![]() ![]() Interestingly, despite looking so convincing in a uniform, Iftekhar saab himself never aspired to join the force. “But one look at Iftekhar and the cop saluted him, letting us off, the penalty forgotten,” she had laughed when I met her decades ago. Hina ji recalled that once they were stopped by a havildar when they mistakenly drove into a ‘No Entry’ lane. He wore the vardi with distinguished panache, bringing dignity to his many cop roles in Hindi films, and according to his wife, Hina, was even accepted as one of them by the cops. I remember him as Zanjeer’s Police Commissioner Singh who takes Amitabh Bachchan’s Vijay to task for getting “personal” with criminals and Don’s DSP D’Silva whose brainwave it is to pick up another Bachchanesque Vijay, this one a simpleton slumdweller, and pass him off as a mafia boss who was gunned down during a chase. While Sayedna Iftekhar Ahmed Sharif may well have played a smuggler, Mulk Raj Daavar, in Deewar, and the notorious Black Cobra masquerading as Inspector Bhupinder Singh in Rishi Kapoor and Neetu Singh’s romantic thriller Khel Khel Mein, in my memories, he’s always on the right side of the law. For millennials, the name Iftekhar may not ring a bell, but for me he was the ‘inspector uncle’ of my growing up years at the movies.
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