Yusuf Khan (hindi: यूसुफ़ ख़ान) (born 11 December 1922), popularly known as Dilip Kumar (hindi: दिलीप कुमार) is an Indian actor and a former .member of parliament. He lives in pali hill in the mumbaii suburb of bandra.
Starting his career in 1944, Kumar has starred in films of the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s and 1980s. He was the first actor to receive a filmfare best actor award and holds the record for most number of Filmfare Awards won for that category.1 He starred in a wide variety of roles such as the romantic Andsz (1949), the swashbuckling aan (1952), the dramatic devdas (1955), the comical azaad (1955), the historical romance mughaleazam (1960) and the social ganga jamna (1961). In 1976 Kumar had a five-year break from film performances. In 1981 he returned with a character role in the film kranti and continued his career playing central character roles in films such as shakti (1982),karma (1986) and saudagar (1991) his last film was qila in 1998. The government of india honoured him with the padma bhushan in 1991 and the dadasaheb phalke award in 1994 for his contributions towards indian cinema.
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