Dilip Kumar: The last of the Bollywood greats bows out
Dilip Kumar
Mon Jul 26 2021
When the actor, Dilip Kumar died early this month, at the grand age of 98, he was the very last of the Indian films’ greats from the golden era to depart to eternity. I regard the golden era of Indian films to be between 1950 and the early 1970s when most of the great films were produced and distributed to cinemas around the world. Cinema halls then were the only places where one could watch films – at least that was true of Maiduguri where I was raised in that era where television did not even reach.