Bollywood Comedian ‘Jr Mehmood’ Succumbs To Cancer At 67 – FilmyVoice
Veteran Bollywood comic, singer, director and character actor Naeem Sayyed – popularly often called ‘Junior Mehmood’ – handed away after a protracted battle with most cancers, right here on Friday morning. Jr Mehmood had been admitted to the Tata Memorial Most cancers Hospital for remedy of abdomen most cancers and was on the trail of restoration at house.
His situation out of the blue deteriorated and he was placed on ventilator assist however didn’t make it by means of early right this moment.
Initially taken to hospital for a minor tummy ailment, it was later identified as abdomen most cancers within the last levels because it had unfold to the liver, lungs, with a tumour within the gut and complex by a bout of jaundice.
The funeral of Jr Mehmood shall be carried out this afternoon on the Juhu Muslim Cemetery, which a lot of Bollywood personalities are more likely to attend.
Beginning his movie profession as a toddler actor in ‘Mohabbat Zindagi Hai’ (1966), Jr Mehmood went onto work in over 250 movies in a number of Indian languages, apart from directing half a dozen Marathi movies and crooning a couple of songs.
He enacted massive and small roles with movies like ‘Naunihal’ (1967), ‘Brahmachari’ (1968), ‘Kati Patang’ and ‘Aan Milo Sajana’ (1970), ‘Caravan’, ‘Haathi Mere Saathi’, ‘Hare Rama Hare Krishna’ and ‘Jr. Mehmood in Hong Kong’ (all 1971), ‘Aap Ki Kasam’ and ‘Amir Garib’ (1974), ‘Geet Gaata Chal’ (1975), ‘Shehzade’ (1989), ‘Aaj Ka Arjun’ (1990), ‘Judaai’ (1997), ‘Journey Bombay to Goa’ (2007), and plenty of extra.
Jr Mehmood was additionally seen in character roles in tele-serials like ‘Pyar Ka Dard Hai, Meetha Meetha Pyaara Pyaara’, ‘Ek Rishta Sahjedari Ka’ and ‘Tenali Rama’ amongst others.
By the way, Sayyed thought-about the legendary comic Mehmood Ali as his ‘guru’ who bestowed on him the title of ‘Jr Mehmood’.
Throughout his spell of hospitalisation, scores of Bollywood personalities had referred to as on Jr Mehmood in hospital and expressed issues over his deteriorating well being.
