Dara Singh was a well-known wrestler before he joined Hindi films. He was known as "Rustom-E-Hind" which also became one of his movies later on. But with his first film "King Kong" in 1962, Dara Singh shot to fame and had a strong screen presence. He became one of the most sought after wrestlers of Bollywood in the years to come.
His debut film was highly appreciated and there came many movies where he played roles of similar type. Some of his movies like "Rustom-E-Rome" (1963), "Rustom-E-Baghdad" (1962) and "Rustom-E-Hind" (1964) did much to his image but due to his limitations, he had to restrict himself to B-grade films. There were many other films of his like "Aaya Toofan", "Sher-E-Watan", 'Shankar Khan' and 'Balraj Shri Krishna' which were thronged by the North Indian wrestlers. Dara Singh did many character roles also and the one role he is highly remembered for was from Manmohan Desai directed "Mard". This film revolved around Amitabh Bachchan and anyone who could convincingly play his father was Dara Singh. He was able to live up to the expectations bestowed on him and came up with many laurels for this role of his. But Dara Singh shot to more fame through his role of "Hanuman" in Ramanand Sagar's popular television serial '"Ramayan".
Though quite old, Dara Singh played the role to perfection and people started recognising him as the actual "Hanuman". He then started doing more of serials and gained popularity.
Dara Singh turned producer at one time of his career and churned out Punjabi movies like "Nanak Dukhiya Sab Sansar" which did well in that part of the country. He even gave special appearances in RK Films like "Mera Naam Joker" and "Dharam Karam".
