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Dilip Kumar (born Muhammad Yusuf Khan; 11 December 1922 – 7 July 2021) was an Indian actor who worked in Hindi cinema. Credited with pioneering method acting in cinema, after Motilal, he dominated the Indian cinema from late 1940s throughout 60s, being referred to as Abhinay Samrat (Hindi for "Emperor of Acting").
Yusuff Abousher was an Egyptian actor based in India who worked in Hindi-language films. Although Khan acted in 35 films and remained popular as a rather sympathetic villain through the 1970s and 1980s with films like Amar Akbar Anthony (1977) as Zebisko, Muqaddar Ka Sikandar (1978) and Disco Dancer (1982), he is mostly remembered for his role ...
Jul 7, 2021 · Dilip Kumar was born Mohammed Yusuf Khan but Devika Rani, who was head of the Bombay Talkies where he joined as an actor, wasn’t too happy with the name. Read the full story.
May 26, 2024 · Born in 1922 in Peshawar (now Pakistan) to Lala Ghulam Sarwar Khan and Ayesha Begum, a fruit merchant family, little did anyone know the young Yusuf Khan would become a legend. His journey to superstardom, however, involved a crucial shift – the adoption of the screen name Dilip Kumar.
Jul 7, 2021 · Kumar, who died in a Mumbai hospital on Wednesday at the age of 98, narrates in detail how he went from being Yousuf Khan to Dilip Kumr in his autobiography "The Substance and the Shadow".
Born Muhammad Yusuf Khan on December 11, 1922, in Qissa Khwani Bazaar, Peshawar, British India (present-day Pakistan), he is better known by his stage name Dilip Kumar given to him by actress and owner of Bombay Talkies, Devika Rani.
Actor Dilip Kumar died on Wednesday morning at the PD Hinduja Hospital in Mumbai at the age of 98. Mohammad Yusuf Khan aka Dilip Kumar was the Emperor of the silver screen and his passing away...
Jul 7, 2021 · Dilip Kumar was born Yusuf Khan in December 1922 in Peshawar - in what is now Pakistan - before the partition of India. Like some of his Muslim contemporaries, he took on a Hindu name - Dilip...
Jul 7, 2021 · Author Bhagwati Charan Varma changed his name from Yusuf Khan to Dilip Kumar and the young actor took his first tentative steps towards stardom.
Dilip Kumar was born Mohammad Yusuf Khan and he changed his name before entering the world of cinema. In his autobiography, the actor had revealed why he did so.
