Mahmood was the comedy king of Hindi film industry, sometimes used to sell toffees in local train

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Mahmood, who made the audience laugh and tickled for nearly five decades with his unique style, gesture and voice, achieved the status of King of Comedy in the film industry, but he had to face a lot of struggle and even heard that he could neither act nor become an actor.

Mahmood, who was established as a comedian from a child artist, was born on 29 September 1932 in Mumbai. His father Mumtaz Ali Bombay used to work at Talkies Studio. Mahmud used to sell toffees in local trains running between Malad and Virar to meet the economic needs of the house. From childhood, Mahmud’s trend was towards acting and wanted to become an actor.

Due to the recommendation of his father, Mahmood got the opportunity to play the childhood role of actor Ashok Kumar in Bombay Talkies’s film Kismet in 1943. Meanwhile, Mahmood learned to drive the car and started working as a driver at Gyan Mukherjee as he used to get a chance to go to the studio every day with the owner where he could see the artists closely.

The star of Mahmud’s fate shone when a junior artist could not speak his dialogue even after ten consecutive retakes in front of actress Madhubala during the shooting of the film Nadan. Film director Heera Singh gave this dialogue to Mahmood to speak, which he made OK at once without retake. In this film, Mahmood received Rs 300 as a driver, while Mahmood used to get only 75 rupees a month. After this, Mahmood left the work of driving and registered his name in the Junior Artist Association.

As a junior artist, Mahmood made small roles in films like two bigha land, Jagriti, CID, Pyaasa which did not benefit him much. Meanwhile, Mahmud gave a screen test for the film Miss Mary to be made under the banner of A.M.M. But the A.M.M banner failed Mahmud in the screen test. A.MM’s opinion about Mahmud was such that he could never act nor become an actor.

Meanwhile, when Mahmood went to his relative Kamal Amrohi to ask for work in the film, he even told Mahmood that you are the son of actor Mumtaz Ali and it is not necessary that the son of an actor can also become an actor. You do not have the ability to act in films, if you want, you can do some different business by taking some money from me.

Anyone can be disappointed to hear such a thing and can say goodbye to the film industry, but Mahmood took this thing as a challenge and continued to work with new Josho Kharosh. Soon Mahmud’s hard work paid off and he got a good role in the film Parvarish released in 1958. In this film, Mahmood played the role of Raj Kapoor’s brother. After this, he got an opportunity to work in LV Prasad’s film Chhoti Sister which proved to be an important film for his cine career.

Mahmood got 6 thousand rupees as a remuneration in the film Chhoti Sister. After the success of the film, Mahmood as an actor succeeded in making his mark in the film industry. In the year 1961, Mahmud got M.V. Prasad got an opportunity to work in the in -laws. After the success of this film, as a comedian Mahmood succeeded in making his mark in the film industry. Her pairing in the film Sasural was well liked with actress Shubha Khote.

It was in 1961 that Mahmood produced his first film Chhota Nawab. Along with this, through this film, Mahmood gave R.D. Burman was introduced for the first time in the film industry as a musician. To avoid uniformity in his character, Mahmood introduced himself in a different role. In this sequence, the name of the film Padosan released in the year 1968 comes first.

In the film Padosan, Mahmood played a negative role and was successful in looting the applause of the audience. In the film, a song filmed on Mahmood became very popular with a clever narrow. Various forms of Mahmud’s performance in the film Humjoli released in the year 1970 were seen by the audience. In this film, Mahmood played a triple role and attracted the attention of the audience.

Mahmood was awarded the Filmfare Award three times in his cine career. On 23 July 2004, by showing his acting in about 300 films in his five -decade long cine career, Mahmood became an end to this world forever.