(Published: October 21, 2016)
One of the most distinctive screen villains in Hindi cinema Ajit passed away on October 22, 1998. The legendary actor, who was born Hamid Ali Khan, is mostly remembered for playing evil roles with suave and sophistication.
His son Shehzaad Khan, who has acted in films like Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak and Andaz Apna Apna, is quite the opposite. He is full-on comic guy and can crack jokes at the drop of a hat.
On his father Ajit Khan's death anniversary (October 22), Shehzaad talks to Patcy N/Rediff.com about his famous father’s journey into Bollywood.
My father’s screen name Ajit was given to him by Nanabhai Bhatt (director Mahesh Bhatt’s father) because his real name Hamid Ali Khan was too long. The new name proved to be lucky.
My father was from Hyderabad. When he was 22, he sold his college books and ran away from home to pursue his dreams. My grandfather was in the Nizam’s military. He was very strict. He was against my father becoming an actor; he wanted him to have a more dignified profession like doctor or lawyer.
Acting was considered taboo. If you entered the Indian film industry, you were outcast from your community. In those days, there were no acting schools. My father, Dilip Kumar and other legends never went to acting school. At the most, they did theatre.
I was so scared of my father that I was unable to tell him that I wanted to act. So how could my father tell his father that he was interested in acting?
We come from a staunchly patriarchal family where you have to listen to your father. We did not have the guts to ask. We couldn't even make eye contact with our father. Even though I knew my father had run away from home, I never had the courage to ask him about his life. It was only when he grew older that he himself started telling us about his life. When he came to Bombay, he stayed with a friend in Mohammed Ali Road (in south Mumbai).
When I was a kid, my father once showed me these huge cement pipes which are put into nullahs, and told me that he stayed in one of them for a few days. A local goon would collect money every week from people to allow them to live in those pipes. This was in the 1950s or may be earlier.
One day the goon asked my father for the hafta, which my father refused, and bashed him up instead. From the next day, my father became the local goon and no one would take money from him! He would get free tea, snacks and food.
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My father started his career as a
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4 Aruna Roy MKSS
5 Prof. Rooprekha Verma Former VC, Lucknow University
6 Indira Jaising, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court
7 Dr. Syeda Hameed Former Member, Planning Commission of India
8 Prof. Jean Dreze Economist
9 Arjun Appadurrai Anthropologist, Berlin
10 Vivan Sundaram Artist
11 Jagdeep Chhokar, Professor (retd), IIM, Ahmedabad
12 Shanta Sinha Former Chairperson, NCPCR
13 Medha Patkar, NAPM
14 Flavia Agnes Majlis, Mumbai
15 Prof. Amitabh Kundu Urban Studies Expert
16 Prashant Bhushant Senior Advocate, Supreme Court
17 Subhashini Ali Member Politbureau CPI (M)
18 Uma Chakravarty Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India
19 Madhu Bhaduri, IFS, (Retd), Former Ambassador to Portugal
20 Shiv Shankar Mukherjee, IFS (Redt.) Former Ambassador to UK
21 Mihir Desai Senior Advocate Bombay High Court and SC of India
22 Kavita Krishnan General Secretary, AIPWA
23 Prof Apoorvanand, General Secretary, AIPWA
24 Henri Tiphagne, People’s Watch
25 Annie Raja Gen Sec. NFIW
26 Ravi Kiran Jain President, PUCL
27 V.Suresh General Secretary, PUCL
28 Anand Grover Senior Advocate, Supreme Court
29 Colin Gonsalves Senior Advocate, Supreme Court
30 Bharat Bhushan Columnist
31 Anand Sahay Columnist
32 Aakar Patel Amnesty India
33 Abdul Hafiz Lakhani Editor siyasat dot net
34 Abey George RTI NETWORK KERALA
35 Abha Bhaiya Feminist Activtis
36 Abhay Kumar Social Activist
37 Abhinandan Sekhri News Laundry
38 Abhisikta Dasgupta Performance Researcher-Practitioner
39 Abraham Mathai Human Rights Worker, Mumbai
40 Abu Mohammed Sajid Basha Activist
41 Achin Vanaik Retd prof, New Delhi
42 Adhiraj Sarin Indendent
43 Aditya Mukherjee Retired Professors, JNU
44 Aditya Shrivastava Lawyer, Dekhi
45 Adv. Sachin Godambe Social Activist & Freelance Journalist) Pune
46 Adv.Ansar Indori National Confederation of Human Rights Organization’s (NCHRO)
47 Ajay Prakash Editor, Janjwar
48 Ajey Saxena PUCL Pratapgarh
49 Akash Banerjee Desh Bhakt
50 Akhil Chaudhary Lawyer and PUCL
51 Alaka Basu Professor, Cornell University
52 Alok Jain Independent
53 Amala Dasarathi Advocate
54 Amit Gupta Business man
55 Amita Cherian Advocate
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... keep reading on reddit ➡I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
Do your worst!
I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
It really does, I swear!
They’re on standbi
Pilot on me!!
Nothing, he was gladiator.
Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.
This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.
If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.
Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.
What did 0 say to 8 ?
" Nice Belt "
So What did 3 say to 8 ?
" Hey, you two stop making out "
I won't be doing that today!
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You take away their little brooms
This morning, my 4 year old daughter.
Daughter: I'm hungry
Me: nerves building, smile widening
Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.
She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.
Thank you all for listening.
There hasn't been a post all year!
It’s pronounced “Noel.”
After all his first name is No-vac
What, then, is Chinese rap?
Edit:
Notable mentions from the comments:
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Spanish/Swedish/Swiss/Serbian hits
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French/Finnish art
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Country/Canadian rap
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Chinese/Country/Canadian rock
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Turkish/Tunisian/Taiwanese rap
There hasn't been a single post this year!
(Happy 2022 from New Zealand)
Nothing, it just waved
When I got home, they were still there.
