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अमिताभ ने खुद इस बात का खुलासा किया था कि
जब उन्होंने शोले की स्क्रिप्ट पड़ी तो उन्होंने डायरेक्टर से कहा कि वह गब्बर का
किरदार करना चाहते हैं. लेकिन रमेश सिप्पी ने उन्हें जय के किरदार के लिए चुना.
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Javed Akhtar did not want Amjad Khan to become
Gabbar, this thing was disliked:
The first thing that comes to mind as soon as you
hear or read the name of Amjad Khan, is that he played his classical character
Gabbar Singh in Sholay. This one character made him very popular.
Ajmad Khan was born on 12 November 1940 in Peshawar (now
Pakistan). He is known more as the villain of the screen. But he also performed
character roles and immortalized the characters with his brilliant acting.
The story of Amjad Khan getting Gabbar's role is
interesting. Actually, this role was first offered to Denny. But he could not
do it because of his earlier commitments. After this, when the name of Amjad
Khan was considered, the writer of the film Javed Akhtar was not persuaded. He
did not like Amjad's voice. Somehow later he agreed. The dialogues of the film
in Amjad Khan's heavy voice played an important role in making the film
popular.
Amitabh himself had revealed that when he read the script of
Sholay, he told the director that he wanted to play Gabbar. But Ramesh Sippy
chose him to play Jai.
Amitabh Bachchan knew Amjad Khan very closely. Amitabh told
how Amjad was so fond of tea that you cannot count how many cups of tea he used
to drink during the shoot. One of his tea and another was his joke, these two
things had a special place in his life.
Amjad Khan was very fond of Ghazals and Urdu poetry. He
often used to decorate ghazals on the roof of the bungalow in his Bandra. There
were also a lot of discussion in the offscreen chemistry of Amjad Khan and
Amitabh Bachchan. The two were extremely close to each other and the pair were
also seen on shooting sets. Amitabh had told in an interview that Amjad used to
call him Shorty as a joke. Amitabh told that when he and Amjad Khan walked
together on the sets, people used to call him Shorty (Amitabh) and Broad
(Amjad).
Amjad Khan died at the age of 51 from a heart attack. But a
major accident happened due to this heart attack. Actually, when Amjad was
going from Mumbai Goa-highway to shoot for the film The Great Gambler, then his
car accident happened on the way.
This accident was so terrible that he went into a coma.
After some time, he came out of coma but after this accident his weight started
increasing and finally in 1992 he died due to heart failure.
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