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image captionDilip Kumar was one of Bollywood's best-known actorsDilip Kumar was arguably the best actor Indian cinema has produced, writes Lord Meghnad Desai, eminent economist and Dilip Kumar's biographer.... In his range, depth and integrity, Dilip Kumar matched Hollywood great Marlon Brando or Japanese star Toshiro Mifune or Italian legend Marcello Mastroianni. Kumar is not known abroad as he never acted in an English-language film.... But his status as an actor who set a template which ge