Satish Shah had a similar problem to Asrani, who passed two weeks before Shah, as they weren’t conventionally good looking, in fact they were odd looking, by Hindi movie standards

The year was 1984, We had one TV channel — Doordarshan . DD had popped into our lives– for want of any alternative, we gorged on it, whatever fare was offered. Eighties British sitcoms like Yes Minister, Fawlty Towers and To the Manor Born, regaled us in the evenings — and our own homegrown Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi. Shafi Inamdar and Swaroop Sampat gave us the base, as a typical middle-class family in Bombay, dealing with everyday problems. But it was one Satish Shah, playing 55 different parts in the 55 episodes that the show ran, who gave us the gravy, the icing on the cake — different and varied finely etched cha

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