He was also president of the Jat Mahasabha. He became the first sportsperson to be nominated to the Rajya Sabha – the upper house of the Parliament of India. Singh joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in January 1998. The studio was operational from 1980 as a film studio. Singh was the owner of Dara Studio at Mohali, District Mohali, Punjab.
ĭara Singh acted as a wrestler named Dara Singh in a Malayalam film Mutharam Kunnu (PO). He also directed two films in Hindi Bhakti Mein Shakti and Rustom (1982), which were produced and directed under the banner "Dara Film" which he set up in 1970. He directed seven Punjabi films including Sawa Lakh Se Ek Ladaun, Nanak Dukhiya Sub Sansar, Dhyanu Bhagat and Rab Dian Rakhan. He acted in National Award-winning film Main Maa Punjab Dee directed by Balwant Singh Dullat.
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His last Hindi movie was Jab We Met and the last Punjabi movie released before his illness was Dil Apna Punjabi. He starred as Bhima in various Mahabharata movies, besides also playing Balram, he also starred as Shiva in various mythological movies. He also had roles in numerous films, such as Veer Bheem Sen and Ramayan, and in other television serials. He then went on to do television in the late 1980s, where he played the role of Hanuman in the television adaptation of the Hindu epic Ramayan. The couple became the highest-paid B-grade actors, with Singh receiving nearly four lakh rupees per film. From around 1963 he partnered often with Mumtaz, with whom he performed in 16 Hindi films. He was a stunt film actor for many years and played his first lead role in Babubhai Mistry's film King Kong (1962). He started his career as an actor in 1952 with Sangdil. Singh left his village for Singapore in 1948. His last tournament, where he announced his retirement, was held in Delhi in June 1983. According to Thesz, Singh was "an authentic wrestler, was superbly conditioned" and had no problem losing to the latter. On in Bombay, his victory over Lou Thesz earned him the World championship. In 1959, he won the Commonwealth Championship by defeating George Gordienko at Calcutta. In 1954 Dara competed in the Rustam-e-Hind (Champion of India) tournament where he won the final by defeating Tiger Joginder Singh and received a silver cup from Maharaja Hari Singh. His flooring of King Kong is still remembered.
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After switching to professional wrestling, he competed around the world with opponents such as Bill Verna, Firpo Zbyszko, John Da Silva, Rikidōzan, Danny Lynch and Ski Hi Lee.
Due to his physique, he was encouraged to take up pehlwani, an Indian style of wrestling, in which he trained for several years. As an adult he was 6 feet 2 inches (1.88 m) tall, weighed 127 kilograms (280 lb) and had a chest measurement of 53 inches (130 cm). He came to Singapore in 1947, where he worked in a drum-manufacturing mill and began his wrestling training under Harnam Singh in the Great World Stadium.
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