Remembering Dilip Kumar, the legendary actor, who has bowed out at 98

Dilip Kumar was Indian cinema's first and most influential Khan - an extraordinary force that inspired generations of actors

In a congested lane of the famous Qissa Khwani Bazaar (market of storytellers) in Peshawar, Pakistan, stands a two-storey house where a boy was born on December 11, 1922. Named Muhammad Yusuf Khan, he would grow up to be recognised as the first Khan of Indian cinema – long before the other three Khans, Aamir, Shah Rukh and Salman, even appeared on the planet. We would know him as Dilip Kumar, the screen name he adopted on the advice of Devika Rani, the first lady of the Indian film industry.

After a momentous cinematic journey and an eventful life that