Though ambivalent about the young man’s answers Devika Rani and her team screen-tested and then offered him a three-year contract at Rs.500 per month. Narwekar chronicles that the meeting lasted a mere four questions:įrom the Magazine Our Starless Skies: Even Stars Are Unable To Break Layers Of Smog Welcome To Mahul, The Living Hell On Mumbai’s Eastern Outskirts Is India’s Pollution Data Hiding Behind The Poor? Children From Poor Backgrounds Are Worst Sufferers Of Pollution In Terror Land, Pigeons Give Kashmiri Youths Wings To Embrace Peace
Masani, who also was friends with Devika Rani, Yousuf Khan - unlike his brother Nasir Khan, he had no desire or ambition to become a film actor - went to see her. One such travel took him to Nainital where the movies production house Bombay Talkies owner, Devika Rani, accompanied by the master director Amiya Chakraborty, ran into the handsome Yousaf and, as Sanjit Narwekar says, “instinctively” asked him to come see her in Bombay.
The family’s business and personal travails ultimately led Yousaf Khan to step in to help his father. Parmar for Dilip Kumar’s elder brother Ayub Khan injured in a horse riding accident. It is said that this family of fruit merchants moved to Bombay seeking medical care under the surgeon Dr. The house is a five-minute walk away from Prithviraj-ji’s house where RK Saab was born. In fact, the phonetic spelling has made it to the invitation sent out by the veteran writer Younas Qayasi on behalf of the Cultural Heritage Council of the Khyber-Pukhtunkhwa to celebrate ‘Daleep’ Kumar’s 90th birthday in Peshawar.ĭilip Kumar was born to Lala Ghulam Sarwar Khan and Ayesha Begum in the Peshawar’s Mohallah Khudadad. And perhaps Dilip Kumar does not know but in Peshawar his screen name is pronounced ‘Daleep’ with a thick Hindko accent. I have met octogenarians in Peshawar who till this day believe that in the Andaz scene where the RK character Rajan whacks Dilip Kumar’s character (incidentally named Dilip), RK did actually hit Yousuf Khan with the tennis racket! There was no point arguing as they- the Dilipiay or Dilipists as one Pishori RK aficionado would call the Dilip Kumar fans- were convinced. His hairstyle, sartorial preferences and mannerisms influenced at least two generations of common men and his mention still brings out a sparkle in the eyes of the grandmothers who saw his movies in his- and their- prime.ĭilip Kumar’s house in Doma Gali Around here, he played with swords on the streets Though it hurts my pride as an RK fan it does seem that Dilip Kumar became the darling of the plurality if not the majority of Peshawarites. Like the moviegoers all over India divided into two camps over the question that RK Saab’s biographer Bunny Reuben raised in his very first article as a film-journalist- Who is the better actor in Andaz: Dilip or Raj?- Pishoris too took sides after this 1948 Mehboob Khan film. Talking to the old-timers in the walled city of Peshawar, where both the greats were born, it seems like the schism had to with the art rather than religion or ethnic origins of these giants. While my own heart remains firmly in the RK camp, I must concede that just like many parents are torn in their love for their children, the Pishoris too were split into two camps between Dilip Kumar and RK Saab. To us, the Peshawarites- or Pishoris as we like to call ourselves- he remains one of the four prodigious sons we gifted to the Bombay film industry- Prithviraj Kapoor, Ranbirraj "Raj" Kapoor aka RK Saab and Zakariya Khan ‘Jayant’, being the other three. To millions of his fans around the world, he is known as Dilip Kumar- the Last Emperor of Indian cinema as his biographer Sanjit Narwekar had put it. Born in Peshawar on DecemMohammad Yousuf Khan marks his 90th birthday today.
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