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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, [3] after Motilal, he dominated the Indian cinema from the late 1940s throughout the 60s, being referred to as Abhinay Samrat (Hindi for "Emperor of Acting").
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".
May 26, 2024 · Dilip Kumar, born as Muhammad Yusuf Khan, adopted the screen name Dilip Kumar suggested by Devika Rani, paving the way for his illustrious acting career. Read on to know the real reason why he changed his name from Muhammad Yusuf Khan.
Jul 7, 2021 · Dilip Kumar was given several monikers in his illustrious career but how he acquired his screen name is a story unto itself. He 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.
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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.
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.
Yusuf Khan (actor) 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 ...
