Dharmendra’s first love was Hamida, his school teacher’s daughter. Their love remained incomplete after the partition of 1947. Later Dharmendra first married Prakash Kaur and then secondly married Hema Malini. Read Dharmendra’s innocent, but incomplete love story…
89 year old Dharmendra is constantly in the headlines due to his poor health. Fans are praying for him and his condition is also improving. Meanwhile, stories related to his personal life are also going viral in the media. Now the story of his first love is being discussed a lot. Everyone knows that Dharmendra has had two marriages. The name of his first wife is Prakash Kaur and second wife is Hema Malini. But the reality is that both are not his first love.
When and with whom did Dharmendra fall in love for the first time?
According to Dharmendra, his first love happened when he was studying in school. Yes, Dharmendra himself had revealed this in an episode of Salman Khan’s show ’10 Ka Dum’. This is the time when the country had not become independent and Dharmendra lived in a small village in Punjab. According to the ‘Sholay’ star, when he was studying in a village school, he had fallen in love with a girl named Hamida, who was his teacher’s daughter and was older than him.
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Dharmendra had narrated the story of his first love in front of his son Bobby Deol and ’10 Ka Dum’ host Salman Khan. According to him, he was in 6th class and Hamida was studying in 8th class. He told that he liked Hamida so much that he kept looking at her all the time and wanted to sit next to her. According to Dharmendra, “We kept saying this in our minds. We kept sighing coldly. The person in front of us did not even know.”
Dharmendra wrote a poem on first love
Dharmendra had also admitted during this time that Hamida could never know about his love. Because he could never muster the courage to express himself. According to He-Man, he kept his feelings hidden in his heart and then expressed that love in his poetry. During the show, Dharmendra also shared a poem written by him on that innocent love. He had said:-
I was young, my age was innocent, I don’t know what it was.
To go near whomever one wanted, to sit with whomever one wanted.
She was Talibah of eighth class, I was of sixth class.
Our school teacher had a daughter, her name was Hamida.
She would just smile and I would go closer,
She would remain silent, I would bow my head.
She would ask something else, I would say something else.
She would say, ‘Don’t be sad Dharam, there is still time, everything will be fine in your exam.’
She would say this and go away, she would disappear, I would keep thinking, ‘What is the question, friend?
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Why did Dharmendra’s first love remain incomplete?
According to Dharmendra, his first love remained incomplete. Because after the partition of 1947, Hamida went to Pakistan with her family. Whereas Dharmendra chose to stay with his family in his homeland on this side of the border. Later Dharam Paaji never saw Hamida. In 1954, when Dharmendra was 19 years old, he got married to Prakash Kaur. After coming into films, Dharmendra married Hema Malini for the second time in 1980. He has six children from both his wives: two sons Sunny Deol, Bobby Deol, four daughters Ajita, Vijeta, Isha and Ahana Deol.