Junior Mehmood

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A brief biography

Avijit Ghosh, Dec 9, 2023: The Times of India

Junior Mehmood was a child actor, dancing star of ’60s, ’70s

Junior Mehmood, whose puckish screen presence and carefree dance moves propelled him to stardom as a child actor in Hindi films in the late 1960s and early 1970s, passed away in Mumbai Dec 2023. He was 67.


“My father passed away at 2am following his battle with stomach cancer. He was in a critical condition for the last 17 days and had lost 35-40kg in a month,” his younger son Hasnain Sayyed told PTI.


The actor’s career spanned over 150 films in four decades but he is best remembered in ‘Brahmachari’ (1968), ‘Do Raaste’ (1969), ‘Aan Milo Sajna’ (1970), ‘Haathi Mere Saathi’ (1971) and ‘Caravan’ (1971).


Junior Mehmood (real name: Naeem Sayyed) emerged in the 1960s. The Bombay-born son of a railway engine driver was first noticed in Jeetendra’s ‘Suhaag Raat’ (1968). The film also starred top comic Meh mood, who took the child actor under his wings and gave him a catchy trade name, Junior Mehmood. The young performer stood out from the pack with his innate sense of rhythm and a sharp comic timing. The audience fell in love with him in Shammi Kapoor’s ‘Brahmachari’ where he mimicked and reprised his ustad’s famous lungi dance from the 1965 film, ‘Gumnaam’, ‘Hum kale hain to kya hua dilwale hain.’


When his teenage years ended, so did stardom. In the following decades, he got plenty of vacuous roles first as a young adult and then as a grown up. The actor also performed for his own troupe, Junior Mehmood Musical Nights, and directed and produced seven Marathi films. 
A few days ago, the ailing actor expressed a desire to meet fellow actor Sachin — one of the kids in Brahmachari — and ‘Jeetu-ji.’ His wish was fulfilled.