Career

He made over 1000 film appearances between the 1930s and 1997. Sports In the 1940s, along with Sohrab Bhoot, he founded the Cycling Federation of India Jankidas was suffering from a heart ailment for a substantial period of time but was discharged from the local hospital two days before his death. He died of cardiac failure at his Juhu residence on Wednesday 18 June 2003.

He was 93.

Achievements

• In May 1996, he was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award given by the Indian Motion Pictures Producers" Association.

Membership

Jankidas served as the only Indian member of the International Olympic Committee at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin and the only Indian to have broken the world record in cycling between 1934 and 1942.