In the early years of his film career, he often played a lover who was defeated in the destined love story, creating a celluloid template for the heart of the melancholy man.
When the heart is split, you can see every shade of sadness in the immersive eye.
Fans created a title for him: King Tragedy.
But Dilip Kumar, who died in 98 at Mumbai Hospital on Wednesday following a “prolonged illness”, more.
He can make a dialogue sound like music: soft, slow and nyonor.
He is an actor who wants another actor.
He was an emperor from the Box office.
And he is a rare icon of excellence in young India, independent.
Kumar’s death ended the big triumvirate – Raj Kapoor and Dev Anand into two others – who arranged above the Hindi film industry and many hearts in the 1950s and 1960s.
The era is really over.
Passed the actor born in Peshawar marked the closure of a loving and vibrant chapter in Indian-independence life.
When Academic Meghnad Desai wrote in his book, “Hero Nehru”, he “reflects the best of this country as well as possible”.