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Dilip Kumar (born Mohammed 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 late 1940s throughout 60s, being referred to as Abhinay Samrat ( Hindi for "Emperor of Acting").
Yusuf Khan was an Indian actor 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 of Zebisko, the bodyguard of ...
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 · 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.
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 · 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".
Jul 7, 2021 · Hailed as the Marlon Brando of Bollywood, the icon was born as Mohammed Yusuf Khan on December 11, 1922, at Qissa Khwani Bazaar in Peshawar, Pakistan [then British India], the fourth of 12...
