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He was He leaves behind his wife and four sons. Mr Khan was born in the Indian state of Rampur on Jan 1, After independence his family opted to migrate to Pakistan and came to Lahore where he acquired his early education. He contributed to quite a few films as a story and dialogue writer, including Bazi and Manjhi kithey dhawan Punjabi.
However it was in the mids, after coming to Karachi to write a TV play, that his popularity increased manifold. For one of his plays he penned the character of Jaidi, a bespectacled goofy man who has limited proficiency in the English language but likes to think he has total command over it; and has the same idea about his knowledge of life and its intricacies which invariably ensnares him in funny situations.
The producer asked Mr Khan to play the character himself because no one could do justice to it; and the rest, as they say, was history. He became a household name and his recognition as Jaidi upstaged his tremendous writing abilities.
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Mr Khan was an incredibly creative person. Although he was known as a showbiz celeb, his reputation in the literary world was no less formidable. He wrote short stories in the earlier part of his career and was a poet of high merit. Hamare ilm ne bakhshi hai hum ko aagaahi; Yeh kainaat hai kiya is zameen pe sab kiya hai; Magar bus apne hi baarey mein kutchh nahin maloom; Maror kal se jo maidey mein hai sabab kiya hai.
In the last decade or so, his health deteriorated. He suffered a heart attack and was also diabetic.