Comments on: The idea of Dilip Kumar

By: Maria Ahmed

Maria Ahmed — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 05:24:28 +0000

@G.A. you need to read and understand history and how cultures and religions work in different countries. Extreme need of that. Please do that

By: Faisal Khan

Faisal Khan — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 07:14:07 +0000

You cant compare eras to judge greatness. If we go by your analysis, then it means 50 years from now, people like you will be rubbishing t SRK, Amir Khan etc, beacuse the times will change from today, cultures will change hence acting and stories. Going by your analysis, no one can ever be granted the status of “great”. Dilip Kumar was head and shoulders above than the others during his time. This means if he was born 50 years from now, with the talent he had, he could still excel.
Lets talk about songs, they were more meaningful and melodious back then, now they are just crap, it can not even be called music, its some noise people make and use a vehicle to vent their anger and frustration.

By: Iftikhar Habib Khan

Iftikhar Habib Khan — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 06:56:20 +0000

For all those persons who want to know why Yousuf Khan changed his name to
Dilip Kumar, the answer is his choice.
Moreover the society before partition of sub continent was not divided on religious basis.
Many in India find it difficult to understand why such questions are asked, come out of Pakistan and see
the Pakistani Punjabi is more at ease to have social relationship with an Indian Punjabi rather than
a North Indian whose parents migrated to Pakistan in 1947. Same is the case with North Indians who migrated to Pakistan to have a friendly relationship with Indian North Indians.
In Pakistan see the Pushtun calling an Afghan his brother and an Afghani.
Culture, traditions, food and history play a major role, how we live.
Yes I am a Pakistani

By: Jagjit Singh Sidhoo

Jagjit Singh Sidhoo — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 03:08:29 +0000

Movies are a business and business about selling , so the producers and actors dish out what the public want . Yousuf Khan knew he would sell with a screen name like Dilip Kumar , SRK knows that he will sell as Raj so he uses the name Akki has been selling as Khiladi so we have Khiladi 786 . They produce what they hope will sell where does secularism come in ? John Abraham , Dharmendar, Boman Irani and Kat all have Hindu names on the screen. Akki played a Sikh in Singh is King got a hit so Ajay is trying to repeat the same in Son of Sardar.

By: Rudy

Rudy — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 23:16:08 +0000

Shah Rukh Khan did play Muslim roles in Hey ram, Chak De and My name is Khan, all of them prominent, critically acclaimed and successful roles. India is a Hindu majority country and so it is not surprising that the majority of the film characters are Hindu. If you want to tell a story based in India, more often than not the settings will have more Hindu characters.This is true for any country with a community that has a clear majority in the population. I dont see any problem with that.

By: sanjeev

sanjeev — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 22:05:56 +0000

Some questions are asked to prove own intelligence on top not-accept / ignore the facts.

When ‘Tere Bin Laden’ was made in the back ground of a city of Pakistan (by an Indian), characters had similar outfits, names, props and/or background. Even if its remade, name(s) won’t be much different irrespective who plays the role, Ali or SRK.

Akshay started playing main role as Sikh in ‘Singh is King’ & Ajay Devgan did same in ‘SOS’, it’s not that India is becoming Sikh majority but its visualization of Director in context of place. Upcoming movie is on Indian athlete ‘Milkha Singh’, so you will see lead character in Sikh avatar because that’s demand of character.

Today’s movies are more business oriented and not for the love of art; It won’t matter if Salman plays Pande jee or Miyan jee in Daabang, their math is fix – so much from satellite rights, so much form music rights, so much from this or that territory – you get 150-200 crore in pocket. You get anything on name of star power/ entertainment, which is zero from movie making / art prospective.

(I might be wrong) Earlier private produces were taking all the risk, and there was limited scope of such (above) calculations, and might be afraid to take different path form already set trend…

It’s reality that India is Hindu majority country but secular by Indian constitution, and I believe movie making is way of telling story a dream / a visualization of director and has nothing to do with secularism.

By: praveen

praveen — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 19:46:56 +0000

btw…most of will smith (the most popular black actor) has mostly white gf..so what? why read everything in tinted fashion…

By: praveen

praveen — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 19:44:35 +0000

there is nothing communal about it. rahul is a common indian name and he is the epitome of indian middle class family man..like prem for salman is..a hussain or ali consists of only 16% or so…so it makes no sense to have ali as a hero but then dhoom had ali as a hero.

By: praveen

praveen — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 19:40:00 +0000

yes true but raj was a director par excellence..an ok or below ok actor for sure..

By: praveen

praveen — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 19:37:56 +0000

not true..ajay will become a better character actor than anybody else for sure. He may not have played melancholic characters like dilip kumar but is a class apart like amitabh and rishi. This cant be said of the 3 khans.aamir can still become a character actor and grow better with age but not shahrukh or salman…their end would come soon..so yes no actor like dileep but then no actor like rishi or amitabh or ajay either..