KADER KHAN BIRTHDAY SPECIAL: His mother's two words “Tu Padh” changed Kader Khan's life

His family had to leave Afghanistan due to political and personal reasons and since then it has been a long journey crossing borders, obstacles, and barricades! It was a very arduous journey with no destination but the Khan family somehow landed in Bombay with no money to buy a nice house or have two proper meals! His father eventually settled in a field that Kader Khan could not even imagine when he looked at life. The house his father rented was in the middle of Kamathipura, known as the red-light area of ​​Bombay! There were rampant prostitution and gambling dens and local breweries and bars around every corner! There used to be fights of the most dangerous kind at all times of the day and there were young men who were originally trained as mechanics, drivers, or men who did odd jobs but they were not interested in using their skills and spent all their time Used to spend. In doing such things which were related to crime and torture. This area was considered so risky that even the policemen refused to intervene in the frequent crimes happening in different parts and chawls of the area. It was in this background that little Kader Khan was brought up. To add to the Khans' misery, the father and mother who had regular fights decided to separate and circumstances forced Kader Khan's mother to marry again and the man she married was not a good man. They had no interest in doing anything and little Kader Khan had to go to his father who was living far away and wait for him the whole day to borrow two rupees! He came back after walking and bought some rice, some pulses, and kerosene oil with two rupees. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner were possible only when Kader Khan returned home with the ingredients needed to cook anything. This was a life that his mother had accepted and Kader too had accepted.

Kader was sent to a primary school, memories of which he shuddered at. He saw all his friends working in nearby junk shops and cloth shops where boys could earn three to four rupees a day! Kader was going to school when some of his friends stopped him and told him not to waste his time in all this 'studying' and to join them in the work they were doing. Kader threw his school bag on the bed and joined the boys! He was going down when he felt a soft and in his little shoulder! It was his mother who told him that she knew where he was going and why. He asked him to go back and get his bag and go to school. Kadar could never forget those two words of his mother, Shtu padh.Tu padh. He remembered that his mother had told him that she would take up all the challenges and responsibilities of the house and her only interest in life was to see her son get educated. He sometimes compared his mother to the Hindu god Shankar who according to myth had the power to swallow all the poisons in the world and like many other men who came up the hard way and became big names and admired the courage of their mothers. Deni Kadar also considered his mother as his friend, philosopher, guide, and even his goddess.

Kader began his studies mainly due to his mother's advice and became one of the most educated persons in the area and his community and was a qualified engineer! He could have done some other job but he discovered Kader Khan within himself! He loved observing life and people and there were times when he would sit inside an Israeli sanatorium and recap everything he saw throughout the day and imitate the men and women who looked at him during the day. Had made some impact. This crazy act was seen by a certain person who was one of the actors who had worked in Mehboob Khan's Shrotis and even helped him get some very small roles in which he played alongside some of the best and most established actors of that time. Used to steal scenes from.

As time passed, he started writing and acting in plays. His regular stage was Sabu Siddiqui Auditorium (he also studied in the same college). He soon became a popular name in the theater circle and one of his plays, 'Stash Ke Patte' became so popular that it even aroused the curiosity of Dilip Kumar who completely surprised Kader Khan one day when he congratulated him over the phone. ! On the success of the play, he expressed his desire to see more plays. How could Kader Khan say no to the man whom he had always idolized ever since he knew what cinema was. The actor watched the play on the conditions that Kader had laid down before watching the play. He was deeply impressed by the play and especially Kader's performance. Immediately after the play, Kader Khan could see how shaken he was after watching the entire play, which he rarely did. That same evening, he offered Kader Khan important roles in two films, 'Gina Mahtosh' and 'Bairag', in which he had three roles. Kader showed how good he could be in films and also had the experience of working with Dilip Kumar which made him see the influence of Dilip Sahab.

Kader Khan always said that he was blessed when success came because success always came to him and he never had to go in search of success. Her popularity reached the famous director Narendra Bedi who was making a film titled 'Shjawani Deewani' with Randhir Kapoor and Jaya Bhaduri. He called Kader to the office of Ramesh Bahl, the producer of the film. He told Kader that he wanted him to write dialogues for the film. Kader asked for a narration and then drove all the way to Nariman Point in his lumberyard and wrote the entire film's dialogue in four hours and came back to the office. Bedi and others felt that he was very excited to get the assignment and had gone a little crazy. Kader Khan was serious and told him that he had come up with the entire dialogue of the film. The group was very excited by what they heard and they were inspired to go ahead with the shooting of 'Shjavani Deewani' and it was the dialogues which were one of the reasons for the film becoming a hit. Bedi continued to have Kadar as the dialogue for all the two films she made with Amitabh Bachchan in 'Benamash' and 'Adaalat' with Amitabh but this time in a dual role. 

