You might get used to seeing people like Ranbir Kapoor, Whurne Tiger and Abhishek Bachchan on the soccer field practice their kicks, but that’s one more field where Dilip Kumar is a trendsetter.
Bollywood best learns not only acting from Dilip Kumar but also love for football.
Yes, veteran actors are big football fans and he also plays competitive football during college.
With his own reception, in an interview with a cinema in India, Dilip Kumar said in 1992, “Soccer has become my first love, my desire.
It inspires a healthy battle spirit, to lead, to work through opportunities.
I play football until I am 57 year.
It really helped me as an actor …
gave me a strong and flexible body …
”
Not only that, Dilip Kumar is also a brilliant student, and he is fascinated by learning English.
In an article for books in Bollywood superstar, the author Rauf Ahmed described how Dilip Kumar had decided to pursue language in college but on behalf of his father, he had to take science.
Disappointed with the choice, he lent his focus to football and superior too.
But Anglo-Indian lobby at Wilson College in Bombay made him out of the campus team.
Frustrated with a lack of opportunities, he moved to Khalsa College and excel in sports.
Dilip Kumar also claimed to have an ambition to become a Cricketer and he wanted to score a few centuries playing for the Indian team too.
His passion for cricket helps his philanthropic business.
Throughout his career I was drilled by Kumar Captain many Bollywood cricket teams in a charity match.
His appearance was in such a match in Kolkata, playing against the actor team of Uttam Kumar and the others in Hyderabad and Bangalore continued to be discussed today.