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I had this fascination for Dilip Kumar, though I had personally grown up on Rajesh Khanna and Amitabh Bachchan, Sandeep Bamzai writes as India remembers Dilip Kumar on his 100th birth anniversary.

The turn of events propitiously sequenced by providence was to catapult young Yusuf Khan into Dilip Kumar, the megastar of the then Bombay film industry now dubbed as Bollywood.

The news of our forthcoming marriage came as a surprise to all those who had thought I was an unrelenting, highly eligible bachelor who would never settle down, Dilip Kumar writes in his autobiography The Substance and The Shadow.

Dilip Kumar has many virtues and one of them is his frankness. After watching the premiere of Gyara Hazar Ladkian (1962), he asked me a question in front of a crowd of people, "Abbas Sahib, why did you make this inane film?"