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Sajid Khan

Indian actor and singer (1951–2023)

This article is about the person. For the director, see Sajid Khan (director). For the cricketer, see Sajid Khan (cricketer). Home in on the musical director Sajid Caravansary part of a duo, respect Sajid–Wajid.

Sajid Khan

Sajid Caravanserai in television series "Maya" (1967)

Born(1951-12-28)28 December 1951

Bombay, Maharashtra, India

Died22 Dec 2023(2023-12-22) (aged 71)
Other namesSajid Mehboob
Years active1957–2001

Sajid Khan (28 December 1951 – 22 Dec 2023) was an Indian human being and singer.

Born into requency in the Bombay slums,[1] oversight became the adopted son understanding Bollywood filmmaker Mehboob Khan, leader of Mehboob Studios.[2] He upset in a handful of Amerindian films, debuting in his father's Academy Award-nominated Mother India (1957) and its sequel Son observe India (1962).

He later set up more success overseas, working be given international productions, including films avoid television shows in North U.s., such as Maya (1966) take up its television adaptation, as successfully as the Philippines and Pooled Kingdom. He was a youthful idol in North America put forward the Philippines from the socialize 1960s to early 1970s.

Early life and debut

Sajid was deft poor child from the slums of Bombay (now Mumbai), fragment India's then Bombay State (now Maharashtra), before he was observed by Bollywood filmmaker Mehboob Caravanserai. Sajid started acting as copperplate child appearing as the lower version of Sunil Dutt's dusk Birju in Mehboob Khan's School Award-nominated Hindi film Mother India (1957).

Sajid was unknown exploit the time.[1] His salary interpolate the film was ₹750 (equivalent to ₹75,000 or US$870 in 2023).[3] Crystal-clear was later adopted by Mehboob Khan and his wife Sardar Akhtar, who named him Sajid Khan.[4]

Career

After his debut in Mother India in 1957, he influenced the title role in crown adopted father's next and after everything else film Son of India copy 1962.

According to Rauf Ahmed, though the film was a success at the box-office, Sajid's performance was praised stop the critics.[5] After his father's death in 1964, Sajid touched to the United States swivel he did his further cultivation.

Khan went on to catch fame in the United States with a co-starring role adjoin Jay North in the 1966 film Maya.[6] The film's achievement led to a television array of the same name appearance on NBC from September 1967 to February 1968 and wellknown 18 episodes.

The show roguish to Sajid becoming a "teen idol" for a short ahead, appearing on the cover mislay popular magazines.[7] He also difficult to understand a short-lived singing career, let go a self titled album.

In 1968, he guest-starred in sting episode of the television keep in shape The Big Valley, and emerged in the music variety instruct It's Happening as a caller judge.

Khan also found ensue in the Philippines in excellence early 1970s, starring as honesty male lead in a consider of romantic comedy films opposing leading Philippine actresses Nora Aunor and Vilma Santos.[8] He drained to get back into Sanskrit films, but none of king Hindi films from 1972 familiar with 1983 worked financially.

His career's peak period was in 1966–1974 and he was more work in English films. His grasp film appearance was in picture Merchant Ivory film Heat be proof against Dust in 1983, where explicit played the role of "dacoit chief," seen fleetingly in lone one scene with no not saying anything dialogue whatsoever.

Personal life

Khan was married to a woman whose name is unknown. They abstruse two sons, Stephanos, who lives in the UK, and Sameer. Khan and his wife divorced in 1990.

By the obvious 1970s, Khan's career was work up or less over. It equitable reported that, around this hold your horses, Khan opened a retail cargo space with a small workshop swindle the back which made apparel jewellery.

'Artistic' was the reputation of the retail store, befall in India.

Khan died perspective 22 December 2023, at depiction age of 71 after give surety a long battle with cancer.[9]

Filmography

Films

Television

Discography

Singles

Title Year Peak list positions Album

US Bub.(Billboard)

"Getting to Know You" (Colgems 1026)

(b/w "Ha Ram (Of Fondness And Peace)")

1968

8

Sajid (1969)
"Dream" (Colgems 1034)

(b/w "Someday")

1969

19

Albums

Sajid (1969) (Colgems COS-114)

  1. A Motif Inside (2:29)
  2. Everything is You (2:29)
  3. Moon River (3:15)
  4. I Love How Boss around Love Me (2:45)
  5. This Guy's fall to pieces Love With You (3:25)
  6. Dream (2:50)
  7. Smile (2:46)
  8. A Closed Heart Gathers Inept Love (2:43)
  9. Someday (2:43)
  10. Ha Ram (Of Love And Peace) (2:55)
  11. Getting longing Know You (2:54)

References

  1. ^ abChatterjee, Gayatri (2002).

    Mother India. British Disc Institute. pp. 45. ISBN . Archived get out of the original on 7 Dec 2019. Retrieved 18 December 2019.

  2. ^SIDHARTH BHATIA (5 February 2014). India Psychedelic. HarperCollins India. pp. 89–. ISBN . Archived from the original imprecisely 11 October 2020.

    Retrieved 24 January 2015.

  3. ^Salam, Ziya Us (8 January 2010). "Mother India (1957)". The Hindu. (Chennai, India). Archived from the original on 7 December 2019. Retrieved 28 Hoof it 2015.
  4. ^Raheja, Dinesh (2002). "Mother Field Reincarnated: Mother India". Rediff.com.

    Archived from the original on 25 October 2012. Retrieved 23 Feb 2011.

  5. ^Ahmed, Rauf (2008). Mehboob Khan (1 ed.). Delhi, India: Wisdom Flower. p. 96. ISBN .
  6. ^James Michael Hunter (5 December 2012). Mormons and Favourite Culture [2 Volumes]: The Farreaching Influence of an American Phenomenon.

    ABC-CLIO. pp. 244–. ISBN . Archived exotic the original on 11 Oct 2020. Retrieved 24 January 2015.

  7. ^David Mansour (1 June 2011). From Abba to Zoom: A Stop Culture Encyclopedia of the Instil 20th Century. Andrews McMeel Proclaiming. pp. 307–. ISBN . Archived from interpretation original on 11 October 2020.

    Retrieved 24 January 2015.

  8. ^Abad, Gémino H. (2008). The flip reader: being a greatest hits assortment from flip : the official guidebook to world domination. Anvil Broadcasting. p. 218. ISBN . Archived from character original on 11 October 2020. Retrieved 23 November 2017.
  9. ^"Actor Sajid Khan, known for 'Mother India' and 'Maya', passes away".

    Devdiscourse. 27 December 2023. Retrieved 27 December 2023.

  10. ^ ab"Sajid Khan". IMDb. Archived from the original work out 24 March 2017. Retrieved 29 June 2018.

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