New Delhi. It is said that alcohol is harmful to health and of course also for pockets. Knowing all this, people cannot live without it. Alcohol has always been a favorite subject in literature. Mirza Ghalib, Harivansh Rai Bachchan, Firaq Gorakhpuri to Munawwar Rana, Diwakar Rahi Sammet. Alcohol was also used in cinema and sometimes it was shown to be a celebration form to forget the gum. There is a veteran actor in Bollywood, who was called the ‘biggest drunkard of Bollywood’. This is none other than Dharmendra.
Dharmendra is an actor as well as a producer and politician, who has been making people admirers for the last 6 decades. They are counted among the most handsome Indian actors till date and with love they are called ‘Hi-Man’. In his brilliant career, he has acted in more than 200 films.
When the poets became a poet listened to alcohol
Dharmendra’s love affair with Hema Malini, along with co-stars, is also very famous for fun and alcohol on the set. He once reacted poeticly on alcohol and said-
‘Right now I sometimes see the mirror, the mirror tells me,’ Ishq killed, the liquor killed, or else someone is not your sister. ‘ I also answer, if there was no alcohol, then there would not have been love, this life would have lived.
Dharam Paji has worked in more than 200 films in his career and he is active even at the age of 89.
When Moushumi Chatterjee caught red handed
He himself narrated 2 stories about alcohol. This is 6 years old. In fact, Dharmendra appeared in an episode of ‘AAP Ki Adalat’ in 2019, where he revealed his relationship with alcohol. Dharmendra shared an anecdote from the set of a film in which he was shooting with actress Moushumi Chatterjee, Moushumi caught him secretly drinking beer on the set. Remembering that moment, he shared-
‘One afternoon, I felt like drinking beer. I told them (the production team) to make the beer foolish so that it looks like Lassi. When Moushumi saw me drinking, he asked, ‘Hey, Dharmendra, what are you drinking?’ I lied that this is lassi. He knew that I was lying, then he said, ‘Okay, give me a little.’ I laughed and admitted that I was drinking beer. Drinking beer is nothing.
Used to leave alcohol for months
In this conversation, Dharmendra revealed that he used to give up alcohol for months. He remembered that once he did not drink alcohol for six months and played badminton instead. However, once he drove it out of his system, he used to drink alcohol again. During the conversation, Dharmendra also called himself an extremist.
The film was released in 1975. The film has made many such records, which have not been broken till date.
Crossing the stock of ‘Sholay’ cameraman’s stock
Dharmendra continued the conversation and revealed that there was a man on the set of ‘Sholay’, named Jim. He told that the gym, who used to work as a cameraman, used to have a habit of keeping beer bottles. However, during the break, Dharam Paji used to sit behind him and cross his stock. He told, our cameraman, gym, who were working with us on Sholay. He had a habit that he used to keep 5-6 bottles of beer. I used to sit behind them and drink quietly from their stock. When the people of the production told them that they had drank 12 bottles, he said surprised, ‘How happened? I do not know!’ One day, they caught me ‘. The actor further said that you should enjoy life.