Jamie Alter, the man who knew Tom Alter the best, is now keeping the actor's memory alive online

Tom Alter lived a building away from our childhood home As a child growing up in the rsquo90s in Mumbai Central we would look out for the white man with a kind smile who spoke chaste HindiMany will remember him as the brilliant actor in Zabaan Sambhalke and Ram Teri Ganga Maili among others For us it hits a little closer home when we first spot his son Jamie Alter on social media all these years later reminiscing about the muchloved actorJamie AlterIn fact when we get on the phone with Jamie we tell him wersquod often see him as a young child walking in the neighbourhood with his dad ldquoOh wowrdquo he exclaims ldquoItrsquos a small worldrdquo Jamie who has been a sports journalist for over 21 years had largely kept his Instagram jamiealter and YouTube CricketWithJamie geared towards cricket ldquoActually I started posting cricket content on Instagram almost daily two years ago Before that I was not so active Then last August I started adding some noncricket contentrdquo he says What changed ldquoI think it was a way for me to keep his memory alive I just started posting on Instagram and that brought in a completely new audience to my account I will forever be grateful for the love they have shown my dadrdquo he addsTom with wife Carol and JamieBorn in 1981 Jamie remembers was in his prepubescent time when the 90s arrived ldquoWhen the decade turned over I was nine going on 10 The rsquo90s were an awesome decade for me I had just hit teenage and it was an era of pop culture awakening and selfdiscoveryrdquo he says The best part His access to Bollywood stars came at a time when they were still approachable ldquoMy father was a famous actor so a lot of my memories are from TV and film sets An onset memory that tickled his followers was from Hum Kisise Kum Nahin 1977 when actor Amjad Khan met his father for the first time ldquoHe hugged him put his hand in my fatherrsquos jacket and began looking for a tape recorder convinced that my dad could not be the one speaking such good Hindirdquo Jamie recallsThe journalist ldquois very laterdquo to the Instagram game he says having made his account in 2015 ahead of the 2015 ODI World Cup Until two years ago he would mostly post cricketspecific videos daily he saysldquoWhat I am doing now with content on Bollywood nostalgiamemories with my father is an offshoot of spending a lot more time on Instagram over the past two yearsrdquo he addsHe still fields the stray misconceptions about his father ldquoSome think my dad was left behind from the British Rajrdquo he chuckles ldquoSome assume we are Anglo Indians which I find bafflingrdquo adds the Americanorigin writer His followers canrsquot get enough of the Tom Alter nostalgia ldquoSometimes Irsquoll be doing a recap of an IPL match And therersquoll be one comment saying lsquoCan you please talk more about your fatherrsquordquo he laughsTom Alter in a still from Kranti 1981He doesnrsquot mind it at all he says ldquoTo be honest itrsquos a way to grieve my father What an honour it is that lakhs of people help me remember him and discover him as a person in different waysrdquo he saysTo be honest the honour is ourshellip