“The eldest I … the younger sister of me, Lalita, when my mother gave birth to a son, her name was Kukku. Sick, mother too sick.” Tilt the face, stand the head by hand… Manoj Kumar was speaking every word. As if the past wanted to quit his chase. This actor also wanted to live in the memories of the past.
Manoj Kumar takes this story forward, saying, “We placed the mother at the Refugee Camp, kept the mother in Tis Hazari Hospital. Royats (riots) were on. When the siren used to ring, the doctors and nurses used to go to the underground. Mother was suffering from me. Brother was suffering from me. Mother was screaming that I was screaming that the doctor was called. He was all underground.
Manoj Kumar, who lives a long life of 87 years, knead his childhood story and the story after India’s independence together. The place was Delhi- the area Kingsway Camp. Harason Line, Old Rajendra Nagar.
The riots after the partition of the country made the impact on the innocent mind of Harikrishna Giri Goswami, born in Abbottabad, Pakistan, was in his subconscious mind. He describes the dead body of his 2 -month -old younger brother in Yamuna, he is going to shake the description of the samadhi ji. About 10-12 years ago, Manoj Kumar said in a conversation with Rajya Sabha TV. Creating each sentence of each word.
“I was very angry after my brother’s death. I went to the underground with sticks. Killed the nurses too. The father had also hit. The father came. The second day, the two-month-old child flowed into the Yamuna ji. As he was going down, I was drowning, I am drowning. Then the father has put his hand on his head and did not have to take a riot in the night. Slap, even if the father would have stopped. “
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Harikrishna Giri Goswami alias Manoj Kumar alias Bharat Kumar, who watched an era of India and cinema industry, died on Friday (4 April 2025) at Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital in Mumbai.
Manoj Kumar was born in 1937 in undivided India and Abbottabad, Pakistan. When he was 10 years old, the days of displacement of his family came with independence of India. If you remember this city of Pakistan came in a lot of discussion a few years ago.
Harikrishna Giri Goswami of Abbottabad never forgot his birthplace and childhood, he said, “The man whose childhood died, do not let his inner childhood die. The crying childhood, which got separated from Lahore, who got separated from Janayala Sher Khan, who got separated from Abbottabad. He was very crying childhood. He still thinks that even today, even though I think, the eyes may be controlled but the heart is very bad, and the heart is very bad, it is very bad, very bad.”
The first role in 19 years of 90 -year -old beggar
Manoj Kumar, who discovered Indianness in his films, started from Delhi. He had said in that interview, “The first film came in fashion as a 90 -year -old beggar at the age of 19. Then there was Sahara film, in which five seven scenes were found with Meena Kumari ji. Then I got the moon. Then came in a glass doll.”
Recalling the shooting of the first film, he said that he was very nervous, looking at the camera, it seemed as if a ball of cannon would run. The legs trembled, but the work was done.
While talking about life, Manoj Saheb used to become very philosophy. He said that when he was in Delhi, Lahore used to remember and when he went to Mumbai from Delhi, he was missing Delhi. Memories are very painful. She is also happy, keeps alive and crying. She also laughs.
Cigarette, personality and stories
Manoj Kumar’s life was full of support stories. He says that he did not try to become Bharat Kumar. I was made Bharat Kumar. There was a farmer story in the film Upkar. Where does the farmer settle in the village, so I named India, the people of the country liked it. I made Manoj Kumar from Hari Krishna, the public made Bharat Kumar from Manoj Kumar.
Manoj Kumar told the story of ideal associated with Bharat Kumar, “Once he went to eat with the family. I was fond of cigarette, smoking cigarettes. A young girl came, he scolded me- you are not smoking cigarettes through India. Puts more responsibilities. “