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Hema Malini's Timeless Elegance Unveiled, The Only Dream Girl ...
Hema Malini defined everything that the Dream Girl tag stood for. She could dance, act, emote with equal ease. In an age when commercial film actresses rarely did anything apart from being damsels in distress and glamour dolls, Hema did that and more. She danced on glass shrapnel, climbed fans on ceilings, rode horses in the wild and even kicked bad guy butt. Her fans thought she was as important as the likes of Amitabh Bachchan, Rajesh Khanna and Dharmendra. And filmmakers validated these claims by paying her at par with her male stars.
Her dominance was unprecedented and almost all of it was a result of her unmatched beauty and grace. Surely it was her prowess in Bharat Natyam that gave her that phenomenal poise and grace.
Sapnon Ka Saudagar (1968)
Legend has it that a 15-year-old Hema Malini was rejected by the Tamil film industry for being too skinny. Call it a blessing in disguise because it was only after the rejection that Hema was able to concentrate on her dancing and become a Bharat Natyam specialist while biding time for her film debut. It was five years later that producer Ananthaswamy offered her a dream role opposite Raj Kapoor in Sapnon Ka Saudagar.
She played Mahi a princess-like village girl who captured the imagination of a gentleman in rural India, played by Raj Kapoor. He sold dreams, she looked like a dream and the rest fell in place. Fancy clothing and her beauty made Hema look the perfect dream girl. A formal sobriquet wasn’t bestowed on her back then but film goers knew they’d found a real dream lady.
Johny Mera Naam (1970)
The dream girl tag took a back seat as Hema paced her career. She starred in a few masala films like Waris (1968) and Sharafat (1969) (her first film with Dharmendra). But the big break came when Vijay Anand and Dev Anand cast her in Johny Mera Naam. People weren’t expecting it to do well, especially since it was in the wake of a similar sounding film, Mera Naam Joker. But fate had other plans. Joker flopped; Johny became a cult hit. And right at the centre of all the action was a resuscitated career for Dev Anand and possibly the most beautiful woman people had seen on screen since Madhubala. That’s not all, this young lady could dance like a dream, do comedy scenes with Anand and Pran and even do action. Producers had found their golden goose.
Lal Patthar (1971)
Not many actresses would fight their popular image, but Hema was made of different mettle. The glam doll quotient went on the back burner as she portrayed a village girl with peculiar and uncouth ways. She played a traumatised girl Madhuri who’s rescued by the abstinent Kumar Bahadur (Raaj Kumar) and inducted into a royal lifestyle.
The role was Hema’s bouquet of emotions. She aced the bits of comedy and drama with ease. That’s not all. Later in the film when Kumar decides to marry Sumita (Raakhee), Madhuri developed feelings of envy and pride as she became manipulative and coarse. Again Hema delivered a strong performance balancing her grey shades, while managing to look like a million bucks.
Andaz (1971)
Cinematic history was written when a couple rode a motorcycle and shouted out to the world that they were in love and life was beautiful because they were together. This was the stuff that made Rajesh Khanna the apple of every Indian eye and it helped that the most beautiful lady in the country was with him. The movie was Andaz and the now immortal song Zindagi ek safar hai suhana. Hema Malini was barely 23 and looked good enough to make teen hearts skip a beat or two. They say other actresses weren’t game for complicated roles like that of Sheetal in Andaz. Her role had all the trappings to please the critics as well as the glamour to charm the average moviegoer. Hema Malini had arrived.
Seeta Aur Geeta (1972)
They say if you haven’t done a double role you haven’t attained stardom. That thought started with Seeta Aur Geeta. Hema Malini played the role of twin sisters - one submissive and the other feisty. And what a contrast they were. Her bits as the fiery Geeta were full of humour and perfect comic timing. She made you laugh and cry in turn with consummate ease. No wonder she won the Filmfare Award for Best Actress. This performance of Hema Malini is only overshadowed by her Basanti in Sholay. That’s the relevance of Seeta Aur Geeta to Hema’s career.
Sholay (1975)
Chatter makes noise but in the case of Sholay and Basanti, it makes movie legends. Amongst the many other things we remember this classic by, one is the constant rattle with which Hema Malini livens up the screen.
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