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 Dilip Kumar was a great mimic and used to imitate the dance moves of Helen with effortless ease, according to his wife Saira Banu. She recalled this trait of her husband in his autobiography “The Substance And The Shadow”. Banu, who wrote the foreword to the book published in 2014, wanted his admirers to be acquainted, through incidents and episodes, with Dilip Kumar’s “innate simplicity, straightforwardness and immeasurable goodness of heart”. She considered her husband, who passed away Wednesday at the age of 98, a man full of joie de…

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Remembering the impact Dilip Kumar had on his generation of cine-goers, veteran actor Manoj Kumar on Wednesday said the screen icon inspired him to become an actor. Manoj Kumar’s love affair with cinema started when he watched Dilip Kumar’s “Shabnam” as an 11 year old. Such was the magic of the screen icon’s performance on the young Harikishan Giri Goswami that he decided to adopt the name of Dilip Kumar’s character from the 1949 film as his screen name. That’s how Harikishan Giri Goswami became Manoj Kumar when he joined…

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The Delhi High Court on Wednesday refused to pass any direction to restrain further circulation of film ‘Nyay: The Justice’ which is purportedly based on the life of late Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput and has been released on a website. We will have it on 14th (July). I am not inclined at this stage, said a bench of Justices Rajiv Shakdher and Talwant Singh while hearing the application of Rajput’s father Krishna Kishore Singh, in the appeal against single judge order refusing to stay the release of the film.…

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Pakistan on Wednesday showed its adulation for legendary Indian actor Dilip Kumar as tributes poured in from across the country for the 98-year-old cinema icon who was born here. Kumar was born on December 11, 1922 at his ancestral home in Qissa Khawani Bazaar area of Peshawar in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. His original name was Yousuf Khan. In a tweet, Pakistan President Arif Alvi said Kumar was “an outstanding actor, a humble man, and a dignified personality”. “Sorry to see Dilip Kumar (Yusuf Khan) depart from his worldly abode. An…

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