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Veteran actor Saeed Jaffrey, who gave stellar performances in over 100 Bollywood movies spanning over five decades, including classics like 'Shatranj Ke Khilari' (1977), 'Masoom' (1982) and 'Chashme Buddoor' (1981), also left his mark in Hollywood and British movies. He was posthumously given the Padma Shri award in January 2016. Jaffrey is also the first Indian to receive the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for his contributions to drama. Jaffrey wrote an autobiography, 'Saeed: An Actor's Journey' (1998).
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Saeed Jaffrey was born to a Punjabi Muslim family in Malerkotla, Punjab, on January 8, 1929. Khan Bahadur Fazle Imam, Saeed's maternal grandfather, was the Dewan (Prime Minister) of the princely state of Malerkotla. His father, Dr Hamid Hussain Jaffrey, was a physician and a civil servant with the Health Services department of the United Provinces of British India. The family moved from one medical posting to another within the United Provinces, living in cities like Muzaffarnagar, Lucknow, Mirzapur, Kanpur, Aligarh, Mussoorie, Gorakhpur and Jhansi.
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Saeed joined Minto Circle School at Aligarh Muslim University in 1938, where he developed his talent for mimicry. In 1939, he played the role of Dara Shikoh in a school play about Aurangzeb. Jaffrey also mastered the Urdu language and attended riding school. He saw many Bollywood movies at the local cinemas in Aligarh and became a fan of Motilal, Prithviraj Kapoor, Fearless Nadia, Noor Mohammed Charlie, Kanan Bala and Durga Khote.
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Saeed picked up British-accent English at Wynberg Allen School, a Church of England public school in 1941 at Mussoorie. After completing his Senior Cambridge there, he attended St. George's College—an all-boys Roman Catholic school run by Brothers of Saint Patrick in Mussoorie. Jaffrey and his brother Waheed often sneak out at night to watch British and American films at the local theatres. Saeed played the role of the Cockney cook, Mason, R. C. Sherriff's Journey's End and played the role of Kate Hardcastle in the annual school play Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops To Conquer.
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Saeed gained admission to Allahabad University, where he completed his BA in English literature in 1948 and MA in medieval Indian literature in 1950. At Allahabad, Jaffrey learned about the Hindu religion and mythology for the first time. While visiting his father in Gorakhpur in the winter of 1945, Jaffrey discovered the BBC World Service on the shortwave radio. When India gained independence from Britain on August 15, 1947, Jaffrey heard Jawaharlal Nehru's inaugural speech on All India Radio as the Prime Minister of India, titled "Tryst with Destiny".The partition of India caused all of Jaffrey's relatives in New Delhi and Bannoor, Punjab, to migrate to Pakistan.
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