Veteran actor Kader Khan, who died yesterday at the age of 81, was not only a prolific actor but also an acclaimed screenwriter.
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Belonging to the Canadian-Afghan origins, he was not only talented but also quite intelligent.
Amitabh Bachchan shared a tweet for his well-being a few days ago, telling the public that he used to teach math. And indeed, he had been a professor of Civil Engineering in M. H. Saboo Siddik College of Engineering, Mumbai.
We all know what an amazing actor he was and have seen quite a lot of him on screen. His off-screen achievements, however, have remained hidden more often than not.

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Kader Khan’s debutant film as a screenwriter was Roti, and it was Rajesh Khanna who gave him this break, and us, a wonderful screenwriter. Later on, he wrote Rajesh Khanna’s dialogues for the movies like Mahachor, Chailla Babu, Dharam Kanta, Fiffty Fiffty, Naya Kadam, Masterji and Nasihat, and many more. (Source: Wikipedia)
He also wrote dialogues for the films of Jeetendra and also worked in the field of writing with the big names like Manmohan Desai and Prakash Mehra, writing for the Amitabh Bachchan starrers.
The movies for which he did screenwriting include Dharam Veer, Gangaa Jamunaa Saraswati, Coolie, Desh Premee, Suhaag, Parvarish, and Amar Akbar Anthony, Jwalamukhi, Sharaabi, Lawaaris, Muqaddar Ka Sikandar. (Source: Wikipedia)
Kader Khan also wrote dialogues for the hit movies like Satte pe Satta, Mr. Natwarlal, Agneepath, and Naseeb.
Even the movies produced in South India demanded him to be their screenwriter between 1982 and 1995.