Javed Khan Amrohi

Character actor: Nukkad's barber, Lagaan's commentator · 1949–2023

Javed Khan Amrohi, born on 24 March 1949, was a theatre man for life: from 1972 an actor, director and general secretary of the Indian People's Theatre Association. Television made him famous before films did, as the barber Karim in the late-1980s serial Nukkad. He is Chandu in Naram Garam (1981), played Anand Akela, one of the suitors, in Andaz Apna Apna, and appeared in Lagaan (2001). His last role brought him back to an old one: in Sadak 2 (2020) he reprised Pakya from the 1991 original, Sadak. He died on 14 February 2023.