All About Dilip Kumar

Yusuf Khan born in December 1922, popularly known as Dilip kumar Indian film actor and a former Member of Parliament. He lives in Pali Hill in the Mumbai suburb of Bandra.
Starting his career in 1944, Kumar has starred in commercially successful films of the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s and 1980s. He was the first actor to receive a Filmfare Best Actor Award and holds the record for most number of Filmfare Awards won for that category. He starred in a wide variety of roles such as the romantic Andaz (1949), the swashbuckling Aan (1952), the dramatic Devdas (1955), the comical Azaad (1955), the historical romance Mughal E Azam (1960) and the social Ganga Jamuna (1961). In the 1970s roles dried up for Kumar and he left film in 1976 for a five-year break. In 1981 he returned with a character role in the blockbuster film Kranti and continued his career playing central character roles in hits such as Shakti (1982), Karma (1986) and Saudagar (1991) his last film was Qila in 1998.

Career

His first film with Nisar Bhai and Hamed Bhai Jwar Bhata was released in 1944 and went unnoticed. In 1947 he shot to prominence working with the legendary singer and actress Noor Jahan, who agreed to act opposite him in the film Jugnu. In 1949, he co-starred with Raj Kapoor in the romantic melodrama Andaz, which made him a star and in 1955 he co-starred with Dev Anand in Insaniyat. Throughout the 1950s he was one of the biggest stars of Bollywood along with Raj Kapoor and Dev Anand. He became known for playing tragic roles in popular films such as Deedar (1951), Amar (1954), Devdas (1955) and Madhumati (1958), which earned him the title of "tragedy king".
He also played lighthearted roles such as a swashbuckling peasant in Aan (1952) and a comic role in Azaad (1955). In 1960 he starred in the historical film Mughal-e-Azam which as of 2008 was the second highest grossing film in Hindi film history. He played the role of the Mughal crown-prince Jehangir, the son of Akbar.
In 1961 he produced and starred in the hit Ganga Jamuna in which he and his real-life brother Nasir Khan played the title roles. Despite the film's success he did not produce any films after this. In 1962 British director David Lean offered him the role of Sherif Ali in his 1962 blockbuster, Lawrence of Arabia, but Kumar declined the part. The role eventually went to Omar Sharif, the Egyptian actor. After a brief period of box office flops in the mid 1960s, he played a dual role of twins separated at birth in the film Ram Aur Shyam (1967) which was one of the biggest box office hits of the year. The success of Ram Aur Shyam spawned a number of remakes and imitators.
In the 1970s Kumar acted in fewer films as newer actors such as Dharmendra, Rajesh Khanna and Amitabh Bachchan had begun to take the spotlight. The 1976 film Bairaag in which he played triple roles flopped badly, so he took a five year break from acting.
He made a comeback in 1981 with the multi-starrer Kranti, the biggest hit of the year. He went onto play character roles as an elderly family patriarch or a police officer in a string of box office hits including Shakti (1982) (in which he starred alongside the reigning superstar of the time Amitabh Bachchan), Vidhaata (1982), Mashaal (1984) and Karma (1986). In his last major film, Saudagar (1991), he appeared alongside another legendary actor Raaj Kumar, three decades after they last appeared together in Paigham (1959). In 1993 he won the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award.
In 1996 he was attached to make his directorial debut with a film titled Kalinga but the film was shelved. In 1998 he made his last film appearance in the box office flop Qila. His classic film Mughal-E-Azam was fully colorized in 2004 and re-released, doing well at the box office. Another of his classic films, Naya Daur, was colorized and released in August 2007.
He remains one of the last surviving actors from the golden era of Bollywood in the 1940s and 1950s along with Pran and Dev Anand

Awards

Kumar has received many awards throughout his career, including 8 Filmfare Award for Best Actor awards and 19 nominations. He was honoured with the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award in 1992. The Government of India honoured him with the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 1994 - the highest award for cinematic excellence in India. In 1980, he was appointed Sheriff of Mumbai, an honorary position. In 1991, he was awarded Padma Bhushan from the Government of India. In 1997, Kumar was awarded, Nishan-e-Pakistan, Pakistan's highest civilian award.
He received in 1997 the NTR National Award. He was also awarded CNN-IBN Indian of the Year - Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009.

Filmography

Jwar Bhata (1944)
Jagdish
Pratima (1945)
Milan (1947)
Ramesh
Jugnu (1947)
Sooraj
Shaheed (1948)
Ram
Nadiya Ke Paar (1948)
Mela (1948)
Mohan
Ghar Ki Izzat (1948)
Chanda
Anokha Pyar (1948)
Ashok
Shabnam (1949)
Manoj
Andaz (1949)
Dilip
Jogan (1950)
Vijay
Babul (1950)
Ashok
Arzoo (1950)
Badal
Tarana (1951)
Motilal
Hulchul (1951)
Kishore
Deedar (1951)
Shamu
Sangdil (1952)
Shankar
Daag (1952)
Shankar
Aan (1952)
Jai Tilak
Shikast (1953)
Dr. Ram Singh
Footpath (1953)
Noshu
Amar (1954)
Amarnath
Udan Khatola (1955)
Insaniyat (1955)
Devdas (1955)
Devdas
Azaad (1955)
Naya Daur (1957)
Shankar
Musafir (1957)
Yahudi (1958)
Prince Marcus
Madhumati (1958)
Anand/ Deven
Paigham (1959)
Ratan Lal
Kohinoor (1960)
Mughal-E-Azam (1960)
Prince Salim
Gunga Jumna (1961)
Gunga
Leader (1964)
Vijay Khanna
Dil Diya Dard Liya (1966)
Sahnkar/Rajasaheb
Ram Aur Shyam (1967)
Ram/ Shyam
Sunghursh (1968)
Sadhu Aur Shaitan (1968)
Aadmi (1968)
Rajesh/ Raja Saheb
Sagina Mahato (1970)
Gopi (1970)
Gopi
Daastan (1972)
Anil/Sunil
Anokha Milan (1972)
Sagina (1974)
Phir Kab Milogi (1974)
Bairaag (1976)
Kranti (1981)
Sanga/Kranti
Vidhaata (1982)
Shamsher Singh
Shakti (1982)
Ashvini Kumar
Mazdoor (1983)
Dinanath Saxena
Duniya (1984)
Mohan Kumar
Mashaal (1984)
Vinod Kumar
Dharam Adhikari (1986)
Karma (1986)
Vishwanath Pratab Singh aka Rana
Kanoon Apna Apna (1989)
Izzatdaar (1990)
Brahmadutt
Aag Ka Dariya (1990)
Saudagar (1991)
Thakur Veer Singh
Qila (1998)
Jaganath/Amarnath Singh