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Kader Khan

1937 - 2018

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Kader Khan (22 October 1937 – 31 December 2018) was an Indian actor, screenwriter and film producer. As an actor, he appeared in over 300 Bollywood films after his debut in the 1973 film Daag, starring Rajesh Khanna, as a prosecuting attorney. He was a prolific actor and screenwriter in Hindi cinema in the period late 1970s to 90s and wrote dialogues for 200 films. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kader Khan has received more than 8,604,341 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Kader Khan is the 3,460th most popular actor (up from 4,079th in 2019), the 100th most popular biography from Afghanistan (up from 103rd in 2019) and the most popular Afghan Actor.

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  • 8.6M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.33

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 37

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.79

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.26

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Kader Khan ranks 3,460 out of 13,578. Before him are Brenda Strong, Željko Ivanek, Hans Clarin, Elizabeth Wilson, Jeff Conaway, and Troy Donahue. After him are Alexander Pschill, Riccardo Cucciolla, Aleksandr Abdulov, Sam J. Jones, Özcan Deniz, and Charley Chase.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Kader Khan ranks 280. Before him are Gary Hocking, Coen Moulijn, Francisco Xavier do Amaral, Lenny Wilkens, Cheng Yen, and Shirley Eaton. After him are Márta Rudas, Alfredo Rojas, José Sacristán, Ludvík Daněk, Andrija Anković, and Akram Aylisli. Among people deceased in 2018, Kader Khan ranks 242. Before him are Geoff Emerick, Károly Palotai, Bradford Dillman, Mohammed Karim Lamrani, Tomás Maldonado, and Claribel Alegría. After him are Oliver Ivanović, Marijan Beneš, Jean Bourgain, Theo-Ben Gurirab, Alexander Zakharchenko, and Elias M. Stein.

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In Afghanistan

Among people born in Afghanistan, Kader Khan ranks 100 out of 177. Before him are Shah Shujah Durrani (1785), Amrullah Saleh (1972), Heliocles I (-200), Kamran Mirza (1512), Zalmay Khalilzad (1951), and Ayub Khan (1857). After him are Amr ibn al-Layth (null), Qabus (1000), Vima Takto (100), Akhtar Mansour (1968), Atiq Rahimi (1962), and Muhammad of Ghazni (998).

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Among ACTORS In Afghanistan

Among actors born in Afghanistan, Kader Khan ranks 1. After him are Leena Alam (1978), and Marina Golbahari (1989).

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Television and Movie Roles

Dulhe Raja
K.K. Singhania
Poor Raja opens a fast foot restaurant right opposite a five star hotel run by its owner Singhania, earning his wrath. The wealthy hotel owner uses all his influence to remove Raja, but in vain. Things get worse for the wealthy man, when his daughter Kiran wants to marry the poor hotelier. The wealthy man refuses, leading to a confrontation and a condition - which Raja fulfills, he becomes rich virtually overnight, and proposes for the hand of Kiran. The wealthy hotelier reluctantly accepts him as his son-in-law, only to have Kiran elope with a man named Rahul.
Jul 10th 19986.3 / 10
Hero No. 1
Dhanraj Malhotra
Rajesh and Meena fall in love and want to get married. But Meena's grandfather rejects Rajesh without seeing him because of a terrible encounter with Rajesh's father. Rajesh pretends to be a servant and finds employment in Meena's house to try and win her family over.
Feb 21st 19976.2 / 10
Coolie No. 1
Hoshiyar Chand
Raju is a poor coolie who falls in love with a rich girl. He pretends to be rich and tells one big lie after another to marry her.
Jun 30th 19956.1 / 10