Dilip Kumar

Dilip Kumar was born on Dec 11, 1922 in British India. Dilip Kumar's big-screen debut came with Andaz directed by Mehboob Khan in 1949, strarring Dilip. Dilip Kumar is known for Mashaal directed by Yash Chopra, Anil Kapoor stars as Raja and Dilip Kumar as Vinod Kumar. Dilip Kumar has got 17 awards and 8 nominations so far. The most recent award Dilip Kumar achieved is CNN-IBN Indian of the Year. The upcoming new movie Dilip Kumar plays is Saudagar which will be released on Aug 09, 1991.

Dilip Kumar is considered one of the greatest actors of Indian cinema. Starting his career in 1944, he starred in some of the biggest commercially successful films in the period 1949-1961. . 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. Though he has done films of other genres occasionally - he balanced out with roles such as the intense Andaz (1949) with the swashbuckling Aan (1952), the dramatic Devdas (1955) with the comical Azaad (1955) and the historical romance Mughal E Azam (1960) with the social Ganga Jamuna (1961) - he predominantly specialized in doing love stories or tragic roles from 1944-1961. From the late 1960s, roles dried up for Kumar as films starring Dev Anand, Rajendra Kumar and Shammi Kapoor were more successful from 1961-1969 and also Dilip's films from 1966 to 1976 were box office flops like Dil Diya Dard Liya, Sunghursh, Aadmi, Dastaan, Gopi, Sagina and Bairaag and after 1976 he left films for a five year break. After Rajesh Khanna became first superstar of Indian Cinema in 1969, most of the author backed lead roles from 1969-1991, went to Rajesh Khanna. In 1981 Dilip returned with a character role at Manoj Kumar's insistence in the blockbuster film Kranti and continued his career playing central character roles in multi-hero films such as Shakti (1982), Karma (1986), Vidhaata, Mazdoor, Mashaal, Duniya, Dharm Adhikari, Kanoon Apna Apna, Izzatdaar, Saudagar (1991), and Qila. But his only films to be successful from 1981 at the box office were Kranti, Vidhaata, Karma, Dharm Adhikari, Kanoon Apna Apna and Saudagar. He retired from the Indian Film Industry in 1998.