Serial Actor Satish Shah
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New Document Satish Shah himself Place: Mumbai Satish did his schooling and college in Mumbai. Mumbai is satish's birthplace and workplace. His father was born in Mandvi, Kutch in Gujrat. From the last three generation they are in Mumbai. Satish wanted to go to Mandvi in Kutch to see his parent's house, but gave it a second thought after the earthquake. He wanted to build a house there that won't break in earthquake and doesn't harm him. School- Satish did his schooling from new era high school.
He lived in street called forger street at kemp's corner. He was born and brought up there. His school was just 5 minutes walking from there, that was in Hughes road now called nyaymurti patkar road down the flyover. Then he did his graduation from St Xavier College for 4 years and then he went to FTII Pune for 2 years.
He stayed in a building called anand nagar. He lived 49 years of his life there.
He has very fond memories and was very comfortable. Then when the new generation came and those who know him either died or shifted to other place, he felt lake a stranger there. Then he decided to shift from there.
It was a middle class locality with humbled building. There was no lift at that time. He stayed in 3rd floor which is like 5 floor of today's building which kept him fit. There was nothing close to him left in that place.
And he decided to shift from there to Bandra which is centrally located and it is convenient for him to go either way. Satish's mother and father died in 1986 in span of 3 months. His mother died due to terminal illness and father died from a fall and the complication which arose from that.
He broke his bone and was operated. During that he got massive heart attack and expired after sometime. He felt like an orphan after that. He shifted to Bandra in 2000 but he kept his older house for some time but it was difficult to manage it. He loves to go there for a week but it was difficult because of the busy schedule. Then he decided to sell it to one of his neighbour. Childhood memories- there are so many childhood memories from his birth place.
He feels very anxious when he starts talking about the place. There was a jungle behind it where peacock, snake, bichhoo used to come. Now there is jungle of buildings. Satish remembers the holi when they used to go to jungle to cut wood for holi Mata. He felt like celebrating the holi in the village.
There were caves, mountain behind where they used to play pakda pakdi. That was in early 60's. That's today's kamaikar road. Some days back when he went to his friend's house there and looked down from the building there was jungle where they used to play was left in patches.
That was his best memory from childhood because he grew up there, played in jungle, played cricket, saklo, lagori in streets. He feels about the today's children who don't get the time to play because of the studies. He is very grateful to his school because it believed in extracurricular activities as well as studies and 90% students of his school are very successful in their life. They are industrialist, Coe's etc etc. And giving their names will be showing off.
There have been teachers who hated his guts in school and there were some who loved his guts. He was a prankster and the physical one. He always tried to outwit the teachers; he was like 'dedh sana'. Some doesn't like it. He was the ring leader of the class and was very mischief. He was also a sports person. He was always in the eyes of teachers and principal as he was a good sports person.
He used to get benefited by that. After class 9th, he went for dramatics. He did very well for school plays and was considered for the best role of plays. There was particular incident Satish remembers.
There was a play in the school. Satish has passed out of the school. There was one teacher, Namdev Natule; he is a known theatre personality.
He used to do children play but for that play he needed one student of bit more age. He called Satish to do the role. Satish was about 16 17 years old. Satish had an open jeep that time.
He took 8-10 children with him in the jeep and went to marine drive. There wasn't much rush at that time. When he came back, he saw all the parents lined up and yelling, screaming, beating their chest about the children who went with satish.
The scolding and tuck looks that Satish got that day, he will never forget. But soon they realised that his intentions was good. They asked satish that what would have happened if one of the children fell from the open jeep. Satish felt that he was irresponsible. He then said sorry to everyone. Satish loves dramatics more than sports. But he knew that he can't be test cricketer.
Satish got into Xavier's college due to sports, but then turn to dramatics. He gained weight there. Farookh sheik and Shabana Azmi were his seniors.
Satish can never forget the teacher ho brought him on stage. Mr Saheb Ali sayyad.
