Dara Singh lifitng the legendary actor-director, Raj Kapoor in his famous aeroplane spin. Pics/personal album of Virender Singh Randhawa (aka Vindu)

Dara Singh's tryst with cinema began way back in 1952 with a film called, The World, in which he played the role of a wrestler. Also in the same year, he was offered a role in a Dilip Kumar-Madhubala starrer called Sangdil. Then in Pehli Jhalak, which had the singer-actor Kishore Kumar as a hero, Dara once again essayed the role of a wrestler in a dream sequence with the comedian, Om Prakash. Pehli Jhalak released in 1955, the year Dara Singh Randhawa turned twenty-seven.