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A Year in Hindi Movies 1944
 
               1944 - Dilip Kumar!!!

The following is based on the book,"Star-Portrait". Born at
Peshawar on December 11, 1922, he was brought to Deolali at age
6. His father Ghulam Sarwar Khan was a successful fruit trader
and had 12 children, of which the child at number 3 was named
Yusuf Khan. As a school kid, he liked to play football and chess.
In 1936, he came to Bombay and went to the Anjuman-e-Islam High
School near VT Station. He was very good in sports but mediocre
in studies. A friend of his used to get the exam questions by
some mysterious method, and shared these with him. Both of them
passed many exams this way. Yusufbhai does not know even now how
his friend managed to get the questions!

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Radio Artiste 1941.

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This is from a PhD dissertation in Hindi, submitted to a university from Jhansi in 1989.

Last set of heroines:

    Abhisarikaa

Chali gori piya se milan ko chali,
naina baanvariyaa man men saanvariyaan,
chali gori.

    Proshit-patikaa

Chhup gayaa koi re, door se pukaar ke,
dard anokhaa haay, de gayaa pyaar se.

    Aagamishyatpatikaa

Mori atariyaa pe kaagaa bole,
moraa jiyaraa dole, koi aa rahaa hai.

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New DS-379.