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A.K. Hangal or Avtar Kishan Hangal was an actor of Indian Hindi films. He was born in 1917 in Sialkot, Pakistan. Still going on with his historic life, he is now 92 years old. The government of India awarded prestigious padma bhushan for his contribution to Hindi cinema in 1996. A tailor by profession, he was an active participant in the Indian freedom struggle. His childhood spent in Peshawar, where he had performed in theatre for some major roles. However his primary occupation for the early part of his life was that of a tailor. Following his father's retirement, the family shifted from Peshawar to Karachi. He moved to Bombay after the Partition of India in 1949 after a 3 year prison in Pakistan. He was involved with the theatre group IPTA along with Balraj Sahni and Kaifi Azmi, both of whom had Marxist leanings. He started his Hindi film career at the very late age of 49 with Basu Bhattacharya's "Teesri Kasam" in 1966, and went on to play the quintessential meek and oppressed poor man in innumerable Hindi movies. In movies he has played a very large number of character roles, mostly positive.His own favourites are the roles he played in "Sholay" and "Shaukeen". 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. What actually happened is that I read Life and Times of A.K. Hangal. Cool! This was a nice copy past...well! it doesn’t matters....what actually matters is the person who is about 60 years older than me and still much more cheerful................