Dream girl Hema Malini celebrates her birthday (October 16). She turns 74 today and it won’t be wrong to say that she is the most beautiful woman even today. The veteran actress has given us so many amazing films and who isn’t a fan of her dancing?
Hema Malini is a trained Bharatnatyam dancer and so are her daughters. Esha Deol and Ahana Deol are also amazing dancers like their mother. However, very less people know that their father and veteran actor Dharmendra was against this.
Yes, Dharmendra did not like the idea of letting Esha and Ahana dance. He had a conservative ideology initially. Earlier, Hema Malini had opened up about Dharmendra having a conservative mindset while she had a modern approach towards parenting.
In an interview with a magazine in 2011, she had said, “Initially he was so conservative that I was shocked! He would tell the girls not to wear short tops with tight-fitting jeans, and I would be like no, you live in an ancient time! If the girls were dressing up or applying makeup, it was a natural thing to do at their age. As a father, he used to be vexed that the girls would join the film line. So sometimes I had to intervene and tell him not to interfere in all this.”
She had revealed that Dharmendra would say that they should not teach the girls dancing as they will join film industry but Hema Malini opposed this. She mentioned that she did not let that happen as she is a different person and has taught her kids to have their voice.
“My children like the fact that if there is a need, they can use me as a shield, against the world, “she added.
