Alyque padamsee biography of michael jackson

Indian actor

Alyque Padamsee (5 March 1928^[1] – 17 November 2018)^[2] was an Indian theatre personality and ad film maker.

He played Muhammad Ali Jinnah in the 1982 British period film Gandhi.

Besides being involved in Indian theatre as an actor and producer, Padamsee was an advertising professional who once headed the advertising company Lintas Bombay.^[3][4][5]

Early life and education

Padamsee was born in Bombay in 1928 into a traditional IsmailiKhoja Muslim family hailing from the Kutch region of Gujarat.^[6] The ancestors of the Padamsee family originally belonged to the Charan community of Kutch who later converted to Islam.^[7] The family had been settled in the nearby Kathiawar region for some generations; Padamsee's grandfather, who had been the sarpanch (headman) of Vāghnagar, a village in Bhavnagar district, was famous for having distributed his entire granary to the village