A. K. Hangal
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A.K. Hangal or Avtar Kishan Hangal was an actor of Indian Hindi films.He was born in 1922 in what is today Pakistan, after the Partition of India , Hangal moved to Bombay .He was involved with the theatre along with Balraj Sahni and Kaifi Azmi,both of whom had Marxist leanings . He started his Hindi film career with Basu Bhattacharya's Teesri Kasam in 1963
His own favourites are the roles he played in Sholay and Shaukeen. In movies he has played a very large number of character roles, mostly positive.
In 1993 he had applied for a visa to visit his birthplace in Pakistan, and the embassy invited him to Pakistan day celebration. Shiv Sena leader Bal Thackeray took offence and there was a talk of a boycott and having his scenes removed from films. Bal Thackeray clarified a year later that he had not asked for a boycott and roles started coming back to Hangal. He worked in 126 films.
He had one son, and after the death of his wife, he lived alone in his flat in Santa Cruz, Mumbai
[edit] External links
- A.K. Hangal at the Internet Movie Database
- V Gangadhar. The genial revolutionary. Rediff.com.
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