Born Mohammed Yusuf Khan, the actor had changed his name to Dilip Kumar on Devika Rani’s insistence, when entering the film industry back in 1944. In an earlier interview, he had admitted that it was ‘pitayi ka darr’ that led to the change in name since his father, unimpressed by the four-figure salary of the film industry, referred to his profession as nautanki.
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