Producer-director Vidhu Vinod Chopra's elder brother Vir Chopra passed away yesterday due to COVID-19. He had worked with Vidhu on films like '3 Idiots' and 'Lage Raho Munna Bhai'.
Legendary actor Dilip Kumar, popularly known as 'Tragedy King', was laid to rest with state honours on Wednesday evening.
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi took to his Twitter handle today to mourn the loss of legendary actor Dilip Kumar who passed away on Wednesday after he hospitalised due to breathing issues on June 30.
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.
Dilip Kumar, known to generations of film-goers as ‘tragedy king', had been admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) of the Hinduja Hospital, a non-Covid-19 facility, since Tuesday. The “Mughal-e-Azam” actor had been in and out of hospitals in the last one month and the family was hoping he would get better.