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Aghajani Kashmeri

Aghajani Kashmeri
Aghajani kashmeri portrait.jpg
Born Syed Wajid Hussain Rizvi
(1908-10-16)16 October 1908
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
Died 27 March 1998(1998-03-27) (age 89)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Occupation Screenwriter, Urdu Poet
Years active 40 years
Spouse(s) Khursheed Kashmeri (neé Kazi)
Children Zuhair Kashmeri and Sarwar Kashmeri

Syed Wajid Hussain Rizvi (Urdu: سيد واجد حسین رضوی, Hindi: सैय्यद वाजिद हुसैन रिज़वी, (16 October 1908 – 27 March 1998), better known by his Bollywood film name, Aghajani Kashmeri (Urdu: آغاجانی کشمیری, Hindi: आग़ाजानी कश्मीरी) or Kashmiri (Urdu: کشمیری, Hindi: कश्मीरी), also Agha Jani and Aga Jani, was an Indian screenwriter, former actor and Urdu poet.

Kashmeri was born on 16 October 1908, in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India. He ran away from home in his late teens to star in an early Bollywood film, Shan e Subha (variously listed as Shan e Subhan and Shane Subhan), which was being shot in Rangoon. In part, he was inspired by his first cousin, Nawab Kashmiri, also of Lucknow, the best-known character actor in early Indian cinema, with hits such as Yahudi ki Ladki (Daughter of the Jew), in which Nawab played an elderly Jew. Subsequently, Aghajani returned to Calcutta, did bit roles and a few lead roles, two of them opposite Begum Akhtar. Two of the movies he acted in were Miss Manorama and Anokhi Ada, both in the 1930s.


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