Actor Dilip Kumar dies at the age of 98
Indian film actor Dilip Kumar died on Wednesday at the age of 98.
On Wednesday, Legendari film actor Dilip Kumar has died at the age of 98.
Dr Jalil Parkar, the doctor who was treating Dilip Kumar at Mumbai's PD Hinduja Hospital has confirmed to news agency ANI. "With a heavy heart and profound grief, I announce the passing away of our beloved Dilip Saab, few minutes ago," family friend Faisal Farooqui wrote in a tweet from the actor's official account. "We are from God and to Him we return," he added.
Dilip Kumar was admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) of the Hinduja Hospital, a non-COVID-19 facility, since Tuesday.
As told by Doctors Dilip Kumar suffered from advanced prostate cancer that had spread to other organs of his body. “He had water in pleural cavity, and he suffered a kidney failure. He required blood transfusion multiple times. We carried the last transfusion but it did not help,” a hospital doctor said.
Dilip Kumar was born as Mohammed Yusuf Khan in the Qissa Khawani Bazaar area of Peshawar (present day Pakistan) to Ayesha Begum and Lala Ghulam Sarwar Khan. He was a trendsetter in terms of acting style. He inspired generations of actors across the various streams of Indian cinema.
One of the finest actors of the bollywood industry, his career spanned over more than five iconic decades. He is one of the legends of Golden Age of cinema in India. Some of his best known films are Devdas, Mughal-e-Azam, Gunga Jamuna, Ram Aur Shyam, Naya Daur, Madhumati, Kranti, Vidhaata, Shakti and Mashaal, to name just a few.
He marked his entry in the industry with movie Jwar Bhata in 1944, but the film and his work did not garner much attention. It was with 1947’s Jugnu, also starring Noor Jehan, that he got his first box office hit.
In 1949, he starred in Andaz with Raj Kapoor and Nargis, and the film that made Dilip Kumar a big star. The first actor in bollywood to win the Filmfare Award for Best Actor in 1954, and he grabbed it a total of 8 times. He and Shah Rukh Khan jointly hold the record for most Filmfare trophies.
For winning the maximum number of awards by an Indian actor, Dilip Kumar is listed in the Guinness World Records. He was honoured with the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 1994 and Padma Vibhushan in 2015.
