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Mac Mohan is a Actor Indian born on 24 april 1938 at Karachi (Pakistan)

Mac Mohan

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Birth name Mohan Makijany
Nationality Inde
Birth 24 april 1938 at Karachi (Pakistan)
Death 10 may 2010 (at 72 years) at Mumbai (Inde)

Makijany Mohan (24 April 1938 – 10 May 2010), popularly known as Mac Mohan, was a well-known Indian character actor in Hindi language films. Although, Mac Mohan acted in 218 films and remained popular as a rather sympathetic villain through the 1970s and 1980s with films like Don, Karz, Satte Pe Satta, Zanjeer, Rafoo Chakkar, Shaan and Khoon Pasina, he is mostly remembered for his role of Sambha, the sidekick of dacoit Gabbar Singh in Ramesh Sippy's blockbuster Sholay (1975).

Biography

Early life and career
Mohan was born in Karachi in British India. Mohan came to Mumbai to become a cricketer, but joined theatre and became a Bollywood actor. He learned acting in the Filmalaya School of Acting in Mumbai.

Mac Mohan started his Hindi film career as an assistant with director Chetan Anand, before making his debut as an actor in his film, Haqeeqat in 1964. His last appearance was in Atithi Tum Kab Jaoge as guest appearance.

Besides Hindi movies, he also acted in Punjabi, Bhojpuri, Haryanvi, Sindhi, Gujarati and Marathi He had delivered dialogue in almost all Indian languages except Oriya. as well as in English, Russian and Spanish films.

He is the only actor where his real name Mac was used as his character name in many movies.


Illness and death
In November 2009, a day before he could start the shooting for Ashwini Dheer's Atithi Tum Kab Jaoge?, he was admitted to the Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital in Andheri in Mumbai after his health detoriated. He had a tumour in the right lung, and died of lung cancer on 10 May 2010.
Asian Academy of Film & Television had a special prayer meeting on 14 May at Noida Film City. There was also a prayer meeting (chautha) on 14 May 2010 at Ajivasan Hall for family and friends, and from the oldest of his spot boys to Amitabh Bachchan attended the prayer meeting to pay their respect.


Personal life
Mac Mohan married Minny in 1986 and they had two daughters, Vinati and Manjari and a son, Vikrant. He was the maternal uncle of actress Raveena Tandon. He was Sunil Dutt's classmate in Lucknow from where he hailed. Mac Mohan's wife Minny is an Ayurvedic Doctor. It was when Mac Mohan's father was admitted to Arogya Nidhi Hospital in Juhu their interaction first started and later the relationship culminated into marriage. In the interview taken by professional writer Niilesh A Raje we learn that Mac Mohan had an excellent command over spoken and written English. Apart from reading newspapers at length he loved reading the Reader's Digest magazine a lot.

Usually with

Satyen Kappu
Satyen Kappu
(25 films)
Bappi Lahiri
Bappi Lahiri
(24 films)
Yunus Parvez
Yunus Parvez
(23 films)
Amrish Puri
Amrish Puri
(23 films)
Shakti Kapoor
Shakti Kapoor
(21 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Mac Mohan (124 films)

