"Main marke bhi maroonga nahi; tumhare andar zinda rahoonga" Dilip Kumar in Mashaal..
#RIPDilipKumarSahab an actor par excellence. A short thread honoring him.
He was quite a good singer. Check out this clip of him singing during an interview.
Though born as Mohammed Yusuf Khan - he took the name Dilip Kumar to avoid getting beaten by his father, who was strictly against films.
His father was friends with Basheshwarnath Kapoor, father of Prithwiraj Kapoor and would constantly berate him for his son's career in movies.
So when Dilip Kumar started working in films, he felt that his father will not be happy with his choice of work.
He was given 3 options - Yusuf Khan, Dilip Kumar and Basu Dev. He rejected Yusuf Khan and left the options to the others.
He saw his "name" in an ad 3 months later.
His early roles gave him the title "King of tragedy" and playing tragic characters did have an impact on his mental health.
On consultation with health experts, he took up lighter roles in films such as Aan, Azaad and Kohinoor.
Dilip Kumar set the example for his contemporaries to take the initiative to use their stardom to support good causes and raise funds for the government’s relief work.
He organized celebrity cricket matches to generate funds for the 1962 war. PC @cricketwallah
He led the first troupe that visited the Himalayan border areas to boost the morale of the Border Security Force personnel stationed there after India’s humiliating defeat in the 1962 Indo–China war.
During one such trip ,Mohammed Rafi developed a throat irritation in the freezing cold and felt awful that his voice had gone for a toss. Dilip Kumar gave Rafi hot water and honey at hourly intervals till his voice came back. Rafi, a teetotaler, would not touch what others drank.
He is one of the few Indians to be awarded the Nishaan-e-Imtiaz, Pakistan's highest civilian honour. His house in Peshawar is now a "protected monument". This pic of a young Dilip is seen in the house.
He visited the house with Saira Banu in 1998.
Dilip Kumar famously worked on one film at a time back in the 1960's. The Bombay producers body had put a ceiling on the number of assignments an actor can take up.
He moved to Madras to be away from the cacophony and his disagreement with the Bombay producers.
There he made Ram aur Shyam and Aadmi, which were remakes of hugely successful Telugu and Tamil films.
Dilip Kumar was a polyglot with good command over Hindi, Urdu, Pashtun, Gujarati, Bengali, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu and Konkani.
According to Salim Khan, Dilip Kumar rejected more films than he acted in. But he regretted not doing only 3 movies - Baiju Bawra, Pyaasa and Zanjeer.
Kamal Haasan, was a big fan of Dilip Kumar.
“I grew up hero-worshipping Shivaji Ganesan. He was like the guiding sun in my life. Then I discovered an entire galaxy in Dilip Saab."
Game recognizes Game.
PC @KamalismForever
Go well Dilip Sahab. You have entertained generations of Indians. #RipDilipKumarSahab
Some rare pics of Dilip Sahab in lighter moments.
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