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This is my new set at Flickr.com and you are seeing these pictures because they were given to me by his son Manu Kashmiri.. I had them scanned and am now sharing this great actors legacy with the rest of the world..

Nawab Kashmiri stayed at Khatau Bhuvan Wodehouse road ..and owned a palatial entire floor of the A wing the the the B wing of the same floor belonged to Mr Dossabhai Kanga father of late Keith Kanga founder of Atomic Forest band ..

My father Mohomed Shakir came to live here as tenant when Nawab Sab had left for his heavenly abode.. and the house was under the control of Manu Kashmiris grandmother Ammi .

Munnawar Kashmir's maternal grandmother Ammi was the daughter in law of the second son of Nawab Wajid Ali Shah, and Munnawar Kashmiris father was late Nawab Kashmiri doyen of the Indian film industry contemporary of Dilip Kumar Sohrab Modi and others ..

Nawab Kashmiri had removed his entire 32 teeth in order to play a role of a old father in a film called Yahudi..and my father Mohomed Shakir my mother Shamim Shakir daughter of Daroga Nabban Saab of Lucknow descendant of poet Mir Anis stayed as tenants at their palatial house at Khatau Bhuvan now Jony Castle..Wodehoue Road Colaba.

Nawab Kashmiri Saab had bought this house and called his children from Kolkata in 1947..

He passed away in 1954

When they came to stay at Nawab Kashmiri Saabs house Wodehouse road , the entire house was under Ammi Nawab Saabs mother in law , the matriarch of the Nawab Kashmiri family , Nawab Saab had three children Akthar Baji a daughter , Anwar and Munnawar two sons..who had initially been bought up in Kolkatta at Wesley Street .

The Nawab Kashmiri family sold ther palatial Wodehouse Road flat 6 to 7 bedrooms servants quarters , Akthar Baji got married in Karachi and Munnawar moved to Juhu with his wife Vijay.

Anwar Kashmiri rugby buff and his Christian wife and children migrated to Australia.

Munnawar has been the link to my childhood my past and my education my upbrnging was the result of his sister Akthar we called Akthar Baji ..with due respect.. she educated me at Private European School affiliated to a Methodist John The Baptist Church opp Usha Sadan Colaba.

Later in 1963 she enrolled me at Holy Name High School..I am a product of her love and perseverance , though she hailed from a blue blooded royal family she was humble kind and loving, she loved my family the most , and Munni my sister and me were her blue eyed kids..

The Nawab Kashmiri house played host to Maulana Kabban Saab grandfather of Kalbe Jawad Saab and Maulana Kalbe Abid Saab his father was a welcome guest at their homes .. Kalbe Sadiq Saab to came here once in a while..

The Film Industry too dropped in and late Begum Akhtar treated Nawab Kashmiri's children as her family ..there used to be ghazal recitals at their house ...


A lot of memories of my childhood are etched in this house , memories that rewaken each time I meet Mannu Bhaiyya , Munnawar Kashmiri and his wife Vijay


. Mannu Bhaiyya and Vijay have a very pretty charming daughter Sabha in America.

Akthar Baji has three loving children Ali Zehra and Abbas and I am told has never forgotten any of us ..she studied law at St Xavier's College and got her initial schooling at Convent of jesus and Mary ,colleged in Loretto college Calcutta .


Ammi Manus Bhaiyyas grand mothers name Sheryayar Bahu Suriya Mahal Nawab Imtiaz Begum

Manu Kashmiris mothers name - Nawab Hashmi Begum

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