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The grand old man of Bollywood, Avtar Kishan Hangal aka AK Hangal has passed away in Mumbai on Sunday morning.
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Mr. Hangal was born into a Kashmiri Pandit family, and spent his childhood in Peshawar.
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AK Hangal was an active participant in the Indian freedom struggle, and moved to Bombay after the Partition of India in 1949 after spending 3 years in prison in Pakistan.
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He started his Hindi film career at the very late age of 50 with Basu Bhattacharya's Teesri Kasam in 1966, and went on to play the quintessential meek and oppressed old man in innumerable Hindi movies.
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His most notable roles are as the Inder Sen in Shaukeen, as Bipinlal Pandey in Namak Haraam, as Rahim Chacha in Sholay and as Ram Shastri in Aaina (1977). He has acted in around 225 Hindi films in a career spanning from 1966 to 2005.
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