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Comedy actor Jaspal
Bhatti
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Jaspal Bhatti was born on 3 March 1955 at Amritsar in
a Rajput Sikh family.
He graduated from Punjab
Engineering College,
Chandigarh in
Punjab,
as an electrical
engineer.
He was very famous for his street plays like his Nonsense
Club during
his college days. Most of these plays were spoofs ridiculing
corruption in society. Before venturing into television, he was a cartoonist for
the The
Tribune newspaper
in Chandigarh.
He is most well known for his
television series Flop Show and mini capsules Ulta Pulta which ran on
Doordarshan in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Jaspal Bhatti's satire on the Punjab
police Mahaul
Theek Hai (1999)
was his first directorial venture for a full-length feature film in his native Punjabi
language.
It was well received amongst audience for its simple and honest humour. He
played the role of Jolly Good Singh, a guard, in the movie Fanaa.
He played a comical college principal in Koi
Mere Dil Se Poochhe.
He also starred in the comedy Punjabi film Jijaji.
Bhatti acted in Hindi Movie Aa
Ab Laut Chalen with
Kadar Khan in 1999.
In his later years, Jaspal Bhatti
set up a training school[2] and a studio in Mohali near Chandigarh called "Joke
Factory".
Bhatti married Savita Bhatti on 24
March 1985 and has a son, Jasraj Bhatti, and a daughter, Raabiya Bhatti.
Actor and satirist Jaspal Bhatti (57) was killed in a road
accident in the wee hours
On 25 October 2012,
when his Honda Accord car being driven by his son Jasraj Bhatti rammed into a
tree near Shahkot in Jalandhar.
Bhatti was on his way to address media for promotion of his new
film "Power Cut". He planned to distribute 'pirated CDs" to media in an attempt
to criticise the piracy. Surilie Gautam, lead actress of the movie was already
engaged to Bhatti's son Jasraj and in the next couple of months they were
expected to get married. Surilie is younger sister of Yami Gautam, key actress
of famous Hindi film "Vicky Donor" and daughter of vice president of PTC
Channel, Mukesh Gautam.
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