NEW DELHI — Ashok Kumar, an icon of Indian cinema who wowed audiences in about 250 films, died Monday at his home in Bombay. He was 90 and had been in ill health for some time. No official cause ...

That, in 1936, was the rather farcical start of the career of Ashok Kumar, who was born in October 1911. Undaunted, he went on to establish himself not only as Hindi cinema’s first superstar as ...

It must have been a warm day of 1966/67 when, during a casual conversation over a fish meal, Ashok Kumar said to Hrishikesh Mukherjee, "You came into industry a little late as a director.