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Unknown facts about Dilip Kumar

Unknown facts about Dilip Kumar, shared by his biographer

He wanted to be the country’s best soccer player. His father wanted to see an OBE attached to his son’s name. But Destiny had other splendid plans laid out for the fourth child of Mohammad Sarvar Khan, a successful fruit merchant and his frail and beautiful wife Ayesha Begum. Little did either of the parents know that their cherubic and playful son Yousuf would grow up to manhood in the city of Bombay far away from Peshawar where the Khan family had its residence and where Yousuf was born on a freezing cold winter night.