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Bollywood ignores ailing, broke veteran AK Hangal
Updated On: 20 January, 2011 02:02 PM IST | | Agencies
He played onscreen father, grandfather, great-grandfather and uncle to many top notch Bollywood actors, but today 95-year-old AK Hangal - the famous Rahim Chacha of Sholay - lies on a cot, struggling to be alive as his source of income has dried up and there is hardly any money for food or medicine.
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He played onscreen father, grandfather, great-grandfather and uncle to many top notch Bollywood actors, but today 95-year-old AK Hangal - the famous Rahim Chacha of Sholay - lies on a cot, struggling to be alive as his source of income has dried up and there is hardly any money for food or medicine.
Hangal, a professional tailor-turned-actor, lives a life of penury and is unable to afford his mounting medical bills while suffering from old age related problems. Tending to him is his son, Vijay, 75, a former Bollywood still photographer, who had to give up his work due to a severe back ailment.
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