Two Great Bollywood Stars Born on the Same Date
Guru Dutt and Sanjeev Kumar, the two legendary actors of Bollywood were born on 9th July of 1925 and 1938 respectively. What a coincidence that both died prematurely. Both started their career early in their life. Guru Dutt got a job under a three-year contract with the Prabhat Film Company in Pune when he was just nineteen years of age. Sanjeev Kumar also started his acting career as a stage actor, starting with IPTA in Bombay and later joining the Indian National Theatre. A t the age of 22, he played an old man in a play, an adaptation of Arthur Miller's All My Sons . In the following year, in the play Damru directed by AK Hangal , he again played the role of a 60-year-old with six children. Guru Dutt acted in a small role as Sri Krishna in Chand in 1944. In 1945, he acted as well as assisted director Vishram Bedekar in Lakhrani , and in 1946 he worked as an assistant director and ...