Feroz Khan (actor)

Feroz Khan
Born (1939-09-25)25 September 1939[1]
Bangalore, Kingdom of Mysore, British India
(now in Karnataka, India)
Died 27 April 2009(2009-04-27) (aged 69)
Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Nationality Indian
Other names Clint Eastwood of India
Occupation Actor, film editor, producer, director
Years active 1959–2007
Spouse(s) Sundari (1965–1985)
Children 2, including Fardeen Khan
Relatives Sanjay Khan (brother)
Akbar Khan (brother)

Feroz Khan (25 September 1939 – 27 April 2009) was an Indian actor, film editor, producer and director in the Hindi film industry. He was popular for his flamboyant style, with cowboyish swagger, and cigar-toting persona; this revolutionised the style quotient of the otherwise conventional "filmi" hero. He is known as the "Clint Eastwood of Bollywood" for introducing Western cowboy & dacoit style films.[2]

He appeared in over 51 films in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, and became one of Bollywood's popular style icons.[3][4][5]

Feroz Khan is best remembered for his films Safar (1970), Mela (1971), Upaansna (1971), Apradh (1972), Khotte Sikkay (1974), Kala Sona (1975), Dharmatma (1975), and Qurbani (1980). Later he directed and acted in more films such as Janbaaz (1986), Dayavan (1988), Meet Mere Man Ke (1991), Yalgaar (1992), Janasheen (2003) and Welcome (2007). [5][6] He won the Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award for Aadmi Aur Insaan in 1970, and was honoured with the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000.[7]

Early life

Feroz Khan was born on 25 September 1939 in Bangalore, India, to an Afghan immigrant.[8][9][10] His father belonged to a Tanoli tribe of[11] Pashtun[12] ethnicity from Ghazni province of Afghanistan[13] while his mother was of Iranian ancestry.[9]

Khan was educated at Bishop Cotton Boys' School, Bangalore and St. Germain High School, Bangalore. His brothers are Sanjay Khan (Abbas Khan), Shahrukh Shah Ali Khan, Semir Khan and Akbar Khan. He is Tanoli by caste. His sisters are Khurshid Shahnavar and Dilshad Begum Sheikh, popularly known as Dilshad Bibi. After his schooling in Bangalore, he traveled to Mumbai where he made his debut as second lead in Didi in 1960.

Career

Through the early 1960s and 1970s, he made low-budget thrillers opposite starlets. In 1962, he appeared in an English-language film titled Tarzan Goes to India opposite Simi Garewal. His first big hit was in 1965, with Phani Majumdar's Oonche Log (1965), where he was pitted against screen idols Raaj Kumar and Ashok Kumar; he gave a notable sensitive performance. It was followed by more small budget hit films like Samson, Ek Sapera Ek Lootera and Char Darvesh.[14][15] Again, in the same year, he played a sacrificing lover in the mushy musical Arzoo, starring Sadhana. With this, Khan started to receive A-list second leads. With the film Aadmi Aur Insaan (1969), Khan won his first Filmfare award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. His other hit films were Khotey Sikkay, Geeta Mera Naam, Pyasi Sham, Shankar Shambhu and Safar. He appeared alongside his real-life brother Sanjay Khan in the hit films Upaasna (1967), Mela (1971) and Nagin (1976).

He became a successful producer and director in 1971 so as to improve his career opportunities as a leading man with his first directorial film Apradh, which was the first Indian movie showing auto racing in Germany; Mumtaaz was his co-star. He produced, directed and starred in the 1975 film Dharmatma, which was the first Indian film to be shot in Afghanistan and was also his first blockbuster hit as producer, director and star and marked the appearance of actress Hema Malini in a glamorous avatar.[16] This movie was inspired by the Hollywood film The Godfather.

Throughout the late 1970s and 1980s, he was a leading Bollywood star, directing and starring in many of his films. He also starred in the Punjabi film Bhagat Dhanna Jat (1974). The 1980 film Qurbani, with Zeenat Aman, was the biggest hit of his career and launched the singing career of iconic Pakistani pop singer Nazia Hassan, with her memorable track "Aap Jaisa Koi".[15] In 1986, he directed and starred in Janbaaz, a box office hit,[17] which some consider to be one of his best movies, featured an all-star cast and possessed great songs and excellent cinematography. In 1988, he directed and starred in Dayavan, which was a remake of an Indian Tamil film titled Nayakan. After directing and starring in Yalgaar (1992), he took a long break from acting for 11 years.

He launched his son Fardeen Khan's career with the 1998 film Prem Aggan, which, however, was a box office bomb. In 2003, he made his acting comeback as well as produced and directed Janasheen, which also starred his son Fardeen. He always used performing animals in his films — a chimpanzee and lion were used in Janasheen — but People for Animals (PFA) Haryana chairman Naresh Kadyan filed a complaint in the court of law at Faridabad for animal cruelty and legal action as per law against the producer, director and actor.

He starred alongside his son again in Ek Khiladi Ek Haseena (2005) and made his last film appearance in Welcome (2007).

In May 2006, Feroz Khan was blacklisted by then Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf when he went there to promote his brother's film, Taj Mahal. In an intelligence report submitted to Musharraf, he was said to have gotten drunk and insulted Pakistani singer and anchor Fakhr-e-Alam and to have criticised the country, saying:

I am a proud Indian. India is a secular country. The Muslims there are making lot of progress unlike in Pakistan. Our President is a Muslim and our Prime Minister a Sikh. Pakistan was made in the name of Islam, but look how the Muslims are killing Muslims here.

