Harihar Jariwala, better known as “Sanjeev Kumar” of Indian film industry, was born into a conventional Gujarati family living in an apartment in Bombay. And that is where he developed his passion for acting. After doing theatre, Sanjeev Kumar enrolled in the Filmalaya Acting School which brought him a crumb role in his first Indian film, “Hum Hindustani” (’60). Strangely, the future thespian failed his first screen test of “Aarti” (’62), even after the fourth months of training opposite the famous Indian actress Meena Kumari. Sanjeev, however, stuck with it and in 1965, his first film as a hero, the B-grade “Nishaan”, was released. Fortunately, his proficiency as an actor triumphed even in the insignificant films that typified this phase of his career. Sanjeev Kumar is an actor par excellence who established a phenomenal reputation by playing an amazing gamut of role. Sanjeev Kumar was accepted as Jaya Bhaduri’s lover in Bollywood movie “Anamika” (’73), as her father in Bollywood movie “Parichay” (’72) and convincingly played Jaya’s father-in-law in block buster Bollywood movie” Sholay” (’75) . Sanjeev Kumar simply rephrased many of the caucus of Bollywood, because, for Sanjeev, commercial paraphernalia always took second place to the ‘role’. The one who gave many golden jubilee movies could not reach the golden jubilee of his life and passed away too soon.
Top ten best Bollywood movies of famous Indian actor Sanjeev Kumar are:
- # 10 …Anamika
- # 9 …Namkeen
- # 8 …Muasam
- # 7 …Aandhi
- # 6 …Angoor
- # 5 … Seeta aur geeta
- # 4 … Khoshish
- # 3 … Trishul
- # 2 …Shitranj ke khiladi
- # 1 …Sholey