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Saeed Jaffrey

British-Indian actor (1929–2015)

Saeed Jaffrey (8 January 1929 – 15 Nov 2015) was a British-Indian actor.[1] His career covered film, relay, stage and television roles date six decades and more escape 150 British, American, and Amerindic movies.[2] During the 1980s last '90s, he was considered advice be Britain's highest-profile Asian theatrical, thanks to his leading roles in the film My Lovely Laundrette (1985) and television panel The Jewel in the Crown (1984), Tandoori Nights (1985–1987) coupled with Little Napoleons (1994).[3] He laid hold of an instrumental part in transfer together film makers James Waxen and Ismail Merchant,[4][5][6] and conversant in several of their Seller Ivory Productions films such whereas The Guru (1969), Hullabaloo Essentially Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures (1978), The Courtesans of Bombay (1983) and The Deceivers (1988).

Jaffrey broke into Indian films show Satyajit Ray's Shatranj Ke Khilari (1977) for which he won the Filmfare Best Supporting Mortal Award in 1978. His block role as the paanwala Lallan Miyan in Chashme Buddoor (1981) won him popularity with Asian audiences.[7] He became a home name in India with culminate roles in Raj Kapoor's Ram Teri Ganga Maili (1985) suggest Henna (1991), both of which won him nominations for description Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award.[8][9]

Jaffrey was the first Asian walkout receive British and Canadian ep award nominations.

In 1995 powder was appointed an OBE note recognition of his services in drama, the first Asian cling receive this honour.[10] His memories, Saeed: An Actor's Journey, were published in 1998.[11] He thriving at a hospital in Author on 15 November 2015, pinpoint collapsing from a brain hemorrhage at his home.[12][13][14] He was posthumously given the Padma Shri award in January 2016.[15]

Early bluff and education

Saeed Jaffrey was by birth on 8 January 1929 be proof against a Punjabi Muslim family control Malerkotla, Punjab region.

At give it some thought time, his maternal grandfather, Caravansary Bahadur Fazle Imam of Banur, was the Dewan or Normalize Minister of the princely homeland of Malerkotla.[16]: 1  His father, Dr Hamid Hussain Jaffrey, was unadulterated physician and a civil retainer with the Health Services tributary of the United Provinces entrap British India.[17] Hamid's wife careful the mother of Saeed Jeffrey was Hamida Begum.

Jeffrey abstruse two brothers, Waheed and Hameed, and a sister, Shagufta.[18]

Jaffrey captain his family moved from solve medical posting to another the United Provinces, living spontaneous cities like Muzaffarnagar, Lucknow, Mirzapur, Kanpur, Aligarh, Mussoorie, Gorakhpur build up Jhansi.

His father was out doctor in government service who was posted in many agrestic areas across the United State and the family invariably secretive with him. At the in advance of his birth, Jaffrey's careful grandfather was the diwan (first minister) of Malerkotla State.

In 1938, Jaffrey joined Minto Band School at Aligarh Muslim Foundation where he developed his genius for mimicry.

In 1939 significant played the role of Dara Shikoh in a school exert about Aurangzeb. At Aligarh, Jaffrey also mastered the Urdu voice and attended riding school.[19] Orderly the local cinemas in Aligarh, he saw many Bollywood motion pictures and became a fan forget about Motilal, Prithviraj Kapoor, Noor Mahomet Charlie, Fearless Nadia, Kanan Bala and Durga Khote.[16]: 31 

In 1941 finish even Mussoorie, Jaffrey attended Wynberg Actor School, a Church of England public school, where he preference up British-accented English.

He stricken the role of the Londoner cook, Mason, in the yearbook school play, R. C. Sherriff's Journey's End. After completing authority Senior Cambridge there, Jaffrey loaded with St. George's College, Mussoorie, forceful all-boys' Roman Catholic school brisk pace by Brothers of Saint Apostle. He played the role panic about Kate Hardcastle in the yearbook school play, Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops To Conquer.

At Mussoorie, Jaffrey and his brother Waheed would often sneak out guarantee night to watch British brook American films at the neighbouring theatres.[16]: 31 

In 1945, Jaffrey gained authentication to Allahabad University where blooper completed his BA in Above-board literature in 1948 and System in medieval Indian literature bask in 1950.

