Sushil Kumar

Shifted to Mumbai in the year 1953 and started living in a chawl in Mahim.

Along with 'Abana' he acted in another Sindhi movie 'Insaaf Kitthe Aa' which was released in 1959.

Given the 'Maharashtra State's Best Actor Award' .

He passed B.A. from the Jay Hind College. Sometime later he got the job of a flight purser in Air India. Though I was seen as a flight purser in a scene which was shot inside an airplane in Dev Anand's 1973 movie 'Heera Panna' he still never looked back at films. He served for Air India from the year 1971 to 2003 and then took retirement. During his service he saw the whole world. He married my childhood friend Koshi Kotwani who was my neighbor in Mahin and was from a well to do family. Kotwani's had a family business of dry fruits and an Ice factory in Mumbai's Masjid Bandar area.

Father's name was Kishen Chand Somaya and mother was called Tulsi Bai.

Was rumored to be murdered in the 1960's. But this information proved to be false when his where abouts were uncovered in 2014.

Born on 4th July 1945 in Karachi.

Rajshri Productions' owner Mr.Tarachand Badjatya was looking for two teenage boys of 17-18 for the main lead of 'Dosti' which he was planning to produce as the remake of 1959 release Bangla movie 'Lalu-Bhulu' in Hindi. His daughter Rajshri had already seen Sushil in the movie 'Phool Bane Angaare' and she was very much impressed with my work. She suggested Sushil's name to her father and one fine day, a person from Rajshri Productions came searching for Sushil at home.

Family migrated to Gujarat's Navsari city where they started our dry fruits business afresh.

Kishen Lal Bajaj lived in Mumbai and worked as an extra in films. He offered Sushil mother to get me roles in films against a 20% commission which my mother happily accepted.

Tarachand Badjatya had started planning for his next production with Sudhir Kumar and Sushil in the main lead again and we received our salary Rs.300/- every month which used to be a handsome amount at that time.Meanwhile Sudhir was offered a role by the 'A.V.M.' company of Madras in the movie 'Ladla' (1966) for which he got the contract with 'Rajshri Productions' cancelled. He even paid the compensation as per the terms of the contract to the 'Rajshri Productions'. Sushil was in Moscow at that time for the promotion of 'Dosti' which was to be shown in the 'International Children Film Festival -1965' being held there. Sudhir Kumar's action compelled 'Rajshri Productions' to abandon the idea of making another film with both of us actors and the company had to cancel the contract with Sushil as well. Bur Tarachand ji promised Sushil that he would call him soon.

His only child, a daughter Kiran lives in Florida in U.S. Her husband Ravi Nagpal is a software engineer. Sushil and his wife live in Mumbai though they often visit their daughter as well. His younger brother, sister, his cousins and their families are all in Mumbai and the majority of them stay nearby around Chembur itself.

Debut movie as a child artist was 'Abana', made in Sindhi in the year 1958.This was actress Sadhna's debut movie as well. 'Abana' was directed by Dharam Kumar who, with the screen name of Deepak Asha had played the main villain in the Lahore production 'Paraaye Bass Me' (1946).

Filmography always mixed up with another actor named "Sushil Kumar"".

Signed a 3 years contract with the company Rajshri for Rs.300/- per month salary."