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Atithi Tum Kab Jaoge?, 1h55
Directed by Ashwni Dhir
Genres Comedy
Actors Ajay Devgn, Paresh Rawal, Konkona Sen Sharma, Satish Kaushik, Sanjay Mishra, Akhilendra Mishra
Rating64% 3.24853.24853.24853.24853.2485
Chastised by their son, Aayush's Hindi school-teacher for not conversing in one of the national languages, as well as ignoring the relevance of the word 'Atithi', Mumbai-based Bollywood writer, Puneet (Ajay Devgn), and his wife, Munmun (Konkona Sen Sharma), go out of their way to welcome an hitherto unknown paternal uncle, Lambodar (Paresh Rawal), from Gorakhpur. Hoping that he will depart soon, the couple find their lives turned upside when he not only refuses to leave but interferes with their professional and personal lives – so much so that Puneet gets fired from his movie project 'Pachaas', and Munmun almost loses her job. The loaded with mayhem ways they try to get Lambodar out of their house leads to hilarious results!The climax of the story is that when Lambodhar decides to go back to his village Pappu(his original nephew whom he had mistaken as Ajay Devgn) comes and invites him over.The confusion was that Puneet was living in A wing and Pappu was in the B wing of the apartment.
Luck by Chance, 2h36
Directed by Zoya Akhtar
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about films
Actors Farhan Akhtar, Alyy Khan, Konkona Sen Sharma, Rishi Kapoor, Dimple Kapadia, Juhi Chawla
Roles Self (uncredited)
Rating70% 3.5480153.5480153.5480153.5480153.548015
Young actor Vikram Jaisingh (Farhan Akhtar) arrives in Mumbai to make it as a Bollywood film star with the help of Abhimanyu (Arjun Mathur), an actor friend from his hometown, and their mutual friend Sameer, who works in a studio props department.
Journey Bombay to Goa
Genres Drama, Comedy, Adventure
Themes Transport films, Road movies
Actors Asrani, Dinesh Hingoo, Syed Ishtiaq Ahmed Jaffery, Anirudh Agarwal, Mac Mohan, Navin Prabhakar
Rating48% 2.4181752.4181752.4181752.4181752.418175
The film revolves around two people. Lal is an ambitious guy who wants to start his own business and make it big in life. Das is a loudmouth, and a very arrogant person. The two manage to get hold of 5000 rupees and they open a vada pav centre. As luck would have it, Lal wins Rs. 2 lakhs in a contest. The duo plan to start a travel agency. Since they do not have enough money to buy a vehicle, they use spare parts of old cars to create a bus. Trusting Das to come up with a good make of a bus, he blindly hands over the prize money to him. Lal manages to get passengers for their first ride. But when the bus comes all hell breaks loose with people demanding their money back.
Pehchaan: The Face of Truth
Genres Drama
Actors Vinod Khanna, Rati Agnihotri, Raveena Tandon, Sudhanshu Pandey, Juhi Parmar Shroff, Viju Khote
Rating57% 2.8772752.8772752.8772752.8772752.877275
Mridula is a headstrong, opinionated girl who along with her best friend Swati, go to college together. The two are really close and do everything together. They successfully finish their education, and go on to marry into respective families. Mridula marries Milind D. Khanna, the son of top lawyer Deepak Khanna (Vinod Khanna) and Swati marries Ajay Lal, the son of a high ranked politician.
Insan
Insan (2005)

Directed by Krishna Vamsi
Genres Drama, War, Action, Crime
Themes Films about terrorism
Actors Akshay Kumar, Tusshar Kapoor, Esha Deol, Ajay Devgn, Koena Mitra, Lara Dutta
Roles Parvez
Rating46% 2.308352.308352.308352.308352.30835
The story revolves around Akshay Kumar as an auto riksha driver Amjad Khan, Ajay Devgan as police DCP Ajit Rathod, Tusshar Kapoor as Avinash and they are fighting against corruption in politics, dealing with the Muslim society and fighting terrorism and also bringing order to the society.
Stumped
Stumped (2003)

Genres Drama
Themes Sports films, Cricket films
Actors Alyy Khan, Raveena Tandon, Salman Khan, Amin Gazi, Asha Sachdev, Viju Khote
Rating28% 1.4132851.4132851.4132851.4132851.413285
Reena and her husband Major Raghav Seth; Ranga Khetrapal, Swadesh Deshpande and their respective wives; Laltu Singh, his wife, Neetu, and son, Bhola; the building watchman, Dukhiram; bachelor Subramaniam; and a visually-challenged Holy man, Baba, are some of the residents in Happy Home Society. The common interest shared by most of them is their love of playing and watching cricket. Reena experiences isolation after her husband is called back to Kargil to battle terrorists. She is befriended by three youngsters who have a crush on her. Things, however, change dramatically after she gets word that her husband is missing and believed dead.
Soch
Soch (2002)

