Ashok Kumar
Ashok Kumar, actually Kumudlal Ganguly ( Hindi, अशोक कुमार, Asok Kumar, born October 13, 1911 in Bhagalpur, Bihar, † December 10, 2001 in Mumbai) was an Indian film actor, film director and film producer.
Life
Ashok Kumar is the son of a lawyer and studied at the University of Allahabad, where he met his future brother- Sashadhar Mukerji. This finally persuaded him to come and work with him as a laboratory assistant in Bombay Talkies to Mumbai. With the hope to become a film director, Ashok Kumar went (later affectionately called Dadamoni ) on the suggestion one, however, was of Himansu Rai - used as an actor - director, producer and CEO of Bombay Talkies.
1936 Ashok Kumar made her first appearance in a movie. Together with wife Devika Rani Rais he was protagonist of a series of films of the 1930s, as well as in his second film, the successful social drama Achhut Kanya (1936 ) and Nirmala (1938 ), both directed by the German Franz Osten. He thus became the star of the early Hindi film of Bollywood. His greatest success commercially, the film Kismet (1943 ) by Gyan Mukherjee. The position as the most successful film he lost only in the 1970s to Sholay. With Mahal (1949, with Madhubala ) and Bimal Roy's Bandini in (1963, with Nutan and Dharmendra ) he was able to build on this success. In the 1950s he played in crime films, often with his trademark, a cigarette in his hand. He has performed with the stars Dev Anand, Raj Kapoor and Dilip Kumar. Kumar has been active as an actor into the 1990s, and played in a total of 280 films.
In 1959 he was awarded Sangeet Natak Akademi Award with a. Ashok Kumar won two Filmfare Awards for Best Actor in 1962 and 1969, and won the Filmfare Award / Lifetime Achievement in 1995. Kumar in 1989 awarded the prestigious Dadasaheb Phalke Award. His brother is the actor and playback singer Kishore Kumar.