The industry had awakened a new dialogue writer who could also be a good actor. Manmohan Desai was making Shrotish with Rajesh Khanna and Mumtaz. He called Kader and told him what he wanted in his film. He said that he did not want any Shayari or poetry or philosophical language of any kind in the film and said that he would tear out the pages he had written if they were full of "nonsense" by which he meant all the high and flowery kinds of language and If he lives up to their expectations, he will be put in charge.

Kader took a train to Churchgate and wrote the dialogues in Shrotish among the boys playing football and cricket in the cross grounds and went back to Manmohan Desai who lived in Khetwadi and liked to play cricket with the street boys of the area. . They were surprised and a little worried as to why Kader had come back so soon. In those days, dialogue writers sometimes took months to sit in five-star hotels to write dialogues for a film and Manmohan Desai knew this. When he was shocked, Kader told him that he had brought the complete dialogues of Shrotish. Manmohan was in a state of confusion but still he asked Kader to come to his house and then asked him to read the dialogue written by him. 'Man Jish, who was like an excited child, asked Kader to read the dialogue and he jumped with joy! He did not know how to express his feelings to Kader but he had made up his mind to take Kader Khan as the dialogue writer for all his films and kept his promise. 

Soon it seemed that there was only one successful dialogue writer in the industry and he was also an actor who could play any kind of role without any effort. He increased his prices, had many assistants working with him and did not allow anyone to change what he had written. And the producers accepted them without any questions with all the conditions given.

The South wave had taken over the Hindi film scene and next to Jeetendra who was the most wanted hero for the producers of the South, it was Kader Khan as a dialogue writer with an important role to play he is now the highest-paid writer. He was sometimes writing five or six films a day and had assistants who would carry the pages on which he wrote his dialogues and go to wherever a unit was shooting the film. He sometimes wrote a few lines that were urgently required on air tickets with which the assistants flew off and went to the places where films were being shot for producers in the South and for his favorites like Prakash Mehra and Manmohan Desai. He never dreamed of such success but as he said, success always came to him.

But just like every rise has a fall, similarly a fall awaited Kader Bhai too! South had stopped producing Hindi films. His mentors Prakash Mehra and Manmohan Desai were losing touch as their films were flopping. Kader Bhai thought of investing his money and hence started a shopping mall in Holland with his son in charge. This grand experience also fell on his beautiful face and Kader Bhai was suddenly shaken by the shock of the same life which had once given him everything. He decided to produce films and the first artistic films he made were an unmitigated disaster. His biggest shock came when he contacted Amitabh Bachchan for whom he had written dialogues for some of his best films. He asked Amitabh to work for him in a film called 'Jahil' but Amitabh did not show the enthusiasm that Kader had expected. The film was expected to start on three different dates given by Amitabh but each time the plan had to be abandoned due to some reasons given by Amitabh.

Kader Bhai who started a one man revolution, Kader Bhai who gave a new dimension to dialogue writing, Kader Bhai who introduced the language of the common man in Hindi films. The Kadar Bhai who gave a new lease of life to actors like Amitabh Bachchan, Shakti Kapoor, Asrani, Prem Chopra, and even Pran only to find success was now a broken man. His career had reached a new low. He was losing on all fronts and eventually fell seriously ill with a disease for which no doctor anywhere could find a cure. Eventually, he decided to go on his Hajj pilgrimage, and videos of his journey showed him as a very seriously ill man who could not even walk on his own. This was the beginning of many rumors about his death which mostly turned out to be false. But he ultimately died in Canada and expressed his wish to be buried in Canada and not to have his body taken to Mumbai, a decision that reflected how angry, disillusioned and disappointed he was with life. Were.

I wonder what dialogue he would have written for himself when he saw the worst times of his life then at his peak and finally when no one cared about him or his work unless he had to tell the world this He didn't have to die. It had a price.

Mother is that power who knows life better. Mothers did not have to read books to become a mother. Mother is a mother and she knows everything. That is why it is said that if there is anyone after God, it is the mother.