Prem Nath Birthday Special: When Premnath surprised the entire Hollywood by spoiling the image of Bollywood

Premnath was no longer that handsome hero. He returned with a group of sages many years after leaving in search of peace. When he reached Mumbai, the entire industry was surprised to see this change in him. Premnath had become Takle, he wore a simple lungi and had more than 100 garlands not only around his neck but also on his entire body. Meeting everyone he used to say 'Bam Bam Bhole'. But there were some filmmakers like Vijayanand, Devanand and Subhash Ghai who still wanted to work with Premnath. Premnath again became famous with his villain role in Vijay Anand's film 'Johnny Mera Naam'. In this film, Premnath had a dance number with Padma Khanna which was almost a pornographic dance. Premnath also played a very different and crazy character in Subhash Ghai's films 'Kalicharan' and 'Karz'.

Krishna Shah, an Indian filmmaker who has also worked in Hollywood, was making his first heist film 'Shalimar', which was made in both Hindi and English. In this film, he cast stars from both Hollywood and Bollywood, like Dharmendra, Zeenat Aman, O. P Ralahan, Prem Nath and Hollywood's Rex Harrison, Sylvia Miles and if I remember correctly John Sexton.

The launch of 'Shalimar' took place with a grand ceremony. Big stars from Bollywood to Hollywood were present in this ceremony.

On this occasion, Premnath arrived in his old car with many sadhus and before the Muhurta was shot, they killed many birds and threw them on the roads. This was his way of worshipping.

He had a secretary who was always with him. The secretary always had a brass pitcher in his hand. Once Premnath shouted loudly at his secretary and said, 'Bring that pot'. The secretary had no other option but to obey his boss's crazy orders. He brought the pitcher, and Premnath lifted his lungi in front of the entire crowd and urinated in the pitcher, and the pitcher was still in the hands of that secretary. When people called it unpleasant, Premnath became unhappy with such comments. This was his method (ritual) which he followed everywhere. And once he even did this in an airplane.