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Kumudlal Ganguly, known by his stage name Ashok Kumar and fondly called Dadamoni was born on October 13, 1911, to Kunjlal Ganguly, a lawyer and mother, Gouri Devi, a home-maker in Bhagalpur, Bengal Presidency, British India (present-day Bihar, India). He was the eldest of four kids—one sister and three brothers.
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Ashok Kumar's eldest sister Sati Devi married at a very young age to Sashadhar Mukherjee who established Filmistan Studio in Bombay with Rai Bahadur Chunilal in 1943. The other two brothers Anoop Kumar and Kishore Kumar, followed their eldest brother in the line of entertainment.
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Ashok Kumar married Shobha Devi in a match arranged by their parents. They were the parents of one son, Aroop Ganguly, and three daughters named Bharti Jaffrey, Rupa Verma and Preeti Ganguly. The actor's second daughter Rupa married actor Deven Verma. Dadamoni's eldest (Bharti) and youngest (Preeti) daughters followed their father's footsteps.
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Ashok Kumar's father Kunjlal was hell-bent on making his eldest son a lawyer, but destiny had something else waiting for him. He joined his brother-in-law Sashadhar Mukherjee who was in a senior position in the technical department of Bombay Talkies. Ashok Kumar earned quite well working as a laboratory assistant at Bombay Talkies for five years.
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As luck would have it, Ashok Kumar replaced Najm-ul-Hassan on the request of Himanshu Rai, one of Bombay Talkies' founders. Ashok Kumar was the lead actor with Himanshu's wife Devika Rani in 1936 movie 'Jeevan Naiya'. The director Franz Osten didn't think Ashok Kumar had the good looks needed for an actor. It was an era when actors concealed their real identities behind screen names, and that's how Kumudlal was given the screen name Ashok Kumar.
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