There was class assembly once in a year where all the sections will perform play; there was singing competition and the folk dances. There were plays in English and another in Gujrati, as Satish school was basically Gujrati, and another in Hindi. All the good actors of the class went for the roles of English and Gujrati plays. So no one left for the Hindi play. Satish used to speak Hindi well those days and the Hindi teacher Mr Sayyad had no option other than to give the main role to satish. Satish was at 8th standard that time.
Satish was very nervous on acting on stage and he asked several people to how to act in stage. Someone told him to look at sky and speak dialogues, someone told him to not to look toward audience, he won't feel nervous. Eventually when he did the play, he got huge ovation from the audience.
He felt that they are just making fun of him but they liked his performance, his loud voice. But they couldn't see the fear inside him during the show. After that show he started getting all the plays in school and became the hero in dramatics. When Satish came to Xavier he got to know that what the actual acting is. He did some plays with Farookh sheik and Shabana Azmi and did one play directed by Amjad khan. After that he began to find the horizon of acting.
Then one of satish friend Javed Khan told him & his friends to go to FTII, the film institute. They all filled the form. Satish got admission with Javed khan, Late Dilip Dhawan and Hari Prithpal Singh Dawl.
It was interesting that all four students who got admission to the film institute from Mumbai were from Xavier's college. Dilip, Javed and Satish were good friends in college. Hari was in college but wasn't close to them. There they enjoyed together. They also got to know about Shashi Ranjan who was from bhimani and used to eat banana.
Shashi not used to talk much. He was not what he is like today. There were lots of extracurricular activities in the Xavier College. Satish used to do theatre in college.
They all were involved in theatre and they had two groups one for English plays and the second one for Hindi theatre. They used to do rehearsals for the plays till 1 in the night. There was inter college competition, inter group competitions which was like university level. Then they had natya mandal, sangeet mandal which is now called malhar.
Satish was secretary for sangeet mandal for one year and there was budget of 1.5 lacs that was a huge amount in the 70's and they were proud of it. In the sangeet mandal lots of famous singers used to come like Geeta Dutt, Manna Dey, Lata ji, Mehendra Kapoor. Sangeet mandal have produced lots of known singers like Alka Nadkarni who is now known as Anuradha paudwaal, Sharda Krishnamurti who is now Kavita Krishnamurti, Shalendra Singh, Nitin mukesh who used to sing, Pankaj udhas. Dilip Dhawan, Dalip tahil, Mazhar, Anil Kapoor, Boney Kapoor were junior to satish and Farookh sheik, Shabana Azmi were seniors to satish. So when they meet in a function or award ceremony they will talk about college days, who is where, what are they doing.
Satish is very happy that all the students who were in extracurricular activities are now known faces. They enjoyed shooting 'jaane bhi do yaaron' as most of them were of Xavier's student. Satish owes all he has gained or observed to Mumbai nagri. He owes a lot to his school, college and the city. What he like most about the college is that, during the whole year there were extracurricular activities and one month before exams all the students will start studying. College had best looking girls and best looking men.
If the boys of that time had come to films all the new heroes would have been there. They all very good looking and big built that time. Satish got into acting in a very light manner. He was a BA student and it was not of much value at that time. When he decided to go to FTII, his parent didn't protest.
If he was not in acting he must have been very successful and unsuccessful in other field. And when he performed well in ftii and in exams, that's when he started taking his career seriously and think of great acting. He never started acting as a profession. He takes life as it comes. Satish got admission into Xavier due to the teacher called 'Theopile Sagya'.
He was Vice principal of the school. He was very fond of satish.
He passed away in 70's. There was one professor called Jagdamba Prasad Dikshit, JP Dikshit., he did a full length play with satish, Farookh and Shabana at tezpal. They did only 2 shows but it was a good experience for satish. Satish always did amateur theatre so he never calls himself as a theatre actor. All the pays he has done were all humour oriented.