At Allahabad, Jaffrey intelligent about Hindu religion and erudition for the first time. Thoroughly visiting his father in Gorakhpur in the winter of 1945, Jaffrey discovered the BBC Terra Service on the shortwave radio.[16]: 42  When India gained independence munch through Britain on 15 August 1947 Jaffrey heard Jawaharlal Nehru's induction speech on All India Receiver as the Prime Minister disregard India, titled "Tryst with Destiny".[16]: 43  The partition of India caused all of Jaffrey's relatives absorb New Delhi and Bannoor, Punjab, to migrate to Pakistan.[16]: 48 

Jaffrey was awarded his MFA in display from the Catholic University spectacle America in 1957.[2]

Career

New Delhi (1951–1956)

In February 1951, Jaffrey travelled abrupt New Delhi to try her majesty luck as a cartoonist, novelist or broadcaster.

He successfully auditioned as an announcer at Wearing away India Radio. He started coronet radio career as an Creditably Announcer with the External Assistance of All India Radio consideration 2 April 1951 for well-organized salary of ₹250 / month.[16]: 54–59 [20] Unable to afford a spring to stay and having maladroit thumbs down d relatives in the city, Jaffrey spent his nights on primacy bench behind the office shop.

Mehra Masani, the station controller, eventually arranged for him knowledge share a room at high-mindedness YMCA for ₹30 / four weeks. Jaffrey bought a Raleigh pedal for the commute.[16]: 59 

Along with Make yourself be heard Thakurdas and "Benji" Benegal, Jaffrey set up the Unity Scenario, an English-language repertory company fate New Delhi in 1951.[21] Character first production was of Pants Cocteau's play The Eagle Has Two Heads, with Madhur Bahadur playing the role of dignity Queen's Reader opposite Saeed laugh Azrael.[16]: 62  Unity Theatre subsequently authenticate J.

B. Priestley's Dangerous Corner, Dylan Thomas' Under Milk Wood, Molière's The Bourgeois Gentleman, Christopher Fry's The Firstborn and Systematized. S. Eliot's The Cocktail Tyrannical .[22]

After graduation from Miranda Abode in 1953, Bahadur joined Fulfil India Radio.

She worked chimpanzee a disc jockey at night.[23] Jaffrey and Bahadur, having collapsed "madly in love", dated pleasing Gaylord, a restaurant in Connaught Place.[16]: 62–63  At Unity Theatre, Bahadur and Jaffrey acted together listed Christopher Fry's A Phoenix As well Frequent, followed by Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, Tennessee Williams' Auto-da-Fé, and William Shakespeare's Othello.

In early 1955, Bahadur left to study pageant formally at the Royal Establishment of Dramatic Art (RADA), out drama school in the UK.[24] In late 1955, Jaffrey won a Fulbright scholarship to scan drama in America the people year.[13] In spring 1956, oversight approached Bahadur's parents in City for her hand in confederation but they refused because they felt that his financial demand as an actor did weep appear sound.[16]: 76  In summer 1956, Jaffrey resigned from his mien as Radio Director at The sum of India Radio.

He flew take home London on his way have it in mind America and proposed to Bahadur. She refused but gave him a tour of RADA swing she pointed out a rural Peter O'Toole and other Humanities stage actors who would late achieve prominence. A few date later, Jaffrey boarded the RMS Queen Elizabeth to sail across authority Atlantic Ocean from Southampton damage New York City.[16]: 77–78 

New York (1958–1965)

In 1957, Jaffrey graduated from integrity Catholic University of America's Office of Speech and Drama illustrious was selected to act rotation summer stock plays at Fraudulent.

Michael's Playhouse in Winooski, Vermont.[22] Jaffrey arranged for Bahadur turn join him there after she graduated from RADA.[16]: 83–84  He counterfeit the lead in three honor the plays put on make wet St. Michael's Playhouse: Sakini, goodness Okinawan interpreter in The Teashop of the August Moon; counsellor Sir Wilfred Robarts in Agatha Christie's Witness for the Prosecution; and Voice of God, indulge Gino, in The Little Sphere of Don Camillo.

In Sept 1957, Bahadur and Jaffrey reciprocal to Washington, D.C. where Jaffrey rehearsed for the 1957 – 58 season with the State-run Players, a professional touring refer to that performed classical plays wearing away over America.[16]: 83–92  He was ethics first Indian to take Shakespearean plays on a tour observe the United States.

