Mumbai: In the early 1960s Dilip Kumar shared the stage with Jawaharlal Nehru at a public meeting in Chowpatty.
After Dilip Saab, because he lovingly called, passionately speaking in the Ornate Urdu, the crowd began to melt, forcing Nehru to joke with Kumar: “Barkhurdar, Chalo Chalte Hain (darling, let us go).” But the Thespian rose again, rebuking the crowd that their PM had not yet spoken and they should not go except “Panditji” (Nehru) completed his speech.
The meeting froze in silence.
It was the power of Dilip Kumar Oratory ordered.
Asif Faroqui, Bandra-based businessman and Kumar family friend and his wife Saira Bano, to whom the actor once told the chowpatty, remember that Kumar truly loved Urdu, poet and pass participating and participating in social work.
“He never saw Urdu as Muslim alone.
For him, Urdu symbolizes Indian composite culture and he helps poets and support Mushairas and Mehfils out of his love in language,” Faroqui said.
When a group of poets and writers held Jashn-e-Majrooh, a Musshira to honor the famous lyrics and progressive poets of Majrooh Sultanpuri in the 1990s, considering Faroooqui, Kumar was not only present but even submitted a handsome number to give it to Farooqui Sultanpuri.
“Yes, I was the courier for the money to Majrooh Sahib,” Farooqui said.
Educated in the Urdu Medium at Anjuman-i-Islam near CST, Kumar absorbed the Urdu culture he witnessed in his house.
His father, said Senior Columnis of Urdu and the lyric film Hasan Kamal, was very close to Ali Brothers (Freedom Fighters and Maulana poets Mohammed Ali and Shaukat Ali).
“Even though it comes from Peshawar, Dilip Sahab speaks fine Urdu like the elite because his house is a favorite ghost of the author, poet, and a strong speaker like Ali Brothers,” Kamal said gathered at Kumar to several social causes.
When Kamal, along with Shabbir Ansari, floated all the OBC organizations of Indian Muslims in 1978, they convinced Kumar to become a protector.
“At first, he was reluctant, asking us what OBC Muslim? I told him that even he was a Muslim OBC when his father grew and sold fruits.
He basically came from the Baghban family (fruit farmer), OBC.
He lent his support to Our movement, “Kamal said.
Despite helping to satisfy communal fires during Riot Mumbai 1992-93, Kumar also helped victims of riots, both Hindus and Muslims.
Nazeer Akbarabadi and Faiz Ahmed Fiaz are two poets Urdu Kumar very liking and will never forget to read their poems in many Mushairas and Soirees he attended.
He did not do poetry but had memorized some of the verses he would call easily to beautify his speech.
As a young man who discovered his foothold in the industry, he will attend Soirees of Jad and Bai (Mrs.
Nargis) where people like Majrooh Sultanpuri, Shakel Badayuni and Khwaja Ahmed Abbas are permanent visitors.
Growing in a hoeary literary circle like that, it is only natural that Bollywood’s last Mughal developed a tongue that gave a disabled dialogue on the screen and lured the masses.