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Dharmendra is a Actor and Producer Indian born on 8 december 1935 at Sahnewal (Inde)
Dharmendra (born Dharam Singh Deol on 8 December 1935) is an Indian film actor. In 1997, he received the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award for his contribution to Hindi cinema.
His starring roles in action films earned him nicknames such as "Action King" and "He-Man". One of his most notable roles was in Sholay (1975).
He has been a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India, representing Bikaner constituency in Rajasthan from Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). In 2012, he was honoured India's third highest civilian honour Padma Bhushan by the Government of India.
After moving to Mumbai and getting into the film business, Dharmendra wed Hema Malini after converting to Islam so he could also stay married to his previous wife without having to get a getting a divorce. He met Malini during the filming of Sholay. She eventually married him in 1980. The couple has two daughters, Esha Deol and Ahana Deol.
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Dharmendra
Birth name Dharam Singh Deol
Nationality Inde
Birth 8 december 1935 (89 years) at Sahnewal (Inde)
Awards Padma Bhushan, Filmfare Awards
Nationality Inde
Birth 8 december 1935 (89 years) at Sahnewal (Inde)
Awards Padma Bhushan, Filmfare Awards
Dharmendra (born Dharam Singh Deol on 8 December 1935) is an Indian film actor. In 1997, he received the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award for his contribution to Hindi cinema.
His starring roles in action films earned him nicknames such as "Action King" and "He-Man". One of his most notable roles was in Sholay (1975).
He has been a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India, representing Bikaner constituency in Rajasthan from Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). In 2012, he was honoured India's third highest civilian honour Padma Bhushan by the Government of India.
Biography
Dharmendra's first marriage was to Parkash Kaur at the age of 19 in 1954. From his first marriage, he has two sons, Sunny Deol and Bobby Deol both successful actors, and two daughters, Vijeeta Deol and Ajeeta Deol. He has 4 grandsons.After moving to Mumbai and getting into the film business, Dharmendra wed Hema Malini after converting to Islam so he could also stay married to his previous wife without having to get a getting a divorce. He met Malini during the filming of Sholay. She eventually married him in 1980. The couple has two daughters, Esha Deol and Ahana Deol.
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Ghayal Once Again (2016)
Directed by Sunny Deol, Rahul Rawail
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Actors Sunny Deol, Om Puri, Murali Sharma, Prachi Desai, Dharmendra, Vidya Balan
Rating61%
The film will take-off from where the first version left off.
Second Hand Husband (2015)
, 1h45Directed by Smeep Kang
Actors Gippy Grewal, Dharmendra, Tina Ahuja, Rati Agnihotri, Geeta Basra, Ravi Kishan
Roles Ajit Singh
Rating37%
Rajbir (Gippy Grewal) and Gurpreet (Tina Ahuja) are in love and want to marry each other. The only thing stopping them is the alimony that Rajbir has to pay every month to his ex-wife, Neha (Geeta Basra). Gurpreet, being a lawyer, is aware that the alimony needs to be paid only till Neha gets married to somebody else. Thus, begins the two lovers' journey to find a suitable groom for Rajbir's ex-wife!
Double Di Trouble (2014)
Directed by Smeep Kang
Genres Comedy
Actors Dharmendra, Gippy Grewal, Minissha Lamba, Gurpreet ghuggi, Kulraj Randhawa, Poonam Dhillon
Roles Ajit and Manjit
Rating61%
The film is based on Comedy of Errors, where Shakespeare's well known play would take a desi avatar when a father-son pair discovers their mirror images in a different city.
Singh of Festival (2014)
Actors Mahi Gill, Gurpreet ghuggi, Dharmendra, Disha Parmar, Jaswinder Bhalla, Wamiqa Gabbi
Roles Bhai Dyala Singh
Singh Saab the Great (2013)
, 2h30Genres Drama, Action
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Sunny Deol, Amrita Rao, Johnny Lever, Ravi Kishan, Urvashi Rautela, Prakash Raj
Rating55%
Singh Saab the Great follows Saranjeet Singh 'Sunny' a simple man who loves his family and values truth and believes in its triumphs. He has lived his life endorsing the good and its strength over evil.Urvashi Rautela is the girl friend of pandagale venkatesh The corruption, injustice, confusion due to inefficient system in the society has always bothered him since his childhood and so he has become a collector so that he can bring in the change in the society and put things in order. But life takes its turns and he pays the price for doing no harm to anyone individually but for standing up for honesty. His life goes hay wire as he has to choose between his wife and his belief system.