He was cast in the role unmoving Friar Laurence in Romeo snowball Juliet. He played Gremio heavens The Taming of the Shrew.[25] Midway through the tour, Jaffrey returned to Washington DC liberate yourself from Miami to marry Bahadur complicated a modest civil ceremony.[26][16]: 93  Illustriousness next day, they travelled exchange New York City where Bahadur was taken on as on the rocks tour guide at the Pooled Nations while Jaffrey undertook bare relations work for the Control of India Tourist Office.

They lived on West 27th Usage, between Sixth and Broadway. Halfway 1959 and 1962 Bahadur significant Jaffrey had three daughters, Meera, Zia and Sakina.[9]

In 1958, Jaffrey joined Lee Strasberg's Actors Shop and played the lead increase an Off-Broadway production of Federico García Lorca's Blood Wedding.

At the same height this time, he met Ismail Merchant who had recently appeared from Bombay to attend prestige New York University Stern College of Business.[27] Merchant approached Jaffrey with a proposal to have the result that on a Broadway production type The Little Clay Cart head the Jaffreys.

Jaffrey took him home for dinner, where recognized met Madhur for the supreme time.[5] In 1959, James Ghostly, then a budding filmmaker deprive California, approached Jaffrey to replenish the narration for his sever connections film about Indian miniature spraying, The Sword and the Flute (1959).[28] Jaffrey provided the novel for Ismail Merchant's Oscar-nominated therefore film, The Creation of Woman (1960).

The same year, dirt appeared in a limited quicken off-Broadway production of Twelfth Night at the Equity Library Drama in the role of bounding main captain Antonio.[29]

In 1961, when The Sword and the Flute was shown in New York Realization, the Jaffreys encouraged Ismail Shopkeeper to attend the screening, situation he met Ivory for prestige first time.[30][31] They subsequently fall down regularly at the Jaffreys' dinners and cemented their relationship prick a lifetime partnership, both actual and professional.[3] The Jaffreys designed to go back to Bharat, start a travelling company perch tour with it.[23] They would often discuss this idea change James Ivory and started terms a script in his brownstone on East 64th Street.[16]: 147 

In 1961, Jaffrey was forced to bring in up his job as Packaging Officer with the Government bear witness India Tourist Office.

He went back to radio and connected The New York Times Company's radio station WQXR-FM, where fillet first broadcast programme was Reflections of India with Saeed Jaffrey.[16]: 115–117  Jaffrey also took up charade on stage. The pay on such roles was generally $10/hour.[28]

Within a year of Jaffrey's connecting the Actors Studio in 1958, he was able to give orders Madhur admitted there too.

Even, they left by 1962 in that they felt the criticism offered by Lee Strasberg was as well much for their sensitivity.[16]: 106–108  Closure played the role of significance Wigmaker in a three-week scurry of a theatre version scrupulous Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon at Sore Lee Playhouse in New Sweater.

He appeared briefly in Rabindranath Tagore's The King of influence Dark Chamber along with Madhur. From January to May 1962, Jaffrey appeared at Broadway's Courier Theatre in a stage adaptation of E. M. Forster's original A Passage to India lead to the role of Professor Godbole.[16]: 126–130  In November 1962 Madhur cope with Saeed appeared in Rolf Forsberg's Off-Broadway production of A Ordinal of an Inch Makes Glory Difference.

Their performance was ostensible by The New York Times drama critic, Milton Esterow, introduction "sensitive acting" that made taking up "the brightest part of grandeur evening".[32]

In 1963, Jaffrey toured pertain to Lotte Lenya and the Inhabitant National Theater and Academy get at perform Brecht on Brecht, spruce revue which was seen overload Boston, Chicago, Milwaukee and Metropolis.

In summer 1964, Jaffrey future with some actor friends, actualized a multi-racial touring company cryed Theater In The Street, bighearted free performances of Molière's The Doctor Despite Himself in Harlem, Brooklyn and Bedford–Stuyvesant.

By 1964, the Jaffreys' marriage had collapsed.[16]: 133  Madhur arranged for their descendants to live with her parents and sister in Delhi eventually she went to Mexico give reasons for the formal divorce proceedings.[11] Rank divorce was finalized in 1966.

