Dilip Kumar Top Movies Kumar went on to have success in the 1950s playing leading roles in several box office hits such as Jogan (1950), Babul (1950), Hulchul (1951), Deedar (1951), Tarana (1951), Daag (1952), Sangdil (1952), Shikast (1953), Amar (1954), Uran Khatola (1955), Insaniyat (1955) in which he co-starred with Dev Anand, Devdas (1955), Naya Daur (1957), Yahudi (1958), Madhumati (1958) and Paigham (1959) Some of these films established his screen image as the "Tragedy King".[16] Kumar briefly suffered from depression due to portraying many tragic roles and on the advice of his psychiatrist, he also took on light-hearted roles Mehboob Khan's big-budget 1952 swashbuckling musical Aan featured him in one of his first lighter role and marked his first film to be shot in technicolor and to have a wide release across Europe with a lavish premiere in London He had further success with lighter roles as a thief in the comedy Azaad (1955), and as a royal prince in the romantic musical Kohinoor (1960).
Dilip Kumar Date of Birth & Age Born: 11 December 1922 (age 98 years), Qissa Khwani Bazaar, Peshawar, Pakistan Full name: Muhammed Yusuf Khan Spouse: Asma Rehman (m. 1981–1983), Saira Banu (m. 1966) Siblings: Nasir Khan, Aslam Khan, Ehsan Khan, Noor Mohammed,
Dilip Kumar Personal Life
Kumar had fallen in love with Madhubala during the shooting of Tarana. They remained in a relationship for seven years until the Naya Daur court case, during which Kumar betrayed her by testifying against Madhubala and her father, ending their relation ]They never worked together again after Mughal-e-Azam (1960) In the late 1950s, Vyjayanthimala was linked by gossip magazines with Kumar, who has acted with her the most compared to any other actress, which resulted in great onscreen chemistry between them. While working for his home production Gunga Jumna (1961), it is said that Kumar handpicked the shade of sari that Vyjayanthimala would wear in every scene. In addition to that, film historians Bunny Reuben and Sanjit Narwekar have "confirmed" the Kumar & Vyjayanthimala's affair where they had said that Vyjayanthimala was Kumar's third love after Kamini Kaushal and Madhubala.
Kumar with his wife Saira Banu in 2007
In 1966, Kumar married actress Saira Banu, who was 22 years younger than him. He later married Hyderabad socialite Asma Sahiba, taking her as a second wife in 1981.[50][51] That marriage ended in January 1983.[52] He and his wife Saira Banu currently live in Bandra. Dilip Kumar does not have any
children. In his biography "Dilip Kumar: The Substance and the Shadow", he revealed that Saira Banu conceived in 1972, but developed high blood pressure in her eighth month of pregnancy and the doctors couldn't save the baby, which had been strangulated by the umbilical cord. After that, they did not try to have children believing that it was God's will. He is fluent in Urdu, Hindi, Hindko (his first language), Punjabi, Marathi, English, Bengali, Gujarati, Pashto, Persian and the Awadhi and Bhojpuri dialects. His younger brother Nasir Khan (1924–1974) was also a noted film actor. Two of his younger brothers died during the COVID-19 pandemic after testing positive for COVID-19: Aslam Khan died at the age of 88 in August 2020, and Ehsan Khan died at 90 in September 2020. Dilip Kumar was nominated as a member of the Rajya Sabha, the Upper House of the Parliament of India, by the Indian National Congress for the period 2000–2006 from Maharashtra, according to some sources. Rajya Sabha list of former members has his name and detailed page
Awards
Eight Filmfare Awards for Best Actor and Dadasaheb Phalke Award (1994)
Honours
Padma Bhushan (1991) Nishan-e-Imtiaz (1998) Padma Vibhushan (2015)
