Saeed Jaffrey
Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Saeed Jaffrey OBE (1929 - 2015) was an Indian-born British actor, who made numerous British movies. He was born in Malerkotla, Punjab. His film credits included The Man Who Would Be King (1975), Shatranj Ke Khiladi (The Chess Players) (1977), Gandhi (1982), A Passage to India (1965 BBC version and 1984 film) and My Beautiful Laundrette (1985). He also appeared in many Bollywood films in the 1980s and 1990s. For television he has starred in Gangsters (1975–1978), The Jewel in the Crown (1984), Tandoori Nights (1985–1987) and Little Napoleons (1994). He also appeared as Ravi Desai on Coronation Street as the father of Vikram Desai, the cousin of Dev Alahan and in Minder (TV series) as Mr Mukerjee in Series 1 episode The Bengal Tiger. Description above from the Wikipedia article Saeed Jaffrey, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born: January 8, 1929
Place of Birth: Maler Kotla, Punjab, India
Known For
Jaanoo
A young woman angers her wealthy father by falling in love with a television repairman.
Gangsters
Birmingham is a melting pot of races and every community has a stake in the city's underworld. When former SAS officer John Kline is released from prison after serving a sentence for murder, he becomes the unwilling catalyst in a gang war. Movie screened as part of Play of Today.
Angrakshak
Ajay leads a life as a gangster and is known for his short-temper which made him mercilessly murder a man named Ramesh for falling in love with his sister Asha. Years later Ajay takes up employment as a bodyguard to a politician Satyendra Pal Choudhary's daughter Priyanka alias Priya; only to find himself trapped in a world of deceit, lies, politics and crime.
Tamas
Based on the novel by Bhisham Sahni, Tamas is an epic drama set against the backdrop of riot-stricken North India on the eve of Partition in 1947. Nathu, an outcast, is hired to kill a pig, whose carcass he’s later appalled to find in front of the mosque. A riot follows and, ridden with guilt, Nathu takes his ailing mother and pregnant wife and leaves town.
Animated World Faiths
Animated World Faiths tells the stories of the world's major faiths and their founders. Gloriously animated in studios in India, Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary and the UK, these programmes have been produced by a team of the worlds best childrens television producers.
Hisaab Khoon Ka
Suraj and Anupriya are about to get married, but tragedy strikes when Ánu is killed. What was the motive behind this killing?
On Wings of Fire
Maestro Zubin Mehta introduces the history of Zoroastrianism and prophet Zarathushtra in an epic that covers 3500 years of the Zoroastrians, Parsees of India.
Mashaal
Vinod Kumar, an honest man, tries to expose the malpractices of influential politician-cum-gangster, SK Vardhan through his newspaper, Mashaal. A chain of events changes Vinod's life - from an honest journalist to a gangster.
Aulad
Believing his wife to be dead, a man lets a woman, who has lost her child, nurse and bring up his infant son - until he finds out that his wife is still alive, and wants the baby back at any cost.
Aaina
Roma (Amrita Singh) leaves Ravi (Jackie Shroff) at the alter in pursuit of her bigger ambitions. Her sister Reema (Juhi Chawla), a pale reflection of Roma, steps in and saves the day for her family, having secretly been in love with Ravi all her life. The newly weds start building a life together till suddenly Roma returns, determined to get back what she thinks Reema stole from her.
Filmography
as Vikram Verma
as C. P. Chopra
as Self
as The Great Gazuka
as Akram Malik
as Ibrahim
as Mr. Basmati
as Sonia's father
as Dharamdas Bajaj
as Arjun's Father
as Komal's Father
as Colonel Sadanand Dhongre
as Mardana (voice)
as Chander Nandkishore Kapoor Sharma
as Mr. Sahay
as Madanlal "Madan" Kapoor
as Rai Bahadur - Raja's & Ramesh's father
as Inspector General of Police
as Mr. Sahni
as Roshanlal
as Madadgar
as Vicky's Father (as Saeed Jafrey)
as Bhanu
as Pooja's dad
as Ramakant Sahay
as Ranvir Singh
as Prakash's uncle
as Nat Prabhakar
as Father
as Khamtruel Rimpoche (voice)
as Vijay Shah
as Bhanupratap Saigal
as Mohammad Ali Jinnah
as Police Commissioner
as Colonel Choudhry
as SP Pratap Solanki
as S. J
as Mr. Mathur
as Suryakant Gujral
as Rai Sahib
as J.B.
as Police Commissioner
as Mr. Mehra
as Seth Din Dayal
as Khan Baba
as Amir Khan
as Mr. Mehra
as Shakuntala's Father
as Ram Prasad
as Vidya Charan
as Chacha
as Jas
as Vishwannath
as Master Dinanath
as Masterji (Guest Appearance)
as Police Commissioner Arun Kashyap
as Hussein
as Mr. Patel
as Inder Sen Gujral
as Karim Khan
as Defense Advocate
as Brij Bhushan Saxena
as Yakub Saeed
as Anand's chacha
as Karamat
as Jadav Rana, the Hindu King
as Pinto Ustad
as Lala Dayaluram
as Shastri
as Nasser Ali
as Kunj Bihari
as Mr. D'Silva
as Rajhan
as Hamidullah
as Narrator
as Raaz
as Ram Kishen
as Zahoor Ahmed
as Biju Ram
as Kishorilal
as Ahmed Ali Gaffur Kasim Bahadur, the Nawab of Mirat
as Lalaji
as Major Agarwal
as Suri
as Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
as Rana
as Lalan Mian
as Prime Minister
as Selim
as Frankie Bhoolabhoy
as Saeed
as Mukerjee
as Taj
as Dr Kunzru
as Servant (uncredited)
as Sri Narain
as Patel
as Merchant
as Gurjeet Singh Khera
as Mir Roshan Ali
as Aslam Rafiq
as Billy Fish
as The Doctor
as Anil Mukerjee
as Rafiq
as President's Aide
as District Chief
as Gurjeet Singh Khera
as Merchant
as Rafiq
as Ameen
as Murad
as The Pitch-Man
as Mr Hamidullah
as Mr. Hamidullah
as Sunil Seth
as Circus Worker
as Narrator
as Narrator (voice)
as Narrator