Rajkumar hindi actor biography examples

Indian film actor (1926-1996)

For other actors with the same name, see Rajkumar.

Raaj Kumar (born Kulbhushan Pandit; 8 October 1926 – 3 July 1996) was an Indian actor who worked in Hindi films.^[1] He worked as a police officer before entering the film industry.

In a career that spanned over four decades, he went on to star in 70 films and is regarded as one of the most successful actors of Indian cinema.^[2]

Personal life

Kulbhushan Pandit was born on 8 October, 1926 in Loralai in the Baluchistan Province of British India (now in Pakistan) into a Kashmiri Pandit family.^[3][4] In the late 1940s, he moved to Bombay, where he became a sub-inspector under Bombay Police.^[5] In the 1960s, he married Jennifer Pandit, an Anglo-Indian, whom he met on a flight where she was an air hostess.

She later changed her name to Gayatri Kumar as per Hindu customs.^[3] They had three children, sons Puru Raaj Kumar (an acto