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Dara Singh Randhawa was an Indian professional wrestler, actor, director and politician.

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He started acting in and was the first sportsman to be nominated to the Rajya Sabha upper house of India. He worked as Hindi and Punjabi film producer, director and writer, and he acted in films and television. At the time, it was still under British Raj colonial rule. He came to Singapore in , 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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As an adult he was 6 feet 2 inches 1. Due to his physique, he was encouraged to take up pehlwani, an Indian style of wrestling, in which he trained for several years. His flooring of King Kong is still remembered. According to Thesz, Singh was "an authentic wrestler, was superbly conditioned" and had no problem losing to the latter.

His last tournament, where he announced his retirement, was held in Delhi in June Singh left his village for Singapore in He started his career as an actor in with Sangdil. He was a stunt film actor for many years and played his first lead role in Babubhai Mistry's film King Kong From around he partnered often with Mumtaz, with whom he performed in 16 Hindi films.

The couple became the highest-paid B-grade actors, with Singh receiving nearly four lakh rupees per film. He then went on to do television in the late s, where he played the role of Hanuman in the television adaptation of the Hindu epic Ramayan. He also had roles in numerous films, such as Veer Bheem Sen and Ramayan, and in other television serials.