He did lots of plays with Kader Khan as a writer and with other writer Prabhot Joshi. Prabhot Joshi was senior to Kader khan. He is no more. There was a royalty of 100 rupees for the play writer, so Satish and his friends honestly used to give Prabhot josh the royalty of his plays.
Satish and Javed filled the ftii form together, went for audition together and got admission together. Javed is in Bhopal. He has opened an acting school there. He did some films and was a very good looking guy. At the time when Satish came from FTII after finishing the course, there was no video, no computers, and no colour photographs. There was only B&W photos.
Satish used to go to the producers office with that B&W photographs. One day he went to one producer's office carrying the B&W photos. The producer was surprised to see him carrying photo. He asked him 'are you from direction course', he said 'no', 'so from photography', and he again said 'no, I am from acting'. The producer then told satish that he will call him when required. Those struggling days were very difficult for Satish from 1976 to 84.
He did some work in arts films of his friends. In those days if you have show your student film you have to pay 500 for show reel and arrange a theatre and then call the producers.
If someone has called 15 producers and 3 have turned up he would feel lucky. Sometime it happened that producers have given job to other colleagues who were involved in that film.
So that was one risk. Once a producer called satish and asked him whether he is from acting course. Satish said yes, and then he told satish that he is making a film and wants the number of Suresh Oberoi. Satish has to give him the number. It happened to all of them. They used to sit in the benches outside RKstudios, thinking that somebody will see them and give them some work.
And if at any day, the peon went pass them smiling, they would be happy that it might be the lucky day. Rajsri was the production who used to give chances to the fresh actors.
He told about this to Raj barjatya during 'hum aapke hain kaun', he smiled. Satish did ftii films like 'end of life' where he played hardcore villain, 'bonga' directed by Kundan Shah, a song picturised by Raman Kumar from which Deepti nawal got selected. Satish did 'jaane bhi do yaaron' with Kundan shah. They never thought it is going to be landmark in Indian cinema. After that satish did 'ye jo hai zindagi' with Kundan shah and Manjul Sinha. There was no looking back after that.
They were all fully occupied with 'yeh jo hai zindagi' for one year. Satish enjoyed doing that show. His co-actors were Swaroop sampat, Rakesh bedi, Shulbha Arya and Vijay Kashyap.
They worked very hard for that show and they are still eating the fruits of that show. Satish wasn't food conscious. He always takes dhabba from his home when he is shooting in Mumbai.
Satish was brought up in very rigid manner so he never used to think about what he is eating or drinking. Now he has become conscious of the food and the water. The person who made the biggest difference in satish life is his brother 'Natwar'. Natwar looked after satish's education and ensure that he got the best of schools.
Natwar was a big hero in Xavier, he boxed for Xavier, he swimmed for Xavier, he played cricket when nari contractor was the captain. He was the fast bowler and dislocated his shoulder while playing cricket. When the Padari came to know that Satish is Natwar's brother, he gave Satish admission. He owes lots to his brother and he is like a father figure to him.
Natwar lives in Worli. He has a tie up with cruise liners where he supplies the staff, the cooks, the bartenders and the human resource, Satish's wife Madhu has been extremely lucky for him. His whole destiny changed after marriage.
When he was married, he doesn't know from where his next meal is coming. Some lady friend of satish told to her friend at mandap that this lady, Madhu has got the guts; she is marrying a man who does nothing.
It was a fact at that time. He was married in 82 and his luck changed after 84. Then 'jaane bhi do yaron' happened and after that 'yeh hai jo zindagi'. Satish marriage was very simple. Satish liked that girl and he proposed to her, their parents met and they got married.
Satish and Madhu met when they were doing a film called 'saath saath'. Raman was directing it, Dilip Dhawan produced it, Farookh sheikh, Deepti Nawal acted in it and satish had a small role in that. Neena Gupta, Avtar Gill was also in that film. Kuldeep singh gave lyrics for film for the first time.
