1960, Hindi, directed by K Asif

When I take young actors to see this film, to show off Yusuf saab, they feel there’s no acting in the film! I tell them that the actors today are trying to do what Dilip saab did then. When Dilip Kumar and Prithviraj Kapoor meet, Anarkali can’t take the way they are looking at each other, that glare, and

Illustrations: MOHIT SUNEJA she faints. Today, an actor playing Prithviraj Kapoor would do something like bite his lips or do some other action, and Salim would raise his eyebrows or look defiant. But they did nothing of the sort. Incredible. They did tomorrow’s acting yesterday.