Tuesday, October 13, 2015

The first superstar and anti-hero of Hindi cinema


Kumudlal Ganguly (better known as Ashok Kumar)...The first superstar of Hindi cinema, the first lead actor to play an anti-hero, the first actor whose film entered the 1-crore club (Kismet) in the 1940s...
And probably the only actor who as producer (of Bombay Talkies) gave those crucial breaks to Bollywood greats such as Dev Anand, Pran, Madhubala, Kishore Kumar and Lata Mangeshkar.
And interestingly, a career in acting happened purely by accident for this law graduate from Presidency College (Kolkata) who aspired to become a film technician.

Read on: http://indiatoday.intoday.in/education/story/ashok-kumar/1/497246.html

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