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Bollywood legends have been an integral part of our modern cultural history. Legends about a certain celebrity whose career was sabotaged by a contemporary who was also a relative (the Lata-Asha rivalry) or how an actor killed the career of another actor out of jealousy (Amitabh-Jaya theory) have been in circulation for the longest time. These stories, these modern myths, have found their believers in people like my mother. An ardent fan of the movies, my mother is full of such stories and many of them hardly make any sense.
She would repeatedly tell me how Dilip Kumar used Madhubala or how Parveen Babi was used by Amitabh Bachchan. While Babi was in love with him, he only wanted to have ‘fun’ (by which she means sex). And this is what, according to my mother, pushed Babi to the verge of insanity. How much truth can be found in these stories is perhaps a question better left unasked. Because where’s the fun in that?
Such stories were exchanged at dinner table conversations or on movie nights on Sundays when we would gather in our living room to watch whatever film Doordarshan was playing. It was one such Sunday evening when Doordarshan decided to show the 1964 black and white classic Dosti. The story was about the journey of two teenage boys, one blind and one crippled. And it launched the short-lived careers of Shushil Kumar and Sudhir Kumar. The film’s songs, while supremely sappy, were blockbusters then. It was while watching this tediously boring film that my mother gave me the gossip about the two boys.
Did you know, she said, these boys aren’t alive anymore? It wasn’t a hard thing to believe given their age and everything. But she wasn’t done yet. She told me that they were murdered by a big, famous actor of their time. He got insecure about their fame and got them killed. When I asked my mother who that actor was, she told me she can’t be sure but rumor has it that it was Dilip Kumar. For a 10-year-old that gossip was gold, especially because Dilip Kumar had become the bane of my existence, thanks to my mother’s love for his supremely irritating 1968 film Adami. “Aaj Purani Raahon Se Koi Mujhe Aawaaz Na De,” sang Dilip Kumar and I firmed by the belief that he was the one to have killed the two budding actors. It gave me a valid reason to hate him.
However, as I grew up, my hatred for Dilip Kumar subsided. It was impossible to escape his charms in movies like Madhumati, Naya Daur, and Devdas. And I completely forgot about the two boys from Dosti. It was only recently that I remembered my mother’s theory when I saw a blog post on my Facebook feed putting an end to this gossip. The post was by a researcher who worked for a program called Suhana Safar with Annu Kapoor. A listener of the program had written to Annu Kapoor asking the whereabouts of the two actors in the film. When the question was sent to the said researcher, it led to a massive hunt. The researcher, like me, had heard the murder conspiracy story and knew nothing more about the actors. After a lot of findings, he stumbled upon a relative of Sushil Kumar who helped him get in touch with the actor.
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