RIP DILIP KUMAR: INDIA,
PAKISTAN UNITED IN GRIEF FOR ICONIC ACTOR
Hailed as a ‘Tragedy King’, Kumar
was one of every of Indian cinema’s greatest actors, died
on Wed in the city Mumbai-India. Dilip Kumar,
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| India's then-President Pratibha Patil, left, presenting the lifetime achievement award to Bollywood legend Dilip Kumar at the 54th National Film Awards function in New Delhi. [File: Prakash Singh/AFP] |
One of India’s most revered
actors glorious for his roles as a tragic hero in Bollywood films died on Wed
morning, his family Informed.
Kumar was ninety-eight and peaked
for a few times, one in each of the doctors treating him told reporters.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and
his Pakistani equivalent Imran Khan expressed condolences, with Modi language
Kumar was “blessed with unique brilliance”.
“For my generation, Dilip Kumar was the best
and most versatile actor,” Khan wrote on Twitter.
At his residence in the city,
Bollywood actors and filmmakers and crowned head Shahrukh Khan, Vidya Balan,
and Karan Johar crowded to pay their respects.
The ceremony was controlled with state honors
at a necropolis in the city.
Authorities in the urban center
within the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa of Pakistan
informed they were progressing to
restore the actor’s ancestral place a slim lane of the town. “We area unit
currently performing on its conservation,” Told Abdus Samad, the
director-general of the archeology department.
“An establishment has gone …
whenever the history of Indian Cinema is going to be written, it shall
continuously be before Dilip Kumar, and once Dilip Kumar,” actor Amitabh
Bachchan wrote on Twitter.
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| Saira Banu wearing a blue mask, centre, mourns near his body at a hospital in Mumbai. [Rafiq Maqbool/AP Photo] |
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| Police stand guard as an ambulance is parked outside Dilip Kumar's house after he died at the age of 98 in Mumbai. [Punit Paranjpe/AFP] |
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| Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan arrives to pay his respects at the residence of Dilip Kumar in Mumbai. [Rajanish Kakade/AP Photo] |
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| Actress Vidya Balan, left, arrives with her husband at the residence of Dilip Kumar to pay their respect. [Punit Paranjpe/AFP] |
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| Bollywood actor Ranbir Kapoor, left, arrives to pay respect at the residence of late Bollywood actor Dilip Kumar. [Punit Paranjpe/AFP] |
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| Fans gather near the residence of Dilip Kumar. [Niharika Kulkarni/Reuters] |
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| Workers from the Archaeology and Museums Department in Peshawar place a sign on the entrance of the childhood home of Bollywood actor Mohammad Yusuf Khan, popularly known as Dilip Kumar, after his death in Mumbai. [Fayaz Aziz/Reuters] |
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| Kumar arrives at the Millennium Dome in London for the International Indian Film Awards, on June 24, 2000. The awards are the Bollywood equivalent of the Oscars and were held in England for the first time in 2000. [File: Reuters] |
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| Kumar, left, with Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan at the 143rd Dadasaheb Phalke Academy Awards 2012 in Mumbai. [File: AFP] |
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| Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan, right, attends Dilip Kumar's 89th birthday celebrations in Mumbai. [File: AFP] |
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| Pakistani President Mohammad Rafiq Tarar, right, decorates Dilip Kumar, born as Mohammad Yusuf Khan in Peshawar, with Nishan-e-Imtiaz award in Islamabad in 1998. Kumar opted to settle in India at the subcontinent's partition in 1947 and is the only Indian actor to receive the Pakistani award in recognition of his contributions to cinema. [File: Reuters |
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| Dilip Kumar, left, and wife Saira Banu pose on the red carpet at the premiere of the Hindi film Jab Tak Hai Jaan in Mumbai. [File: AFP] |
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