Seasoned actor Sabyasachi Chakraborty believes at one point in time Dilip Kumar was the king of Hindi films, though there were other actors too including Dev Anand, Raj Kapoor and Rajendra Kumar. On the thespian’s first death anniversary, Sabyasachi shares how a certain sophistication in Dilip Kumar’s acting became a trend in Indian cinema. Dilip Kumar breathed his last at 98 last year.
“They were all contemporaries... but what was special about Dilip Kumar is that he would never over-emote, there was certain sophistication in his acting. All of his films are great, and one would watch them awestruck. I think he was outstanding in Tapan Sinha’s Sagina Mahato. I really liked his style of dialogue delivery, the rustic look and his expressions in the film. Sagina Mahato is my all-time favourite and in later years the film Shakti with Amitabh Bachchan. He had a certain control over his acting. I was just a film fanatic like all youngsters, so I used to watch all kinds of films and that included Hollywood, Hindi and Bangla and that is how I got introduced to Dilip Kumar’s films too,” shared Sabyasachi while speaking to ETimes.
The Feluda actor also recalls how he met Dilip Kumar for once and all at the Kolkata International Airport. “Though I was a bit inclined towards Hollywood films, in Hindi I used to always like Dilip Kumar, Raj Kapoor, Rajendra Kumar and Dev Anand, though their acting styles were much different from Dilip Kumar. The only time I saw him in person was at the Calcutta airport. He walked in and talked to a few people and was whisked away to the VIP lounge. That was the only time I saw him in person otherwise I’d never met him,” said the actor as he went down memory lane.
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