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      • Amol Palekar’s boy-next-door was relatable to the audience. “He said, ‘Go and look up the dictionary. But don’t go gaga over the review.’ But he also added: ‘Now that people have found you good, we can start with the serious training.’ For the next play, he really trained us hard,” Palekar recalled during an interview with The Telegraph.
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  2. Nov 24, 2021 · On Amol Palekar's 77th birthday, here's revisiting his relatable boy-next-door era in Hindi movies. The actor appeared in a plethora of roles -- Gol Maal, Chitchor and Chhoti Si Baat, among many others -- which were the antithesis of big, blustery Bollywood.

  3. Nov 24, 2023 · He resembled a boy-next-door who had accidentally strayed onto a movie set, and that is exactly how Palekar became an actor. Theatre doyen Satyadev Dubey spotted Palekar hanging around in a theatre while his girlfriend (now former wife) Chitra rehearsed.

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  4. Nov 24, 2022 · There is something supremely ordinary about Amol Palekar’s personality. He is that neighbour whom you would expect to help when your sink starts to leak suddenly. The boy next door roles came to Amol almost by right. When Basu Chatterjee’s Rajnigandha released in 1974, Amol was very active in experimental theatre.

  5. Dec 16, 2023 · He resembled a boy next door who had accidentally strayed onto a movie set, and that is exactly how Palekar became an actor. Theatre doyen Satyadev Dubey spotted Palekar hanging around in a theatre while his then-girlfriend Chitra rehearsed.

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  6. Nov 23, 2018 · Boy next door image. Amol Palekar was famous for his realistic performances of an everyday man. This was probably possible due to his own background. His association with Basu Chatterjee and with Hrishikesh Mukherjee was noteworthy. Amol Palekar and Basu Chatterjee. The blockbuster hit Rajanigandha started their association. Urban legend has it ...

  7. He gave the hero image as someone relatable instead of being the macho-manly image set up by his contemporary actors like Amitabh Bachchan. Amol Palekar came to be known as the 'boy next door.' The man, who didn't get the girl by becoming her knight in the shining armour but the guy who won her heart by making her laugh and the audience loved it.

  8. Nov 24, 2018 · It was at this juncture that Amol Palekar, “the boy next door”, landed into the film industry as the ordinary-looking, unassertive, shy and modest lead of Rajnigandha, which had Vidya Sinha,...