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| | From Yusuf Khan to Imran Khan... | |
| | | From Yusuf Khan to Imran Khan... | | | | The two most talented actors (arguably) in the history of Hindi cinema Yusuf Khan aka Dilip Kumar and Naseeruddin Shah belong to the same community. The community of creativity.
Similarly, Noorjehan's throat and Madhubala's beauty belong to no community; no act of extremism can take their talent or power away from them.
Call it a fabulous coincidence, if you will. But many success stories in Bollywood both male and female have been Muslims. This is true of the most mesmeric entertainers of Hindi cinema.
How it began...
Mehboob Khan paid the ultimate homage to the Bharatiya Nari in Aurat in the 1940s and then in Mother India, two decades later. In both cases, the woman portraying the strong Hindu matriarch was a Muslim, Sardar Akhtar in the first version and Nargis in the second.
A well-known critic of the 1960s wrote, "The bindi never looked better on any actress as it did on Meena Kumari....... | | |
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