It had great lyrics like 'yeh tera ghar, yeh mera ghar' sung by Jagjit Singh and Chitra Singh. There was one song of college which requires college girls. One of Satish friend Ashok Pandit who used to direct plays those days in college brought 3 4 college girls and Madhu was one of them. Satish liked her, proposed her and they got married. Satish temper was his worst enemy.
He used to get into physical fight very easily. He was very unlike of what he is today. He was very gutsy and now he is very darpouk. They used to fight with hand on hand, not with the pistol or revolver like today.
He was like a real mard, the real hero. Bantu, late 'Dilip Dhawan' was his close friend. Shashi Ranjan is a good friend though there was a communication gap between two but they remained good friend.
Amrish Mehta is a friend of satish from the school days. They have been friends since 1964.
Kumkum, Pankaj Jasani and his wife Radhika are also very good friend of Satish. Pankaj & Radhika romance started from school and it was successful. Satish's close friends are not from industry but he very good relation with Rishi Kapoor, Fardeen Khan, Ritesh Desmukh. But somehow he doesn't go out of his way to be friend with them after the shoot.
Prakash Jain & his family are like his family.Vimal Shah is also a good friend of satish. Satish has healthy relationship with the industry people but there are not many friends and he don't say anyone friend and if someone say that he's is satish friend, he is lying. Satish admire shatrugan singha a lot. He was his senior and is a wonderful person.
He is one of few people with whom Satish can sit and laugh. Otherwise people expect satish to do the talking and entertaining. He can sit with shatru and listen whatever he is saying and enjoy thoroughly. There are only few people who can entertain by talking.
That talking doesn't mean dirty jokes, vulgar thing; it was just pure talking and entertainment. Satish started the trend of talking in from of camera at 'Philips top 10'. After sometime Satish got bored of it and then he left that & never did it again. Satish as an actor feels very bored of talking in front of camera. He needs good actors to perform well; they inspire him more than he inspires himself.
Satish was lucky that he has got very talented actors and team to work with. As with 'filmi chakkar' Satish had Ratna Pathak, Rakesh Bedi, Shulbha Arya. In 'yeh jo hai zindagi' Satish had all his FTII team. In 'sarabhai v/s sarabhai' he has Ratna Pathak, Sumeet Raghvan, Rupali Ganguly, Rajesh Singh as co actors.and a actor who is directing it, Deven Bhojwan. The writer ashish kapadia, satish think he is best writer in recent times. Satish feels that if someone is doing entertainment oriented series, he has to rise above the expectation that satish is doing since now.
But when satish did sarabhai he don't have to do that because the writer's sense of humour equate with the satish's sense of humour. Sarabhai is the one serial where Satish don't have to work, he just have to word the lines and it's coming so good because it is from satish heart. Satish lacked fire all the time. He never wanted to become something or to make his market high. Satish has always been happy with him and that is his moto. Satish has been a satisfied person. He never has any jealousy of others like the new comer has taken his roles.
There was a time when used to recommend actors to the producers like' ise le lo na', now he keeps his mouth shut. He never felt insecure about things. Even when he has no work he was a happy person and 'like jo hoga dekha jayega, har fikra ko due main udhata chala gaya'. He is not ashamed of sitting at home if he has no work. He will never say on phone that he is not at home when he actually at home. He does work which he enjoy doing.
Satish should like the people he is working with. Sometimes he didn't like the guy who approached him, so he didn't do that work. He listens by his heart. Satish has maintained a standard for himself and he never does roles which are below that standard. He never did roles with vulgarity and obscene gestures. He did some double meaning film of Ramsay on early 90's but he did fight with the producer for that but they told him that they made movies like that.
In 'main hoo na', Farah called him and told that there are two roles, select whichever you want to play, one was the professor role which Boman played and the another one which satish played. Satish initially told Farah that he wanted to play the professors role. Then shahrukh called him and said that anyone can play the role of professor and satish has done similar roles but he can't imagine the role of spitting professor other than satish. 'Shahrukh ne chadhaya aur main chad gaya'. Satish has soft corner for shahrukh and he love him as a person. But he never went to his office for work and never called him. Satish knows whenever Shahrukh needs him, he will call him and satish will be there for him.
