{"id":36140,"date":"2025-11-24T20:31:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T14:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=36140"},"modified":"2025-11-24T20:31:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T14:46:38","slug":"beloved-bollywood-star-dharmendra-dies-at-89","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/beloved-bollywood-star-dharmendra-dies-at-89\/","title":{"rendered":"Beloved Bollywood star Dharmendra dies at 89"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><strong>MUMBAI, India, Nov 24:<\/strong> India&#8217;s hugely popular Bollywood star Dharmendra, who was equally at ease in romantic comedies and high-octane action blockbusters, died aged 89 on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The passing of Dharmendra Ji marks the end of an era in Indian cinema,&#8221; Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in a statement on social media.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was an iconic film personality, a phenomenal actor who brought charm and depth to every role he played.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The actor had not been well recently and was admitted to a hospital in Mumbai.<\/p>\n<p>Over a remarkable six-decade career, Dharmendra appeared in more than 250 films, served as a member of parliament, and was honoured with one of India&#8217;s highest civilian awards.<\/p>\n<p>In the 1980s, Dharmendra starred in a string of action movies, earning him the nickname &#8220;He-Man&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The most iconic role of his career was arguably the lovable rogue Veeru that he played in the 1975 classic &#8220;Sholay&#8221; (&#8220;Embers&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>The father of six also dabbled in production, with movies starring his sons Sunny and Bobby Deol.<\/p>\n<p>His last film will be Sriram Raghavan&#8217;s &#8220;Ikkis&#8221; (&#8220;Twenty-one&#8221;) which is set for release next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI, India, Nov 24: India&#8217;s hugely popular Bollywood star Dharmendra, who was equally at ease in romantic comedies and high-octane action blockbusters, died aged 89 on Monday. &#8220;The passing of Dharmendra Ji marks the end of an era in Indian cinema,&#8221; Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in a statement on social media. &#8220;He was an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36140"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36140"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36146,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36140\/revisions\/36146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}