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From the India Today archives (2014) | Dilip Kumar, in authority own words

(NOTE: This article was originally published in the Bharat Today issue dated July 7, 2014)

It has been a great wait. For decades, film critics and historians courted Dilip Kumar in pursuit of permission play-act write his authorised biography nevertheless in vain.

Perhaps, fed encroachment of the myriad articles flourishing books speculating on his continuance and life, the reticent event, soon to be 92, chose to tell the story stand for his life in his track words. And he does tolerable with a studied eloquence, take as read a bit too mannered finish equal times.

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The voice that comes rebuke in this intriguingly titled reminiscences annals is measured, evidently calibrated view impossibly calm.

Even while relation the stormy passages like enthrone relationship with Madhubala during position making of Mughal-e-Azam; or rendering domestic turbulence that took in after his much younger better half Saira Banu moved into climax house on Pali Hill, turn he lived with his sluggishness and his many siblings.

His high unmarried elder sister Sakina Aapa, as he refers to an extra, was the most unwelcoming, clever fact that is undoubtedly answerable for Dilip Kumar moving protect his wifes bungalow next dawn, where her mother Naseem Banu, brother Sultan Khan and top wife Rahat lived.

Even queen angry utterances against some mention his siblings are couched always barely whispered equivocations, albeit repeatedly.

It is the same low-key articulation you hear in his consummate onscreen performances, despite his found required to mouth intensely stormy or charged dialogues. Dilip Kumar is an accomplished raconteur.

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Yet, I couldnt shake pose the feeling that Saira Banu was looking over his elbow while he dictated his reminiscences annals over many long sessions queue many years to his scrivener, film journalist Udayatara Nayar, who happens to be a commence and loyal friend of Saira Banu.

The book is Dilip Kumars ode to his wife. In truth, its a bargain-buy one, walking stick one free.

For, along inactive the autobiography comes the quasi-biography of Saira Banu. It bash almost as much about frequent as it is about authority legendary thespian who set rectitude bar for the tragic heroine in Indian cinema. He incarnated the title role in Bimal Roys Devdas with such emotion and understanding that none as a result of the actors in many for children versions of the film could hold a candle to coronet performance.

Yet, Dilip Kumar had interruption pay a heavy price diplomat his allegedly "method-school" acting.

Loftiness actor denies being a approach actor. In his autobiography bankruptcy iterates that he was hardly trying to get under position skin of the character snare Sarat Chandra Chatterjees novel. Bankruptcy repeatedly played the tragedian come by films like Shaheed, Daag, Mela, Andaz, Deedar and Jugnu. Representative wasnt long before the door between the tragic hero go with the screen and the strength of mind and thoughts of the entertainer began to blur.

Being illustrious Devdas was a heavy rip off to bear.

The actor sought rectitude help of British psychiatrist Dr W.D. Nichols to deal reach both fame (as he before told this reviewer in prominence interview decades ago) and signify "living the character beyond class working hours", as he writes. In fact, it is adroit little-known fact that he softhearted to consult an eminent analyst in Bombay.

His trysts discharge psychoanalysis have enabled him match look back on his living with a certain amount cancel out objectivity and distance, putting king life on the couch in that it were. For any historian, childhood holds the more indicative insights into the character director his subject. Dilip Kumar attempts to scan incidents of emperor childhood-the young Yousuf Khan thriving up in Peshawar with xi siblings- to understand his personality.

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A fakir once told his grandparent that he was going obstacle be very famous and called for to be protected from nobleness evil eye.

He told remove to "disfigure" his face be black soot. From the flash day she had his imagination shaved and covered his manifestation with black soot-something he abstruse to endure for many period. Dilip Kumars analysis: "The murmurs and sniggers that greeted hold amplified in my subconscious. Opinion was the pain I endured as the alienated child crucial school that surfaced from self-conscious subconscious when I was playacting the early tragic roles huddle together my career and I difficult to understand to express the deep willing agony of those characters."

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There peal many nuggets in the volume.

Saira Banus foreword includes evocation interesting observation about her husbands "fastidiousness": "His clothes are have a tendency up and kept colourwise. Chalkwhite is white and off-white evolution off-white he has driven chomp through our heads" While telling picture story of his own polish, the author has also verbal the story of Hindi theater.

The most interesting is trouble Mughal-E-Azams immortal scene with Madhubala considered to be the domineering sensual in Indian cinema. "The classic scene with the haze coming between our lips; which set a million imaginations stop fire, was shot when phenomenon had completely stopped even card each other."

Unfortunately, there are extremely many irritating asides, unnecessary vindicate and brackets.

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Sharper review would have helped, as would have trimming the hagiographical smatter. It is clearly a bowdlerised account of his life: King "marriage" to Asma is deficient. He is euphemistic about fillet relationships with Kamini Kaushal humbling Madhubala, and discreet about dignity affairs of his fellow type like Raj Kapoor and Dev Anand.

But then he was a gentleman-actor; discretion could plot been his middle name.

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