Saturday, January 6, 2018

Ahmed Khan - Mapping Names To Faces Of Actors

I  was watching the song Leke Pehla Pehla Pyaar from the movie CID and I wondered who the male harmonium player in the video was. Apparently it was Abrar Alvi who was part of Guru Dutt's team. I got Abrar's name from this link: http://www.hindigeetmala.net/song/leke_pahla_pahla_pyar_1.htm. The Wiki link on Alvi also brings up the possibility that it was he who directed the movie Saaheb Biwi Aur Gulaam and not Guru Dutt.

Interestingly in another street song Deewane Hai Deewaanon Ki in the movie Zanjeer, the man with the harmonium was Gulshan Bawra as per https://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070112020130AAlx9P2


Today I was watching the movie Dil Chehta Hai and I saw a balding man who played the role of Haji in the movie Sarfarosh. His real name is Ahmed Khan. And his Hindi was of course super. 

Govind Namdeo played the role of Veeran / Anna - the Andhra terrorist who was dressed in dhoti. 

Rajeev is the person who plays, character roles in Tamil movies (fair, wears glasses). He plays Sada's father in Jeyam and Devyani's brother in law in Kaathal Kottai. Kazan Khan looks very similar. Which of them played Devyani's Uncle in the movie Kadhal Kottai?

Sameer Khakhar is Khopdi. Also played a part in Hasee Toh Phasi 

Anant Jog plays the minister in Singham and in Rowdy Rathore. Pankaj Tripathi plays the villain Altaf in the same movie.

Priya Bapat is the cute medical student in Munna Bhai MBBS.

Brijendra Kala played the person who allots chambers in Airlift. He was also there in BBInaamulhaq played the major in Airlift. He was also there in Jolly LLB 2 as the terrorist Iqbal.

Devan plays the role of Nagma's father in the movie Baasha.


Kumud Mishra was the coach in Sultan, Kohli in Airlift and Suryaveer Singh in Jolly LLB 2 (http://www.bollypedia.in/movies/Jolly-LLB-2/592/Story).

Surekha Sikri played the role of the mother of Sultan, Sultan himself was played by Pradeep Rawat. Mukesh Rishi played Inspector Salim and Akhilendra Mishra played Mirchi seth. Mala was played by Upasana Singh.

Kurush Deboo was the Parsi doctor in Munna Bhai MBBS.


Ashutosh Gowariker played Imran in Kabhi Haan Kabhi Na.


Thangabali in Chennai express was played by Nikitin Dheer. Inspector Shamsher was played by Mukesh Tiwari.


In Lagaan, the boy (Tipu) who was the runner for Ismail (Raj Zutshi) was Amin GaziAditya Lakhia played Kachra.

SarfaroshDilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge (DDLJ)Veer ZaaraKabhi Alvida Na Kehna (KANK)Six Days And Seven Nights3 Idiots are some of the recent movies that I have liked immensely.

The person who plays Furhan's mother in 3 IdiotsFarida Dadi, Raju Rastogi's father: Mukund Bhatt, Raju's mother: Amardeep Jha, Raju's wife: Meghna Bhalla, Kareena Kapoor's materialistic fiance: Olivier Sanjay Lafont.


The fair and handsome fellow who was Parveen Babi's bodyguard in the movie Amar Akbar Anthony was Zebisco aka Yusuf Khan.


Greg Kinnear in You've Got Mail and as "the fag" in As Good As It Gets resembles Ravi Baswani so much.

The South Indian gentleman who played the role of Juhi's father in Hum Hai Rahi Pyar Ke is KD Chandran who is the father of dancer Sudha Chandran.


In Meine Pyaar Kiya, Seema was played by Parvin Dastur. Here is the full list of crew in Munna Bhai MBBS.


Dinesh Hingoo is a comedian who has acted in 200+ movies since the 1960s.


The aged villain (performs character roles in Bala by Shaam) Arumai Nayagam in the movie Kshatriyan is actually Thilagan. In this movie, in many of the scenes Bhanupriya looks almost like Heera Rajagopal's twin. Wonder why..

Unnai Ninaithu is the movie with Surya, Laila and Sneha. Pallavi and play Laila's parents. Balu Anand plays Sneha's father.

Santhana Bharathi is the semi bald man who plays Nassar's brother in Anbe Sivam.

The Tamil villain with the pockmarked face is Kadhal Dhandapani.

The cute telephone operator in Brussels Pakistani Embassy is Rukhsar Rehman.


The girl who does the tango  with Al Pacino in The Scent Of A Woman is Gabrielle Anwar. 


The villain in Saala Khadoos and in Singham Returns is Zakir Hussain.



I was watching the video of this song when I saw the woman singing this song in the movie. I wanted to know who the lady was. Apparently it was Erica Lall. 

The police constable who catches Salman Khan in BB and who is between up by Salman was also there as the warden of the orphanage in Besharam. He was Manoj Bakshi

RS Shivaji is the Telugu station master in the movie Anbe Sivam and he also plays the deputy to Inspector Janagaraj in M Kumaran S/O Mahalashmi.

The hosts in the Sony Mix music show Raina Beei Jaaye are Akriti Kakar and Sumeet Raghvan as per http://www.tellychakkar.com/tv/features/5-reasons-why-sony-mix-s-raina-beeti-jaye-jashn-must-watch-all-music-lovers-160910.


The various characters in Singham Returns (with Kareena): https://komalsreviews.wordpress.com/2014/08/15/346/http://theladiesfinger.com/bechdel-testing-singham-returns/. Quotes from the same movie: http://www.filmyquotes.com/movies/692


Paresh Rawal's assistant in the movie Oh My God is Nikhil Ratnaparkhi. He was also there as one of the cooks in Cheeni Kum.

The lady who sings the song Aage bhi jaane na tu in the movie Waqt was Erica Lal.

Luxmi in Saala Khadoos was played by Mumtaz Sircar daughter of PC Sircar Jr.

The DGP in Singham is Pradeep Welankar.

Simonetta Stefanelli plays Apollonia, Michael's wife in Godfather.
Prakash Belawadi was George in Airlift.

The Tamil comedy balding actor with a Tirunelveli accent is Nellai Siva.

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