Actor-e-Azam: Meghnad Desai’s tribute to the king of Indian cinema, Dilip Kumar. Outlook India Magazine

He had scored 98 and, as he says in Gujarati—one of the many languages ​​he spoke fluently—99 was set up and running. Then got out like his younger Mumbaikar friend Sachin Tendulkar. Dilip Kumar / Yusuf Khan is no more. we don’t need to add Are immortal. He will live on forever through his cinema, which decorated fifty years of modern Indian history. A colony of the British Empire, indeed a jewel in the crown in which he was born in the north-west, he was broken in his youth, but he remained in India, where his father used Crawford Market and Bombay as his workplace and home. as was chosen. In the early 1940s, at the invitation of Maharani Devika Rani of Bombay Talkies, he began a career that transformed him, transforming Indian cinema and many generations of young men and women.

from Jwar Bhata from (1944) Fort (1998) has sixty-two films, including a small number where he made cameos. Most of them were silver and golden jubilee successes. Our lives in the 40’s, 50’s and 60’s were shaped by them…

.

Leave a Reply