NEW DELHI: (Nov 12) A man emerges from the shadows on a foggy evening, oil bottles in hand and the promise of a cure-all head massage, singing “Tel maalish, champi, tel maalish”… Johnny Walker was the actor, Mohammed Rafi the voice crooning that ageless song and Guru Dutt the director.
It has been almost 70 years since “Pyaasa”, the film that spun cinema magic. And even in that elegiac classic, Johnny Walker stood out in his cameo as the amiable, empathetic Abdul Sattar – his brand of warmth and good humour standing the test of the decades.
Born Badruddin Jamaluddin Kazi, Johnny Walker would have been 100 on Wednesday. The artist who redefined comedy and brought it out of the darkness into light with his exuberance, quite like the opening scene of his “Pyaasa” character.
Source: PTI News
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