“I had to be funny while hosting the countdown shows. That was my job.”

Indian actor and singer

Sajid Khan was an Indian actor and singer. Born in the Bombay slums and later adopted by filmmaker Mehboob Khan, he worked in film from the 1950s onward and appeared in a small number of Indian productions. He is best known for debuting in Mother India (1957) and later appearing in Son of India (1962). He then found wider recognition abroad, working in North American film and television, including Maya (1966) and its television version, and also in the Philippines and the United Kingdom. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, he was a teen idol in North America and the Philippines.