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It was raw determination, unflinching commitment, and a true champion’s trademark grit that made him what we know him as.īorn in a Jat Sikh family on this day (November 19) in Dharmuchak village of Amritsar district in the (undivided) Punjab in 1928, his childhood was not very comfortable - brought into sharp relief when the five-year Dara, or Deedara then, accompanied his family to the Golden Temple and listened avidly as his grandmother recited their family history down to their rather straitened present-day circumstances. This was the life of Deedar Singh Randhawa, or Dara Singh, as we better know him.Ĭapable of tossing villains around without breaking a sweat, stopping airplanes with his bare hands, and chasing criminals to the moon in his onscreen persona, and in real life, boasting of a long bout as an unbeaten wrestler in both the amateur and professional circuits, and once lifting up a portly Raj Kapoor in his trademark “aeroplane” spin move in public, his very name was synonymous with sheer strength and masculinity for generations of Indians.īut Dara Singh’s journey from a farmhand to cultural icon – especially when he became the “popular face” of two of the strongest Indian mythological heroes (Hanuman and Bheem), as well as many other strong men or folkloric heroes, was no means smooth or even assured. In a few short years, he is not only a celebrity sportsman and a popular film star, but a cultural icon. Pulled out of school and put to work on his family’s agricultural land, he is married off young but frustrated at the bickering between wife and mother, he goes abroad to make a career. Mumbai: His life seems right out of a Bollywood potboiler.