Known for playing Lord Hanuman in the TV adaptation of Ramayan, Dara Singh was a former amateur wrestler in Pehlwani before moving on to professional wrestling and Bollywood movies.
Singh came from the era where professional wrestlers doubled up as strongmen or amateur wrestlers and also could be seen as bodybuilders from their massive physiques and low bodyfat. Dara Singh was one of the few that managed to do all of these things alongside other former legends like Georg Hackendschmidt (creator of the Hack Squat exercise), Clarence Whistler, William Muldoon, Donald Dinnie,Georg Lurich, Mighty Atom, Bert Assirati, fellow Indian Great Gama and Eugen Sandow and Arthur Saxon-the latter two pioneers of the Mr. Olympia and modern bodybuilding.
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