Zahoor Malik
The tragedy king and Bollywood’s first super-star, Yousuf Khan aka Dileep Kumar (1922-2021)
Many people from television production backgrounds who have extensively watched the movies of Dilip Kumar and followed the National Conference president Dr Farooq Abdullah claim that sometimes there is a reflection of dialogue delivery style and expressions of the legendary actor in Urdu speeches made by the Kashmiri politician.
Whether Dr Farooq is trying to use Dilip Kumar’s style of popular pauses deliberately or it is unintentional but it is a fact that the former chief minister was a huge fan of the greatest actor of the Indian cinema. At a personal level, the two had a good rapport as well. In his tribute, Dr Farooq said Kumar had a lot of love for Kashmir and its people and wanted to do something big for them but could not get an opportunity to do so.