Kader Khan

Kader Khan, the indian actor and biography

Kader Khan (22 October 1937 – 31 December 2018) was an Indian actor, screenwriter, comedian, and film director. As an actor, Kader Khan appeared in over 300 Bollywood films after his debut film in the 1973 film Daag, starring Rajesh Khanna, in which Kader Khan acted as a prosecuting attorney. Kader Khan was also a prolific screenwriter for Bollywood films in the period 1970s to 1999 and wrote dialogues for 200 films. Khan graduated from Ismail Yusuf College affiliated to Bombay University. Before entering the film industry in the early 1970s, Kader Khan taught at M. H. Saboo Siddik College of Engineering, Mumbai, as a professor of civil engineering.

Khan was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, on 22 October 1937. Kader Khan father was Abdul Rahman Khan from Kandahar, Afghanistan while Kader Khan mother was Iqbal Begum from Pishin, British India (now in Balochistan, Pakistan). Khan had three brothers, Shams ur Rehman, Fazal Rehman and Habib ur Rehman. Kader Khan is an ethnic Pashtun of the Kakar tribe. Khan was raised in the Kamathipura neighbourhood of Mumbai after Kader Khan family moved there from Kabul. Kader Khan enrolled in a local municipal school and later in the Ismail Yusuf College after which Kader Khan graduated in Engineering specializing in Civil engineering. Between 1970 and 1975, Kader Khan taught at M. H. Saboo Siddik College of Engineering in Byculla as a professor of civil engineering. While performing in a play named Taash Ke Patey, Kader Khan was noted by comedian Agha who then suggested actor Dilip Kumar to see the play. Dilip Kumar was impressed and signed him up for his next films, Sagina and Bairaag. During an interview to Rediff, Khan recalled this as the incident that started his film career. Kader Khan used to write plays for theatres and was subsequently offered to write the script of Jawani Diwani, which started his career as a script writer.

Kader Khan career as a Hindi film writer began when Narinder Bedi saw the theatre play Khan had written and asked him to co-write the script for Jawani Diwani with Inder Raj Anand, for which Khan received 1500 rupees.