Genres Thriller
Actors Sanjay Kapoor, Raveena Tandon, Aditi Gowitrikar, Arbaaz Khan, Danny Denzongpa, Tiku Talsania
Rating46% 2.316382.316382.316382.316382.31638
Raj Matthews has been selected the best actor in the Bollywood Cine Awards. He dedicates this award to his pretty co-star, Preeti Sardesai. Raj has everything going for him. He is rich, famous, handsome, and popular. Preeti thinks a lot about him and is even considering having an affair with him. Behind all the glitter and the glory lies an embittered wife — Madhulika — who is insecure, jealous of Preeti, and suspects her husband of having an affair with her. She will not tolerate any woman to come between her and Raj — even if it means killing her or both of them.
Aaag Hi Aag
Directed by T L V Prasad
Actors Mithun Chakraborty, Jackie Shroff, Sneha, Kiran Kumar, Laxmikant Berde, Ranjeet
Rating56% 2.841382.841382.841382.841382.84138
The film is a revenge saga.
Lal Baadshah
Directed by K.C Bokadia
Genres Drama, Action
Actors Amitabh Bachchan, Manisha Koirala, Shilpa Shetty, Raadhika Sarathkumar, Amrish Puri, Shakti Kapoor
Roles Vikram's Henchman
Rating33% 1.683351.683351.683351.683351.68335
Lal Singh (Amitabh Bachchan) lives with his mother (Nirupa Roy) in a small basti in Bombay, grows up with the poor and needy. He is called Lal Badshah by the people he lives among. Lal is a very helping person and dead set against crime. In the same city lives Vikram Singh alias Vicky Baadshah (Raghuvaran) who is the Don of the city always clashing with Lal Baadshah. Vicky is the son of Dayal Singh (Amrish Puri) who lives far away from Mumbai in a castle. Vicky & his brother Ajit Singh (Mukesh Rishi), a corrupt police officer want to rule the city.
Kabhi Na Kabhi, 2h51
Directed by Priyadarshan
Genres Crime
Actors Jackie Shroff, Anil Kapoor, Amrish Puri, Pooja Bhatt, Paresh Rawal, Tinnu Anand
Roles Tatya
Rating43% 2.164242.164242.164242.164242.16424
Kachra Seth runs an empire of collecting garbage, which is merely a front to cover-up for his other business - drug trafficking. He recruits a select group of people to carry out unpleasant tasks - such as beating someone up, or even killing someone. One of his recruits is Jaggu, who will do anything for a price. Jaggu loves Tina but is afraid to tell her. When Jaggu's mom is hospitalized, he comes to Kachra for monetary assistance, he is assigned to a task instead, and unable to complete the task he is apprehended by the police with the assistance of a librarian, and is subsequently found guilty and sent to prison. Jaggu's place is taken by Rajeshwar alias Raja, who is also attracted to Tina and even rescues her from one of Kachra's goons, Chabiley, and they both fall in love. When Jaggu returns from prison, he finds his mom has died, and his sister is missing, believed to have committed suicide. In anger, he concoctes a fool-proof plan to kill the librarian, and he does so. Jaggu does not know that the librarian is none other than Raja's dad, and Raja has sworn to hunt down his dad's killer, no matter what.
Mr. & Mrs. Khiladi, 2h30
Directed by David Dhawan
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Akshay Kumar, Juhi Chawla, Kader Khan, Satish Kaushik, Paresh Rawal, Himani Shivpuri
Roles Police Inspector (uncredited)
Rating62% 3.149043.149043.149043.149043.14904
When his astrologer uncle (Satish Kaushik) predicts a favorable future for Raja (Akshay Kumar), he decides to do nothing until the prediction comes true. When he meets Shalu (Juhi Chawla) the daughter of a millionaire (Kader Khan) he decides his predicted future has arrived. However, his lazy lifestyle does not meet with his future father-in-law's standards, and he insists that Raja does some hard work for a change.
Amaanat
Amaanat (1994)

Directed by Raj N. Sippy
Genres Drama, Action
Actors Sanjay Dutt, Akshay Kumar, Heera, Kanchan, Farheen, Gulshan Grover
Rating41% 2.070152.070152.070152.070152.07015
In a small village having mostly aged people, there has not been any rainfall for the past 3 years. A youngster wanting to be the leader of the village (Sanjay Dutt) has to free the village people from this calamity. The people of the village beg a rich master for water but in vain. So the hero has to go to the city to buy a water tube. In the city all his belongings including his money has been stolen. Then he rescues a guy who was getting beaten up by thieves. They become good friends and they help each other.