Yusuf Khan (
Hindi: यूसुफ़ ख़ान ;
Urdu: یوسف خان ; ) (born
December 11,
1922), also commonly known as Dilip Kumar (
Hindi: दिलीप कुमार ;
Urdu: دِلِیپ کُمار) is a legendary
Indian Bollywood film actor and a former Member of
Parliament (
Rajya Sabha). He has starred in some of the biggest commercially successful films from the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s and 1980s. His performances have been regarded as the epitome of emoting in Indian Cinema. He holds the record for most number of
Filmfare Awards won for
Best Actor. Though he has done all kinds of films - he balanced a wide variety of roles such as the intense
Andaz (1949) with the swashbuckling
Aan (1952), the dramatic
Devdas (1955) with the comical
Azaad (1955) and the historical romance
Mughal E Azam (1960) with the social
Ganga Jamuna (1961).
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