ABSTRACT
Rajendra Kumar (born village Sankhatra, Narowal tehsil, Sialkot district July 20, 1927 – died Bombay July 12, 1999). His family belonged to the prosperous Khatri (Tulli gotra) business community of that area. The family shifted to Krishan Nagar in Lahore, a locality predominantly of Hindu and Sikh middle-class families, to enable Rajendra to continue studies in the nearby Hailey College for Commerce. He was in the second year of schooling when the Partition forced them to escape from Lahore. In utter panic they abandoned his younger brother as dead, dumping him on the banks of the Ravi, but Rajendra rushed to that spot and saved his life. In Delhi, his father set up a cloth shop. He got a job in the police as an ASI. In early 1949, he left for Bombay to chase his dreams of a career in films.
