Ajit Khan acted in over two hundred movies over almost four decades.
15 Facts About Ajit Khan
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The family belonged to the Barozai clan of Pashtuns, Ajit Khan's ancestors having moved from Kandahar in Afghanistan to Shahjahanpur in Uttar Pradesh before settling in Hyderabad.
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Ajit Khan struggled to meet people and be accepted in any project, and in order to feed himself, he worked as an "extra" in several films.
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Ajit Khan did not meet with much success, and on the advice of Nana Bhai Bhat, he took the name "Ajit" meaning "indomitable" as his screen-name, but his luck did not greatly improve.
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Ajit Khan moved quite soon to second-lead roles, which he accepted because he had no other source of income.
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Ajit Khan, who ran away from home to Mumbai after selling his college books, started his career in films in the 1940s.
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Ajit Khan began with the 1946 movie Shahe Misra, acting opposite Geeta Bose, and did films such as Sikander, Hatimtai, Aap Beeti, Sone Ki Chidiya, Dholak and Chanda Ki Chandni as leading hero, but flopped.
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Ajit Khan did the most films with Nalini Jaywant.
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Ajit Khan started a new innings in his career though he was an established hero in the fifties.
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Ajit Khan was presented in striking western attire, the "bold" checked suits, matching overcoats, white leather shoes, wide sunglasses, jewellery accessories etc.
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Ajit Khan was rarely portrayed doing any "dirty work" himself, rather relying on his army of henchmen for the task, with zero tolerance for any failures.
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Ajit Khan is still remembered for bringing the most famous villains in the history of Indian cinema to life.
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Ajit Khan's contemporaries include veteran actors like Amrish Puri, Amjad Khan, Pran and Prem Chopra.
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Ajit Khan's first wife, whom he married after a brief love affair, was an Anglo-Indian and a Christian.
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Ajit Khan married Shahida, a young lady of his own community and similar social background, in a match arranged by their parents in the usual Indian way.