Subhash K Jha profiles the brilliant career of the late Manoj Kumar in this special feature celebrating his birth anniversary.
The little boy in Abbottabad in the North-West Frontier province saw Dilip Kumar in a film called Jugnu. Then and there, little Manoj Goswami decided he wanted to be a film actor. Many years later, when Manoj was a handsome young man, eeking out a living with his large family in Delhi, a cousin, Lekhraj Bhakri, who was also a filmmaker, suggested that Manoj try his luck in films.
Manoj left Delhi for Mumbai in 1955. He got his first break one year later in a bit role for a film called Gangu Teli. The director Homi Sethna was so happy with the debutant’s work that he paid him Rs 1,000 extra. In his cousin Bhakri’s film Fashion, Manoj played a walk-on part of a beggar. He was only 19.
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The little boy in Abbottabad in the North-West Frontier province saw Dilip Kumar in a film called Jugnu. Then and there, little Manoj Goswami decided he wanted to be a film actor. Many years later, when Manoj was a handsome young man, eeking out a living with his large family in Delhi, a cousin, Lekhraj Bhakri, who was also a filmmaker, suggested that Manoj try his luck in films.
Manoj left Delhi for Mumbai in 1955. He got his first break one year later in a bit role for a film called Gangu Teli. The director Homi Sethna was so happy with the debutant’s work that he paid him Rs 1,000 extra. In his cousin Bhakri’s film Fashion, Manoj played a walk-on part of a beggar. He was only 19.
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- 7/24/2025
- by Subhash K Jha
- Bollyspice
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