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Meet Rajat Dholakia the man who inspired Hera Pheris ICONIC character Baburao Ganpatrao Apte

Meet Rajat Dholakia the man who inspired Hera Pheris ICONIC character Baburao Ganpatrao Apte

Hera Pheri (2000) is considered one of the greatest comedy films ever made. The script was tight, the treatment was unique and most importantly the characters were very well written and then later brought to life by the actors. While both Akshay Kumar and Suniel Shetty were too good as Raju and Shyam respectively Paresh Rawal took the cake. As Baburao Ganpatrao Apte he brought the house down.

Today we bring to you a mind-blowing trivia about Baburao that we bet you didn’t know. In this Bollywood Hungama special feature we shall unveil the identity of the person who served as the inspiration to this iconic character. And hes none other than Rajat Dholakia a popular composer of films, theatre and ads. This rare trivia was shared with us by actor Snehal Daabbi during our exclusive interaction. Snehal said The role of Paresh Rawal Baburao Ganpatrao Apte was inspired by a music director in Gujarati theatre Rajat Dholakia. We used to call him Juku. So Juku was exactly like Baburao. Paresh Rawal, Neeraj Vora and I had decided in advance ki Baburao Juku jaisa hi hoga.So how did Rajat Dholakia react to their plan? Did he mind To which Snehal Daabbi said He knew we were basing the role on him. And nobody in Gujarati theatre used to mind about such things. I had done a role in a play where I imitated Arvind Joshi father of actor Sharman Joshi. Rajat Dholakia is the son of the prolific veteran composer Dilip Dholakia. He composed music and background score for several films like Holi 1988 Mirch Masala 1987 Dharavi 1998  Firaaq 2009  Is Raat Ki Subah Nahin 1996 etc and also worked in the music of films like Parinda 1989 and 1942 A Love Story 1994.


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