Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Dilip Kumar

Yusuf Khan born on December 11, 1922. He is popularly known as Dilip Kumar is one of the greatest Indian film actor and a former Member of Parliament.

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.

His first film Jwar Bhata was released in 1944.

Throughout the 1950s he was one of the biggest stars of Bollywood along with Raj Kapoor and Dev Anand.

Dilip Kumar married actress and "beauty queen" Saira Banu in 1966 when he was aged 44and she was 22.

He received NTR National Award for the year 1997.

He was also awarded CNN-IBN Indian of the year - Lifetime achievement award in 2009.

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