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The everyman performer

The authors take us through some engaging anecdotes from Kumar's personal life

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Vanita Kohli-Khandekar
An actor’s actor – The authorized biography of Sanjeev Kumar
Author: Hanif Zaveri and Sumant Batra
Publisher: Penguin Ebury Press
Pages: 216
Price: Rs 599

You never noticed him. That was the brilliance of Harihar Jethalal Jariwala a.k.a Sanjeev Kumar. He was Aarti Devi’s estranged husband in Gulzar’s Aandhi (1975) or Dr Amarnath who discovers his old flame’s daughter in a brothel in Mausam (1975) or the mentally ill Vijay in Chander Vohra’s Khilona (1970). These are just three of about 170 films that Kumar did. In every one of them he did not act — he performed. It was not his walk, his talk

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