On the small mezzanine floor, the thing that stands out is the horse carved out of marble, placed on a long table. Across the table where he sits, there is a big poster of horses running. 바카라To you, they are horses but, to me, they are my vanity vans. They are unstoppable,바카라 says Shaukat Khan, 62, who owns a fleet of 36 vanity vans and wants to own more.
Bollywood: Meet Shaukat Khan Who Owns 36 Vanity Vans And Wants To Own More
Shaukat Khan runs a fleet of vanity vans with compact make-up rooms, toilet facilities and his ambitions
The location of his office is a mall in Jogeshwari in Mumbai. The office itself is modelled after a vanity van바카라glossy, with a fake mandarin orange plant. Khan hails from Nagpur. He ran away from home after watching the last screening of Jeetendra바카라s Himmat. He was 12 at the time. At home, he wasn바카라t allowed to watch films but he was fascinated by them.
Khan took a train from Nagpur and landed at Kalyan. At midnight, he didn바카라t think he could return home so he boarded the train and lived and worked in a photo studio in Haji Malang shrine. 바카라I wanted to see Jeetusaahab and someone had told me that the star comes to Haji Malang,바카라 he says.
From Kalyan, he went to the shrine of the saint in hopes of seeing the star. 바카라It is all because of him. I didn바카라t become a star but at least I served them,바카라 he says. From a life lived on footpaths to an airconditioned office, it has been a life that probably could make a plot masala Hindi film.
Khan worked odd jobs at first and then ended up as a taxi driver. Then, he got into real estate for a while but when the business started to
flag, he began to look for something that might click for him. That바카라s when he saw a vanity van parked somewhere in the city. He spoke with the drivers and figured this could be his next gig. The rest is history.
He got into the vanity van business and his fleet grew over the last decade or so. It has been a profitable business for he knows that vanity drives Bollywood stars. He still is a fanboy of Jeetendra. 바카라I dared and therefore I am here,바카라 he says.
(This appeared in the print edition as "If Vans Were Horses")
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