New Delhi, April 4 -- Legendary actor and director Manoj Kumar, known for his patriotic movies and often dubbed as 'Bharat Kumar', is considered a trend setter for such films in India and remained an inspiration to many Bollywood actors across generations.
During a career spanning five decades, Manoj Kumar played a part in around 55 movies, several of them attained iconic status, cementing his place as a doyen of Indian cinema.
Manoj Kumar, 87, who breathed his last at the Kokilaben Hospital here on Friday morning, had ventured into virtually all areas of film making - he was variously an actor, director, screen writer, producer, editor and lyricist. And it was his many contributions to film making, that fetched him Indian cinema's highes...