Veteran Bollywood actor Dharmendra is ill. The actor is admitted in the hospital for the last several days. Dharmendra is 89 years old and will turn 90 on December 8. The actor was born on 8 December 1935 in Nasrani village of Punjab. Very few people know that his real name is Dharmendra Kewal Krishna Deol. But do you know which caste the actor belongs to? And which religion do they follow?

Dharmendra was born in a Punjabi Jat family, which belonged to a Hindu reformist movement called Arya Samaj. That means Dharmendra belongs to Jat caste. Dharmendra is a Hindu by birth but in 1980 he converted to Islam to marry Hema Malini. Actually Dharmendra was already married and he wanted to marry Hema Malini for the second time. In Islam, a man is allowed four marriages, whereas in Hinduism this is not possible.

Islam or Hindu, which religion does Dharmendra follow?
Dharmendra’s first wife is Prakash Kaur, whom Dharmendra wanted to marry Hema Malini without divorcing. That is why to avoid legal complications, he converted to Islam and then married Hema Malini. While converting to Islam, Dharmendra changed his name to Dilawar. However, he had temporarily accepted Islam, information about which he himself had given. It is written in Hema Malini’s biography ‘Hema Malini: Beyond the Dream Girl’ that Dharmendra had said about changing religion – ‘I am not a person who will change.’

Dharmendra’s workfront
On the work front, Dharmendra was last seen in Kriti Sanon and Shahid Kapoor’s film ‘Teri Baton Mein Aisa Uljha Jiya’. Now he will be seen in the war film ‘Ikkis’. In this film directed by Shriram Raghavan, he will play the role of father of Amitabh Bachchan’s grandson Agastya Nanda. This film will hit the theaters on 25 December 2025. Apart from this, he also has ‘Apne 2’ in the pipeline.