Do you know that his film Shor was banned after a disagreement with the Indira Gandhi government? Read full details here.

Farah Khan, the choreographer, called me the Manoj Kumar of film journalism ... Do you know in Shor when Sharmila Tagore ...

And yet, the film’s tone never gets cynical ... From the farmer in Upkar to the working-class father in Shor, Manoj Kumar epitomised the dissolution of the Nehruvian dream.