Alok Nath

Some Lesser Known Facts About Alok Nath

• Does Alok Nath smoke?: Yes

• Does Alok Nath drink alcohol?: Yes

• Alok Nath’s father and grandfather both were doctors, so he was also expected to become one. But he was not interested in the profession.

• He was an active participant in school and college skits. Eventually, he developed an interest in acting and joined the ‘National School of Drama’ to pursue a degree in theatre.

  

• Before coming to Mumbai, Alok Nath was an active theatre artist in Delhi.

  

•  Till 1986 he only played small and insignificant roles in Films. Lack of work and money led him to act in ‘Buniyad’ (1986), in which he played the character of an old man despite he was just twenty years old.

• He was very much appreciated for his work in Buniyad, resulting in more film offers for the parts of fathers rather than the roles of his age.

• Alok Nath has acted as a Father to the actors who were younger to him, equal to his age and almost double of his age.

• Alok Nath wanted to become a film star. But he was caught in the image of playing the role of fathers in the films. He wanted to break the stereotype. So he did a film Kamagni (1987) as the lead actor with Tina Munim (Ambani). But the film could not do well for his image and was a big flop.

• Alok Nath had played Amitabh Bachchan‘s Father in ‘Agneepath’ (1990) when Amitabh Bachchan was 48 and he was just 34.

• Alok Nath has only once refused to play a father’s role when he was asked to play Jeetendra‘s father.

• In Dec 2013, when Alok Nath was completely inactive as an actor got his name trending on social media as some netizens had created a series of a funny meme on him.

• In his almost a four decades-long career, he has worked in around 500 films.