Remembering Satish Kaushik: The Karol Bagh boy who came to Mumbai with Rs 800, a pocketful of dreams

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These dialogues, both from popular David Dhawan films, were delivered by the inimitable Satish Kaushik..

They could easily have been put in the mouth of any of the large roster of comics who were part of Dhawan movies, starting with Govinda and going on to Kader Khan, Shakti Kapoor, Satish Shah, Johnny Lever and so on..

Which was great, but the insistence of Hindi cinema to typecast actors ensured that he kept getting similar roles where he would be called by outlandish names Pappu Pager remains unbeatable in that long list and would have to deliver even more outlandish dialogues..

But he was never one of the comedy picture ke thakele joker log ( Double Dhamaal, 2011) that his dialogue dissed: he was part of that breed of comics who made things better, whose appearance on screen guaranteed light-hearted moments, many created by masterful dialogue writers like Kader Khan...

But because laughter remained his best medicine, his ability to be much more versatile was first tapped by a film made in the West (Brick Lane, directed by Sarah Gavron, adapted from a novel of the same name by Monica Ali, 2007), in which he plays a London-based middle-aged man married to an unhappy much younger woman..

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