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• A famous wrestler, active from 1946 until 1983.
• Started his acting career in Sangdil (1952), mostly playing in stunt films for the next years.
• Played alongside Mumtaz in 16 Hindi films in the 1960s.
• Founded Dara Studio in 1978, which in 1980 became a film studio.
• The first sports person to be nominated to the Rajya Sabha, India's upper house of parliament, where he served from 2003 until 2009.