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{{Infobox person<br />
| name = John Cawas<br />
| birth_date = 1910<br />
| birth_place = [[Jabalpur]]<br />
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|1993|10|4|1910}}<br />
| death_place = [[Mumbai, India]]<br />
| occupation = Stuntman, actor<br />
}}<br />
'''John Cawas''' (1910 – 4 October 1993<ref name=indeUK>{{cite news|title=John Cawas|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-john-cawas-1512514.html| work=Independent UK | accessdate=2011-12-27|location=London|first=Kuldip|last=Singh|date=23 October 1993}}</ref>) was a stuntman and actor in Hindi movies. Cawas made his debut in the Hindi film ''[[Hunterwali]]'' (1935), which became a career-defining movie for [[Fearless Nadia]] and Wadia Movietone. Cawas himself was famous for his performance of Tarzan in various movies.{{Citation needed|date=December 2023}}<br />
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==Early life==<br />
Born in 1910 in [[Jabalpur]] in a [[Parsi]] family, Cawas pursued a career of professional body building and won the 1930 All-India Bodybuilding Championship.<ref name=pop /><br />
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==Film career==<br />
The 1930s was an era of adventure movies for Hindi cinema, and Cawas got his first break as a swordsman in ''Hunterwali'' along with Nadia and [[Boman Shroff]]. This role along with similar roles in subsequent sequel remakes of this movie helped Cawas establish himself as a professional stuntman and actor.{{Citation needed|date=December 2023}}<br />
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His portrayal of Tarzan in [[Wadia Movietone]]'s [[Toofani Tarzan]] was a career-defining role for him.<ref name=pop>{{cite book|title=Bollyworld: Popular Indian cinema through a transnational lens|year=2005|publisher=SAGE|isbn=9780761933212|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DGtNhQsLl7wC&pg=PP1}}</ref><ref name=TT>{{cite web|title=Toofani Tarzan|url=http://www.mjsimpson.co.uk/reviews/toofanitarzan.html|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120222201305/http://www.mjsimpson.co.uk/reviews/toofanitarzan.html|archivedate=22 February 2012|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref name=Vanmala>{{cite web|title=Vanmala|date=26 October 2010 |url=https://oldmalayalam.blogspot.com/2010/10/vanamala-1951.html}}</ref><br />
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[[Category:Indian stunt performers]]<br />
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