While stars take up the major part of our film screens, we often tend to look over the junior artistes who also contribute to the film. One such junior artiste has worked from Dilip Kumar to Shah Rukh Khan and Ranveer Singh. The artiste we are talking about has worked in 2500 films, however, he still failed to become a top hero.
He has been active in the profession for 56 years now and he is Aamir Lakdawala. Aamir Lakdawala revealed that he didn’t have much interest in studies and used to roam around Meboob Studio after missing school. Though he had worked as a child artiste in films in 1964, he got his first job as a telephone operator in Mehboob Studios.
While the first film there was being shot, he got an urge to act and then decided to work as a junior artiste. He then made his Bollywood debut as a junior artiste in the movie Boond Jo Ban Gaye Moti-starring Jeetendra. He played the role of a young boy in the film.
After this, he continued to star in films like Ram Teri Ganga Maili, Raj Kapoor’s Satyam Shivam Sundaram, Hare Rama Hare Krishna, Dilip Kumar’s Bairag and more. In an interview, the actor revealed that in his career of 56 years, he has done 2500 films and said, “If I sit down to count, I have not done less than 2,500 films so far. Small, passing roles, somewhere standing in a party, somewhere in a song.
I used to stand where I got money. At that time, I used to get eight rupees or ten rupees a day, but I had developed the habit of getting the money. I us.