Brothers Bobby and Sunny Deol graced the third edition of SCREEN Live, which took place at KC College, Mumbai, on Monday. The duo opened up about their professional and personal journeys, reflecting on the highs, lows and the bond that keeps them together. Bobby also talked about his experience of working with father Dharmendra in his film Dharam Veer.
Bobby, who essayed the role of the young Dharmendra, shared how his father approached him with the offer. He said, “I was 5-6 years old. I always wanted to become an actor. My dad was doing Dharam Veer at that point, and he wanted a child who would look like him. A child who had big and thick legs, but he couldn’t find one. They kept getting kids who looked really weak. Then he thought let me ask my son. He asked me, ‘Tu meri film mai acting karega, mere bachpan ka role karega? (Will you act in my film and play my childhood role?)’ I said, ‘Haan karunga (Yes, I will do it).’ When you are a child, you don’t have any inhibitions, you don’t have any fear, you just think life is beautiful.”
Elaborating on the iconic black leather dress he wore in the scene twinning with his dad, the Animal actor revealed, “They made this dress for me overnight because I had to shoot the next day. I never wore an underwear in those days. When I was shooting, they made me wear this dress. I was like, ‘Why are they making me wear a dress?’ I asked Bhawarlal, who used to work with my dad, ‘Bhawarlal, mere paas chaddi nahi hai (I don’t have an underwear), how will I wear this?’ They got me a pair of shorts to wear under my dress. But, it was beautiful.”
Bobby Deol further said that he wanted to get paid for the work in Dharam Veer and asked his father Dharmendra for the same. “I did the scene and asked my dad, ‘Where is my money? I worked, I want my money.’ He said, ‘Aa mai deta hu, tu chup kar.’ He didn’t know what to say as the film’s producer and director were standing right there. I sat in the car, he gave me a bundle of 10,000 notes, and he said, ‘Go give it to your grandmother and see to it that it is distributed among the staff members’,” he said.
“I went home excitedly, so proud of myself, and gave the money to my grandmother to distribute it. I was so excited that I broke so many hangers in the house to show my sisters and aunts what I did in the film. I was on top of the world. When the film did Golden Jubilee, I went to the awards ceremony. They made a special award for me with my name on it,” Bobby added.
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