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Dharmendra thought Dilip Kumar was his brother.
Dharmendra was inactive a assemblage pupil successful Punjab erstwhile helium was convinced that helium and Dilip Kumar, the movie prima who dominated Bollywood, were siblings. Dharmendra and Dilip Kumar did not cognize each other, and were not related successful immoderate way, yet, arsenic fans often thin to believe, helium thought that Dilip Kumar was his brother. Such was his passionateness for the prima that Dharmendra went to Dilip’s location during his archetypal sojourn to Bombay, connected the 2nd time itself, and recovered himself lasting astatine the star’s chamber door. When the Mughal-e-Azam prima screamed successful terror, Dharmendra ran retired of his house.
Dharmendra recalled this anecdote successful Dilip Kumar’s autobiography, Dilip Kumar: The Substance and the Shadow, wherever helium shared that successful 1952, erstwhile helium was inactive studying successful Ludhiana, helium came to Mumbai for a abbreviated sojourn during which, helium was determined to conscionable Dilip Kumar. “For immoderate inexplicable crushed I began to fancy that Dilip Kumar and I were siblings,” helium wrote. The adjacent day, helium went up to the star’s bungalow successful Bandra and it conscionable truthful happened that the gross of his location did not person a information guard. So, Dharmendra conscionable fto himself in.
He recalled that aft uncovering his mode from 1 doorway to another, helium recovered himself astatine his chamber door. “I wasn’t stopped astatine the gross by anybody, and truthful I walked close into the location done the main door. There was a woody staircase starring to a chamber upstairs. Again, cipher stopped me, truthful I climbed up the stairs and stood astatine the entranceway to 1 of the rooms,” helium shared. Dharmendra recalled that helium saw a “fair, slim, handsome” antheral sleeping connected the sofa and arsenic the antheral the sensed someone’s eyes connected him, helium “woke up somewhat startled.” This antheral was Dilip Kumar.
“He sat up and stared astatine me, rather taken aback to spot a full alien lasting gingerly astatine his chamber doorway gazing admiringly astatine him. As for me, I couldn’t judge my eyes: It was Dilip Kumar, my idol, successful beforehand of me. He called retired to a servant loudly. Now scared, I ran down the staircase and bolted retired of the location looking down to spot if I was being followed,” helium shared. Dharmendra shared that helium ran for a portion and aft helium reached a harmless place, helium looked backmost astatine his actions, and questioned himself. “I realised however reckless I had been by intruding into the privateness of a star. So what if determination was nary watchman astatine the gross and nary household subordinate successful the location to halt me?” helium wrote.
Six years aft this incident, erstwhile Dharmendra won a endowment contention and really got a accidental to conscionable immoderate celebrities from the industry, helium ran into Dilip Kumar’s sister. “I saw her leaving and I ran aft her requesting her to [arrange to] conscionable Dilip Sahab. I told her I firmly believed that helium was my member too,” helium said.
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When helium yet landed astatine Dilip Kumar’s door, this clip with an invitation, Dharmendra couldn’t judge his luck. “When I was leaving, helium took maine upstairs to his country and gave maine a sweater from his cupboard due to the fact that it was a spot chilly and helium had noticed I was wearing conscionable a bladed fabric shirt. He hugged maine and saw maine disconnected astatine the gate. I tin inactive consciousness the warmth of that hug due to the fact that it was genuine,” helium wrote.
Dharmendra had precocious respect for Dilip Kumar. The 2 ne'er got a accidental to enactment with each other.
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