Manoj Kumar began his journey with the film Fashion, but before that, he wrote a screenplay for an Ashok Kumar film. Ashok Kumar Impressed & blessed him to become a hero. In a Lehren interview ...

I took flowers for him. It was really a fantastic moment,” says Ashok. Now, in a world without the legendary Manoj Kumar, Ashok feels grateful for the opportunity of being close to iconic star.

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 ...