Dilip Kumar is widely considered to be one of the greatest actors in the history of Hindi Cinema. Kumar holds the Guinness World Record for having won the maximum number of awards by an Indian actor. He has received many awards throughout his career, including 8 Filmfare Award for Best Actor awards and 19 [...]

Dilip Kumar was born as Muhammad Yusuf Khan in Peshawar, British Raj (now, Pakistan) to Lala Ghulam Sarwar and his wife. It was author of Hindi novels, Bhagwati Charan Varma who gave him the screen name Dilip Kumar and cast him as the main lead in his movie, Jwar Bhata (1944).
Dilip Kumar then went [...]

Dilip Kumar has been active in efforts to bring the people of India and Pakistan closer together. He has been a member of the upper house of Parliament since 2000.
He was awarded the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 1994. In 1998 he was awarded the Nishan-e-Pakistan, the highest civilian award conferred by the government of [...]