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John Cawas

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Early life
Film career
References

{{Use Indian English|date=May 2015}}{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2015}}{{Infobox person}}John Cawas (1910 – 4 October 1993^[1]) was a stuntman and actor in Hindi movies. Cawas made his debut in the Hindi film Hunterwali (1935), which became a career-defining movie for Fearless Nadia and Wadia Movietone. Cawas himself was famous for his performance of Tarzan in various movies.

Early life

Born in 1910 in Jabalpur in a Parsi family, Cawas pursued a career of professional body building and won the 1930 All-India Bodybuilding Championship.^[2]

Film career

The 1930s was an era of adventure movies for Hindi cinema, and Cawas got his first break as a swordsman in Hunterwali along with Nadia and Boman Shroff. This role along with similar roles in subsequent sequel remakes of this movie helped Cawas establish himself as a professional stuntman and actor.

His portrayal of Tarzan in Toofani Tarzan movie from Wadia Movietone was a career defining role for him.^[2]^[3]^[4]

References

1. ^{{cite news|title=John Cawas|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-john-cawas-1512514.html| work=Independent UK | accessdate=2011-12-27|location=London|first=Kuldip|last=Singh|date=23 October 1993}}
2. ^¹{{cite book|title=Bollyworld: Popular Indian cinema through a transnational lens|year=2005|publisher=SAGE|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DGtNhQsLl7wC&lpg=PP1&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false}}
3. ^{{cite web|title=Toofani Tarzan|url=http://www.mjsimpson.co.uk/reviews/toofanitarzan.html|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120222201305/http://www.mjsimpson.co.uk/reviews/toofanitarzan.html|archivedate=22 February 2012|df=dmy-all}}
4. ^{{cite web|title=Vanmala|url=http://oldmalayalam.blogspot.com/2010/10/vanamala-1951.html}}

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