EK PYAARA SA PARINDA UDD GAYA FALAK KO PAAR KAR JANNAT KO HASAANE KE LIYE ...

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By Team Bollyy
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JAGDEEP “It is no joke to be a comedian”
 Ali Peter John
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Sometimes it takes  just  a  moment  or a few  moments to  see   the heart  and the soul of a man....I was  at  the Dr.Barfiwala's Maternity Home  where  my daughter was born  on March 31,1983 .I was  walking  around  not knowing  what  to  do  with  my  time  as her  mother  was  under  anaesthesia and the-one day old baby  was  asleep  or  that is what I thought. After all, it was my first experience of being  the father of a daughter.
I was still wondering what to do when  I saw the veteran and respected comedian (even at that time I asked myself why they brand very good actors as comedians and villains)Jagdeep walking towards me .He greeted  me  and  asked me what I was doing there. I told him about the birth of my daughter  . He was thrilled and asked me to take him to see  the  mother and  child. He blessed both and asked me if I  needed any kind of help.That one gesture made  by Jagdeep thirty seven years ago stayed on in my mind and will say on.....
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I had several short and long meetings with him and every time I  looked  beyond his eyes and saw something very soft and sensitive about him which I felt was being hidden behind the mask he had to wear as a popular comedian who had no redemption and couldn't  be  saved from the life  he was I think forced by circumstances to  live as a comedian all his life.
It was  the  third "Screen "awards and we were going to honour all the  male and female comedians of the industry and I was to  contact all the comedians to  participate in the event. When I  met  Jagdeep , he didn't  ask me any question after  I told  him about the event. He said ,"just give me the venue,date and what time you want me to be there and I will be there ". I was very  happy for him when he got  the  kind of applause I had not expected. He was  as popular as Mehmood at the function.
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He once told me a very interesting and emotional story.He was  completely broke and had a family  to  support. He decided to go  and meet  the  well-known film maker K.Asif and  ask him for help. He walked all the way to  Asif's house and met  Asif and told him about his plight. Asif himself  was  in dire straits, but  he  did not let  Jagdeep know  about the  conditions in his own house.
He walked up to a place where he had his clothes and  took out  whatever money  he had and gave it all to Jagdeep ,even as his family looked at him with all kinds of feelings which told the true story about their financial condition and the large-heartedness of K.Asif, the  man  who  put  all his money and   his life  and thirteen of  his best  years in the making of "Mughal-e-Azam "....
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I use to meet  him regularly  during the time he was directing  "Soorma Bhopali ".
I could see that he was not really happy directing a film  and there was an unexplainable sadness in his eyes. It could be many of the reasons why he never tried directing a film again. He had  done  hundreds of films  ever since he started his career as a child artist, but it was according to me a tragedy that he was  only recognised for the bit role he played  as Soorma Bhopali in "Sholay ".....
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If Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru could appreciate Jagdeep's  talent, if Bimal Roy could see a bright future for him as an actor, if K.A.Abbas could recognised his talent and if many years later Rajkumar Santoshi could find in  him the actor who would add that touch  of glory to his film, if audiences of five generations could find  in him an actor who brought happiness into their lives, Jagdeep must have been some one very special, a talent that was great and a gem of a  human being....
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Then, why was Jagdeep always relegated to a  place  which he  should not have found his place in ? Why did the Industry not try to find out the true worth of the actor in him  ?
These are just two of  the  many  questions about  Jagdeep that will hover in the air asking for answers. And if  there is one man who will not wait for the answers it will be Jagdeep who has  now  flown to  hopefully a  better  world where he will find the recognition which he didn't find in this world.
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