Deccanwood superstar Adanan Sajid khan interview with Times of India taken by Serish Nanisetti.  the details of interview are below.

 

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Gullu Dada, chai and Charminar
interview by Serish Nanisetti


Adnan Sajid Khan aka Gullu Dada is the lovable comic goon of Deccani movies.
Hyderabad Times gets him talking about the city, the movies and life...

Salam Alaikum Gullu bhai,“ says a young man breaking into a broad smile as he recognises the not-so-young-man in denims, grey shiny shirt and white Jeetendra chappal.Within no time, the Irani café beside Charminar, is full of avid young men with their cellphones at the ready , clicking selfies with Adnan Sajid Khan aka Gullu Dada. A lady in burqa walks up to him and her voice quivers with excitement, “Mein aur merey bachchey aap ke bohot badey fan hai. Ye aap ke film ke sab dialogue bol sakta hai,“ she says and pushes her son to pose with the actor as she clicks away .
“There is a lot of difference between my onscreen persona and the way I look in real life. That is the reason why it takes some time for people to recognise me.But once someone spots me or sees from close quarters, then I get mobbed. A few days back in Mumbai, I got mobbed in Andheri and Ghatkopar,“ says Adnan Khan as he sips chai in an Irani café.

Then we run. Run to the car parked near Charminar, and a traffic constable stops him with a `Salam Alaikum Gullu bhai' and asks him to come out of the car. “Gullu bhai ek photo? Please,“ he says and hugs him. Then a fruit vendor grabs him and passes his phone to a pal for a photo. “Mera original naam khatam ho gaya,“ he says, with a wry smile.

A man who aspired to be a singer, Adnan Khan never thought he would be an actor. It changed one day in 2007, when he went to meet his friend Aziz Naseer on Road No. 12, Banjara Hills, who was then working on F&M (Fun and Musti). “I walked in and asked for Aziz and RK who spoke with me followed me to his room and said `Yeh kaisa rehenga re Gullu Dada ke role mein? Can you act,' asked RK, and I said, `A little bit'. And within 15 minutes I became part of the movie,“ says Adnan Khan and plays a clip on his office computer. 

A pudgy man with pan stained teeth, kohllined droopy round eyes is sitting on a chair with the backdrop of Amitabh Bachchan's poster from Sarkar . “Yeh chunnewala pagal ho gaya. Merku leke film banata kehte isku do mu pe, do g pe de ke nikal,“ he tells his sidekick Shiva with an arched eyebrow. The Gullu Dada series has been such a rage that four parts have been made to audience applause. “When I am doing a role, I rehearse in front of the mirror till late into the night,“ he says and lays out the USP of Deccani movies. 

“It is the language, which is neither Hindi nor Urdu. It's a combination of the way we speak, the words we use, the accent and the roll of the tongue. Sit in an Irani café on the other side of the Musi and you can hear it when a few friends from the neighbourhood meet. The language is not spoken with strangers. Beside that, I know the lanes and bylanes very well and our movies are shot in real locations, so people can relate to them intimately .People come to watch our movies and have fun. There is a message also, like the latest Stepney, had a message that extramarital affairs are not good,“ says Adnan Khan, a Pathan, whose family emigrated to India about five generations back and lived on in Afzalgunj.

“I have been part of 12 movies that have been made in Hyderabad with the Deccani lingo. And most of them complete 50 days in at least a dozen theatres in Nizam Circuit,“ he says, “Sometimes I am asked to sing. Sometimes I am asked to repeat dialogues,“ he says.

Not bad for an actor who flunked his 10th class exam and dropped out of Methodist School in Abids. “I watched Sholay in 1975 at Ramakrishna when I was nine and began telling its story and dialogues right from the opening guitar riffs for friends and family ,“ says Adnan Khan, as he hums the famous sax and guitar track of Sholay.

Now, as his movies get released in Ramakrishna theatre, and audience flock to watch their favourite comic goon, the circle of life seems to be complete for Adnan Sajid Khan aka Gullu Dada.