Biography

Sudhir Kumar has a daughter.

Prior to 'Dosti', Sudhir had acted in the movie 'Sant Gyaneshwar' which also released in the year 1964. Later he acted in 'Jeene Ki Raah' (1969) and a Marathi movie 'Ghar Chi Rani' (1968) besides 'Laadla' (1966) but his career failed to take off. He married by the end of the 1960's decade. But he didn't get a single movie after marriage and he was almost out of the film world. On the other hand because of my hectic job we started losing touch.

Was rumored to be murdered in the 1960's. But this information proved to be false when his where abouts were uncovered in 2014.

Signed a 3 years contract with the company Rajshri for Rs.300/- per month salary. Tarachand Badjatya had started planning for his next production with Sudhir Kumar and Sushil in the main lead again and we received our salary Rs.300/- every month which used to be a handsome amount at that time.Meanwhile Sudhir was offered a role by the 'A.V.M.' company of Madras in the movie 'Ladla' (1966) for which he got the contract with 'Rajshri Productions' cancelled. He even paid the compensation as per the terms of the contract to the 'Rajshri Productions'. Sushil was in Moscow at that time for the promotion of 'Dosti' which was to be shown in the 'International Children Film Festival -1965' being held there. Sudhir Kumar's action compelled 'Rajshri Productions' to abandon the idea of making another film with both of us actors and the company had to cancel the contract with Sushil as well. Bur Tarachand ji promised Sushil that he would call him soon.

Sudhir Kumar and Sushil became close pals during the shoot of 'Dosti'. He was around two and half years younger to Sushil and his full name was Sudhir Kumar Sawant. He was a Maharashtrian and lived in Lalbaag, Parel. Sudhir and Sushil were family friends who often visited each other's homes. Sudhir's family consisted of his parents, one elder sister Shobha and one younger sister Chitra. He passed S.S.C. from the Aryabhattam School. His maternal uncle (mama) Prabhakar was the chief makeup man at V.Shantaram's company 'Rajkamal Kalamandir'.