Farrukh Jaffer, Gulabi Sitabo's Sassy Begum is at the height of her 87-year career, where you saw her earlier Farooq Jafar of Gulabo Sitabho has previously worked in films like Peepli Live, Sultan, The Photograph, Swades and others.

Farrukh Jaffer, Gulabi Sitabo's Sassy Begum is at the height of her 87-year career, where you saw her earlier.

Farooq Jafar of Gulabo Sitabho has previously worked in films like Peepli Live, Sultan, The Photograph, Swades, and others.

Very few actors in the late 80s may have a career-high, but Farooq Jaffer is one such miracle. The 87-year-old Shyog Sircar's Gulabo is the heart of Sitabo. She plays the role of Begum armed with her witty comeback and infectious smile forever.

But Gulabo Sitabo is not his biggest or only big-screen presence. He also played important and memorable roles in Nawazuddin Siddiqui's The Photograph, Irrfan Khan's The Lunchbox, Shah Rukh Khan's Swades, and Raghubir Yadav's Peepli Live.

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HT City traced his journey from "the first female Vividh Bharati announcer on the radio" to become a lead actor in 87.

To shape

Farooq walked slowly from his room with his stick and sat on his comfortable couch. He then smiled and asked the first question, "Kahe se hai hai?"

Answering the same question, he said, "I have lived in Lucknow Naya 'my whole life, away from the old city - Hazratganj, 40-years in Lawrence Terrace and now Gomti Nagar ... tab se man nothing!"

He joined radio in 1963. I don't know why people address me as the first female radio announcer. I was the first when Vividh Bharati station started in Lucknow. With Parveen Talha and one Sinhaji, we were elected in the first lot. I worked in All India Radio until 1966 and again in 1970. I was the most senior announcer there, but in Delhi, I did not like '. Jaffer was an A1 class announcer, even though he had no formal training.

However, he left all this for personal reasons. "Kuch Gharelu issue ... Therefore, I had to go to my mother to sort things in my Nanihal (Nana-Nani's house) in Chakesar (Jaunpur)." She quit the radio and became busy with family and life.

Her husband was a freedom fighter and journalist. He ventured into politics and was an MLC twice. He has two daughters, Mehru Jaffer (a writer) and Shaheen.

Farukh played the role of Rekha's mother in Umrao Jaan, a role that landed on her lap from anywhere. "We had a help-mouthed Kaka who spoke in a (rustic '(rustic) dialect. He called on family members with the names' Kariya', 'Bachwa', 'Banman' and so on. In a private gathering, Someone ru ru Farrukh bi, woh aqka mulzim what does he speak? ’And I started to explore in my own specific style (a mixture of Bhojpuri and Jaunpuri dialect). Muzaffar (Ali), who was also there, listening to this from the balcony Was, and he came and offered me the role. "

"It was like someone threw a bomb at me! In my family, even men did not watch movies and he was asking me to work in one. Thankfully, my family is very progressive and has always supported me in everything I do. I liked the role and I agreed to work. "

Inspired by life, Farukh wrote his own dialogues for films. “Just talk about jumlas. Woh Ek samay tha, ek joonoon th ... ab bi yahi kafiyat rihti hai script ho, dialogue honors, and we speak (it's just a play of words. It was a different time and passion ... but even today, there is hunger. For scripts, for dialogues, and that I stare at them)! "

He also worked in the TV shows Husn-e-Jaana, Adha Gaon, The Shawl, and Neem Ka Paid.

On the other hand

He made a comeback almost 23 years after his debut in Swades (2003), Peepli (Live), Amma Ki Boli, Barefoot to Goa, Parched, What People Say, Sultan and Secret Superstar. “I have always tried to improve the dialogues on the spot. One piece of my own life experiences is enough to accept me and my directors by adding them, ”she says.

She has worked with all three Khans - Salman Khan, Aamir Khan and Shah Rukh Khan - and is adored by them. "During the Sultan, Salman and Anushka's wedding scene, I blessed him saying that he could get married soon, to which he said with a laugh," Such bad-dua mat divide ... Kabi - Sometimes speaking is said to be true (don 'curse me like this ... Sometimes, spoken words become true). "