Mallika Sherawat’s Father Is A Driver

Like Sanjay Dutt, his chauffeur Prasad also loves to act. Having been part of the Dutt household for ages (he has been driver to Sanjay’s mother Nargis as well as to his sister Priya during her student days), he feels some of the acting skills of his boss have rubbed on to him.
To fulfill his wish, the star made him act out one scene in Double Dhamaal with full costume and make-up. His co-star was Mallika Sherawat and though he had to play her father, he was absolutely thrilled!
Says a unit source, “They told him to act like a typical Hindi film dad. It was an emotional scene with MS pleading with him, but he remaining adamant.
And then suddenly, he is overcome with pain and suffers a heart attack.”
Adds the source, “It was Sanjay who requested director Indra Kumar to take Prasad for the scene.
He even helped him to memorise his lines. Even though it was not in the script given to Mallika, the actress agreed to do the scene as Indra told her that some extra emotional naatak was needed.”
Explains Indra, “As our film is a comedy, Sanju approached me to let Prasad do a prank act with Mallika.
So I narrated the scene and she got ready to enact it. But while doing the scene, Prasad said something really funny to her and she was taken aback.
Sanjay burst out laughing. The film is full of pranks played on each other, off-screen as well as on-screen!”
Prasad’s scene might not remain in the final edit of Double Dhamaal but if it does Dutt will be laughing the loudest! Source
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Aamir Khan’s Gift To His Father

Flashback: Between 1969 and 1994, a producer who was always inevitably struggling launched 12 films, many of which didn’t exactly set the boxoffice on fire. Fast forward to June 2011: The beleaguered producer’s son decides to buy the perpetual rights to 11 of those films for a few crore, more in a fit of nostalgia and less with commerce in mind. Such a transaction wouldn’t raise too many eyebrows in the big stakes environs of Bollywood. Except that in this case the son buying the perpetual rights is a certain Aamir Khan. The producer is the late Tahir Hussain who died last year at age 71.
Ironically, the one film whose rights are in dispute and therefore not with Khan is one in which he stars, called ‘Hum Hain Rahi Pyaar Ke’. “My father was not a top-notch producer like say Yash Chopra or Gulshan Rai. As kids, we have seen really close the lows of his films failing really close,” says a dewy-eyed Khan. Memories of those times still make the emotions well up inside Khan.
In the absence of corporate and institutional finance, almost all producers borrowed money from the market at ridiculously high interest rates. Business wasn’t Hussain’s forte; that apart, long delays in the completion of films and a string of turkeys at the box-office resulted in a Domino Effect on the Khan family.
Khan recalls his and his brother’s name being up on the school notice board for as many as six months for non-payment of fees. His mother, he adds, would make their uniforms three sizes too large so that they would last longer. “The toughest times were during `Locket’ (starring Jeetendra and Rekha, 1986), which took eight years to complete, or even earlier — ‘Khoon Ki Pukar’ (1978) which took three years. Actors troubled him with dates and there would be at least 30 calls a day from creditors calling for their money,” recalls Khan. Calling up farflung theatres across the country for collections is a vivid, if painful, memory as the figures were invariably imminently forgettable. Hussain for his part did give breaks to a lot of young talent like Reena Roy, Rakesh Roshan , Raj Babbar and Bappi Lahiri, among others.
The rough road his father traversed would explain why Khan avoided wearing the producer’s cap for years.
“It’s a thankless job because after employing an entire unit you get all the brickbats for things going wrong; and when the film becomes a hit, the creative talent gets all the credit, never the producer,” says Khan. The reality, he adds, is that if it hadn’t been for the producer, the creative talent would not have got an opportunity. Source
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