Feroz Khan R.I.P.
Swashbuckling stylish actor – director Feroz Khan passed away on Sunday. Many of his movies have been discussed on PFC including most his bringing the cowboy to India capers. Feroz started his career in B grade movies and quickly progressed to the top playing in such movies like Safar and Aadmi aur Insaan for which he won… the best supporting actor Filmfare. It was in Apradh that he debuted as a director, followed by the highly stylish, Godfather influenced, Dharmatma, where he showed his visual genius – the buzkashi scene is one of the best ever to be captured on camera in Indian cinema (done decades later in Mukul Anand’s Khuda Gawah). As if in Dharmatma, Feroz found his groove, he followed it up with the biggest hit of his career… Qurbani. It was virtually impossible to get a ticket to Qurbani in the first few weeks of its release.
In Qurbani, Feroz Khan can also be credited with bringing Disco to Hindi cinema and making it popular. With an amazing eye for visuals and cinematography and a great ear for music, he was instrumental in bringing in many talented artists to cinema including the late Nazia Hassan and Biddu.
But for the avid movie watcher, who’s followed the 70s and 80s Hindi cinema, Feroz Khan will hold a special place in their hearts for the crazy cowboy rides he provided in such movies as Khhotte Sikkay, Geetaa Mera Naam, Kala Sona, Shankar Shambhu and so many more.
PFC offers its deepest condolences on the passing away of the Style Badshah of Bollywood, Feroz Khan. May his soul rest in peace.
Further Reading: Feroz Khan : Abhee hum zinda hain by RK
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Feroz Khan was someone who ushered in style like never before in Hindi Cinema.May his soul RIP>
His Qurbani divided India in to two definite parts. On one side were kids, dying to watch the film because everywhere Aap Jaisa Koi, Laila mein Laila etc were played and on other side of the fence were parents pleading, scolding, manouvering their kids not to insist on watching the film as according to them FILM WAS AN ADULT FILM. On top of this they themselves were not able to go to watch it.
Zeenat Aman was the biggest villain (or vamp) for kids that year as because of her presence in the film kids were kept deprived of watching the film.
But Qurbani got stuck in mind and years later many people, who were not allowed at the time of its release, saw it by travelling to a neighbour city where it was shown in a newly construcuted A/C cinema hall.
Qurbani keeps a special place in the lives of kids of 70s and 80s.
A maverick..God is now lucky to have him up there…
That seems so cool:-D
May our desi cowboy keep his hat on, in style, always.
R I P
this is a befitting tribute to the man – http://specials.rediff.com/movies/2009/apr/27pic1-the-man-that-was-feroz-khan.htm
thanks raja sen!
Abhi hum zinda hain
your last memento from welcome
and your aura and persona will remain zinda in our hearts forever.
We will always remember you for your style and for the kind of music you gave
har kisiko nahin milta yahan pyar for the heartbroken and jo tumko ho pasand wohi baat for the possessive lover will be there.
I still remember when qurbani was released the price of tickets sold in black was the highest of those times,unheard of.I still remember having paid in black to see qurbani.
We will miss you and
Your sense of dressing,the scarf,bandana,we will definitely miss you sir.
Your famous picture of Dharmatma with the fingers touching your lips I am sure will be copied in movies to come.
We pray for You .May You rest in peace and God give your family courage to face this sad moment of truth.
With condolences to the Khan family
From Me and my group of friends
AK Thakur
Does anyone know that Qurbani was a copy of the Kirk Douglas-Giuliano Gemma movie ‘A Man to Respect?’
When I saw the movie, I was taken aback by the uncanny resemblance of some of the actors – Kirk somehow reminded me of Feroz Khan. The actress (forget her name), looked like Zeenat and even the cop resembled Amjad Khan in some ways! Of course, Giuliano doesn’t look like Vinod Khanna at all. Looks of actors aside, Qurbani was almost a frame to frame copy, except for the ending. In Kirk’s movie, the friendship between him and Gemma goes from worse to worst and Gemma is finally klled by him, unlike the Hindi version where Vinod ’sacrifices’ his life for Feroz.
For a copied product, Feroz Khan, I must admit, did a smart job. Hell, he even copied a scene from Jean Paul Belmondo’s ‘The Burglars’ – the scene where he escapes in the back of a dumper truck full of boulders and gets dumped, along with the rolling boulders, down a mountain.
Even if Feroz Khan wasn’t such an original, man, did he have style! He used to one of my favourites i the 70s and 80s. Qurbani impressed me a lot and I was one of the first in line to watch Jaanbaaz first day, first show. But…that was a major disappointment. hated the movie and then onwards, his movies never held any interest for me. Indeed, the only time I saw him again in a film was Welcome, and I wasn’t expecting his entry. So it was quite a surprise when he came on screen.
He lived life king-size, I must say. Something tells me his son, Fardeen, who hasn’t been much of an actor, may take to direction and surprise us. I wouldn’t write him off yet. Not after I’ve seen Ben Afleck being almost written off, before he coming back with a bang directing ‘Gone Baby Gone’.
Pardon all my spelling/grammatical mistakes in the earlier post, please. (Must be this unbearable heat)
@Mohanlal
Not sure about Qurbani, but i do know that Jaanbaz was a copy of “Duel in the Sun” with Gregory Peck, playing the role of the rich playboy, which Anil Kapoor did in the desi version.
The movie was nicknamed as “Lust in the Dust” due to its pretty bold scenes, well even Jaanbaz had some too, especially that roll in the haystack between Anil Kapoor and Dimple.