Asrani

Asrani

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Asrani Biography

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Date of Birth

1 January 1941, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

Birth Name

Govardhan Asrani

Mini Biography

He was born in a middle class Sindhi family. His father migrated to Jaipur after the Partition of India and opened a shop selling carpets. He has four sisters and three brothers: two elder and one younger. Asrani was highly uninterested in business and very weak in mathematics. He completed his matriculation from St. Xaviers School and did his graduation from Rajasthan College, Jaipur. He simultaneously worked as a voice artist on All India Radio, Jaipur, to pay for his education. His ultimate aim was to become an actor.

He began to learn acting from Sahitya Kalbhai Thakkar from 1960 to 1962. In 1962, he traveled to Bombay (now Mumbai) and began to seek opportunities to act. In 1963, Hrishikesh Mukherjee advised him to learn acting professionally. In 1964 Asrani joined the Film Institute in Poona (now Film and Television Institute of India, Pune) and finished his course in 1966. He impressed many others and made his acting break in 1967 with a Gujrati movie opposite budding actress Waheeda (not Waheeda Rahman; the Hindi actress). He acted in four other movies, mainly as actor or supporting actor in Gujrati from 1967 to 1969. His debut film in Hindi was Hare Kaanch Ki Chudiyaan where he appeared as Biswajeet's friend. This role set the tone for a number of supporting or comic roles like Abhimaan (supporting), Chala Murari Hero Banne (comedy), Chupke Chupke (comedy), Choti Si Baat (comedy) or his most remembered role, as the jailer in Sholay. He acted in Khoon Pasina, marking a serious role other than comedy. He was hugely talked about in the 1970s and is one of Rajesh Khanna's close friends.

In the 1980s, he acted in over 50 films. Most of his roles were very minor mainly because the concept of a comedian was getting phased out and heroes preferred to do their own comedy. During this period in 1982, he set up a small Gujrati production company with fellow artistes Dinesh Hingoo, Harish Patel and Salim Parvez (son of famous supporting actor Yunus Parvez). The company dissolved in 1996 with a large profit. Asrani also invested mainly in cloth and acted as investor for other actors, until 1991 when he lost a lot of money. From 1988 to 1993, he was a director for the Film Institute in Pune. The 1990s and 2000s saw Asrani in a number of blockbuster films like Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikander, Hera Pheri, Chup Chup Ke, Hulchul and Deewane Huye Pagal. He was an integral part of comedies by Sajid Nadiadwala or Priyadarshan, but his roles are very minor and he has a very short screen space. Asrani has acted in over 300 films over the last 35 years and also in close to 150 Gujrati films