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In Memoriam — Feroz Khan

(some of the claims here are false.. Dayavan for example was a big failure.. Janbaaz didn’t do much either.. nonetheless this video is useful..)

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  1. Satyam Says:
    April 30, 2009 at 2:23 AM

    NY Times Obituary:

    April 29, 2009
    Feroz Khan, Bollywood Actor, Dies at 69
    By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE

    MUMBAI, India (Agence France-Presse) — Feroz Khan, a Bollywood actor once called “the Clint Eastwood of the East” because of his maverick roles and manly swagger, died on Monday at his ranch in Bangalore. He was 69.

    Mr. Khan’s death followed a long fight against cancer, his publicist said. Mr. Khan was born to a father with Afghan roots and a mother of Iranian origin and was reared in Bangalore. He found fame in “Oonche Log” (“High Society”) and in the saccharine-sweet musical “Arzoo” (“Wish”), both in 1965.

    As a producer and director, he made “Dharmatma,” the first Hindi-language movie shot on location in Afghanistan; it was inspired by “The Godfather.”

    It was with the 1980 Hindi-Urdu gangster film “Qurbani” (“Sacrifice”) that he scored his biggest hit as an actor, producer and director, introducing foreign locations to Bollywood.

    He repeated his success with films like “Janbaaz” (“Braveheart”) and “Dayavan” (“Kindhearted”). In a 2003 profile, the Indian news and information Web site rediff.com said of him: “Khan did not walk, he swaggered.”

    It went on: “A cigarette dangled from his lips, a femme fatale hung on his arm and a horse waited for his bidding. He spoke with an American twang. The Clint Eastwood of the East seems to have come via Texas, not Bangalore.”

    One of Mr. Khan’s two children, Fardeen Khan, followed him to Bollywood.

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  2. Qalandar Says:
    April 30, 2009 at 11:16 AM

    My chacha was a classmate of Firoz Khan’s in Bangalore; to date he remains my uncle’s favorite actor…

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  4. Satyam Says:
    May 4, 2009 at 4:57 PM

    Bachchan earlier spoke about Feroz at IIFA (55 sec mark):

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  5. GF Says:
    May 4, 2009 at 5:08 PM

    Granted I know nothing of Feroze Khan outside of his number in Sholay, and some of the less impressive recent stuff, but the description above in the Times feels more Cary Grant (or maybe Dean Martin) than Clint Eastwood.

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    • Satyam Says:
      May 4, 2009 at 5:11 PM

      The Eastwood analogy is inaccurate for many reasons. But I’m not sure I get your Sholay reference..

      Feroz Khan is an example of a star whose cult value exceeds his achievement(s) in any objective sense by quite a margin!

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  6. rajen Says:
    May 4, 2009 at 9:13 PM

    That actor in Sholay was Jalal Agha . AKA , Q’s role model.

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