Happy birthday to Dharmender.
The viewers of
bollywood films wish happy birthday to Dharmender on 8th December,
2011. He is one of the living legends of bollywood. In 2011, he acted in the
film Yaamla Pagla Diwana with Bobby Deol and Sunny Deol, and the film did
excellent business. But he promoted his daughter Esha Deol’s film in the later
part of 2011, which did mediocre business.
He had acted in
more than 300 films and bollywood industry was heavily dependent on the star in
the 60s and 70s. He started his journey with romantic films. His successful
romantic films included Phool Aur Pathar with Meena Kumari, Mamta with Suchitra
Sen, Mere Humdum Mere Dost with Sharmila Tagore, Aye Din Bahar Ke with Asha
Parekh, Pyar Hi Pyar with Vaijayantimala, to name a few. Rafi’s songs
picturized on Dharmender like “gar tum bhula na doge,” “ na ja kahin ab na ja”,
“o majhi chal”, “dil kahen ruk ja”, “aaj mausam bara beimaan hai”, etc., had
remained evergreen gems. His combination with legendary singer Mohammad Rafi
was evergreen. As he acted in the production and direction of different legends
in the 60s, including Bimal Roy, Chetan Anand, Asit Sen, etc., he gave lips in
the songs of Rafi composed by different composers. Some of the examples include
“aap ke haseen rukh” composed by OP Nayyar in the film Baharen Phir Bhi Ayegi,
“dekha hai teri ankhome” composed by Shankar Jaikishan in the film Pyar hi
Pyar, “chalkaye jam” composed by Laxmikant Pyarellal in the film Mere Humdum
Mere Dost, “tere paas aake” composed by Ravi in the film Aankhe, “in baharon me
akela na phiro” composed by Roshan in the film Mamta, to name a few.
He played a
different innings in the 70s. His image of action hero created revolution in
bollywood films. He had a very muscular physic and created a trend of actors
who involved themselves in exercises. His discipline had been followed by the
actors of the next generation like Sunny Deol, Sanjay Dutt, Salman Khan,
Hrithik Roshan and others. His successful films in the 70s included Jheel Ke Us
Paar, Jugnu, Sholay, Dream Girl, etc.
His combination
with Hema Malini is considered as one of the most colourful onscreen
combination after Raj Kapoor Nargis and Dilip Kumar Vaijayantimala. Dharmender
had acted in more than 20 films with Hema Malini, most of which were super hit.
The most renowned films included Raja Jani, Naya Zamana, Sholay, Charas, Seeta
Aur Geeta, Burning Train, Dream Girl, etc.
Dharmender acted
in off-beat films as well. The best example was Gulzar’s Kinara. He was the
husband of Hema Malini in the film who was a noted classical dancer. He was
killed due to an accident with the car of Jeetender in the film. Bhupinder
Singh’s song picturised on Dharmender titled “ek hi khwab kai baar dekha hai
maine” remains as one of the greatest off-beat creations of RD Burman. His
performance in the film Maa, based on the life of elephant requires special
mention. He took a young elephant away
from his mother to use him in Circus. The mother elephant revolted and killed
Dharmender’s mother Nirupa Roy in the film. Dharmender’s patent dialogue “maa
kasam”, “kamine”, etc., were memorized by youths of the 70s.
Both his sons
Sunny Deol and Bobby Deol are successful actors of bollywood films. Dharmender
still has acting left in him and the viewers expect him to carry on the
marathon innings that he had started 50 years back.
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