Bengaluru: The Thespian Bollywood Dilip Kumar, who died 98 on Wednesday, has a long relationship with Bengaluru.
He not only has a hotel room that is preferred, favorite tailors and close friends among Russell’s market flower vendors in the capital of Karnataka, but the second marriage is also stated in a mosque here.
Syed Ahmed Roman, 53, a tailor, cried when he heard Kumar’s death news.
The association with the Superstar date returned three decades.
“I still remember the afternoon when I met Dilip Saheb at the Taj West End Hotel for the first time and he greeted all of us with his pine smile.
He is a soft person and interacts with us like a commoner even though it becomes one of the biggest stars in the country That, “Roman recalled.
Ruman ran back to his new officer shop at Residency Road and began sewing a suit for his favorite star.
“During the meeting, I saw it well and raised his measurements.
Knowing that he lived here for a week, I returned four days later with a black setting I made for him.
He tried and it suited him,” Roman said about his efforts to impress actors.
Dilip Kumar began booking for his coat with Ruman through his assistant Dçosta every time he arrived at Bengaluru.
During his visit to the city, the actor would only stay at the Taj West in his preferred room.
The senior news photographer at that time said the hotel staff would keep the room empty all the time for a star because he was often visitors to the city.
Shivajinagar is like a second home for actors and he often visits several times from the 1960s until the 1990s for various events and inaugurations.
Many Russell Market flower vendors have a long connection with actors, back to their father and grandfather.
A black and white photo of Dilip Kumar surrounded by people from the market still decorates the walls of many shops here.
And it is an open secret here that a special bouquet for marriage to both Kumar to Asthma from Bataghiavi in ​​Jumma Mosque at Old House Road was sent from Russell Market.
“It was in the early 1980s that the marriage was judged by the deceased Hafiz Junaidi Saheb, the priest of the famous head of Jumma Mosque,” Kenangan Tariq Al-Al-Quen, a fan of Bengaluru.