Guess Who: Today we will tell you about a great Bollywood actor who once used to supply jewellery. Later he also worked as a body double for films. Soon this actor also entered Hindi cinema and gave 121 hit films in his career.
This actor earned a lot of fame in the 70s and 80s. He travelled from rags to riches. This actor who once worked as a junior artist later became a star. Now he has wealth worth crores. Let’s find out who this actor is.
Jitendra used to help his father in his business
Here we are talking about veteran actor Jitendra. 82-year-old Jitendra was born on 7 April 1942 in Amritsar, Punjab. His father used to do business related to jewellery. The actor also used to help his father in this work and he used to supply jewellery.
Started in films as a body double
One day, while supplying jewellery, Jitendra met filmmaker V Shantaram. After this, Jitendra worked as the body double of the heroine in Shantaram’s film. Jitendra narrated an incident on Kapil Sharma’s show and said, ‘I was a junior artist during the shooting of the film ‘Sehra’. I had to flatter Shantaram ji, I was ready to do anything at that time. So one day, during the shooting in Bikaner, heroine Sandhya ji could not find a body double. Shantaram ji made me Sandhya ji’s body double and this is how I entered films.’
Gave 121 hit films, but never got the Best Actor award
Jitendra worked in many great films in his career. Jitendra gave around 121 hit films including ‘Parichay’, ‘Mawali’, ‘Tohfa’, ‘Himmatwala’ and ‘Karvan’. However, despite giving more than 100 hit films, Jitendra was never awarded the Best Actor award.
Now the net worth is 1512 crores
Jitendra is counted among the richest actors of Bollywood. He was last seen in the 2001 film ‘Kuch To Hai’. Jitendra, who once worked as a body double, is today the owner of crores. According to various media reports, the total net worth of the actor is Rs 1512 crore.