I.S. Saluja

MUMBAI (TIP): Dilip Kumar, the Bollywood icon, hailed as the “Tragedy King” and one of Hindi cinema’s greatest actors, died Wednesday, July 7, in a Mumbai hospital after a prolonged illness. He was 98. “Dilip Kumar will be remembered as a cinematic legend. He was blessed with unparalleled brilliance, due to which audiences across generations were enthralled. His passing away is a loss to our cultural world,” Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in a tweet.

“An institution has gone,” Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan tweeted. “Whenever the history of Indian Cinema will be written, it shall always be ‘before Dilip Kumar, and after Dilip Kumar’.”