Dharmendra as Devdas, Sharmila Tagore as Paro, guess who was to play Chandramukhi

It is Dharmendra’s 89th birthday and he shares the special occasion with Sharmila Tagore, who additionally turned 80 at this time. On this special day Filmfare determined to comb via the archives and get you a particular tidbit piece of movie nostalgia. Sharmila Tagore and Dharmendra have labored collectively in memorable films like Chupke Chupke (1975) and Satyakam (1969), Anupama (1966) and extra, however they have been going to function in a much more particular venture someday within the late 70s. Gulzar was making his model of Devdas and the movie would function Dharmendra within the lead function with Sharmila Tagore taking part in Paro and Hemant Malini within the function of Chandramukhi. However the movie was shelved as a consequence of monetary causes.

The movie’s mahurat shot was held at Mohan Studio in Mumbai and the movie was introduced with a publicity marketing campaign within the newspapers, too. Not too way back, Dharmendra had shared particulars of this venture on twitter the place he had shared a working nonetheless of himself as Devdas. Try that publish right here:

“NEHIN tu tu MERI paro NEHIN “ it was my dream to play Devdas!!! pic.twitter.com/e0rwNT83Lt

— Dharmendra Deol (@aapkadharam) June 15, 2018

Not simply that, it has been reported up to now that Devdas was one in every of Dharmendra’s dream roles. His mentor and idol Dilip Kumar has performed the identical function in Bimal Roy’s movie in 1955 and up to now Dharmendra had revealed that he used to observe strains of dialogue from Dilip Kumar’s movie whereas standing in entrance of a mirror. Dharmendra actually needed to reprise the function on the massive display, however that by no means occurred.

Social media handles and conversations additionally shared the next picture of Dharmendra, Hemant Malini and Gulzar from the set of the shelved Devdas film. Try the photograph right here:

It could have been an absolute expertise to see Dharmendra and Sharmila Tagore within the roles of Devdas and Paro. Much more attention-grabbing would have been the sight of Hema Malini exercising her dancing expertise within the function of Chandramukhi. It was unlucky that this dream venture by no means noticed the sunshine of day.