- In the early 80s, Sharad Kumar quit the film industry and moved to Vancoucer BC, Canada . There he sold insurance as a job and did stage shows as a Indian Elvis Presley impersonator.
- Also used the screen name "Jolly Bader" later on in his career abroad.
- The prospect of working in show business entered Kumar's mind at 17, when a work acquaintance of his father - mother to two actresses - suggested the young man could be in the movies, one of the early Bollywood films featuring lots of dancing and singing. Though lacking in formal training, Kumar was tall, fresh-faced, with a thick head of wavy hair.
- His biggest concert came in 1972, he says, when he performed for a crowd of 22,000 at an outdoor festival in Delhi. That year, he also appeared in the Bollywood film Zameen Aasman.
- His children have also worked in the arts. Rohan Bader, his eldest, had a small part in Bollywood/Hollywood, while Rahul Bader is a musician partial to the kind of musical culture-clash his father enjoyed. Rahul appreciates that his father was drawn to music completely different from what he had grown up listening to.
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