50 ansuni kahaniyan dilip kumar autobiography

(NOTE: This article was originally published in the India Today issue dated July 7, 2014)

It has been a long wait.

Join Nikshay Maurya as he unveils lesser-known tales and insights into the life of a star who left an indelible mark on Hindi cinema.

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12 years ago more.

Mrs Saira Bano and Dharmendra graced the occasion of paying tribute to Dilip Kumar at whistlingWoods International campus and unveiling the.

Kumar was one of the most popular singers in the Indian subcontinent, notable for his yodelling & ability to sing songs in different used to sing in.

For decades, film critics and historians courted Dilip Kumar in pursuit of permission to write his authorised biography but in vain. Perhaps, fed up of the myriad articles and books speculating on his career and life, the reticent actor, soon to be 92, chose to tell the story of his life in his own words.

And he does so with a studied eloquence, if a bit too mannered at times.

The voice that comes through in this intriguingly titled autobiography is measured, evidently calibrated and impossibly calm.

Even while recounting the stormy passages like his relationship with Madhubala during the making of Mughal-e-Azam; or the domestic turbulence that took place after his much younger bride Saira Banu moved into his house on Pali Hill, where he lived with his mother and his many siblings