Yamla Pagla Deewana 2 (2013)
Genres Comedy, Action
Actors Sunny Deol, Dharmendra, Bobby Deol, Neha Sharma, Kristina Akheeva, Anupam Kher
Roles Dharam Singh Dhillon / Dharam Oberoi / Yamla Baba
Rating35%
In Varanasi, Dharam Dhillon (Dharmendra) and his son Gajodhar—or Prem (Bobby Deol)—are conning people into thinking that Dharam is a guru named Yamla Baba. When Yograj Khanna (Annu Kapoor) comes from England to meet Dharam, Dharam notices Khanna's diamond rings. Dharam and Gajodhar pretend to own a company, Oberoi, Oberoi & Oberoi. Impressed, Yograj begins to consider a match for his daughter Suman (Neha Sharma). Suman falls in love with Gajodhar, and a marriage is arranged in England when Dharam's older son Paramveer (Sunny Deol)—a loan-recovery agent for a bank—meets Khanna.
Tell Me O Kkhuda (2011)
Directed by Hema Malini
Actors Esha Deol, Arjan Bajwa, Sudhanshu Pandey, Vinod Khanna, Rishi Kapoor, Dharmendra
Roles Anthony Costello / Tony
Rating26%
The film is about of a girl named Tanya (Esha Deol) who learns that she is adopted and wants to know her biological parents. She travels across the globe to find them. The first man she visits is a Hindu king (played by Vinod Khanna) named Abhay Pratap, ruling a patriarchal district in Rajasthan, where female infanticide is common. However, it's revealed that another girl, not Tanya, is the true princess since her nanny had hidden the truth from everyone. Even the king hadn't known that his wife had given birth before dying in a fire.
Yamla Pagla Deewana (2011)
, 2h43Directed by Samir Karnik
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action, Musical, Romance
Actors Sunny Deol, Dharmendra, Bobby Deol, Kulraj Randhawa, Anupam Kher, Nafisa Ali
Roles Dharam Singh Dhillon
Rating56%
Paramvir Singh (Sunny Deol) is a Non-resident Indian (NRI) living happily with his Canadian wife Mary (Emma Brown Garett) along with his two kids Karam and Veer and his mother (Nafisa Ali) in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Years ago, after the birth of Paramvir's younger brother Gajodhar, Paramvir's father, Dharam Singh (Dharmendra) had run away from home and took Gajodhar with him, due to difficulties with the family. Back in reality, a Canadian comes to visit Paramvir at his home, where he sees Dharam Singh's photo. The Canadian recognises Dharam as a thief who had robbed him when he went to tour in Banaras. Upon hearing this news, Paramvir's mother sends him to Banaras to find his father, and younger brother.
Aahat – Ek Ajib Kahani (2010)
Actors Dharmendra, Vinod Mehra, Jaya Bachchan, Amrish Puri, Ramesh Deo, Dr. Shriram Lagoo
The film is about a rich, confident, but blind young woman (Jaya Bachchan) married to a photographer (Vinod Mehra). After a necklace is stolen they encounter the villain, played by Amrish Puri. The main focus of the film is on the disability of Bachchan's character, that her blindness does not prevent her from achieving.
Life in a... Metro (2007)
, 2h11Directed by Anurag Basu
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality
Actors Nafisa Ali, Shilpa Shetty, Kay Kay Menon, Shiney Ahuja, Irrfan Khan, Konkona Sen Sharma
Roles Amol
Rating73%
Rahul (Sharman Joshi) is a young man with dreams, working as a call center executive in a BPO in Mumbai. He silently loves Neha (Kangana Ranaut), a smart young woman who has made it up the ranks in a very short time, due to her relationship with her boss, Ranjeet (Kay Kay Menon).
