Anupam Kher's first marriage was done by friends in the house room in Lucknow

      Funkar of Lucknow shone in Bollywood .... is a Kashmiri Pandit and his father Mr. Pushkarnath Kher was a government clerk. He moved to Shimla from Kashmir in 1953. When Anupam Kher was born on 7 March 1955 at the Lady Reading Hospital in Shimla, the English nurse there told her mother, Mrs. Dulari Kher, to give me this child. At this, Dad strictly refused. He was educated at DAV College, Shimla. When he was in class nine, his tongue fell from a mountain and got injured by a stone. Due to which he became a parrot. He started speaking "A" to "T". Then he had a one-sided love with a girl. Whose name was Kavita Kapoor. Her first condition was that if Anupam took her right name, she would befriend her. Anupam did not succeed and broke his heart for the first time.

      Being associated with plays since college time, he thought of making a career in this field. There was poverty at home. Then an ad was published in the newspaper of the Department of Indian Theater of Punjab University, on selection of which a two hundred rupees stipend and one year contract with diploma. He stole hundred rupees out of eight hundred rupees kept in the house of worship and reached Chandigarh. When he returned home, the police came on the complaint of his mother that his hundred rupees had been stolen. Then one day my father asked that you had gone for a picnic the next day, where did you tell me right? Everything blew the truth. The mother slapped a loud. When the father also went ahead, he caught his ear that I would not do the drama, but the father gave a letter and said, "Go and do the drama. Mother said that my hundred rupees? 'Hey he will get two hundred rupees a month. Tere sau bhi will return. ”He met Kiran Singh Thakur (later Kiran Kher) in Chandigarh for the first time.

     Love sprouted in the mind, but remained in the heart. His sky was huge. Then he enrolled in the National School of Drama. He was very fond of Abraham Alkaji. Very few people would know that Anupam Kher did teaching at the Bharatendu Natya Kendra in Lucknow in 1979 after passing out NSD. During teaching, he used to share a room and cycle with one of his students, Miraj Alam. When the first pay was received, he bought a ladies bicycle. In this joy, Rovers had given ice cream to their special students in Hazratganj. Then the Bharatendu theater center was not in Gomti Nagar but in Ravindralaya. In those days he was doing the drama "Jewel's Girl", directed by Urmil Kumar Thapliyal. Dr. Anil Rastogi, secretary of Darpan Sanstha, had already said that we will not be able to pay. He was ready to play without money. But his The only condition was that he should not be stopped after 9 o'clock as his dhaba would be closed after that. One of his girlfriends from Delhi used to come to Lucknow to meet him.

    Then he used to live on rent in Krishna Srivastava's house in Alambagh. Here some of his friends Hemendra Bhatia etc. got them married. Then he came to live in Nirala city. But a few days later, a rich Hasina had a heart on him. Then he got a call from Bombay. He left his girlfriend and the drama in the middle. The girl's family got her married elsewhere and Dr. Anil Rastogi had to play a difficult role of Jew in the drama. He was befriended by Muzaffar Ali, a budding filmmaker from Lucknow. He was making a promotional film for Uttar Pradesh Sugarcane Seed Development Corporation, the name of the film was "Arrival". It is 1982. The film had actors like Saeed Jaffrey, Suresh Oberoi, Dilip Dhawan etc. The main lead role of the film was Anupam ji. Offered. They were waiting for their entry into films.

    The film, being a promotional film of the sugarcane department, could not do anything amazing. But the film aroused confidence in Anupam. Walked to Bombay. After straggling for two years, he again got the film 'Saransh', directed by Rajeshree Production's Mahesh Bhatt, in which he himself was to play a sixty-year-old retired Marathi manush, whose son died abroad, despite being 28 years old. Goes and his bones have to be brought home. He got many awards for this role ... His car started running. Now Lucknow station was missed in his path ...

     There were heaps of film offers. But most of the rolls were of the old man. He turned down most of the roles, fearing that the old man would not be imprinted. Among the films that came to his account and which showed the depth of his acting were 'Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron ",' Khosla Ka Ghosla", 'Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge ",' Fear", 'Naagin ",' Robbers", ' Son ", 'Shola and Shabnam",' Khel ", 'Trinetra",' Ram Lakhan ", 'Tridev",' Karma ", 'Misal",' Kaho na pyar hai ", 'Daddy",' I did not Gandhi Mara ", 'A Wednesday",' Dil Hai Manta Nahin ", 'Something Happens",' Veer Zara ", 'MS Dhoni",' Lamhe ", 'Suryavansh",' The Accidental Prime Minister " He played the roles of comedian, character role and villain in more than 500 films including Punjabi, Malayalam, English, Marathi and Gujarati and Hindi.

     In addition to working in Hindi films, he has also appeared in several acclaimed international films, such as the Golden Globe category nominated - 'Bend it like Beckham "(2002)", Ang Lee's Golden Lion winning' Lust-Caution "(2007 ), And David O. Russell's Oscar-winning "Silver Linings Playbook" (2012). He received a BAFTA nomination for his supporting role in the British television sitcom 'The Boy with the Top Not "(2018). Subsequently, he did TV shows such as' Kuch Na Kehna ',' Anupam Uncle", 'Saval ten crores' ", 'Lead India", and' Anupam Kher Show - Anything Can Happen ". He made his directorial debut with the film 'Om Jai Jagdish "(2002) and was a producer. He produced and starred in the film' Maine Gandhi Ko Nahi Mara" (2005). He received the Best Actor Award from the Karachi International Film Festival for his performance ....

     Not only this, he served as the chairman of the Central Board of Film Censors in India. On 31 October 2018, he resigned as the chairman of the Indian Film and Television Institute India (IFTII), citing his work on the American television show "New Amsterdam", which he had joined a year earlier. Bhatendu was the chairman of the Natya Academy for three years from 1999. Then between 2001 and 2004 he was the director of the National School of Drama.

     The Government of India honored him with the Padma Shri in 2004 and the Padma Bhushan in 2016 for his contribution in the field of cinema and art. Winner of two National Awards and 8 Filmfare Awards. Anupam ji got divorced from Madhumalati and Kiran Kher got divorced from her husband. Both of them married a son from his first marriage, Sikander Kher, is also involved in films and father's acting school in Bombay and Dubai. .

      One of his plays is 'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai' which is based on some of his life's events that were to be staged at Darpan's Golden Jubilee in Lucknow in 2010. Dr. Anikal Rastogi, secretary of Darpan Sanstha, says that his staff said That their fee is five lakhs. Later they got ready for one lakh due to desire to do their play in Lucknow. Fifty thousand advance was sent. When the play was over, the remaining fifty thousand were paid when they were I got a call and had to cancel a drama, telling lack of money. Anupam Kher ji said, you forget my fifty thousand and call that drama.

     # Premendra Srivastava