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More than half a century ago, Suraiya was the highest-paid actor in India at the age of 20, leaving behind the likes of Dilip Kumar, Dev Anand and Ashok Kumar. On her 94th birth anniversary, we revisit her work and life.

Yousuf Khan, known to the world as Dilip Kumar, was born on December 11, 1922, in Peshawar. He was the fifth child in a family of 13 children of Mohammad Sarwar Khan and his wife Ayesha Begum. Having a fair complexion, lustrous hair, expressive eyes and a sprightly nature, Yousuf was regarded as a very special child, and his grandmother rarely let him leave the house without smearing his forehead with kajal to ward off the evil-eye. Mohammad Sarwar Khan was a fruit merchant by profession, and i...