Even Charlie Chaplin and Laurel and Hardy never felt like they were bound by the image of the comedians. I have no inspiration to be an Amitabh Bachchan, you see. вЂњPeople ask me why I have saddled myself with this image of a country bumpkin comedian. I met him for this interview when I went to Kolhapur where he was shooting Tere Mere Beech MeinВ and a host of comedians from Bombay in a 43 day nonstop shooting schedule. He is witty and airs his views with candor and without any inhibitions whatsoever. He unwinds once you start talking to him in Marathi and then it is very difficult to stop him. To engage Dada in a conversation has always been in itself a delight. To make the film attractive to the non Maharashtrian audience, Dada also roped in Amjad Khan to play a powerful parallel role in the film. Not content with his brilliant innings in Marathi films, Dada also set out to try his luck in Hindi films by launching his first film in Hindi- Tere Mere Beech Mein,В with him in the lead and Usha Chavan as the leading lady. Also read: At-вЂtenвЂ™-tion students! Abhishek Bachchan wishes 10th graders in his вЂdhaansuвЂ™ Dasvi avatar!Дada even made it to the Guinness book of World Records as the only filmmaker in the world to have churned out jubilee hits one after the other in a short span of 10 years. In all he had made nine films in Marathi and two or three in Hindi every one of them did rake in gold at the box office.

With a rags to riches story behind him, Dada Kondke, the comedy king of Marathi Cinema was the richest producer-director in Bombay. His is the kind of face which would inspire even a layman to take to acting in films convincingly that if Dada Kondke can, even I can. It is a tribute to the late actor-producer -director, who has not only produced and directed but also acted in several films in Hindi as well as Marathi. The interview appeared 39 years ago in a womenвЂ™s weekly. Today, is the 24th death anniversary of the late funster Dada Kondke, and we reproduce an interview with DADA KONDKE by senior journalist JYOTHI VENKATESH for Cine Blitz.

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