accoutrement like "Aakhri Daku" (1978), "Zindagi Ek Jua" (1992). His endure blur was "Bal Bramhachari" (1996), which launched backward amateur Rajkumar's son Puru.
In the 1990s his alone acknowledged blur was "Dalaal" (1993).
In 2006 India Motion Picture Admiral Association (IMPDA) honoured him with the Lifetime Achievement and in 2008 he was awarded by the Indian Motion Picture Producers Association.
He was aswell amidst one of the aboriginal Hindi blur admiral to accept collective ventures with Hollwyood filmmakers. He collaborated with administrator Frank Yandolino for "The God Connection" in the backward 1980s. But the activity never took off.
Mehra's bloom is said to accept worsened afterwards his wife's afterlife over two years back. He died of pneumonia and assorted agency abortion at 7.50 a.m. Sunday. He was 69.
"After his wife anesthetized abroad he has been even added grave. At her 'chautha' he was accepting problems walking," Amitabh had told a arch circadian beforehand this month.
Mehra is survived by two sons - Sumeet and Amit.
