The king of tragedy is exactly 96 today. Actors like him are born once in a blue moon. He did play many comedy roles which were also par excellence. When he was on the wrong side of 40 he stopped playing roles of hero and restricted himself to accepting only those roles which were commensurate with his age and in those too he put up extraordinary performance. It is rightly said that whereas some of his pictures might not have fared well at the box office, he himself never flopped in any film.
Yousaf Khan aka Dilip Kumar believed in quality rather than quantity. In a film career spanned over 60 years he worked in only the same number of films meaning thereby he worked on average in one film per year—– a far cry from the present day actors who work in 60 films in five years.
Amitabhachan once billed him as the king of the understatement. Shahrukh once said it was a folly on his part to work in Devdas in 1990 because no other person can match Dilip Kumar’s performance in Bimol Roy’s Devdas which was made in 1955.
Dilip Kumar was a perfectionist. He spoke through his eyes. His pronunciation was flawless. Film heroes of three generations both in Bollywood and Lollywood sat at his feet and copied his style of acting both in the tragedy and comedy roles. Dilip Kumar has many outstanding films to his credit but the films that stand out conspicuously are:Devdas, Andaz, Deedar, Dagh, Jugnu, Leader, Naya Daur, Ganga Jamuna, Mughle Azam, Musafir, Madhumati, Tarana, Sangdil, Shabnam, Sagina, Raam aur Shiyam, Mazdoor, Mashaal, Kranti, Aadmi, Paigham, Footpath, Hulchul, Aan, Jogan, Milan, Kohinoor and Vidata.
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