Amjad Khan

  Amjad Khan(51) was an Indian actor and director.He was born on 12 November 1940 in Adezai,a small village in Peshawar,British India.He acted in over 130 films in his twenty years career.His first role was in the movie Nazneen(1951).He is popularly known for his role of Gabbar Singh in the movie Sholay(1975).This movie was the most successful movie of the century.His role in Sholay was an iconic one.He acted in such a brilliant way that it is not wrong to say that the his acting dominated over the roles of other actors in the movie.The most famous dialogue of Amjad Khan was "kitne aadmi the?",which meant, "How many men were there?"In 1986,Amjad Khan had a near-fatal accident on the Mumbai-Goa road, when he drove his car into a tree while trying to avoid a boulder. The drugs administered to him caused a serious weight problem for the rest of his life. As a result of his increasing weight, he died in 1992 after suffering from heart failure at the age of 52.