Garam Dharam Aajkal Dil Ke Pass Ki Kavita Likh Rahe Hai

Dharmendra  has always been a very grateful man, grateful to his parents for their help in bringing him up with the right values. He is also very grateful to his first film maker who he says had the courage to cast him as the leading man way back in 1958. The name of the film maker is Arjun Hingorani. Dharam has done all his films till he made his last film “because I just can’t say no to a man like him”

He was the first hero to bare his chest in a film called “Phool Aur Patthar”, long before any Aamir Khan or Salman Khan had. It was the film which gave him the name, “Garam Dharam”

Dharam was the true he -man. He was very weak in playing scenes in which he had to cry.

Sometime in the early seventies a survey conducted by an international magazine voted him as one of the ten most handsome men in the world.

Dharam was married to Prakash, a girl from Punjab chosen by his parents. She is the mother of Sunny and Bobby. His younger brother Ajit Singh Deol also tried his luck as an actor but couldn’t make it. Abhay Deol the talented actor is Ajit Singh’s son. They all live together in the same bungalow in the neibhourhood of celebrities like Yash Chopra , the Sagar family , J.Om Prakash and the latest to join this group are Ajay Devgn and Kajol .

Dharam worked with all the leading ladies of the fifties, Mala Sinha, Waheeda Rehman and Nutan and down to Zeenat Aman .

Dharam worked with Hema Malini in a record number of twenty eight films. They fell in love and defied all traditions and Dharam took Hema as his second wife. They have two daughters, Esha and Ahaana. The two families live separately and Dharam manages to be the head of both families.

Dharam has always had a foul temper when he has been hurt or humiliated. The story of his smashing the head of a male journalist for writing gossip about him and Hema and threatening another female journalist made front page news in the eighties.

He has tried his best to solve problems in an amicable manner, but when things have gone out of control he has always used his fists . His favourite line is, “Yeh haath Dharam ke haath hai , yeh pyare se samjha bhi sakte hai aur hathoda ban kar maar kar dukh bhi de sakte hai.”

Dharam has had a very long and strong affair with alcohol. He has tasted every kind of liquor, from the liquor distilled by tribals in distant villages, aunty’s  homes and the costliest kind of Scotch. “Log glass se peete hai , baaltiyo aur baldiyon se bhi peete honge, lekin humne drumon se pee hai,” he sometimes says . He has however given up drinking since the last two years and has vowed never to drink again. His sons, Sunny and Bobby however have learned their lessons from their father and are teetotalers.

Dharam had always succeeded in keeping away from politics but was forced by circumstances to join the BJP and fight the elections from Bikaner in Rajasthan and won by a large majority. He did a lot of good work for the people there but was totally disappointed when he heard stories about people in politics playing dirty games. He had spent a large amount of his own money to help the poor and the needy but refused to contest the elections again in spite of leaders like Atal Bihari Vajpayee pleading with him. But he politely refused but continues to help the people of Bikaner.

Dharam has now taken over the responsibility of running the campaign against cancer which was once run by the late Sunil Dutt.

Dharam came to films because of his love for Dilip Kumar and was carried away by the films he had seen in which Dilip Kumar who he calls his “God” and landed in Bombay.

His first goal after reaching Bombay was to have a glimpse of Dilip Kumar. He made the rounds of every studio to find that one chance to see Dilip Kumar till he finally saw him at a studio in Dadar and spent the next three days at the same studio just to look at Dilip Kumar. He was a winner of a talent contest run by Filmfare where he found a very good friend in a journalist called L.P.Rao .He once told Rao about his dream to see Dilip Kumar and Rao introduced him to a young women who was also working as a journalist in Filmfare . That woman was Dilip Kumar’s sister. She arranged an evening for the young Dharmendra with her brother. Dharam couldn’t believe what happened to him that night. The legend talked to him for three hours and treated him to a sumptuous dinner and by the time they had finished it was midnight. It was also very cold. The legend brought him a coat and asked him to wear it to protect him from the cold. Dharam walked all the way from Pali Hill to Juhu that night and that coat still finds a very important place in Dharam’s wardrobe even today more than fifty years later. He still observes the birthday of the legend in his own way. He always wanted to have the experience to work with him. A time came when the two were teamed in a film called “Chanakaya” to be directed by B.R.Chopra but unfortunately that film was never made.

Dharam who is now being very careful about the films he is doing is only working in films made under his own banner.

These days he is obsessed with writing poetry and is writing some very good poetry in Urdu which he hopes to publish in a book soon.

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