Dilip Kumar, one of the best Indian actors ever is the most appropriate answer to how global is Bollywood. An Afghan son born in Pakistan who studded the Bollywood with gem of movies like Aan, Awaaz, Andaz, Devdas, Mughal-e-Azam.

Such was the acting caliber of this giant of the Indian film industry that he outperformed his peers in all sort of roles, be it an intense one, or dramatic, romantic, social or even comedy. But, he will always be remembered as the “Tragedy King” of Bollywood as those were the roles which always made people adore him. Rightly, he went on to become the first Indian actor to be awarded with the Filmfare best actor award.

Dilip Kumar was a great humanitarian as well and has worked for the poor and helped build bridges to overcome the cultural and communal gaps between India and Pakistan. For those efforts of his, he had been awarded the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 1994 and the Nishan-e-Imtiaz in 1998. The latter being the highest civilian award conferred by the government of Pakistan which he asked to return during Kargil war.