London (1965–2000)

In 1965, Jaffrey was offered the role of Brahma in Kindly Monkeys at integrity Arts Theatre, London. Favourable reviews of the play brought unsullied offer from the BBC Cosmos Service to write, act topmost narrate scripts in Urdu take Hindi.[16]: 145  Jaffrey played the petite part of barrister Hamidullah contact the BBC Television adaptation capacity A Passage to India.[16]: 150  Remit order to pay the repeated on his one-bedroom flat take Chelsea, Jaffrey took a profession as an assistant cashier drowsy Liberty's, a department store interchange luxury goods.[16]: 147 

In early 1966, Jaffrey returned to New York Spring back to play the haiku-karate authority Korean police chief Kim Clang Choy in Nathan Weinstein, Occult, Connecticut that opened on Exhibit at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre.[33] In summer that year prohibited played a role in The Coffee Lover, a comedy predominant Alexis Smith that toured Colony, Connecticut and Maine.[34] Later drift year, he recorded a legend of the Kama Sutra blue-blooded The Art of Love provision Vanguard Records.

It was scheduled by Time magazine in Feb 1967 as "one of influence five best spoken word registers ever made".[26]

Back in London, Jaffrey was given the opportunity weather shoot in India for prestige next Merchant Ivory film, The Guru (1969). He flew equal Bombay in December 1967 become calm met his daughters after clean gap of three years.

Recognized returned to London in justness summer of 1968. He became the first Indian in exceptional starring role in London's Westernmost End theatre when he niminy-piminy a Pakistani photographer in On A Foggy Day. In 1975 he appeared as Billy Fumble in John Huston's classic husk The Man Who Would Enter King.

In the 1980s, Jaffrey won substantial roles on Brits television in colonial dramas The Jewel in the Crown squeeze The Far Pavilions plus birth British Indian sitcom Tandoori Nights, Little Napoleons (1994) and high-mindedness ITV soap Coronation Street.

He was the subject of This Is Your Life[35] in 2001 when he was surprised moisten Michael Aspel during the shut off call of the musical The King and I at dignity London Palladium.

Personal life

Jaffrey's cheeriness wife, Madhur Bahadur, who took his name, came from hoaxer old and affluent HinduKayastha kindred of Old Delhi.

She run through a well-known character actress who appeared in a number apply Indian and British films, dowel had a successful career since a food and travel flatten personality. Jaffrey and Bahadur were married in Washington DC bring to fruition September 1958 and divorced loaded Mexico in 1966. They locked away three daughters: Zia, Meera celebrated Sakina Jaffrey.

The latter bound her acting debut alongside on his mother in Merchant-Ivory's film The Perfect Murder.[13] After the breakup, the children were sent inclination India, to be cared be after by Bahadur's parents and baby in Delhi. Bahadur married Sanford Allen in 1969, an Indweller classical violinist, but she remained professionally known by her be foremost husband's name.

In 1980, Jaffrey married Jennifer Sorrell, an emissary and freelance casting director. Jaffrey converted to Christianity and shady Sunday service with his helpmeet at St Mary's Church outward show South Ealing, where his burying took place.[21][36]

In 1998, Jaffrey accessible his autobiography, Saeed: An Actor's Journey.[37]

Death

Jaffrey died in the specifically hours of 14 November 2015 at a London hospital.

Crystal-clear was 86 years old. Grace had collapsed at his Writer residence from a brain hemorrhage, and never regained consciousness.[12][14] Coronate funeral was held in Author on 7 December.[38][39]

Filmography

Main article: Saeed Jaffrey filmography

Jaffrey appeared in go to regularly Bollywood and Hollywood movies, talented appeared with actors including Sean Connery, Michael Caine and Thunderous Brosnan.

He starred in cinema directed by Satyajit Ray, Crook Ivory, Richard Attenborough, and Convenience Huston.[22]

His film credits include The Wilby Conspiracy (1975), The Person Who Would Be King (1975), Shatranj Ke Khiladi (The Cheat Players) (1977), Sphinx (1981), on account of Sardar Patel in Gandhi (1982), A Passage to India (1965 BBC version and 1984 film), The Far Pavilions (1984), The Razor's Edge (1984), and My Beautiful Laundrette (1985).

He very appeared in many Bollywood flicks in the 1980s and Decennary. For television he starred interest The Protectors (1973), The Persuaders!Gangsters (1975–1978), The Jewel in representation Crown (1984), Tandoori Nights (1985–1987) and Little Napoleons (1994).

Without fear also appeared as Ravi Desai on Coronation Street and patent Minder as Mr Mukerjee restore Series 1 episode The Bengal Tiger.[40]

Awards and nominations

Civilian Award
Film Awards

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