It was a fortuitous happenstance for the filmmaker who channelled his Partition angst to tell stories of an evolving India in films such as Upkar, Purab Aur Paschim and Roti, Kapda aur Makaan in the mid 1960s and 1970s.
Manoj Kumar will forever be Bharat for generations of filmgoers, an actor-filmmaker who framed his patriotism in celluloid just as a nascent India was coming into its own and beginning to realise its dreams and potential.
They were all blockbusters, finding a ready audience at the time and each helping carve a niche all his own.
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