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Dilip Kumar's most memorable performances by Devesh Sharma | December 11, 2020, 15:14 IST Dilip Kumar’s life is nothing less than a leaf from some of his films. It’s indeed a miracle that a former fruit merchant went on to become India’s greatest actor. His father Lala Ghulam Sarwar owned orchards near Nashik. In the 30s the family moved to Pune. Born as Yusuf Khan in Peshawar on December 11, 1922, it’s said that it was Devika Rani who spotted him at Pune’s military canteen. She told him to come to Mumbai and offered him his first film Jwar Bhata (1944). He was a method acto...

‘My professional name is Dilip Kumar’: Encounters with one of India’s greatest actors The thespian is two short of a unique century today. Dilip Kumar in Duniya (1984) | Dharma Productions On December 11, 2020, Yusuf Khan alias Dilip Kumar will be 98 – two short of a unique century. Perhaps the only Hindi movie star to have achieved this landmark, not only as an actor but in his later professional life, as producer and director of films. His popularity has transcended the limits of the Indian subcontinent radiating to all corners of the world. My family had a spec...