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In Delhi, a chance brush with Salim Durani | Cricket News

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In Delhi, a chance brush with Salim Durani | Cricket News

NEW DELHI: A drooping blazer hangs from the spartan shelf above the bed. On the bedside table, an unpretentious lighter with a single cigarette stuck to it like newbies in an unfamiliar city clinging to each other for comfort and safety. In a pandemic where hotels had to be turned into hospitals not too long ago, a just-opened 50-bed hospital in the urban village of Masoodpur in Delhi’s south west district, doubles up as a hotel for purposes of inauguration. ‘Impatient’ in Room 007 is an 85-year-old going on 86, but insists he is still 83 and would reduce that even further if no one was looking. Salim Durani is in town. “Yeh Corona hai toh kya hua, dosti zyaada purani hai,” he says, “They could have invited any politician, but instead chose to call sportsmen — me and boxer Vijender Singh. There is no way I wouldn’t have come.” Like they always said about him, Durani sat as unaffected alongside royalty as when he broke bread with the commoner or shared a smoke with a pauper. “I don’t go out often. Abhi naa, because of age my back is going. That’s why I wear a brace,” he says as he begins to raise his shirt to show it to you. You have to stop him, because old age and its entrapments is something you cannot associate with the man. Tall, light-eyed and handsome, almost louche in his bearing once, Durani may today look a pale shadow of his former self but his eyes, those bags below them notwithstanding, continue to blaze with indefatigable life, a strange zest and often, with a flicker of memory. “Arrey, yaad ka kyaa hai,” he laughs before lapsing into a short raspy cough. “Yaadein toh bahut hain. Jo kabhi yaad aata hai, usko yaad kar leta hoon.” That cigarette will soon need lighting up. Born in Kabul, baby steps in Karachi and lived and loved in India, Durani is Indian cricket’s original rake – his flamboyant, maverick persona not the construct of a PR concept but snatched from the air and hewn from the earth itself. It lasts longer, and rubs off on you too. The first of the Indian game’s mavericks, it is predictably futile to ask him to break-down his famous six-hitting technique for us. Was it the wrist, the shoulder or the forearms? Or did he read the ball way too early? He looks at you blankly, making the query look stupid when it is not. Asking the same was perhaps an impossible task in the 1960s as well. How does an erratic genius explain his being erratic, or his genius? “I used to play with a 2.4 bat, single rubber, Kashmir willow,” he suddenly says. Compared to the current-day thickness of the blade averaging in the high 5’s, it must have resembled a toothpick but it famously had the desired effect. “Whenever I played in India, it was with Mehtab Special. Bombay mein banti thi,” he says smiling, almost as if revealing a secret. This IPL edition, when the obscene volume of sixes in the UAE is causing disquiet about the unequal nature of the contest, it is somewhat ironic that we talk of the format where he is often looked at with longing. The current season’s Six on Demand mantra, was originally coined for him. Does he think he was born in the wrong era? “Farak itna hi hai, today’s cricket has more chances,” is his cryptic response. Make of that what you will. The famous symbiotic relationship between Durrani and his fans is a source of merriment among his much-younger minders. “Daddu key peeche hamesha ladkiyon ki fauj hoti thi,” one of them needles. Daddu Durani is unfazed at the ‘allegation’, neither blush nor bluster, just a longer drag of the cigarette. There was always a danger to Durani. “Babu Ram used to call me ‘Bhidhu’, kyunki mein kissi sey bhi bhidh jaata tha.” Not to be confused with the good-natured Mumbai-ya ‘bidu’, Durani was referring to film director BR Ishara’s deeper tapping of the man’s personality that made him cast the cricketer in a 1973 film, Charitra. “The tall light-eyed Salim Durani was cast in the role of Ashok, a rich playboy who has a different woman in his bed every night,” writes film journalist Karishma Upadhay in ‘Parveen Babi: A Life’, the recent biography of the late actress and Durani’s co-star in the film. Upadhyay recounts a Filmfare interview back then, where he admits that though he still loved the game, even after a decade of playing, it wasn’t paying the bills. A sign of his undeniable star appeal, Durani, writes Upadhyay, was also approached by “Kamal Amrohi, of Pakeezah and Mahal fame, had wanted to make a film with the Pathan.” “I’m still a member of IPTA (Indian People’s Theatre Association),” Durani says with pride, making you wonder if you should continue talking about his cricketing days – how he got Sobers out but is still in awe of him – or dwell on Indian sport’s first sex symbol’s brush with celluloid stardom. Taken in, on an impulse, you invite him to home to tea forgetting all protocols that need to be followed. Durani smiles and nods, but his long-time minder, Mahesh pipes up, “Daddu wants to go to the Press Club before he leaves.” That’s when the fire in Salim Durani’s aged eyes turns into a twinkle.

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