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Their wins come close on the heels of Dheeraj Mishra and Seemi Pasha winning a Ramnath Goenka Award each for an article and video published in The Wire.

Photojournalist Danish Siddiqui was posthumously honoured as the ‘journalist of the year’.

Rajesh Khanna was undoubtedly one of the biggest names in the Hindi film industry in the 70s. The legend emerged as Bollywood's 'First Superstar' due to his charming looks, gripping screen presence and energetic dialogue delivery. He delivered several hits at the peak of his career, proving that success was his middle name. On Wednesday, as fans remember 'Kaka' on his 79th

Veteran actor Naseeruddin Shah on Thursday said he has ticked mark almost all the roles he wanted to play in his acting career that spans over 45 years....

The writer is Dawn’s correspondent in Delhi. ONE sees a few good reasons to miss Dilip Kumar every Aug 5, starting this week. It was on this day that his most popular movie Mughal-i-Azam was released in 1960 depicting a halcyonic blend of Hindu and Muslim cultures during Emperor Akbar’s rule (1556-1605). It’s an essential beauty of Akbar’s rule that regressively tutored Hindus and Muslims bear equal malice for his fabled secular worldview. The film’s story was largely mythological —...

This is with reference to the article ‘Dilip Kumar and Sher-O-Sukhan’ (EOS, July 18), which, as one can sense, is an elegy of Dilip Kumar, the great thespian. The article has quoted an incident in which the Padma Shri-decorated actor Tom Alter asked Dilip about what made the latter churn out such ubiquitous magic and excellence on the silver screen. Dilip’s answer was simple: “Sher-o-sukhan”, meaning poetry and literature. This is also a befitting reply to many of our science and tech...

Dilip Kumar is not merely the screen name of a single historical individual, Yusuf Khan of Peshawar. It designates a cultural phenomenon, a wave, a meteoric spectacle and a creative jet. He was all around us in my younger days; one recalls his gigantic posters in front of cinema halls, with endless lines of unruly — sometimes rioting — ticket hopefuls, lines reminiscent of the Great Wall of China, and around these lines black marketeers fluttering, multiplying the ticket prices as much as s...

Daily Times The legacy of Dilip Kumar that would live long * Dilip Kumars early grooming and eclectic education enabled him to make a seamless transition as a polyglot between his native Pashto, which he spoke fluently with Punjabi July 11, 2021 Superstar, trendsetter and tragedy King, iconic film actor Yusuf Khan alias Dilip Kumar left us on Wednesday as he breathed his last at the age of 98 in Mumbai from where he started his flamboyant career that spanned over half the century. The Peshawar ...

Comments Along with his conquests in the world of films, it is important to remember and celebrate the connoisseur of arts and languages that Dilip Kumar was. Born to a Urdu-Pashto-speaking family in Qissa Khawani Bazaar of Peshawar in what is now Pakistan, he was proficient in many languages. He was a voracious reader of literature in Urdu, Persian, and English. His romance with languages, especially Urdu, has unknowingly changed the landscape of dialogue and music in Indian cinema. Recalling ...

TOMES have been written about his magical and unparalleled talent as a movie actor. The late thespian Dilip Kumar, however, endeared himself to South Asia’s moviegoers with more than his range and calibre as an actor’s actor. It was his studiously cultured persona and dedicated work as a public intellectual — rather cannily in the footsteps of his self-confessed icon Marlon Brando — that promises to be inexorably entwined with Dilip Kumar’s lasting memory. He spoke for peace and commu...