In some relationship when you don't have to expect from anybody. That character went to be so popular that Shahrukh's son spit talking to shahrukh. So there are some works that you don't wanna do and when you do it become a good work. Madhu Shah (wife) says: Satish met Madhu at the Sipta festival, and the next day proposed to her at the theatre gate, but she said no coz she didn't know him.
After 2-3 days Satish was shooting for the film 'Saath Saath', at SNDT Juhu College, where Madhu was studying, so he proposed to her again, but her answer was no again. The 3rd time he proposed to her, she asked him to meet her parents and put forth hid desire before them. Madhu's father was a little hesitant initially as Satish was from a Film background, but agreed later on because of his nature.
Madhu's mother liked Satish at the meeting only. Then they got engaged after a month and got married after 8months.
Satish as a person is same in reality as on screen. He takes a while to open up before strangers. He's happy-go-lucky, fun loving and positive in life. He's very fond of eating, especially non-veg.
Once about 15yrs ago when cell phones were not in use, Satish from Marine Drive called Madhu, who was at Kemps corner and asked to wait there saying he would pick her up at 12 noon and go to the suburbs. Satish completely forgot about that and straight went to the suburbs at his office to meet his producer. Madhu waited there for one hour in hot sun and got really angry over Satish. She called Satish at the producers' office after getting home and gave him some firing lessons. Satish at the producers' office could not speak a word other than 'Yeah', 'yes', 'ok'. Madhu then forgot about the incident and start enjoying at home. And when Satish came back, she again blasted him and made some horrible faces.
Satish started laughing and then Madhu also started laughing. They kept on laughing for two hours. Another incident, Madhu recalls that Satish has a hideous mask 'very darawana'. One day Satish made his old friend Amrish Mehta sit on the back seat of the car with that mask and a shawl with Satish and Madhu taking the back seat.
Then Satish drove the car to Tardeo to Bandra. Then at every stop at the signal, Amrish will come out at a little, look at the person who is standing or in car, scooter alongside and then turn back. There was a couple on the scooter, with wife seating behind. The wife got stunned by this act and told her husband to leave quickly as possible forcefully repeatedly and her husband kept asking 'what happened, what happened'. And she kept telling him 'kuch to hai, kuch to hai'.
Satish and Madhu at that time made poker faces and turned mute and Satish told Madhu to look at them and their expressions. And the wife there kept pushing her husband to leave, and kept telling him about that 'darawana mask' yeh bhayankar hai'. It made all of them laughed for a while. Another incident, one day in Satish younger days, he sent a truckload of cement to someone's place.
Tamil Actor Satish
The cement truck driver went to ask him about the cement and he returned him back. Another day Satish sent an ambulance to somebody's house. Satish kept doing these things to everyone in his younger days.
Satish used to call at Madhu's sister house with different voices and tell her that 'I know you hello, is this Dhanvi'. Dhalvi will scream at him that Dhalvi is not here.
And then Satish will say 'I know you are alone' and put the phone down. And like that, one day Satish called his Nattu Bhaiya, who owns a recruiting travel agency an a Arabic accent and said that I am Shahabuddin bin badal bin barsaat.
His brother didn't understand the prank. One day Satish said to Nattu Bhaiya that he is coming tomorrow. Nattu still at that time didn't realise what coming.
He made full arrangement for the guest to come. Then Satish went to him and said that you are just too much and asked him about the guest and Nattu Bhaiya told him about the 'bin badal bin barsaat guest'. Satish laughed and said Nattu Bhaiya you are too much. Once Satish asked him that is your freeze running, Nattu Bhaiya said yes.
