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| Danny grew up in the lap of Himalayas in the picturesque state of Sikkim. But for his mother's entreaties, Danny would have been an army officer! He had even cleared the Armed Forces Military College but his mother dissuaded him and he ended up joining the Film & Television Institute in Pune instead.
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| Danny even taught Yoga at the film institute to his juniors like Asha Sachdev, Shabana Azmi and Romesh Sharma. |
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| It was in Screen that Danny read about Gulzar remaking the Bengali hit Apan Jan. Realising the tremendous potential of the youth film, he applied for the role that had already gone to Shatrughan Sinha. |
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| Danny promptly located a dummy maker in a Bandra shanty and learnt the mechanics of the puppet that would remain perched on his shoulder all through the film. His dedication paid rich dividends and the film was his first release and a hit.
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| When Danny approached B R Chopra for the role of the aging, crippled, sadistic husband of Zeenat Aman in Dhund, he was told that the role was taken by his friend Amitabh Bachchan. But as luck would have it, his Anand became a hit and he wasn't keen on playing negative roles any longer. The role went to Shatrughan Sinha who didn't report on time for shoot on the very first day and finally it landed in Danny's lap.
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| Being the top baddie, Danny was the chosen one for Ramesh Sippy's Sholay. But he had already alloted his dates to Feroz Khan for Dharmatma which was to be shot in Afghanistan and there was no way he could have backed out of it |
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| Danny Dengzongpa started his career with singing Indian and Nepali songs and acting in Indian and Nepali movies. He nursed an ambition to join the Indian Army, and won the Best Cadet award from West Bengal and participated in the Republic Day parade. In an interview he once said that he had qualified for the prestigious Armed Forces Medical College. However after the Sion-Indian War of 1962, his mother pleaded with him to give up his ambition after several people of their village were killed. Danny then enrolled at the National Film institute in Pune.
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