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K Shivaram, a former IAS officer, actor, and politician, passed away at 70 in Bengaluru. Born on April 6, 1953, he was the first to clear the UPSC exam in Kannada. After a successful bureaucratic career, he ventured into acting, gaining recognition with the film "Baa Nalle Madhuchandrake." His political journey saw affiliations with Congress, JD(S), and BJP. Survived by wife Vani and daughter.

The British actor Joss Ackland, who excelled in playing film villains in a varied career spanning eight decades, died on Sunday, his family said.Ackland attributed his prolific output in television, film, stage plays and even musicals to his early struggles as a jobbing actor.

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.

In his 57 films over his half-century-plus stint in the Hindi film industry, Dilip Kumar is chiefly remembered as the 'Tragedy King', battered down by unrequited love, social or political pressure, or other inexorable circumstances.