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Video: Manoj Kumar's son taking forward his father's legacy, lessons and more
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4/4/2025
Late actor Manoj Kumar's son Kunal Kumar, in an interview with India Today, opened up about the lessons he learnt from his father, his filmography, legacy and more. The Bollywood legend died in April 4. He was 87.
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Today is a very sad day for the Indian cinema as Manoj Kumar passes away.
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We have his son Kunal, hi Kunal, sorry for your loss.
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Thank you, thank you.
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It is a great loss not only to us as a family, I feel it's a great loss to the nation and
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to the entire film industry because he himself was a legacy and he was somebody who has passed
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on his message to many generations to come and of course his zeal for patriotism was
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always something which the people loved and flavoured it a lot.
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The beautiful part of his work is that even films he has made in the 60s like Upkaar or
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then Pura Barpashyam, these films and these stories and these relationships are still
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relevant today.
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So he of course saw or projected something which is still relative today so he had a
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good far sight towards it and of course the industry knows he had his own technique of
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film making and direction and his sense of songs, they will definitely be missed.
01:17
As a kid what was your favourite films of Manoj sir, you know he has so many but.
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I have not seen his films as films because for us it was always a teaching.
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He would always insist that we should learn and he would explain why this is being done
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this way instead of we just sing something to like it.
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It was always you understand the meaning of why I am doing this, then it will stay in
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your mind.
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So every film has its own uniqueness and its own identity where many different different
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things sure had its own uniqueness of the story.
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It was a very small story but it was a beautifully woven script.
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Of course Kranti was a very huge scale film where he had really overstretched himself
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but he managed to do a great job.
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So he has taught us film making in many many aspects of be it editing, be it direction,
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be it writing, be it taking.
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So I can't really pinpoint a film.
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But as his son how are you planning to take his legacy forward also in terms of films
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you know how do you plan?
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Well we plan to get into film making very soon again, we have not been doing it actually
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we have been very busy because his health was not supporting him and it was taking all
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our time but unfortunately we could not do the best that we could I guess but God had
02:47
his own wish and his own will.
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So hopefully soon we will get into production again.
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Any last wish of his that you would like to fulfill was the production coming back into
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production was one of them?
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His wish was always to keep making films.
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That was the only thing he knew.
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So obviously it would be to revive the legacy and revive the company and to revive film
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production again.
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And he is also getting you know state honours tomorrow what do you have to say about that?
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Well that is a privilege very few get and we are honoured about that and we are thankful
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to the Indian government, to the Maharashtra government and I honestly feel it is well-deserved.
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Thank you so much sir for talking to us.
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Thank you Anand.
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