Growing Up Years with Anupam Kher

The very moment one hears meaningful and inspiring phrases like ‘Life must be understood backwards; but…. It must be lived forwards’, ‘An event or an action fails. A person never fails!’, ‘One should celebrate his or her failure. That takes out the fear of failure from your mind’, Read More">we know that the person who hasRead More

The very moment one hears meaningful and inspiring phrases like 'Life must be understood backwards; but.... It must be lived forwards', 'An event or an action fails. A person never fails!', 'One should celebrate his or her failure. That takes out the fear of failure from your mind', we know that the person who has quoted these is not any ordinary person. And the person is none other than our today's birthday boy Anupam Kher.

On the eve of his birthday, Satish Sundaresan of Bollywood Hungama spent some precious moments with the man himself and saw him becoming nostalgic even as he shared with us some of his most vivid memories in the form of some rare photographs, over to you, birthday boy…

"The only way that I would like to term this picture is 'Timeless'. They are my wonderful parents, who have taught me and made me the person and the individual that I am today."

“This is the picture of the lady whom I worship the most in my life- my most beloved mother. Her name is Dulari.”

"This is the picture of the lady whom I worship the most in my life- my most beloved mother. Her name is Dulari."

“Even though I may have achieved success, but what keeps me grounded are such memories. The picture reflects the years 1981 and 1982, which was my first home. I still remember the address, Read More">which read as ‘Kherwadi-Kher Road-Kher Nagar-Bandra’. This picture on the right was my second house where I stayed from 1982 to 1983Read More

"Even though I may have achieved success, but what keeps me grounded are such memories. The picture reflects the years 1981 and 1982, which was my first home. I still remember the address, which read as 'Kherwadi-Kher Road-Kher Nagar-Bandra'.

This picture on the right was my second house where I stayed from 1982 to 1983 at Shastri Nagar. The person is the picture is landlord Eknath with his now grown up son."

“This picture was taken during the time I was going for a screen test for the film Shankrabarnam. The role eventually was done by Girish Karnad.”

"This picture was taken during the time I was going for a screen test for the film Shankrabarnam. The role eventually was done by Girish Karnad."

“This picture has me with my dearest wife Kirron Kher. This picture was taken during the performance of Chandanpur Ki Champabai (in the year 1982), which was directed by Nadira Babbar.”

"This picture has me with my dearest wife Kirron Kher. This picture was taken during the performance of Chandanpur Ki Champabai (in the year 1982), which was directed by Nadira Babbar."