Mother
India
Child
Actor
Sajid
Khan
Death:
Veteran
actor
Sajid
Khan,
who
is
popularly
known
for
playing
the
younger
version
of
Sunil
Dutt's
Birju
in
Mehboob
Khan's
classic
'Mother
India',
has
died.
He
was
in
his
early
70s
and
died
on
December
22
following
a
long
battle
with
cancer.
After
'Mother
India'
he
later
rose
to
prominence
with
international
projects
such
as
Maya
and
The
Singing
Filipina.
Actor
Sajid
Khan
passes
away
Acclaimed
actor
Sajid
Khan
passed
away
last
week
in
his
early
70s.
His
son
Sameer
informed
the
media
that
his
father
had
settled
in
Kerala
with
his
second
wife
and
was
battling
cancer
for
a
long
time.
"He
had
been
battling
cancer
for
a
while.
He
passed
away
on
Friday
(December
22)," the
actor's
son
Sameer
told
PTI.
Sajid's
son
further
told
PTI,
"My
father
was
adopted
by
Rajkumar
Pitamber
Rana
and
Sunita
Pitamber
and
fostered
by
filmmaker
Mehboob
Khan.
He
was
not
active
in
films
for
a
while
and
was
mostly
involved
in
philanthropy.
He
used
to
come
to
Kerala
quite
often
and
he
liked
it
here,
remarried,
and
settled
here."
The
actor
was
laid
to
rest
at
the
Kayamkulam
Town
Juma
Masjid
in
Kerala's
Alappuzha
district.
Sajid
Khan
works
Born
in
1951,
Sajid
Khan
started
his
acting
career
as
a
child
actor
with
the
1955
Oscar-nominated
film
Mother
India,
which
was
directed
by
his
father,
filmmaker
Mehboob
Khan.
Other
notable
works
of
the
actor
include
Son
of
India,
Maya,
The
Unmade
Films,
The
Singing
Filipina,
My
Funny
Girl,
Savera,
Mahatma
and
the
Mad
Boy,
Do
Number
Ke
Ameer,
Zindagi
Aur
Toofan,
Mandir
Masjid,
and
Dahshat,
some
of
which
were
internationally
acclaimed.
His
last
film
was
Heat
and
Dust
in
1983.
He
got
global
recognition
as
a
teen
idol
with
the
movie
Maya,
which
went
on
to
become
a
series.
Sajid
was
invited
as
a
guest
judge
on
the
music
show
It's
Happening
and
also
starred
in
an
episode
of
the
American
TV
show
The
Big
Valley.
The
actor
became
famous
in
the
Philippines
after
starring
in
films
like
The
Singing
Filipina,
My
Funny
Girl,
and
The
Prince
and
I
with
actor
Nora
Aunor.
The
late
actor
has
also
worked
with
many
prominent
personalities
in
his
career,
like
Nargis,
Alan
and
Maurice
King,
Dick
Clark,
Sally
Field,
Shashi
Kapoor,
the
Ramsey
Brothers,
Sal
Mineo,
R.D.
Burman,
Nora
Aunor,
Clint
Walker,
Jay
North,
Barbara
Stanwyck,
Merv
Griffin,
Donald
O'Connor,
Stu
Phillips,
Tina
Revilla,
Kiran
Kumar,
Yogita
Bali,
Nutan,
Ismail
Merchant,
and
James
Ivory.