HEMA MALINI

'Hema Malini',(Tamil:ஹேமமாலினி), born October 16 1948 in Ammankudi, Tamil Nadu, India is an Indian actress and Bharatanatyam dancer, who starred in several successful Bollywood films in the 1970s, most notably the extremely successful ''Sholay''. She is the most successful female filmstar of Bollywood.[1] She has starred in a large number of hit films and is considered a living legend. She is remembered as Bollywood's one and only Dream Girl. She is a member of India's Bharatiya Janata Party and represents the party in Rajya Sabha, the upper House of parliament.

Contents

Career

Personal life

Awards, honours and recognitions

Selected filmography

External links

Career

Hema Malini was educated at Andhra Mahila Sabha, Chennai. She acted in a short episode as dancer in Pandava Vanavasam, a 1961 Telugu film. Hema first tried to enter films in 1964, but was rejected; Tamil director Sridhar said she had no star appeal. She persisted and found her niche in Bollywood. She debuted in a 1968 film ''Sapnon Ka Saudagar ("The Dreamseller)'', playing a young teen opposite the ageing superstar Raj Kapoor. With Dev Anand in ''Johnny Mera Naam'' (1970), Hema became a top star and double-role with Dharmendra and Sanjeev Kumar in ''Seeta Aur Geeta'' (1972) she was the top female star in Bollywood and became one of the reigning divas of the Bollywood film industry. Her fans called her ''The Dream Girl of Bollywood'' (an allusion to her first film, and one of her big hits).
She starred in many movies throughout the 1970s and 1980s and is perhaps best remembered for her glamour, style, and accomplished classical dancing. She formed a hit pair with Dharmendra and the duo performed a number of hit movies like ''Sholay'', ''Charas'', Aas Paas, ''Jugnu'', ''Seeta Aur Geeta'', ''The Burning Train''. She also achieved some strong dramatic or comic moments in films like ''Trishul'', ''Joshila'', ''Lal Patthar'', ''Meera'' and ''Satte Pe Satta''.
After having a back seat from films for a number of years in the 1990s and early 2000s, she has recently made a comeback of sorts. She co-starred with Amitabh Bachchan in the successful film ''Baghban'' (2003), and played a cameo role (also opposite Bachchan) in the 2004 blockbuster ''Veer-Zaara''. In both films, she played a beautiful, self-possessed, middle-aged married woman rather than the ingenue role of her earlier career.
She tried her hand at directing and made the 1992 film ''Dil Aashna Hai'' which featured an all-star cast including Shahrukh Khan and the late Divya Bharti.
She also directed and starred in the TV Serial ''Noopur'', in which she was depicted as a Bharatanatyam dancer going to America.

Personal life

Hema Malini is a dedicated Bharatnatyam artiste, a classical dance of India. Her two daughters have trained in the related Odissi school of dance, and the three have performed together at several charity dance concerts.
Top Bollywood stars like Sanjeev Kumar and Jeetendra proposed to her, but she married Dharmendra, who was already married with two sons: Sunny Deol and Bobby Deol and they have two daughters: Ahana Deol and Esha Deol (born 1982), who is a successful Bollywood actress as well.
In 2005, on the TV show Koffee with Karan, she said that she taught her daughters Tamil very well, but had to hire a tutor to help her daughter Esha Deol learn Punjabi for a film. Apparently, Esha's father Dharmendra, whose mother tongue is Punjabi, converses with Hema and his daughters only in Hindi and English.^[1]
She is the daughter of Shri V.S.R. Chakravarty and Shrimati Jaya Chakravarthy who was a film producer. Shrimati Jaya Chakravarty died on June 11th, 2004 due to gangrene on her leg.
Hema Malini and her husband have been involved in politics, as members of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). She was elected to the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India, with the support of the BJP. In February 2004, she joined the party officially. With her film career less hectic, she has been an active member of the party, attending party meetings and rallies and campaigning for the party through various elections.
She has said in interviews that she would never wear revealing outfits in movies, and has been true to her words till date. It is said that after she had shot for a swimsuit scene in a movie early in her career, her mother was so upset that she promised never to repeat it. She exposed her navel in a low-waist saree for the first time only in 2006, after 30 years of her acting career.

Awards, honours and recognitions

★ 1973 - Filmfare Best Actress Award, ''Seeta Aur Geeta''

★ 1974 - Filmfare Nomination as Best Actress for Amir Garib

★ 1974 - Filmfare Nomination as Best Actress for Prem Nagar

★ 1975 - Filmfare Nomination as Best Actress for Khushboo

★ 1975 - Filmfare Nomination as Best Actress for Sanyasi

★ 1976 - Filmfare Nomination as Best Actress for Mehbooba

★ 1977 - Filmfare Nomination as Best Actress for Kinara

★ 1979 - Filmfare Nomination as Best Actress for Meera

★ 1981 - Filmfare Nomination as Best Actress for Naseeb

★ 1990 - Filmfare Nomination as Best Actress for Rihaee

★ 1999 - Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award

★ 2000 - Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian award from the Government of India. [2] [3]

★ 2003 - Zee Cine Award for Lifetime Achievement [4] [5]

★ 2003 - Star Screen Award Jodi No. 1, ''Baghban'' (with Amitabh Bachchan)

★ 2003 - Lifetime Achievement Award at the 'Bollywood Awards'. [6]

★ 2003 - Filmfare Nomination as Best Actress for Baghban[7]

★ 2004 - Bollywood Movie Award - Most Sensational Actress for ''Baghban''

★ 2004 - Living Legend Award by the Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) in recognition of her contribution to the Indian entertainment industry. [8] [9]

★ 2004 - Icon of the year [10]

★ 2006 - Vitasta Award by Sopori Academy of Music And Performing Arts [11] [12] [13]

★ 2007 - The 2007 Bangkok International Film Festival screened several films starring Hema Malini in a special tribute program. [14]

Selected filmography

:See ''Hema Malini filmography''

★ ''Sapno Ka Saudagar'' (1968)

★ ''Sholay'' (1975)

★ ''Sanyasi'' (1975)

★ ''Seeta Aur Geeta'' (1972)

★ ''Johny Mera Naam'' (1970)

★ ''Naseeb'' (1981)

★ ''Andaz'' (1971)

★ ''The Burning Train'' (1980)

★ ''Khushboo''

★ ''Trishul''

★ ''Do Aur Do Paanch''

★ ''Jugnu''

★ ''Hum Dono''

★ ''Hey Ram''

★ ''Dost''

★ ''Veer-Zaara'' (special appearance)

External links

★ Hemamalini images

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★ Article concerning her marriage to Dharmendra

★ Hema Malini joins BJP