Trivia

• His contemporaries include veteran actors like Amrish Puri, Pran, Prem Chopra and Amjad Khan.
• He is still remembered for bringing the most famous villains in the history of Indian cinema to life
• Acting in over 200 films
• Many jokes have been created by people and have been associated with his name. There are a few worth mentioning here: 1. When he smuggled sona (gold) he looks at mona and smiles and then in his nasal squeeky voice he would say: "hamay sirf 3 shaoq hain, mona, sona aur mona kay sath sona." 2. Other than Mona and Robert, his other associates are Peter, Michael and Tony. He calls them Peetur, Mykal and Taony. Once he sends them on a mission on different modes of transport and says like this: Peetur tum eskootur (scooter) Mykal tum sikul (cycle) Taony tum Paony (pony) 3. Robert comes running to Ajit and says, BAASS, big problem, your Mona is secretly getting married to Tony! Ajit pauses for a second and says, hmmmmmm tou unki laife may bahot MONA-TONY hogi. Means, there will be a lot of MONOTANY in their life. 4. Ajit calls Robert. RAABUTT, yes Bass! Uss kamray may ek laash hai, aur yae sui (needle) lo aur laash ki side per rekh do. OK Baas, but bass, why? Idiot, jab polees aye gee tou samjhay gee sui - side thee. Means, take this needle and keep it on the side of the dead body and when the police will come they will think its a suicide case. Bold text
• Though, generally only known for his villains, Ajit played significant positive roles including the romantic hero in famous black and white productions like Naya Daur and Mughal-E-Azam.
• Ajit's nasal voice and his passion for gangster type movies in which he is famous for playing villain's role and is remembered as BOSS or BASS the smuggler and his assistant is Robert or RAABAT. And his slinky minky secretary is "mona" or mona daaling is always with him.
• Father of Arbaaz Ali Khan and Shehzad Khan.