100 year-old bollywood actor

From being an exceptional actor, he was also a film producer and philanthropist and known for his valuable contribution to Hindi Cinema. Let us tell you that Dilip Kumar has the record of winning the most number of Filmfare awards and he was also one of the first recipients of the award. While Dilip Kumar left the world ending an Era, his legacy has been etched in the Hindi Cinema forever.

He was brought up in the same neighbourhood as Raj Kapoor and had a mixed religious surrounding. Late Veteran actor Raj Kapoor was his childhood friend and his colleague in Bollywood. Dilip Kumar with his knowledge, skillset and good command of English, landed his first job and even set up his own sandwich stall at the army club. After the termination of the contract, he headed to Mumbai Bombay taking an amount of Rs which he saved during his jobs.

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In early , Dilip Kumar met Dr. Masani at Churchgate Station and asked him for his help as he wanted to earn and help his father financially. Masani called him to accompany him to the Bombay Talkies, in Malad. There he was introduced to the owner of Bombay Talkies, actress Devika Rani who hired him for work with a salary of Rs. Later Dilip also met actor Ashok Kumar at Bombay Talkies who helped him and even got influenced by his acting style.

Kumar asked Dilip to keep his acting style natural. During the same phase, Dilip also met producer Sashadhar Mukherjee. Both Kumar and Mukherjee became close acquaintances of Dilip and helped him with the story-writing and scripting department because of his proficiency in the Urdu language. In his exceptional career of 5 decades, Dilip Kumar worked in more than 65 films and raised his fame from the film including Mugleazam, Devdas, Naya Daur, Ram Aur Shyam and others.

While he was famous for his extraordinary method of acting, he did versatile roles from being romantic to dramatic, his magic swooned everyone.