Book on Dilip Kumar
11.6.2014
Yesterday was the release of
Dilip Kumar’s autobiography and all roads led to Hotel Hyatt. Dilip Kumar has
been an inspiration for a whole generation of actors in films and has in a
career spanning five decades, done varied roles. Numerous writers have tried to
capture his magic in print and there are innumerable books describing his
immense talent. This week Dilip Kumar releases his autobiography in a much
anticipated event in Mumbai and which will be attended by the entire film
fraternity.
Dilip
Kumar was born as Yusuf Khan on 11 December 1922 in an Awan family in Peshawar,
now Pakistan. His father Lala Ghulam Sarwar was a fruit merchant and owned
Orchards in Peshawar and Deolali. He is the third child of his parents older to
nine siblings and the only superstar in the family. He studied at the
prestigious Barnes School, Deolali and spent all his free time in reading.
Sometime
in 1930 Ghulam Sarwar and his family shifted from Peshawar to Bombay and put
his eldest son in charge of their fruit orchards. When Yusuf Khan completed his
education; his father put him on duty to watch over their dry fruit suppliers
and assigned to start a canteen in Aundh, Pune. Yusuf Khan was just 18 years
old when he left home and his mother was worried how he would survive amidst
strangers. She needn’t have worried because working in a Military Canteen had a
positive influence on the young boy. He learned discipline, focus, commitment
and when opportunity beckoned, Yusuf, supported by his father, was ready for
adventure!
Bhawana Somaaya/ Tweets @bhawanasomaaya
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