Dharam Singh Deol,86, a popular Indian action movie superstar, known mononymously as Dharmendra, who dominated Indian movies in the ’70s and’80s with more than 50 hit movies under his belt, although he has featured in more than 400 films, many of them grade B movies.
Standing at 1.78cm, Dharmendra is known as the He-man of Indian films because of his action-packed films.
Here in Nigeria, Dharmendra’s best-known films are,Yadonki Barat,Seeta au Geeta, Keemat, Jugnu, and Sholay.
Sholay, starring Amitabh Bachaan, Amjad Khan, Sanjeev Kumar, and Hema Malini who later married in 1980, was a massive box office hit all over the world.
The actor, who was first featured in the film, Dil Bhi Tera Hum Bhi Tere in 1960, remains one of India’s greatest screen heroes.
In his prime, producers used to line up in front of his house to give book him for films the He-man combines good looks with screen presence and charisma. These are the qualities that attracted him to Meena Kumari and Other Bollywood beauties in his heydays.
The aging actor, believed to be worth $45 million dollars, lives comfortably in retirement, but his sons, Sunny and Bobby Deol, are also successful thespians in their own right.
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