Then Satish replied 'then just go after it'. Once a wrong number caller in Gujrati asked Satish ' am bhai popatlal chey', Satish replied ' achcha badana popat neela tamharo lal' Satish loves to play pranks with his mother-in law. He loves her very much as he loves his parents too. His mother-in law is algima patient and Satish knows how to handle her best. He will humour her and make fun out of her.
Satish and Madhu have two doggies, male and female boxers. They are like their children.
They both are very fond of them. Satish loves them very much. He will call for them when he is outside only for them if not for Madhu. The two doggies give them love.
They are the best thing that has happened to them. He has lots of friends. He loves to socialise, not as much Madhu do. He loves to call his close close friends. Satish loves to sit at home and doesn't like to go out n out in parties like thing unless it's a must. He loves to drink, loves to eat.
And fond of calling people over and having party at home. He is a kind of home bud. Satish when free of work likes to watch his favourite channels Discovery, Animal Planet and National Geographic Channel.
Serial Actor Satish
He enjoys that with English movies. He rarely watches Hindi movies unless Madhu hooks him and force him to go for a premiere show. Wondershare keygen mac. From film industry Farook Sheikh is one of his close friends.
Satish closest friends are not from the industry. Honey Irani is one of his close friends and Rakesh Bedi is another. Satish is a very positive and very decisive person. He knows what exactly he wants from life and doesn't go dug mug in the middle. If Satish says he wants it then he means it and will get there. Satish loves his elder brother. He looked after him like a father.
Serial Actor Satish Shah
Satish owes his schooling to his brother. And Satish owes all whatever he his to his school 'New Era'. Satish got the best values and the training from his school.
Satish always salutes his school every time he passes from the pedder road. The school has very good values in those days all the Gandiasm principle. Satish really owes everything to his school.
He is linguist because of school. He knows all the prayers of all the religions because of his school. Satish also owes his singing to his school.
No one in the industry knows that Satish is a good singer, which he including his culture and values also owes to his school. Satish also has one sister, Madhuri, who Satish is very fond of. Madhuri (Sister) says: Madhuri is 16 yrs elder to Satish & Satish is like a son to her than brother because of their age difference.
Satish is like as he is on screen, good natured, humorous. Satish was very naughty in childhood & was never interested in studies.
Once he went to marine drive alone and fell from the parapet on the rock, he was hurt very badly. He is very committed to his work where he sets his heart on. He is a very lively person and nobody will get bored in his presence.
His presence is very therapeutic. As a kid he had this habit of dismantling transistors. He used to love his sister's haat ka garam masale ki daal and chawal. Once at Capital Cinema near exelcisa where Chhaya movie was being played and Madhuri wanted to watch that movie and asked Satish to hurry up but Satish was busy having garam masale ki daal and chawal, he kept on eating and did not realise that we missed the movie. Natwar (Elder Brother) says: Natwar works as a manning agent for crush lines in Europe & America. Natwar is 14 yrs elder to Satish and like a father figure to him. Satish was very mischievous kid in his childhood and given him lots of trouble.
Natwar was always worried about what Satish will do after his college but Satish always wanted to get in films, so Natwar took him to FTII for acting course and that's how Satish's filmy career got started. Ajay (Madhu's Nephew) says: Ajay works as Head of Event in event management company 'Magnum Intergraphics'. Before Satish marriage with Madhu while travelling from the car with his grandparents, Ajay saw Satish & Madhu on the market, and said 'look aunty is there'.
At that time Ajay was 5 yrs old. Then when Madhu came back home, his parents asked her about the Satish and told her that they want to meet him. And when Satish came, Ajay was standing at the door with a stick and said to him 'don't dare to meet my aunt again'.
Satish was stunned, but everything went fine then and he got married to Madhu. Amrish Mehta (School Friend): Custom's Agent They knew each other since 1962-63 since they were neighbours. They would go to school and come back together. Once while they were going to school Aatish left one period early while coming back and Amrish was wondering why, satish went to Amrish's friend's house on the third floor.
When Amrish passed by satish threw water on Amrish and was very thrilled to do that.