The timeless Waheeda Rehman recalled Dharmendra as down to earth. “He was always that young lad from a village in Punjab, who came to Mumbai to become an actor. We didn’t do too many films together. And what we did wasn’t too memorable.”
She does recall Asit Sen’s Khamoshi and Rajinder Singh Bedi’s Phagun, though. “But in both Dharmendraji had brief roles. In Khamoshi, his face was not even visible. He acted with his back to the camera and still made a strong impression.”
She recalls their spy thriller Baazi with some embarrassment. “It was phase when I tried doing glamorous roles to change my very domesticated image. It was actually Rajendra Kumar, who called me Mem Saahib, who suggested I go glam. I am not very proud of that phase. Sometimes, one makes mistakes in one’s career, let’s go of good films for not-so-good ones. I wish I had done better films with Dharmendra ji.”
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