Naseer praises Dilip’s performances but says he ‘didn’t do enough for cinema.

• keypoints:
• While praising Dilip Kumar’s performances and thanking him ‘for the magic’, Naseeruddin Shah talked about his contribution to Indian cinema.
• Naseeruddin Shah paid tribute to Dilip Kumar in an opinion piece for a publication.

Veteran actor Naseeruddin Shah wondered why past due actor Dilip Kumar’ chose to play safe the manner he did, no matter being a celeb and ‘immaculate’ at his craft. Naseeruddin made those observations in an opinion piece written after Dilip’s demise.

Dilip Kumar died on July 7 after an extended infection. Coincidentally, Naseeruddin Shah was tormented by pneumonia and admitted to Dilip’s identical medical institution in his ultimate days. However, they did now not meet.

In a chunk for The Indian Express, Naseeruddin acknowledged the ‘undoubted greatness’ of Dilip’s performances but puzzled his contribution to cinema. He pointed out that his filmography turned into restricted, as compared to his contemporaries.

“Some of those works possible will continue to exist the check of time; however, given the position he turned into in, it is extra than obvious he didn’t do sufficient aside from performing and being concerned in social reasons close to his coronary heart. He produced the simplest one film, didn’t direct any (formally as a minimum), by no means handed on the benefit of his experience, didn’t trouble to groom everybody, and aside from his pre-Seventies performances, left in the back of no giant training for destiny actors; even his autobiography is but a rehash of antique interviews,” he wrote.

“It’s baffling why a man as conscious of his place in history as he changed into ought to be reluctant to report his interaction with a number of the admittedly notable filmmakers of his time or say anything, in reality, informative approximately the character of his paintings and approach. I wish, in some unspecified time in the future, he had as a minimum been forthright approximately the travails involved in keeping legions of committed enthusiasts,” he delivered.

Naseeruddin praised the ‘consummate characterisations, the dignified deportment, the mellifluous diction, the managed but roiling emotionality’ in Dilip’s performances, especially earlier than Ganga Jumna (1961). He also expressed gratitude to the overdue actor ‘for the magic’.

Dilip breathed his ultimate at the Hinduja Hospital in Mumbai on July 7 and is survived using his wife, Saira Banu. In his career spanning over five a long time, he played a gamut of roles and considered an institution in performing. He becomes referred to as the ‘tragedy king’ for excelling in brooding and extreme romantic roles.