Before he became Bollywood’s action hero, Dharmendra was just a young fan in awe of the timeless beauty Suraiya. She was his very first crush, Read further to know about the ‘Queen of Beauty’ whose film he watched 40 times.
Before he became the so-called ‘He-Man of Bollywood,’ Dharmendra was just a small-town boy with big dreams surrounded by movie posters on his walls. He stepped into Hindi cinema in the 1960s and reigned supreme in hearts during the 1970s and 1980s. The cinematic legend is still adored by the fans who span over generations, even today when he’s 89 years old. But before he was famous, he was, in fact, a fan, in love with a screen diva.
Dharmendra’s First Crush Was Suraiya
While Dharmendra later went on to work with some of the most beautiful heroines in the Bollywood film industry, there was one person who stole his heart, “Mallika-e-Husn” and the “Mallika-e-Adakari” of her time, the one and only Suraiya.
Suraiya’s grace, her voice, and her spirit and depth of acting had the complete nation under her spell, and given young Dharmendra’s tendency to easy crushes, he was no exception. Dharmendra became so taken by Suraiya that he would go to the theatres to see one movie of hers, Dillagi (1949), nearly forty times! That is how deep he was enchanted.
Who Was Suraiya?
Suraiya was born in 1929 in Lahore, Pakistan, before moving to Bombay, India with her family and subsequently beginning her career as a child artist/actress and gaining sudden acclaim in the late 1940s, becoming one of the beloved faces of Indian cinema.
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