Stardom can make people legendary Enigmatically,Dharmendemerged larger by remaining human.
Stardom can be complicating, but Dharamendra remained untouched by all that. He extended the same warmth to the
spot-boys who rushed with chairs between takes, to the light-men perched on precarious ladders.
Looking back across the decades, the light that falls on Dharmendra remains unchanged. It is a curious thing to say about someone whose career has spanned such a vast and changing landscape of Hindi cinema, but that is what she has always felt: Perhaps it is because even when he was being celebrated as the “He-Man” of Indian cinema, or adored as one of our most beautiful stars, Dharmendra himself seemed pleasantly unaffected by all of it. He carried fame lightly as though it belonged to someone else.Her earliest memories of working with him go back to Devar and Anupama, two films whose emotional silences were as important as their articulation. What struck her, even then, was the gentleness behind his presence. On screen he could be arresting, almost impossibly handsome, but off screen he was unfailingly soft-spoken, with a kind of innate courtesy that did not need to be performed. He was yet to be the star he would become with OP Ralhan’s “Phool Aur Patthar”. He went out of his way to put her at ease while she was still finding her place in the industry. He made her awkwardness of those early days feel less obvious. That generosity was a defining part of who he was.
News Edit KV Raman
