Satish Shah

Satish Shah belongs to that rare category of performers whose mere appearance on screen promised the scene would be funny. From Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro to Sarabhai vs Sarabhai, he mastered comic timing across four decades of Indian film and television, and timing is the hardest craft in acting. I admire how he aged into beloved-uncle status without ever getting lazy; his late-career sitcom work is some of his sharpest. His passing in 2025 closed a chapter of Hindi comedy, but the laughs he banked are compound interest — every rewatch pays out again. That, to me, is the truest kind of immortality an entertainer can earn.

Satish Ravilal Shah (25 June 1951 – 25 October 2025) was an Indian actor and comedian, best known for his iconic comic roles in films such as Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro (1983), Main Hoon Na (2004), Kal Ho Naa Ho (2003), Fanaa (2006), and Om Shanti Om (2007) and television series such as Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi (1984), and Sarabhai vs Sarabhai (2004) for which he won the ITA Award for Best Actor in a Comic Role and the Indian Tell…

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Name (English)

Satish Shah

Name (Japanese)

サティッシュ・シャー

Reading

さてぃっしゅ・しゃー

Born

June 25, 1951 (age 74)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Rabbit

Origin

Mumbai, Bombay State, India

Blood type

Private

Height

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Agency

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Occupation

actor / television actor / consultant / software developer

Elementary school

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Junior high

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High school

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University

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Spouse

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Children

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Parents

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Siblings

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Motto

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• Xhttps://x.com/sats45
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satish%20Shah

Tags

• Bombay State
• actor
• television actor
• consultant

Last updated

2026-06-11

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.