Biography of ashok kumar bollywood actor prank

New Delhi: From 1936 to 1996, there was no year when a Hindi film with him as the hero — or a key supporting character or even a cunning villain — did not hit the big screen.

He was also seen frequently on the small screen every week in the mid-1980s as the wise patriarch, summarising every episode of Indian TV’s first soap opera ‘Hum Log’, often with a homespun witty Hindi quip or poem.

Apart from his versatile acting, Ashok Kumar is also associated with the first patriotic hymn in a Hindi film — ‘Jai Jai Janani Janmabhoomi’ in ‘Janmabhoomi’ (1936), followed by the more directly nationalistic ‘Aaj Himalay Ki Choti Se…’ in ‘Kismet’ (1943) with its refrain ‘..Door hato duniyawalon, Hindustan hamara hai’.

Unbelievably, this was cleared by the British censors, perhaps due to the phrase ‘German ho ya Japani’, but as it began to be played over and over again in cinemas on