[All in one] Bollywood grieves at the loss of Dara Singh

Bollywood grieves deeply at the demise of wrestler, actor, producer, director and mentor Dara Singh whose is hailed as the first true action hero of our industry. Dara Singh met with an heart attack at 7:30 am on Thursday morning at his residence. He featured in over 140 films, including "Watan Se Door", "Daada", "Rustom-E-Baghdad", "Sher Dil", "Sikandar E Azam", "Raaka", "Mera Naam Joker" and "Dharam Karam". He was last seen in the 2007 release "Jab We Met". He is best known for his role as Hanuman in smaller screen's mega serials Ramayan and Mahabharat.
Singh also has the credit of fighting with international wrestlers like Lou Thesz and Stanislaus Zbyszko, and had over 500 professional fights to his credit – all undefeated. He won the Professional Indian Wrestling Championship in 1953, and took away the Commonwealth Wrestling Championship trophy in 1959 by defeating Canadian champion George Godianko. He has also received titles like Rustam-E-Punjab (1966) and Rustam-E-Hind (1978).
Veteran actor Amitabh Bachchan, who played Dara Singh's son in 1985 action film Mard, remembers Dara Singh as one of the 'finest humans' whose demise ended an era.
"Dara Singh ji passed away this morning. A great Indian and one of the finest humans… An entire era of his celebrated presence gone!," Bachchan, 69, wrote on Twitter.

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Posted By Blogger to All in one at 7/17/2012 11:26:00 PM