(Clockwise) Dilip Kumar smiles after receiving a lifetime achievement award from India’s president Pratibha Patil (unseen) during the national film awards ceremony in New Delhi in Sept 2008. Saira Bano, the actor’s wife, is consoled by Shahrukh Khan at her residence in Mumbai. Police stand guard outside the mosque during the funeral. Film director Subhash Ghai pays his respects at Dilip Kumar’s residence. Reuters/AFP
DILIP Kumar, who passed away on Wednesday in Mumbai at the age of 98, was the yardstick by which the performances of all other actors in the Sub-continent were judged – no wonder, then, that a great many of them in Urdu/Hindi cinema were influenced by the thespian. He had quite a few clones, some of whom later evolved their own individual styles. Those who didn’t were written off by cinegoers and film historians alike.
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Posted on July 7th, 2021
By Rohana R. Wasala
Dilip
Kumar died today, July 7, 2021. The following is a marginally updated version
of a review I wrote of the legendary actor’s autobiography Dilip Kumar – The Substance and
the Shadow” immediately after its publication in 2014. The review was published
in The Island Satmag supplement on October 04, 2014 under the heading: ,
still accessible in The Island archives.
‘DILIP KUMAR – The Substance and the Shadow’ (2014)
published by Hay House India is the autobiography of legendary
Hindi cinema actor Dilip Kumar (born Yusuf Khan) who died today July 7, 2021 at
July 8, 2021
MUMBAI: Dilip Kumar, one of Bollywood’s most accomplished and respected film stars, died on Wednesday aged 98, prompting tributes from across Indian and Pakistani cinema, politics, sport and even animal rights.
Alongside Dev Anand and Raj Kapoor, Kumar was one of three big names who dominated the golden age of Indian cinema from the 1940s to the 1960s, enjoying a career spanning more than 50 years and nearly 60 films.
Nicknamed “The Tragedy King” with brooding good looks, tousled hair, and a deep voice, he played the lead in some of the Indian film industry’s most commercially successful films of the period. But he missed out on international fame after famously turning down the chance to play Sherif Ali in David Lean’s 1962 classic “Lawrence of Arabia”. The part went to then little known Egyptian actor Omar Sharif.
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