Amjad Khan

Amjad Khan (November 12th, 1940 - July 27th, 1992) is a famous Indian actor. He played in more than 130 films during a cinematographic career of a score of years. It is its role of Gabbar Singh, cruel chief of Dacoït in Sholay into 1975 which made it popular.

Youth

Amjad Khan was born with Hyderabad in 1940, wire of the legendary actor Jayant Khan. He is the brother of the actor Imtiaz Khan. In 1957, it holds the role of a child in ab Dili Dur Nahin . About 1972, he marries Sheila Khan. The following year, it gives rise to their first child, Shadaab Khan, which will play in some films. It also has a girl, Ahlam Khan and another son, Seemaab Khan.

Career

Before the cinema, Amjad is actor of theater. It had assisted K. Asif in the film Love and God and had also interprêté a small role, but the film had not been finished and was to leave only one decade later. In 1973, it starts its cinematographic career in Hindustan Ki Kasam .

In 1975 Salim proposes the role of Gabbar Singh to him, chief of a band of brigands in the film Sholay (translated by flames or fireball). To prepare, Amjad reads Abhishapth Chambal , a work on dacoïts of the valley of Chambal, written by Taroon KUMAR Bhaduri (the father of the actress Jaya Bhaduri). With this film, Amjad reaches the statute of star. Its interpretation of the character of Gabbar Singh is regarded by much as the first figuration of the Evil in a pure state with the screen in the Indian cinema; an entirely bad character, without any trace of remorse.

Sholay belongs to greatest cinematographic successes in India, and of the most distributed. Although in the poster appear of the superstars like Amitabh Bachchan and Dharmendra, the most outstanding character is that of Gabbar Singh. Amjad Khan appears then in publicities praising the cookies Brittania as Gabbar Singh: this use of a gangster to promote a product of great consumption is a first! In front of the relative commercial failure of the BO of Sholay, the producers decided to sell audio cassettes of dialogs of film. This initiative paid and explains partly the enormous success of Gabbar Singh and its counterparts, become worship for a generation of Indians.

After Sholay , Amjad Khan continued interprêter roles of gangster in many films in Hindi, stealing the high-speed motorboat with its Ajit predecessor, who incarnated more sophisticated and more courteous criminal owners, the brain of the steerings of bank, assassinations and plots to seize the power. It was often the malicious one vis-a-vis the hero Amitabh Bachchan.

Khan is however a general-purpose actor, encensé in roles very distant from that of the gangster. In 1977, in Shatranj Ke Khiladi , film greeted unanimously by the critic (1977), directed by Satyajit Ray, Khan interprets the monarch forsaken and misled Wajid Ali Shah, whose kingdom, Avadh, are coveted by the British colonialists of the Compagnie of the Eastern Indies. In film of arts and test Utsav in 1984, it incarnates Vatsayana, the author of Kama Sutra. He also played of the comic characters in films such as Chameli Ki Shaadi in 1986. In 1991, he still played Gabbar Singh in Ramgarh Ke Sholay , a parody of legendary film, at the sides of a double of Amitabh Bachchan.

Khan received many times the Filmfare award for best the " méchant" , or the best male actor in a supporting role. Khan was also rewarded by several prestigious national distinctions.

In 1976, he escapes from accuracy to a fatal accident on the road of Bombay-Goa, when he strikes a tree at the wheel of his car to try to avoid a rock. The drugs which are prescribed to him involve a serious problem of weight. He dies into 1992 of one cardiac arrest at the 51 years age.

Several of its films left only after its death, until 1996.

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