Bollywood seized the death of the legendary actor Dilip Kumar, who died today at the age of 98 years.
The Thespian inspired the generation of actors and Nawazuddin Siddiqui also one of them.
He shared, “My father is a fan of Dilip Kumar Sahab and he will always tell me that I do not have maturity that is diliped by Kumar in his appearance.
When I was in NSD, I watched all the 56 films because I was a movie favorite there.
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Sharing the most inspirational quality of Dilip Kumar, Nawaz added, “as the actor he has a very dramatic pause.
When he is silent, it feels like he delivered a lot of emotions.
His acting style was far before his time.
At that time we had a parsi theater and the style of the show The hard but diliped sahab was very calm and quiet in his actions.
He was very realistic with the depiction even now I was surprised how he managed to give a peaceful appearance that was so peaceful.
Only Dilip Kumar Sahab who managed to take up a long time, spoke in whispering and still won the heart.
He solved Hard cinema trends.
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Interestingly, Nawazuddin Siddiqui had a close interaction with the legendary actor in 2001-02, when he shot at Delip Kumar’s Bandra Residence.
“I have stayed with him for three months when I shoot for a TV program made by Saira Ji.
It was really shot in Dilip Sahab’s House, at night we all will gather and eat together.
We will discuss the film and act at length.
Dilip Sahab will share many things with us.
He will correct us if we do something wrong.
We will ask him about his films and dilip Sahab will be graceful reply to all our strange questions.
“Sharing anecdotes from their conversation, the actor revealed, “Dilip Kumar Sahab had told us that he rejected the role of Sherif Ali for the film ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ (1962) because he wanted to do a role played by Peter O’Toole.
It also desire to do gangster films but after he watched ‘Godfather ‘, Dilip Sahab felt that Marlon Brando did it so I didn’t want to do it now.
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Dilip Kumar has left a large number of iconic performances and choosing a favorite is a difficult task.
“I have never felt that he should not do certain films because he really fits every character he plays.
Be it ‘Devdas’, ‘Mughal-e-azam’, ‘Naya Recycling’, ‘Leader’ and ‘Aan’.
He Amazingly in every film he did! “Concluded Nawazuddin.
