For Hema, Dharmendra is Bollywood’s ‘original’ Dancer
Dharmendra has two left feet, but for his danseuse and actress wife Hema Malini, he is the ‘original’ dancer of the Hindi film industry. The duo came together on the sets of singing reality show Indian Idol 6. When Amit, a contestant, crooned Dharmendra’s evergreen song Main jat yamla pagla deewana, Hema went down memory lane. She revealed that when she first saw Dharmendra while shooting for this particular song in Nasik and performing his signature Yamla pagla step, she fell for him. The 63-year-old actress also said Dharmendra is the ‘original’ dancer of Bollywood and everybody else just copies his style, said a source from the sets.
Dharmendra Loses Temper at Esha’s Wedding Reception
Dharmendra lost his cool recently and proved why the actor still deserves the title ‘Garam Dharam’. When a reporter asked Dharmendra about his sons Bobby and Sunny’s no-show at half-sister Esha Deol’s wedding reception, he reacted in a rather bizarre manner. The strange sound Dharmendra made was at best incomprehensible. And when another reporter repeated the same question, Dharmendra retorted: “Aap bakwaas mat kijiye (don’t talk rubbish).” Deol siblings Sunny and Bobby were conspicuous by their absence at the grand reception hosted by their halfsister Esha and her husband Bharat Takhtani at Hotel LaLiT in Andheri, Mumbai. The event was attended by Bollywood and political bigwigs but brothers were nowhere in sight. Cousin Abhay Deol, who is known to be close to her, attended all the functions including the wedding reception. Esha, daughter of yesteryear stars Hema Malini and Dharmendra, entered into a wedlock with her businessman beau Bharat Takhtani at Iskcon temple in Juhu, Mumbai on June 29.