Pakistan's high commission in India and the foreign and interior ministries were subsequently directed to deny Khan a visa in the future.[18]

Personal life

Feroz Khan married Sundari Khan in 1965, but divorced in 1985. They have two children, Laila Khan (born 1970) and Fardeen Khan (born 1974). Fardeen is married to Natasha Madhwani, daughter of former Bollywood actress Mumtaz.

Death and funeral

He died from lung cancer on 27 April 2009 at the age of 69. During his illness he returned to rest at his farmhouse in Bangalore.

He was buried in Bangalore near his mother's grave at Hosur Road Shia Kabristan.[19]

Awards and nominations

Filmography

Actor

Year Film Character
1960 Didi
1962 Main Shaadi Karne Chala
Reporter Raju Rajkumar
Tarzan Goes to India Prince Raghu
1963 Bahu Rani Vikram
1964 Suhagan Shankar
Char Dervesh Qamar Bakht
1965 Teesra Kaun Prakash
Oonche Log Rajnikanth
Ek Sapera Ek Lootera Vijay Pratap Singh
Arzoo Ramesh
1966 Tasveer Shyam
Main Wohi Hoon Vijay
1967 Woh Koi Aur Hoga Gopal
Raat Aur Din Dilip
CID 909 Raju/CID 909
Raat Andheri Thi Anil
Aurat Anand
Aag Shankar
1968 Nadir Shah Nadir Shah
1969 Pyaasi Shaam Ashok
Aadmi Aur Insaan Jai Kishan/JK
1970 Safar Shekhar Kapoor
1971 Mela Shakti Singh
Ek Paheli Sudhir
Upaasna Ram
1972 Apraadh Ram Khanna
1973 Kashmakash Satish
1974 Kisan Aur Bhagwan Shyam
Khhotte Sikkay Dilbar
Geeta Mera Naam Raja
Bhagat Dhanna Jatt Ramu
Anjaan Raahein Aanand
International Crook SP Rajesh
1975 Rani Aur Laal Pari Gulliver
Kaala Sona Rakesh
Aaja Sanam Dr. Satish
Dharmatma Ranbir
1976 Sharafat Chod Di Maine Raju
Qabeela
Shanker Shambu Shambu
Naagin Raj
1977 Jadu Tona Dr. Kailash
1978 Darindaa Rajesh
1980 Chunaoti Vijay
Qurbani Rajesh Kumar
1981 Khoon Aur Paani Ram Singh
1982 Kachche Heere Dilbar
1986 Janbaaz Inspector Rajesh Singh
1988 Do Waqt Ki Roti Shankar
Dayavan Shankar Waghmare
1991 Meet Mere Mann Ka Thakur Pratap Singh
1992 Yalgaar Rajesh Ashwin Kumar
2003 Janasheen Saba Karim Shah
2005 Chitappa Raman
2006 Ek Khiladi Ek Haseena Jahangir Khan
2007 Om Shanti Om Feroz Khan
Welcome RDX/Ranbir Dhanraj Xaka

Director

References

  1. ↑ "Light a Candle". Gratefulness.org. Retrieved 2017-04-17.
  2. ↑ "Focus On: 100 Most Popular Male Actors in Hindi Cinema". Retrieved March 2, 2018.
  3. ↑ "Feroz Khan". The Daily Telegraph. London. 27 April 2009. ..one of Bollywood's biggest stars; with his swagger and tough-guy styling he was compared to American leading men like Clint Eastwood or Steve McQueen.
  4. ↑ Feroz Khan, the ultimate trendsetter of Bollywood buried Press Trust of India.
  5. 1 2 'Feroz Khan was an Indian style icon' R G Vijayasarathy in Bengaluru, Rediff.com, 27 April 2009.
  6. ↑ Bollywood actor Feroz Khan dies BBC News, Monday, 27 April 2009
  7. ↑ Bollywood's style icon Feroz Khan is dead The Economic Times, 27 April 2009
  8. ↑ "Feroz Khan". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 2012-11-02.
  9. 1 2 France-Presse, Agence (April 29, 2009). "Feroz Khan, Bollywood Actor, Dies at 69". The New York Times. Retrieved 2012-08-23.
  10. ↑ Bharati, Dubey (April 28, 2009). "Feroz Khan". The Times of India. Retrieved 2012-11-02.
  11. ↑ Fayaz Hakimi (18 March 2014). "Feroz Khan father is from Afghanistan Biography of Feroz Khan" – via YouTube.
  12. ↑ name=timesofindia>"'A legend and a true Pathan'". The Times of India. April 28, 2009. Retrieved 2012-08-23.
  13. ↑ "Feroz Khan laid to rest in Bangalore". Mangalorean.com. 29 April 2009. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014.
  14. ↑ "Review: Blast from the past: Oonche Log (1965)". The Hindu. Chennai, India. 1 May 2009.
  15. 1 2 Feroz Khan lived life king size The Times of India. 27 April 2009.
  16. ↑ Feroz Khan was the only man who called me baby: Hema Malini Archived 30 April 2009 at the Wayback Machine., Hindustan Times, 28 April 2009.
  17. ↑ "Far removed from Feroz's films". The Hindu. Chennai, India. 1 December 2003.
  18. ↑ "Musharraf says 'No Entry' to Feroz - Latest News & Updates at Daily News & Analysis". 19 May 2006.
  19. ↑ "Fareed Khan, Zayed Khan and Sanjay Khan at Feroz Khan's funeral". The Times of India.
  20. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 4 June 2014.
  21. ↑ "Lifetime Achievement (Popular)". Filmfare Awards. Archived from the original on 12 February 2008. Retrieved 14 December 2010.
  22. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 12 August 2011. Retrieved 4 August 2011.
  23. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 6 September 2011. Retrieved 2011-11-14.
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