Today we are going to tell you about the legendary actor Ashok Kumar. He was born on 13 october 1911. His real name is Kumudlal Ganguly. He was honoured in 1988 with the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, the highest national award for cinema artists, by the Government of India and also received the Padma Bhushan the same year in 1998 for his contributions to Indian cinema. He is considered to be one of India's finest ever actors, playing leading, negative and character roles with equal panache.
He was oldest in his two brothers named Anoop Kumar and Kishore Kumar and a sister named Sati Devi.
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Reverently called Dadamoni (affectionate term for elder brother), Kumudlal Ganguly was born in Bhagalpur and educated at Presidency College of the University of Calcutta, Kolkata, where he studied to become a lawyer. However, his heart was not into his law studies. Ganguly was more interested in cinema, in which he dreamt of working as a technician.
It was the lure of cinema and the presence of his brother in Law Sashadhar Mukherjee in a fairly senior position in Bombay Talkies which prompted Kumudlal Ganguly to move to Bombay (Mumbai) in the mid 30s, where he started off as a laboratory assistant in Bombay Talkies, one of the biggest film studios of that era.
He was a homeopathy practitioner and has done so many miracle cures.
These qualities show that he was an all time great personality.
