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When Qazi saw Abhijit Sawant become the Indian Idol, he said, 'Yeh to kuch bhi nahin [he is no match for me].' If any such competition came his way he vowed he would win.

Mohmmad Khalil, Qazi's 83-year-old retired government servant grandfather, used to tell him, 'Good guys study, educate themselves and only then the windows of world open up. Who is going to know you when you are dancing all the time within these four walls? You should get out of your bedroom.'

"He would reply, 'Dadaji, one day I will make it so big that I'll send you my car to pick you up,'" says a smiling Khalil.

Rafi says in the last three years, Qazi never slept at night. He would go to sleep at 7 am and wake up late in the afternoon because he would keep watching television, or keep his tapedeck on to practise dancing throughout the night.

Once, their neighbours complained that Qazi's dancing disturbed a newlywed couple in their home! Since the neighbours were their relatives too, they were advised to keep the windows tightly shut.

"Qazi's non-stop dancing damaged the wooden flooring of his bedroom. But we didn't scold him. We repaired the flooring, though it cost an arm and a leg," says Rafi.

As most of India knows by now, Qazi is not a trained singer. But that never stopped him from warbling in the bathroom. "But if he sang off key, I would shout, 'Qazi, tu besura ho raha hai [Qazi, you're going out of tune]," says the uncle, who was a singer himself. He didn't particularly know how to handle vowels.

"Qazi calls me 'oncle'," says Rafi.

Relatives' taunts -- that Qazi was not gainfully employed -- fell on deaf ears.

In the picture: Qazi wins at a school competition

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