The man behind Imran Khan's zulfein!
In a recent TV conversation in India between Kapil Dev and Imran Khan, Dev quipped about the female fans Khan had, saying, "Inko dekhkar zulfein banaata raha raat bhar....(Upon seeing him, I kept doing my hair the whole night)" I happen to know the man behind Khan's popular hairstyle. The famous hair stylist Dar, then in his early 20s, had met Imran in London in 1978-79, when Khan just had a straightforward thick mop of hair on his head and was playing for Sussex. After their first meeting during a night out in London, Dar suggested that if he were to go out with Imran again the latter would have to first visit his salon (Vidal Sassoon at Sloane Square). Imran agreed, on the condition that it would have to be an easy wash-and-go style, and that's when Dar gave him the signature lion-look hairstyle. "It was short at the front and gradually getting longer at the back, to suit his long face and jawline, and not interfere with his bowling," Dar once told me. Gleefully he added, "After that cut, before we knew he was the Playboy of cricket." Since then Dar, till date styles his hair, something neither talk much about. Among his other famous clients Dar has had, are the likes of Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger and Goldie Hawn.