00:00When people say Dharmendra, they think strength, they think masculinity but very few people
00:04know what he was really made of.
00:06He came from a small village in Punjab called Sanewal where cinema was not a career, it
00:11was a distant miracle.
00:13As a young boy, he would travel long distances just to watch films.
00:17Sometimes he didn't even enter the theatre, he stood outside memorizing dialogues as they
00:21echoed through walls.
00:22That's how badly he wanted stories in his blood strain.
00:26Even after winning a Filmfare talent hunt, Bombay was not very kind to him initially.
00:30What most people do not know is that Dharmendra was painfully shy of screen.
00:35He avoided parties, he avoided spotlights when cameras were off.
00:38Despite being called the he-man of Bollywood, he was deeply uncomfortable with cruelty even
00:44in cinema.
00:45His romantic image endured for decades not because he chased youth but because he played
00:50love with tenderness, not conquest.
00:52Away from cinema, Dharmendra repeatedly returned to farming.
00:57Not as a hobby but as a refuge.
00:59He once said that touching soil reminded him of who he was before the applause began.
01:04And what remains remarkable is that at the peak of his fame, when being larger than life
01:08was expected, Dharmendra chose to stay human sized.
01:11This is not about legacy.
01:13This is not about goodbye.
01:14This is about remembering that strength that can be soft, that masculinity can be kind and
01:20some men do not need to dominate the room, they quietly anchor it.
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