Monday, January 08, 2007

Yusuf Khan, Devika Rani and the matter of a name

It was Devika Rani who gave the man who become one of Indian Cinena's greatest actors. She cast him in the film Jwar Bhata in 1944. His name was Yusuf Khan but Devika Rani wanted him to chnge his name and offered him 3 choices:-
Jahangir
Vasudev
Dilip Kumar
The rest is history

1 comment:

SUNITI JOSHI said...

I wonder if history would have changed if we had movies which had- say- Madhubala and Vasudev!