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Sajid was a poor child from the slums of Bombay (now Mumbai), in India's then Bombay State (now Maharashtra), before he was discovered by Bollywood filmmaker Mehboob Khan. Sajid started acting as a child appearing as the younger version of Sunil Dutt's character Birju in Mehboob Khan's Academy Award-nominated Hindi film Mother India (1957).
Mother India is a 1957 Indian epic drama film, directed by Mehboob Khan and starring Nargis, Sunil Dutt, Rajendra Kumar and Raaj Kumar.A remake of Khan's earlier film Aurat (1940), it is the story of a poverty-stricken village woman named Radha (Nargis), who in the absence of her husband, struggles to raise her sons and survive against a cunning money-lender amidst many troubles.
Mehboob Khan Ramzan Khan (9 September 1907 [2] – 28 May 1964) was a prominent Indian film director and producer. He is best known for directing the social epic Mother India (1957), which won the Filmfare Awards for Best Film and Best Director, two National Film Awards, and was a nominee for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. [3]
Irani's other sister, Menaka, was married to the stunt film-maker Kamran Khan, [3] and was the mother of film-makers Sajid Khan and Farah Khan. Daisy married screenwriter K. K. Shukla, on 21 January 1971 at age 21. He died in 1993. [2] She acted as a child-star in industry. She has three children, a son named Kabir and two daughters, Varsha and ...
Pakistan rode Sajid Khan's brilliance with bat and ball against a scratchy England in the second test on Thursday and eyed a long-awaited home test win. England, set a massive 297-run target for ...
Sajid's father was in the Pakistan Army and passed away in 2003, [2] when Sajid and siblings were still young, pushing his mother to work as the breadwinner to support the family. He migrated to Dubai with a six-month visa for training, where he worked at an airport to earn some money, and was a member of the Peshawar team .
He is the grandson of Urdu poet Jan Nisar Akhtar and great-grandson of Urdu poet Muztar Khairabadi. [8] [9] On his mother's side, Akhtar is the nephew of the child actress Daisy Irani and the first cousin of choreographer Farah Khan and Sajid Khan. [10] [11] Akhtar married Adhuna Bhabani in 2000, after being in a relationship with her for 3 years.
Son of India is a Bollywood film released in 1962. This film was written and directed by Mehboob Khan, starring Sajid Khan, Kamaljit, Simi Garewal, Jayant and Kumkum. The music was composed by Naushad and with Shakeel Badayuni as the lyricist. It was a spiritual successor to Mehboob Khan's previous film, Mother India (1957).