Veteran film icon Dilip Kumar celebrates 90th B’Day today

Legendary Bollywood actor Dilip Kumar, who celebrates his 90th birthday today has no big plans this year even his biography which was due to be launched on the occasion got delayed. The veteran actor said, “This year, it is going to be a family get-together which happens often all through the year, when my sisters, brothers, nieces and nephews visit me. I am fortunate to have a wife who finds happiness in uniting me with my family as often as she can”. About the biography, Dilip Kumar’s wife Saira Banu, informed, "We will not be launching his biography on his birthday as the book needs some polishing. His biography will be a kind of look into what Dilip Kumar is. This book will not be filled with gossip, but it will be about his journey". On turning 90 today, Dilip said, “It is said a man is as old as he feels and a woman, as old as she looks. I feel as good and healthy as I felt on my last birthday and the birthday before that. Of course, I am grateful to the Almighty that I have lived to this age. I am able to eat what I like, walk without help and enjoy all the small and simple pleasures of life”.

Answering how does a superstar’s life look at 90, the film icon said, “I was never pleased by my stardom. I have always said that there shouldn’t be a term like ‘star’ for an actor. It is a marketing term, coined by the marketing men. It is the work that I chose to accept that mattered to me and preoccupied me. I always lived a normal life and never got carried away into another world of another personality, who sought pampering and constant attention. When you do that, you acquire a false, unapproachable personality. When you have been yourself, your life doesn’t change at all. I am as happy and content as I have always been”.