The 65-year-old started early when he was only 12 years old, and he played in an orchestra with his friends. You have to meet and listen to him to know the passion he has towards his profession. He has composed over 8,000 advertisement jingles, but smiles, “now I have become selective”. Rajat is also credited with some of the most memorable ad jingles over the years, including ‘Yeh Dil Maange More’ and ‘Yeh Pyaas Hai Badi’ (Pepsi), ‘Thanda Matlab’ (Coca-Cola), ‘Karlo Duniya Mutthi Mein’ (Reliance), ‘Aaya Mausam Thande Thande’ (Dermi Cool) and ‘Oonchi Log Oonchi Pasand’ (Manikchand). Besides, he already knew so much about me and had no issues adapting the character Paresh Rawal is a close friend - we have done theatre together for 30 years - and he readily agreed to play the part of Baburao.
He’s won the National Award twice in the Best Music category for Sudhir Mishra’s Dharavi (1992) and Pankaj Advani’s Sunday (1993). Rajat also worked on the music of films like Parinda (1989) and 1942 A Love Story (1994). The music director is the son of prolific veteran composer, Dilip Dholakia, and has composed music and background score for several films like Mirch Masala (1987), Holi (1988), Dharavi (1998), Firaaq (2009), Is Raat Ki Subah Nahin (1996), among others. I came to know about it later,” Rajat avers. “Paresh Rawal is also a dear friend, we have been doing theatre together for last 30 years, and he readily agreed to play the part since he knew so much about me and had no issues adapting to the character. It was as if it just clicked, to him, I was ‘Baburao’. I used to work with him and he studied me with painstaking perfection. I was associated with the late Neeraj Vora, writer of the film, for a long time. I was also distrait and had a rustic style of talking and during the time, I used to sport those thick glasses. “I was quite raw and lacked sophisticated mannerism. Juku’s favourite catchphrase ‘Arre baba’ became Baburao’s signature line in Hera Pheri even the character’s look was inspired by Juku, who tells Mirror that he did not mind that Baburao was being based on him and how the team studied his manner of speech, his style, mannerisms, et al, meticulously for it. Juku was working with writer-actor Snehal Daabbi - who had written the film along with the late Neeraj Vora - and had also played the character of ‘Raapchik Maal’ in it. Yes, meet the real-life Babu Bhaiyya - Rajat Dholakia AKA Juku, who incidentally also hails from movie-land, being a renowned composer in films, theatre and advertisements. In a comedy - which was remake of a Malayalam blockbuster - that also had names like Akshay Kumar and Suniel Shetty associated with it, Rawal’s turn as the irate oldie, garage owner and landlord managed to stand tall and how.Įnough of the big screen Baburao, when we are basically here to reveal that this fan-favourite character was modelled on an Amdavadi. Twenty one years since he first arrived on the silver screen in filmmaker Priyadarshan’s cult comic caper, Hera Pheri, the Paresh Rawal-immortalised character continues to pop up on the internet with some of his wittiest and hilarious dialogues including ‘Utha le re baba, utha le. Clad in a nondescript baniyan (vest)-dhoti and indescribable thick glasses (a look which went on to become one of the most characteristic features of the character) with an unforgettably meme-worthy accent, Baburao Ganpatrao Apte was a character written for the ages.
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