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Sajid Khan, Child Actor Who Played Younger Sunil Dutt In ‘Mother India' Dies After Long Battle With Cancer
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.
