SUPER ACTORS: Rajendra Kumar

Thursday 28 June 2012

Rajendra Kumar

Ravi Kumar (20 July 1929 – 12 July 1999) was one of the most successful Indian Bollywood actors in the 1960s and 1970s. He also produced several films in the 1980s starring his son Kumar Gaurav.

He was born in a Punjabi Hindu family in Sialkot, in the West Punjab province of British India, currently in PakistanRajendra Kumar made his debut in the 1950 film Jogan in which he starred opposite Dilip Kumar and Nargis. He then shot to fame[citation needed] in the film Mother India in 1957 in which he played Nargis's son. His first major success as a romantic leading man[citation needed] was in Amit Saxenas's musical Goonj Uthi Shehnai (1959), co-starring Ameeta.