The film ‘Sholay’, made under the direction of Ramesh Sippy, has been re-released in theaters on Friday with a 4K version. In this film, as much as the pairing of Jai and Veeru was liked, the romance of Dharmendra and Basanti was also liked. The pairing of Dharmendra and Hema Malini won everyone’s hearts in the film Sholay, but do you know that hero Dharmendra had fallen in love with someone even before his youth? On the occasion of the re-release of Sholay, we will tell you about Dharmendra’s poem and story, which he had written before the partition of India-Pakistan.

Dharmendra told the story of his first love
It is common to fall in love or feel attracted to someone at a young age. This moment comes in everyone’s life. Some people talk about this, some don’t, but Dharmendra Deol had narrated the story of his first and raw love and had also written a poem to express the condition of his heart. Dharmendra came to Salman Khan’s show ‘Dus Ka Dum’ with his son Bobby Deol.

In the show, Bobby teased his father and said, “Send the poem to the girl for whom you had written it.” On the matter of love (romance), Dharmendra told that in earlier times people were a little shy. The person in front did not even know that someone was secretly sighing coldly for them. Then Bobby talked about that poem and the girl.

Dharmendra had written the poem
Dharmendra told that he had named this poem ‘Anokhi Kashish, Anjaana Ahsaas’. He said that this was the time when the country was not divided and he was also very young. Humming his poem, the actor said, “I was young, innocent at my age, I don’t know what it was like, someone to go near, to sit with whomever I wanted. She was Taliba of eighth grade, and I was studying in sixth, she was the daughter of our school teacher, her name was Hamida. She would smile, I would go near her. If she was silent, I would bow my head. She would ask something else and I would say something else. What is this question, this unique one.” What is attraction and unknown feeling?

Let us tell you that when Dharmendra was 14-15 years old, he started liking his own school teacher’s daughter. The actor kept this romance alive on screen and played romantic roles in superhit films like ‘Tum Haseen Main Jawaan’ in 1970, ‘Mera Gaon, Mera Desh’ in 1971, ‘Sita-Geeta’ in 1972, and ‘Pratigya’ in 1975.

Veteran Bollywood actor Dharmendra recently came into discussion regarding his health. Due to age, he had difficulty in breathing and some health issues, due to which fans became very worried. Not only this, rumors about his health also started spreading.

But on November 12, his health improved and he was discharged from the hospital. His wife Hema Malini also expressed relief and thanked the fans. Dharmendra and Hema’s love story is considered one of the most beautiful stories of Bollywood, but Dharmendra has once told that he had his first feeling of love long before he met Hema ji.

Who was Dharmendra’s first choice?
Dharmendra lived in a small village in Punjab in his childhood, that too before the partition of 1947. His first choice was a girl from the same village, Hamida, who was the daughter of his school teacher. Hamida was elder to him, she studied in eighth class and Dharmendra was in sixth.

Once Dharmendra had come to Salman Khan’s show ‘Dus Ka Dum’ with his son Bobby Deol, Dharmendra smilingly told how he used to secretly look at Hamida and wished that he could sit near her. He had said, “We kept saying everything in our minds… kept sighing coldly… the person in front of us did not know anything.”

Hamida never got to know about his feelings because Dharmendra was very shy and he never expressed his feelings. He kept this childhood first love hidden in his heart, and later immortalized the same feeling forever by writing it in a poem.

Dharmendra narrated the story of love
When Bobby Deol mentioned that poem in the show, Dharmendra told that he had written this poem during his school days, when the country had not even been divided. He said, “I used to study then… there was no partition.” Then he narrated the story of that innocent love of his childhood, “I was young, my age was also innocent. There was a girl with whom I felt like going.

She was our 8th class student and I was in 6th. She was the daughter of our school teacher, her name was Hamida.” At the time of partition in 1947, Hamida went to Pakistan with her family and Dharmendra remained in India. Both never met again, but the memories of their first love always remained in Dharmendra’s heart.

He also recalled those sweet, innocent conversations, “She would smile softly and I would walk towards her. She would remain silent and I would bow my head. She would ask something else and I would answer something else. She would say, ‘Don’t be sad, Dharam… everything will be fine.’ She’d walk away and I’d just be like, ‘What was the question, man?'”