Ashok Kumar: Indian cinema's versatile actor - whose hit film drew the ire of Morarji Desai

Vikas Datta | October 13, 2024 11:56 AM

New Delhi, Oct 13 (IANS) From 1936 to 1996, there was no year when a Hindi film with him as the hero -- or a key supporting character or even a cunning villain -- did not hit the big screen. He was also seen frequently on the small screen every week in the mid-1980s as the wise patriarch, summarising every episode of Indian TV's first soap opera 'Hum Log', often with a homespun witty Hindi quip or poem.