With Dilip Kumar’s Demise, Curtains on Bollywood’s Unique ‘Punjabi Troika’

3. With the passing of the legendary actor Mohammed Yusuf Khan — who dominated hearts as Dilip Kumar — the unique ‘Punjabi Troika’ of Indian movie trade has light into oblivion. The trio — Dilip Kumar, Dev Anand and Raj Kapoor — all unmatched maestros of theirartwork — symbolized what’s thought to be the ‘Golden Period’ of the Hindi movie trade. Hailing from Punjab within the undivided India, they opted for a profession within the then fledgling Indian movie trade in distant Bombay (now, Mumbai), and excelled, typically par excellence.

5. This was the the unusual, menacing, unforgiving, massive, dangerous metropolis known as Bombay the place one other legend Dhundiraj Govind Phalke, revered now as Dadasaheb Phalke’, sowed the primary seeds of movie making at a constructing in Dadar, in 1912. Later, Phalke scripted display historical past along with his first full- length black-and-white movie, “Raja Harishchandra” (Could 3, 1913) – heralding the start of Indian Movie Trade, which has blossomed into the largeston the earth, 77 years after his demise (February 16, 1944), bagging even Oscars en route.

7. Many trooped right here harbouring ambitions todevelop into heroes, heroines, villains, vamps, administrators, producers, cameramen, singers, dancers, music-directors, orone of many many departments of film-making. Peshawar neighbourhood mates Dilip Kumar (b. 1922) and Raj Kapoor (b. 1924) additionally got here right here and even Dev Anand (b. 1923) from Gurdaspur adopted swimsuit — all three overcame large hurdles earlier than getting a toehold within the magical world of celluloid — splashing their very own ‘Punjabi tadka’ to the Bollywood potboilers!