Saira Banu, wife of Bollywood actor Dilip Kumar, is consoled by actor Shahrukh Khan at her residence in Mumbai, India, July 7, 2021. Kunal Patil/Pool via REUTERS 

People load the body of Bollywood actor Dilip Kumar into an ambulance for his funeral in Mumbai, India, July 7, 2021. REUTERS/Niharika Kulkarni 

Police stand guard outside a mosque during the funeral of Bollywood actor Dilip Kumar in Mumbai, India, July 7, 2021. REUTERS/Niharika Kulkarni 

Fans use their mobile phones to take pictures of an ambulance carrying the body of Bollywood actor Dilip Kumar for his funeral in Mumbai, India, July 7, 2021. REUTERS/Niharika Kulkarni 

Saira Banu, wife of Bollywood actor Dilip Kumar, leaves her house to attend the funeral of her husband in Mumbai, India, July 7, 2021. REUTERS/Niharika Kulkarni 

Saira Banu, wife of Bollywood actor Dilip Kumar, is consoled during the funeral of her husband in Mumbai, India, July 7, 2021. Kunal Patil/Pool via REUTERS 

Saira Banu, wife of Bollywood actor Dilip Kumar, is consoled by actor Shahrukh Khan at her residence in Mumbai, India, July 7, 2021. Kunal Patil/Pool via REUTERS 

Actor Ranbir Kapoor arrives to pay his respect at the residence of Bollywood actor Dilip Kumar after he died in a hospital in Mumbai, India, July 7, 2021. REUTERS/Niharika Kulkarni 

Fans gather near the residence of Bollywood actor Dilip Kumar after he died in a hospital in Mumbai, India, July 7, 2021. REUTERS/Niharika Kulkarni 

Members of police march as they arrive at the residence of Bollywood actor Dilip Kumar after he died in a hospital in Mumbai, India, July 7, 2021. REUTERS/Niharika Kulkarni 

Fans gather near the residence of Bollywood actor Dilip Kumar after he died in a hospital in Mumbai, India, July 7, 2021. REUTERS/Niharika Kulkarni 

Workers from the Archaeology and Museums Department place a sign on a closed entrance of the childhood home of Bollywood actor Mohammad Yusuf Khan, popularly known as Dilip Kumar, after his death in Mumbai, in Peshawar, Pakistan July 7, 2021. REUTERS/Fayaz Aziz 

A man walks past a closed entrance of the childhood home of Bollywood actor Mohammad Yusuf Khan, popularly known as Dilip Kumar, after his death in Mumbai, in Peshawar, Pakistan July 7, 2021. REUTERS/Fayaz Aziz 

A man reads a sign, placed by the Archaeology and Museums Department, on a closed entrance of the childhood home of Bollywood actor Mohammad Yusuf Khan, popularly known as Dilip Kumar, after his death in Mumbai, in Peshawar, Pakistan July 7, 2021. REUTERS/Fayaz Aziz 

Director Karan Johar arrives to pay his respect at the residence of Bollywood actor Dilip Kumar after he died in a hospital in Mumbai, India, July 7, 2021. REUTERS/Niharika Kulkarni 

Actor Anupam Kher arrives to pay his respect at the residence of Bollywood actor Dilip Kumar after he died in a hospital in Mumbai, India, July 7, 2021. REUTERS/Niharika Kulkarni 

Actor Shah Rukh Khan arrives to pay his respect at the residence of Bollywood actor Dilip Kumar after he died in a hospital in Mumbai, India, July 7, 2021. REUTERS/Niharika Kulkarni 

A woman is stopped by police outside the residence of Bollywood actor Dilip Kumar after he died in a hospital in Mumbai, India, July 7, 2021. REUTERS/Niharika Kulkarni 

An ambulance is seen parked inside the residence of Bollywood actor Dilip Kumar after he died in a hospital in Mumbai, India, July 7, 2021. REUTERS/Niharika Kulkarni 

Police stand outside the residence of Bollywood actor Dilip Kumar after he died in a hospital in Mumbai, India, July 7, 2021. REUTERS/Niharika Kulkarni 

A woman reacts as she sits outside the residence of Bollywood actor Dilip Kumar after he died in a hospital in Mumbai, India, July 7, 2021. REUTERS/Niharika Kulkarni 

Dilip Kumar, Vice President, Physical Retail & Technology for Amazon is pictured at an Amazon checkout-free, large format grocery store in Seattle, Washington, U.S. February 21, 2020. Picture taken February 21, 2020. REUTERS/Jason Redmond 

Bollywood actor Dilip Kumar (R) waves before receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award from India's President Pratibha Patil (C) and India's Information and Broadcasting Minister Priyaranjan Dasmunsi during the 54th National Film Awards ceremony in New Delhi September 2, 2008. REUTERS/B Mathur (INDIA) 

Bollywood star Dilip Kumar smiles after receiving the lifetime achievement award from India's President Pratibha Patil (unseen) during the 54th national film awards ceremony in New Delhi September 2, 2008. REUTERS/B Mathur (INDIA) 

