Dilip Kumar was born Muhammad Yusuf Khan at Mohallah Khudadad, in Qissa Khwani Bazaar in peshawar pakistan He was born to a Pathan family with twelve children. His father, Lala Ghulam Sarwar, was a fruit merchant who owned large orchards in Peshawar and deolali in maharashtra near nashik The family relocated to mumbai in the 1930s and in the early 1940s Yusuf Khan moved to Pune and started a canteen business and supplying dried fruits.
In 1943, actress devika rani who was also the wife of the founder of the bombay talkies film studio, himanshu raj, helped Khan's entry into the bollywood film industry. Hindi Author Bhagwati Charan Varma gave him the screen name Dilip Kumar and gave him the leading role in his film jwar bhata (1944). Devika Rani and her husband svetoslav roerich spotted Khan in one of Pune's Aundh military canteens.
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