On Sanjeev Kumar’s 81st birthday, a look at why he remains unparalleled as an actor on the Indian screen
Hindustan TimesHad actor Sanjeev Kumar been alive today, he would have been 81 years old, much younger than Dileep Kumar and Lata Mangeshkar and, who knows, possibly working as an actor and entertaining the world. Actors Ananya Panday, Kartik Aaryan and Bhumi Pednekar will soon star in a remake of hit 1978 Hindi film Pati Patni Aur Woh, which originally starred Sanjeev, Vidya Sinha and Ranjeeta Kaur. Believe it or not, only 22 years old and Sanjeev played an old man for an IPTA’s adaptation of American playwright Arthur Miller’s All My Sons. As the chess-obsessed Nawab Mirza Sajjad Ali in Satyajit Ray’s Shatranj Ke Khiladi, Sanjeev was revetting in the role From playing melodramatic to subtle roles, working in different media, working in many languages, opting for non conventional roles, doing South remakes to experimenting with genres, there’s nothing that Sanjeev didn’t do.
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