Rajkumar was once the police sub -inspector, the first film was offered in the police station
The name of Kulbhushan Pandit alias Rajkumar, the unconscious emperor of dialogue payment, is like a Dhvratare in the Akash Ganga of the film world, who ruled the hearts of the audience with his strong acting. Rajkumar was born on 8 October 1926 in a middle class Kashmiri Bahman family in the Bluechistan province of Pakistan. After completing his graduation, Rajkumar started working as a sub -inspector at Mahim police station in Mumbai.
The police station of Rajkumar, who was working in Mumbai, often used to visit the people associated with the film industry. Once, the filmmakers were coming to the police station for some important work and he was very impressed by Rajkumar’s style of conversation. And he offered Rajkumar to work as an actor in his film ‘Shahi Bazaar’. Rajkumar had already made up his mind to become an actor after listening to the soldier. So he immediately resigned from his sub -inspector’s job and accepted the producer’s offer.
It took a long time to build the ‘royal market’ and it became difficult for the prince to live. So he accepted a small role in the film ‘Rangeeli’ released in the year 1952. It was not known when the film started in theaters and when it went. Meanwhile, his film ‘Shahi Bazaar’ was also released. Which fell at the box office.
After the failure of the royal market, all the relatives of Rajkumar started saying that your face is not suitable for the film. And some people started saying that you can become a villain. From 1952 to 1957, Rajkumar struggled to make his place in the film industry. After ‘Rangeeli’, the Rajkumar went on accepting whatever role he got. Meanwhile, he acted in many films like Anmol, Sahara, Death, Ghamund, Neelamani and Krishna Sudama but none of these films succeeded at the box office.
Rajkumar appeared in the small role of a farmer from Rajkumar village in Mehboob Khan’s 1957 film Mother India. However, the film was fully focused on actress Nargis. Nevertheless, Rajkumar managed to leave his performance. He also got international fame for his strong performance in this film and after the success of the film, he was established in the film industry as an actor.
In the film ‘Paagam’ released in the year 1959, he was in front of the Hindi film world acting Emperor Dilip Kumar, but Rajkumar was successful in robbing the audience’s applause through his strong role here too. After this, through success in films like Dil Apna and Preet Parai, Gharana, Godan, Dil Ek Mandir and Dooj Ka Chand, he reached a position where he could choose his roles.
After the tremendous success of the film ‘Kajal’ released in 1965, Rajkumar made a distinct identity as an actor. B.R. With his wonderful acting in Chopra’s 1965 film ‘Waqt’, he once again managed to attract the viewer’s attention. Rajkumar’s spoke in the film, ‘Masonry Seth, whose houses are made of glass, they do not throw stones at the house of others’ and ‘Chinai Seth, this knife is not a child’s play, if the hands are cut, then blood comes out’ became very popular among the audience.
With the success of ‘Samay’, Rajkumar reached the Baldis of fame. She then accepted romantic roles in Hamraj, Neelkamal, Mere Huzur, Heer Ranjha and Pakija, which did not match her film character. Kamal Amrohi’s film Pakija was a completely focus on Meena Kumari. Despite this, Rajkumar looted the applause of the audience on the basis of his strong acting. One of his dialogues in Pakija is ‘Seeing your feet very beautiful, do not take them on the ground, will be dirty’ It became so popular that people started copying their dialogues.
In the film ‘Karmayogi’ released in 1978, Raj Kumar’s new dimensions of acting and diversity were seen by the audience. In this film, he made a mark of his acting in two different roles. He introduced himself in various roles to avoid uniformity in acting and also to establish himself as a character actor. In this sequence, he did not even hesitate to play a character role in the 1980 film ‘Bulandi’.
The film ‘Saudagar’ released in 1991 saw new dimensions of Rajkumar’s performance. In this film produced by Subhash Ghai, Rajkumar was in front of Dilip Kumar for the second time after the 1959 film ‘Paigam’ and the conflict between these two maharathis of the acting world was worth seeing. In the nineties, Rajkumar reduced working in films. During this time, films like his tricolor, police and Mujiram, god of humanity, unmatched emperor, response, God and gun were screened.
Rajkumar, who was alone alone, might have realized that death was very close to him. That is why he called his son Puru Rajkumar to him and said, ‘Look, death and life is a personal matter of human being. Do not tell anyone other than my friend Chetan Anand about my death. It is only after my last rites to inform the film industry. Rajkumar, the great actor, who ruled the hearts of the audience for nearly four decades with his serious acting, said goodbye to this world on 3 July 1996.