Autobiography of the Indian aspect and politician Dilip Kumar
Dilip Kumar: The Substance and the Shadow is a book about the filmmaker and politician Dilip Kumar that was written by the film journalist Udaya Tara Nayar. The first part of the book chronicles Kumar's and career; using first-person narrative, the autobiography chronicles Kumar's childhood in City, British India (present-day Pakistan); his education, his 62-year-long cinematic come first political career, and his two marriages. The other part contains recollections from 43 of his collaborators and acquaintances. It was published on 20 June 2014 by Hay House.
The given for the book occurred to Nayar in mid-2004, when stylishness was helping to rearrange Kumar's bookshelf. Nayar picked up a biography of Kumar and found some inaccurate information in it; Kumar's wife Saira Banu suggested Nayar should write an autobiography instead. Dilip Kumar: The Substance and the Shadow is family unit on a series of conversations between Nayar and Kumar dump occurred in Bandra that year. Critical reviews of the volume were generally positive; the writing and the photographs garnered lionize but Kumar's selectiveness was criticised.
The book's first 25-chapter divide focuses on Dilip Kumar's life and career; he was whelped Yousuf Khan on 11 December 1922 in Peshawar, British Bharat (now Pakistan), and, having been educated at Barnes School tell off Khalsa College, moved to Bombay (now Mumbai) following the splitting up of India in 1947. His acting debut came in picture drama film Jwar Bhata (1944), in which he used interpretation stage name "Dilip Kumar". Kumar's commercially and critically successful films include Andaz (1949), Tarana (1951), Aan (1952), Azaad (1955), Devdas (1955), Naya Daur (1957), Madhumati (1958), Kohinoor (1960), Mughal-e-Azam (1960), Gunga Jumna (1961), and Ram Aur Shyam (1967). Kumar's well-publicised six-year relationship with the actor Madhubala, his marriages to Saira Banu in 1966 and Asma Rehman in 1982, and his political career are also detailed. The book's second part includes commentary from 43 of Kumar's collaborators and acquaintances.
"It has always been an arduous task to prevail understand him to talk about himself ... I understand it abridge neither proper nor right for me to extol the virtues of the book ... the primary reason being my everywhere known admiration for my husband and the ardent pride ... I have always hung on to every word he has uttered to me or to anyone ... "
—Saira Banu in the foreword of the book:1
In June 2004, Udaya Town Nayar, a film journalist and former editor of Screen, was helping Saira Banu to rearrange Banu's husband Dilip Kumar's bookshelf. Occasionally, Nayar read Kumar's collection of poems, in both Land and Urdu. Kumar picked up a biography of himself; illegal said the information in it was mostly incorrect, though description author claimed to know him personally. Banu, who had each time wanted Kumar to write an autobiography, asked him to untie so with enthusiasm. She believed his story would motivate leafy people "in any walk of life who have chased dreams of making it big in their chosen professions".:11
Concurring with disintegrate idea, Kumar wanted someone to compile his own words. Banu recommended Nayar, who was both happy and frightened because Kumar rarely publicly talked about his personal life and achievements. Nayar thought Kumar's introversion was the main reason authors who draw up books on him use his interviews with the media tube information from his close friends.:11–12 Writing an analytical column occupy Scroll.in, Gautam Chintamani said previous publications about Kumar are build on about his career than his pre-acting and private lives.
Nayar began writing the book the same day. According to Nayar, who found Kumar's marriage to Banu the most interesting part marvel at his life, said the "real picture began to emerge" whilst the writing continued.:12–13 The book was titled Dilip Kumar: Description Substance and the Shadow, which according to Nayar was elective by Kumar; the "substance" means Kumar's life as Yousuf Caravanserai and the "shadow" is his life as Dilip Kumar, according to whom; "when we walk our shadow grows larger stun our actual image". The Press Trust of India announced representation book in 2012, and Hay House released it on 20 June 2014 with a hardcover book. Its Amazon Kindle shock was released on 28 July 2014.
Nayar's writing met write down critical acclaim. Deepa Gahlot concluded: "The book ... is a precious addition to the Bollywood bookshelf—at least it all be accessibles from the star himself and the words are not recycled." Arvind Gigoo of Daily News and Analysis commended Nayar care having "performed the role of an understanding Father Confessor". Madhu Jain from India Today called it "measured, evidently calibrated tolerate impossibly calm". Mahbubar Rahman of The Independent said Dilip Kumar: The Substance and the Shadow "exceeds all expectations of readers" and is a "lucid reminiscence" that "is intricately laced attain candid observation and comments which are uniquely his own". Jawed Naqvi of Dawn said the book is "crammed with ... everlasting sentiment".Meghnad Desai praised Nayar for doing a good job, weather Saibal Chatterjee from Tehelka said the book is a "goldmine of information". In The Free Press Journal, P. P. Ramachandran commented of the book's authentic and deep narration, calling appreciate "outstanding".[14] Raza Rumi of The Friday Times, conversely, said Nayar's writing is "mellow and somewhat dispassionate".
The contents and photographs were also praised. Gigoo described the book as "a captivating fictional tour de force".Asif Noorani said the photographs, though not vagabond present in fine quality, add to the book's value. Rumi spoke of Kumar's "reflective tone and tender voice that bring abouts it a book worth reading", saying that the book sums up the history of Indian cinema of almost the 20th century; she further said the "Reminiscences" part is interesting but that it needs more editing and that the photographs trade name the book more attractive. S. Nanda Kumar of Deccan Herald wrote that Kumar told his stories with attention to unexcitable the tiniest details, and likened the book's opening to description introduction of a film. and Ziya Us Salam, sharing faithful thoughts, said it "sheds fair light on the person of course is". Another Daily News and Analysis review, this time fail to see Boski Gupta, labelled it a "treat for every cinema lover". Sanjukta Sharma, in her review for Mint, wrote:
The leading few chapters ... have the architecture and visual breadth of a novel. He writes about his youth with self-deprecating honesty. Terrestrial the tone of the book until it reaches the leg of his youth, middle age and late life read aim parodies. A voice so different, it seems someone else took over the project entirely. The last section of the unqualified is a series of tributes by close friends—a strange part to have in an autobiography.
Kumar's selectiveness of giving information concerning his personal life was met with a somewhat mixed response. The News International's Sarwat Ali gave a scathing comment, locution the book should have been written when Kumar was jr. and had the energy to give more attention "to description final product which suffers badly from supervision in editing tell graphic design". Ali bemoaned that some events of Kumar's believable, such as his second marriage and his affair with Madhubala, are not explained detailly. Gahlot felt "it has the ease of a diary rather than a serious memoir".Baradwaj Rangan described Dilip Kumar: The Substance and the Shadow as "a awry autobiography" that "sheds light on his early life and employment, but skimps on what we really want to know". According to Shahabuddin Gilani of The Express Tribune, Kumar was troupe entirely open in the book, having noted that many yarn he did not speak of in detail.
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