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Some Lesser Known Facts About Talat Hussain

• When Talat Hussain was 17 years old, his father asked him about what he wanted to become when he grew up and Talat told him that he wanted to do a Master’s in Literature and then become a professor and also a writer side by side.
• As his parents were Radio personalities and knew a lot of people from the entertainment industry as well, Talat Hussain was a little interested in entering the acting field; however, his mother never wanted him to get into acting as she thought he would become a brat.
• His mother wanted him to join the civil services.
• While he was studying in school, Talat was keen to join the Radio drama team and somehow convinced his mother to allow him to join the drama group of the radio.
• Before he was about to audition for his role in a Radio drama, Talat Hussain’s mother asked the producer of the Radio drama to fail Talat in his auditions to which the coach said no.
• The producer of the Radio drama told Talat’s mother that if she wanted to stop Talad then she had to prevent him from coming to the auditions which he somehow did and gave his auditions.
• Talat topped the auditions by having the highest marks which made him become part of the Radio drama.
• In 1964, Talat Hussain formally entered the industry for the radio drama titled ‘Mohammad Bin Qasim.’
• The work at Radio Pakistan was not enough to make ends meet which made Hussain get a job at Lyric Cinema where he used to be the gatekeeper.
• One day the owner of the Lyric Cinema noticed that Talat Hussain could speak in English fluently and that day Talat got his first promotion where he got shifted to the booking office from being just a gatekeeper at the Lyric Cinema.
• In 1972, Talat moved to London with his wife to pursue an acting course. To make ends meet, Talat used to work as a waiter and dishwasher in different cafes in London.
• In 2005, during the shoot of the Norwegian film titled ‘Import Eksport,’ Talat had to learn Norwegian to play the character of a desi Norwegian. He was quoted saying in an interview that
  

  It took me two months to train myself in Norwegian and whenever I was delivering a line I had to keep the English translation in mind.”

• In 2010, Talat Hussain caught a skin allergy which later developed complications due to the wrong treatment by a local cosmetologist who gave him a bad dose of Cortisone which caused the condition to worsen. He couldn’t even sit and walk properly or even light up hiS cigarette. He was quoted saying in an interview that
  

  There is a new breed of doctors in Defence (Karachi), who call themselves “skin specialists” but they are cosmetologists and not dermatologists. I should have been more careful and so should everyone else.”

• In 2014, Pakistani writer Huma Mir wrote a book titled ‘Yeh Hain Talat Hussain’ which was entirely based on Talat Hussain’s life journey.