Jayant was tall and had a deep voice. He acted in many Indian films under his stage name Jayant. He worked in Vijay Bhatt's first Gujarati movie Sansaar Leela (1933). The name Jayant was also given to him by director and producer Vijay Bhatt. He played lead role in many movies like Bombay Mail (1935), Challenge (1936), His Highness (1937) and State Express (1938).[2]
Jayant died on 2 June 1975 at age 60 in Bombay two months prior to the release of his son Amjad Khan's most successful movie Sholay. He died due to throat cancer.[1] He was buried at Naupada Qabarstan of Bandra West in Mumbai.
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^Kuldip Singh (25 August 1992). "Obituary: Amjad Khan". The Independent (UK newspaper). Archived from the original on 12 May 2015. Retrieved 12 October 2023. The son of Zakaria Khan, a Pathan from the North-West Frontier Province and popular Bollywood character actor of the Fifties and Sixties (screen name Jayant), Khan was born in Bombay in 1943.
^ abV N Kakar (11 February 2004). "Acting MP". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 4 November 2012. Retrieved 11 February 2022.