This Article is From Dec 11, 2014

Subhash Ghai Sets Up Scholarship in Dilip Kumar's Name

Subhash Ghai Sets Up Scholarship in Dilip Kumar's Name

Subhash Ghai said Dilip Kumar taught him to bring dignity to the profession of cinema

Filmmaker Subhash Ghai today announced that he has set up a scholarship in the name of legendary actor Dilip Kumar for the students seeking to study at his film school Whistling Woods International in Mumbai.

The Ram Lakhan director, who was speaking on the occasion of Dilip Kumar's 92nd birthday, said the recipient of the scholarship would get free training at the institute for two years. Dilip Kumar, who was being treated in Lilavati hospital for pneumonia, was discharged today.

Subhash Ghai said "Dilip sahib taught me to bring dignity to this profession of cinema and to bring a change in cinema culture of India by setting up a creative brainstorming campus. This changed my life and I put all my health and wealth in setting up Whistling Woods."

"My daughter came up with the idea to institute a scholarship in the name of Dilip Kumar who had inaugurated Whistling Woods in 2006," he said.

Subhash Ghai-directed three big blockbusters - Vidhata, Karma and Saudagar - starred Dilip Kumar.

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