Newly appointed Chief Justice Dilip Kumar Poudel talks to the media after being sworn by the Nepali Prime Minister in Nepali capital Kathmandu January 18, 2007. REUTERS/Gopal Chitrakar (NEPAL) 

Newly appointed Chief Justice Dilip Kumar Poudel talks to the media after being sworn in by the Nepali Prime Minister in Nepali capital Kathmandu January 18, 2007. REUTERS/Gopal Chitrakar (NEPAL) 

Bollywood stars Kumar and Banu arrive for the premier of a retouched version of an old classic film "Mughal-e-Azam" in Bombay. Legendary Bollywood stars Dilip Kumar (R) and Saira Banu arrive for the premier of a retouched version of an old classic "Mughal-e-Azam" or 'Emperor of the Moghuls', in Bombay November 10, 2004. Mughal-e-Azam or Emperor of the Moghuls, one of Bollywood's greatest classics, returned to the big screen on Wednesday after 44 years but this time in colour. The black and white epic has been converted by the Indian Academy of Arts and Animation through a process which involved filling colour into each frame manually. REUTERS/Punit Paranjpe 

Bollywood star Dilip Kumar (R) hugs Shah Rukh Khan after Kumar won the International Indian Film Academy award for his Outstanding Achievement in Indian Cinema in Singapore May 22, 2004. REUTERS/Ahmad Masood AM/CP 

Indian actor Dilip Kumar arrives at the Millennium Dome in London for the International Indian Film Awards, June 24. The awards are the Bollywood equivalent of the Oscars and are being held in England for the first time this year. 

Indian actor Dilip Kumar arrives at the Millennium Dome in London for the International Indian Film Awards, June 24. The awards are the Bollywood equivalent of the Oscars and are being held in England for the first time this year.

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Indian actor Dilip Kumar arrives at the Millennium Dome in London for the International Indian Film Awards, June 24. The awards are the Bollywood equivalent of the Oscars and are being held in England for the first time this year.

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Activist of the right wing Hindu Shiv Sena party burn an effigy of Moslem film star Dilip Kumar in New Delhi July 13. More than 50 activists of the Shiv Sena party demonstrated in front of a hotel where Kumar is staying and asked him to return the "Nishan-E-Imtiaz", the highest civilian award by Pakistan following the Kashmir conflict.

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Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee gestures to Moslem film star Dilip Kumar during a meeting in New Delhi July 11. Kumar called on Vajpayee after right wing Hindu Shiv Sena party asked him to return "Nishan-E-Imtiaz", the highest civilian award by Pakistan, following Kashmir conflict. Vajpayee said it was up to Kumar to return the award and no pressure should be put on him.

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Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee is seen during a meeting with a leading film star, Dilip Kumar, in New Delhi July 11. India said there were indications that Pakistan was withdrawing from some areas in northern Kashmir. Pakistan has said that Indian and Pakistani military officials had agreed to a sector-by-sector ceasefire.

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Activists from the militant right-wing Shiv Sena Party shout slogans as they are taken away in a police van after they staged a demonstration outside veteran Indian movie star Dilip Kumar's house in Bombay, July 6. The activists were demanding that the actor return Pakistan's highest civilian award which was presented to him by the Pakistani government several years ago. India and Pakistan are facing their worst standoff over the disputed Kashmir region in nearly 30 years.

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Indian economist Amartya Sen, who won this year's Nobel Prize, holds his own portrait during a felicitation ceremony organised by the Viswabharati University, where he was educated, in the eastern Indian town of Shantinikentan, 200 km north of Calcutta December 21. The portrait, made by an artist, Jogen Chowdhory, was presented to Sen by the university's Vice Chancellor Dilip Kumar Sinha. 

Indian economist Amartya Sen, who won this year's Nobel Prize, holds his own portrait during a felicitation ceremony organised by the Viswabharati University, where he was educated, in the eastern Indian town of Shantinikentan, 200 km north of Calcutta December 21. The portrait, made by an artist, Jogen Chowdhory, was presented to Sen by the university's Vice Chancellor Dilip Kumar Sinha.

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Indian economist Amartya Sen (L), who won this year's Nobel Prize, receives "Deshikatam" the highest honour conferred by the Viswabharati University in the eastern Indian town of Shantiniketan, where Sen was educated, December 21. The university's Vice Chancellor Dilip Kumar Sinha (R) presented the citation to the Nobel laureate.

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Indian screen actor Dilip Kumar (R) gestures during a news conference in New Delhi December 8 while film writer and lyricist Javed Akhtar looks on. Veterans from India's film industry criticised recent attacks on cinema halls showing the film "Fire" which depicts a lesbian love affair, and appealed to the country's Supreme Court to check such acts of vandalism.

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Pakistani President Mohammad Rafiq Tarar (R) decorates Yousaf Khan otherwise known as Dilip Kumar (L), an Indian film actor, with the "Nishan-i-Imtiaz" award in Islamabad March 23. Kumar, a Moslem who was born in the northwestern Pakistani town of Peshawar, but opted to settle in India at the subcontinent's partition in 1947, is the only Indian actor to receive a national Pakistani award, in recognition to his contributions to acting.

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