Deedar (1951)
Deedar fixed the label that followed Dilip Kumar for life - the King of Tragedy - with a blind singer who puts his own eyes out rather than watch the woman he loves marry the surgeon who cured him.
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Indian actor and politician (1922-2021)
Muhammad Yusuf Khan, known professionally as Dilip Kumar, was an Indian actor, writer and film producer best known for his work in Hindi cinema. Credited with pioneering method acting in Hindi cinema, he dominated Indian cinema from the 1950s throughout the 1960s and is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential actors in the history of Indian Cinema.
Deedar fixed the label that followed Dilip Kumar for life - the King of Tragedy - with a blind singer who puts his own eyes out rather than watch the woman he loves marry the surgeon who cured him.
Dilip Kumar's Devdas is on Forbes's list of the 25 greatest performances in Indian cinema, and fixed the character as a type the language still uses: a self-destructive lover is called a Devdas in ordinary conversation.