Career
He was a popular character actor in the 1940sā1970s and acted in over 120 Bollywood films, like Gunga Jumna (1961), Shaheed (1965) and Victoria Number. 203 (1972). He was the son of singer-turned director Jaddanbai and, thus, maternal half-brother to noted actress Nargis Dutt and Akhtar Hussain, whose daughter Zahida Hussain was also a film actor.