Dara Singh
Dara Singh (born Deedar Singh Randhawa; Panjabi: ਦਾਰਾ ਸਿੰਘ Dara SIMGH; born November 19, 1928 in Dharmuchak, Punjab, † July 12, 2012 in Mumbai, Maharashtra ) was an Indian wrestler who, in addition to and after his sporting career as an actor film director and producer in Hindi and in punjabi film was active. Politically, he was active in the community of Jat Sikh and was appointed to the Rajya Sabha.
Life
Dara Singh was born in the village in the district of Amritsar Dharmuchak in the community of Jat Sikh. He began as an amateur with the Pehlwani sports, an Indian ring style, and thus came on at fairs. From the late 1940s he played with a size of 1.88 m and a fighting weight of 130 kg professional wrestling fights. He he stepped on tours throughout South and Southeast Asia and in Commonwealth countries and fought against, among others Tarlok Singh, King Kong, George Gordienko, Lou Thesz and John Desilva. Dara Singh won the 1953 Professional Indian Wrestling Championship and 1959 Commonwealth Wrestling Championship trophy. For his athletic achievements, he was awarded the titles of " Rustam -e -Punjab " (1966) and " Rustam -e- Hind " (1978). In 1983 he ended his wrestling career and was inducted into the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame in 1996.
In 1952 he made his first appearance in a movie. After a few more sporadic film assignments in the 1950s, he had his breakthrough as an actor with the lead role in Babubhai Mistris King Kong (1962). His roll compartment were action hero stunt rich in B-movies in the tradition of Master Vithal, with whom he is a great fan base, especially in rural and small urban working class milieu created. In the 1960s, he formed an on-screen couple with actress Mumtaz in 16 Hindi films, including Faulad (1963 ), Veer Bhimsen (1964 ), Aandhi Aur Toofan (1964 ), Boxer ( 1965), Raaka (1965 ), Daku Mangal Singh (1966 ) Jawan Mard (1966 ) and Do Dushman (1967). He often played in mythological films and among directors Kedar Kapoor, Mohammed Hussein and Chandrakant. In large mainstream productions Dara Singh was usually only seen with guest appearances or in small roles. Apart from that, he played in Manmohan Desai's Mard (1985 ) Amitabh Bachchan's father and Subhash Ghai in Karma (1986 ) a former criminals.
India -wide popularity procured Dara Singh as Hanuman his role in the television series Ramayan ( 1986) by Ramanand Sagar and Mahabharat (1988 ) by Baldev Raj Chopra under the same Nationalepen.
In 1970, Dara Singh for the first time as a director, producer and author of its own film - Nanak Sab Sansar Dukhiya, for which he could undertake the performer Balraj Sahni, Prithviraj Kapoor, Pran and Achala Sachdev. He turned at least seven more Punjabi and Hindi films. In 1989 he published his autobiography Meri Atmakatha.
Politically, Dara Singh sat for the interests of his Jat community a. From August 2003 to August 2009 he was appointed on the initiative of the Bharatiya Janata Party Rajya Sabha member.
Dara Singh was married twice and had six children. He died from a heart attack. His son Vindu Dara Singh is also an actor.