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They called him the He-Man. Most of his large solo hits – 'Phool Aur Patthar' (to a lesser extent), 'Ankhen', 'Mera Gaon Mera Desh', 'Jugnu', 'Pratigya' – were breathless enactment yarns.
These movies made Dharmendra a prima of the masses. Audiences would basal successful queues for hours to ticker him snarl and scream, “Ek ek ko chun chun kar maroonga.” Dialogues similar these became a template repeated implicit countless movies successful a vocation that spanned astir six and a fractional decades.It is, therefore, rather absorbing that Bollywood’s enactment leader besides played a scope of genteel and refined characters, particularly successful the archetypal 2 decades of his career.
And 1 is not referring lone to botany prof Parimal Tripathi successful Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s 'Chupke Chupke' (1975), or, for that matter, the Sanskrit teacher who teaches Kalidas’ Abhigyan Shakuntalam successful Basu Chatterjee’s 'Dillagi' (1978) — a uncommon movie successful which Dharmendra gets beaten up by the atrocious guys.
Director Basu da erstwhile told this newsman that distributors were tense astatine the film’s merchandise due to the fact that successful the posters, Dharmendra held a rose, not a gun.
There are galore different films wherever Dharmendra didn’t play a bull oregon an outlaw. Instead, helium played a poet, a writer, a commercialized unionist oregon a journalist. A bulk of these films were directed by Bengali filmmakers.In 1966, Dharmendra played a struggling writer successful Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s Anupama. At the time, the representation of a celluloid writer was mostly defined by Guru Dutt’s Vijay successful 'Pyaasa' — hungry, unshaven and pessimistic.
Dharmendra excessively described himself arsenic 1 of “khoon, pasina aur aansoo” (blood, sweat and tears). But helium looked the nonstop opposite. At 1 point, the publication successful ‘Anupama’ adjacent provided an mentation for his well-nourished body.
If you comparison the picturization of “Jaane woh kaise log thhe jinko” (Pyaasa) with “Ya dil ki suno duniya walon” (‘Anupama’), determination are chiseled stylistic similarities. Both are filmed successful an indoor mehfil.
Guru Dutt is dressed successful dhoti-kurta with a shawl, portion Dharmendra wears kurta-pyjama with a shawl. Both songs are rendered by Hemant Kumar, and some make a akin mood.In Shahid Lateef’s 'Baharen Phir Bhi Aayengi' (1966), the Punjab da puttar played a conscientious journalist. This was primitively a Guru Dutt project. After the shaper of Pyaasa and Kaagaz Ke Phool passed away, galore thought Dev Anand would measurement successful — but it was Dharmendra who did.
The movie is mostly forgotten now, though songs specified arsenic “Aap Ke Haseen Rukh Par” (singer: Mohd Rafi; music: O.P. Nayyar; lyrics: Anjaan) are appreciated to this day.Dharmendra’s tryst with literate characters continued successful the Seventies. In Pramod Chakraborty’s 'Naya Zamana' (1971), helium was a morally upright writer who believes that books tin alteration the world. The writer successful Devendra Goel’s 'Ek Mahal Ho Sapnon Ka' (1975) is incapable to merchantability his work. When helium yet does, it is astatine the outgo of his individuality — overmuch similar Vijay successful 'Pyaasa'.The assemblage was archetypal introduced to a celluloid mentation of the bhadralok Dharmendra successful Bimal Roy’s 'Bandini' (1964). His portrayal of the kind-hearted doc earned Dharmendra announcement arsenic an histrion of promise. Another Bengali director, Phani Majumdar, formed him arsenic a commercialized national person successful 'Akashdeep' (1965). And helium was a assemblage prof successful Asit Sen’s romanticist drama, 'Sharafat' (1970).Interestingly, Bengali directors besides formed him successful mainstream masala films.
For example, 'Jugnu' (1973) was directed by Pramod Chakraborty and 'Pratigya' (1975) by Dulal Guha.Few cognize that Dharmendra besides wrote poetry. During an interrogation with TOI, helium erstwhile recited a fewer lines from his poem “Main Kaun Hoon”: “Pyar, mohabbat, duayein aapki sejte hain jazbaat specified / Isi liye aaj bhi jawan hoon main / Khata agar ho jaye, baksh dena yaaron /Galtiyon ka putla aakhir ek insaan hoon main.” (“Your love, affection and prayers nurture my emotions / That’s wherefore I’m inactive young / Please forgive maine if I’ve ever erred / After all, I americium lone human.”)Dharmendra besides played the antheral pb successful ‘Dulhan Ek Raat Ki’ (1970), a romanticist calamity based connected Victorian writer Thomas Hardy’s evocative novel, 'Tess of the D’Urbervilles'.
