Five lesser-known facts about him

ISLAMABAD: Here are 5 lesser-known facts about the late Bollywood’s legendary actor Dilip Kumar, reports Geo News.

1. It is believed that Dilip Kumar was fluent in a number of languages, including Pashto, Hindko, Urdu, Hindi and English.

2. His films Mughal-e-Azam and Naya Daur were fully colourized and re-released in 2004 and 2008 respectively.

3. Kumar holds the record for winning three consecutive Filmfare Best Actor awards, mustering them in 1955, 1956 and 1957. No other actor has attained such feat in the history of Hindi cinema.

4. He was the only actor of his time who played a triple role in a film.

5. The actor’s original name is not Dilip Kumar but Mohammed Yusuf Khan. Eminent Hindi author Bhagwati Charan Varma gave him the screen name Dilip Kumar.

Yousaf Khan famous as Dilip Kumar, the most iconic actor of Bollywood who died on Wednesday saddened thousands of his fans in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa including in Peshawar being his birthplace where people from all walks of life were paying rich tributes to the versatile personality ruled on Indians silver screen for nearly six decades.