‘My father had a cardiac arrest while cutting Amitabh Bachchan’s hair’: Aalim Hakim recalls his father styling the iconic ‘angry young man’ look

Aalim Hakim, one of Indian cinema’s leading hairstylist s, is the creative mind behind the looks of some of the biggest stars. Fom Rajinikanth and Shah Rukh Khan to Ranbir Kapoor and Hrithik Roshan. Aalim comes from a family deeply rooted in the art of hairstyling. His father, Hakim Kairanvi, was a celebrated stylist of his time and the man responsible for Amitabh Bachchan’s iconic hairstyle of the 1970s. In an exclusive conversation with SCREEN, Aalim reflected on his father’s long association with Amitabh Bachchan.

“My dad’s collaboration with Bachchan saab was right after his first film. Everything he did after Saat Hindustani, it was all done by my dad. Reshma Aur Shera was Amit ji’s second film and Sunil Dutt was there, who was my dad’s client. So it was Dutt saab who introduced