Apne (2007)
, 2h54Genres Drama
Actors Sunny Deol, Bobby Deol, Dharmendra, Shilpa Shetty, Katrina Kaif, Kiron Kher
Roles Baldev Singh Choudhary
Rating60%
An ex-boxer Baldev Choudhary (Dharmendra) has had a stain in his boxing career. He wanted to wash it with his son Angad's (Sunny Deol) success, but times were hard and a financial crunch kept him from achieving this dream. Though Angad pulled through fine, Baldev never forgot who ruined his chance to wash the stain. An opportunity strikes Baldev in the form of a T.V. Show. He trains a local boy to get into this media hyped boxing show, but is ditched for a better coach at the last minute. Baldev's younger son Karan (Bobby Deol) has just launched his first music album. Realizing his father is in crises of his life, he gives up his dream of a musical career to get into the game of boxing. Karan wins all through thinking that his victory will bring the two pillars of his family together. After winning within the nation, he wins all over the world. The final match is with the current world heavy champion. The match goes fine, but Karan is tricked and he ends up paralysed in a hospital bed. Baldev, who wanted to wash a stigma is now about to lose his son. He feels like killing himself. When Karan reveals the world heavy champion cheated, Angad decides to get into the game of boxing once more and win the title for his father.Angad steps in and brings the world heavyweight champion belt to India. On the other hand, Karan suffers liver damage and requires a liver to survive. Baldev pleads with the doctors to use his liver, but the doctors reject the idea. However, the operation continues as God hears Baldev's call – a liver is donated to Karan through an unknown donor. In the end, Baldev who was going to give up his life for Karan, is instead alive and happy with his family.
Johnny Gaddaar (2007)
, 2hDirected by Sriram Raghavan
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Crime
Actors Neil Nitin Mukesh, Rimi Sen, Vinay Pathak, Dharmendra, Zakir Hussain, Govind Namdev
Roles Sheshadri
Rating78%
The film starts out on a rainy night with a conversation between four cops in a police van, patrolling the streets of Mumbai. A car narrowly misses colliding into them on the road, brakes and then continues on towards a house with iron gates. A man in a jacket gets out from the car, heads towards the garage and opens the roller shutter door when he is shot from behind multiple times. In the same time the cops in the van receive an alert on the radio that gunshots have been heard somewhere in the vicinity and they ask the driver to head towards the location of the gunshots.
Om Shanti Om (2007)
, 2h42Directed by Farah Khan
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantastic, Comedy, Musical theatre, Romantic comedy, Action, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about films, Films about music and musicians, Films about religion, Ghost films, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Shahrukh Khan, Deepika Padukone, Kiron Kher, Shreyas Talpade, Arjun Rampal, Javed Sheikh
Roles Self, special appearance in "Deewangi Deewangi" (uncredited)
Rating68%
Om Prakash Makhija (Shah Rukh Khan) is a junior artist in the 1970s Hindi film industry, in love with film star Shanti Priya (Deepika Padukone). One evening, Om views the premiere of Shanti's film Dream Girl, posing as Manoj Kumar. Later that night, Om becomes drunk and describes his vision of himself as a famous, wealthy film star winning the Filmfare Award for Best Actor to his friend Pappu (Shreyas Talpade) and some local children. At the shooting of a later film, Om rescues Shanti from a fire scene where of the fire has escaped control, and they become friends. One day, after following Shanti, he overhears her and producer Mukesh Mehra's (Arjun Rampal) conversation, that Mukesh and Shanti have married in secret and Shanti is pregnant and expects a traditional wedding. Mukesh pretends to be happy with the news, and invites Shanti at the set of their soon-to-be-made film Om Shanti Om. Mukesh promises to cancel the film, reveal their marriage to the public, and have a grand wedding on the set; but instead traps Shanti on the set and sets it on fire to prevent a financial loss and to protect his career. Shanti tearfully begs Mukesh to release her but he leaves anyway.