[2][3] The duo had starred in several films including Do Badmaash, Sitamgarh, Toofani Toli and Bhola Raja.

[6] He started his film acting career with Bhagwati Prasad Mishra-directed Alladin and His Wonderful Lamp and Scented Devil in 1927.

[8] One of friends Baburao Patel described him as "a 220-pound-bundle of nerves, with a hypochondria-cal mind that constantly imagines various illnesses, not to speak of several imaginary grievances.

When someone suggested that he would look good as a nawab, he was cast in the 1930 film Sharkling Youth alongside Jairaj and Madhav Kale.

[8] Dixit was obese while Ghory was a lean man and their pair served as a comic element in several of the early talkies.