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• Has acted in over 300 movies and written dialogues for around 80 films.
• Taught civil engineering at the M. H. Saboo Siddik College of Engineering in Byculla from 1970 until 1975.
• Dilip Kumar discovered him when he was acting in a play at the college and helped him make his debut in Daag (1973).
• Two-time winner of the Filmfare Award for Best Dialogue.
• Has been nominated for the Filmfare Best Comedian Award ten times, winning it once for Baap Numbri Beta Dus Numbri (1990).