Childhood Photograph Of Mohammed Yusuf Khan, Dilip Kumar. Rare Seen Pic

Childhood Photograph Of Mohammed Yusuf Khan, Dilip Kumar. Rare Seen Pic

Childhood Photograph Of Mohammed Yusuf Khan, Better Known By His Stage Name Dilip Kumar, During The Days He Lived In Peshawar.

Dilip Kumar was born Yusuf Khan in December 1922 in Peshawar - in what is now Pakistan - before the partition of India. Like some of his Muslim contemporaries, he took on a Hindu name - Dilip Kumar - when he joined the Hindi film industry.

He debuted in 1944 in Jwaar Bhata but it was the 1949 hit, Andaz, that shot him to fame. The blockbuster love triangle also starred Nargis and Raj Kapoor, who went on to become celebrated actors. Kumar's biographer Lord Meghnad Desai compares him to Hollywood great Marlon Brando or Italian legend Marcello Mastroianni.