About Rajendra Kumar
Rajendra Kumar was an Indian actor who starred in Bollywood films. Starting his career in 1949, he worked in more than 80 films in a career spanning over four decades. Kumar is considered as one of the greatest and most successful actors in Indian cinema. He was popularly known as the Jubilee Kumar during the 1960s, when he consecutively starred in several commercially successful films. His first release, the drama film Zindagi aur Khwab opposite Meena Kumari was a critical and commercial hit. The film opened to highly positive response from critics and emerged as a blockbuster with Kumar receiving his first nomination in the Filmfare Award for Best Actor category. The film had no songs, however, it became a hit and went on to win National Film Award for Best Feature Film (Hindi). 1961 was the best year of Kumar's career with many successes.
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