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Jeena
Isi Ka Naam Hai
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Episode
: Hema Malini
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September 13th, 9 pm on ZEE TV)
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SEGMENT 1
The show starts with Hema Malini's brother Kannan Chakravarti
coming in. He talks about hema being an obedient child. Hema's
mother's video message is next where she says that she had
to make a lot of effort to make sure hema gets the proper
training to reach the heights that she has and she does not
want her to do anything more in life as she has done enough
and should now strive to maintain that level. Hema reiterates
the fact that her mother is the one responsible for her success.
She says that she was very young and therefore couldn't have
taken a decision as to what she wanted to do and it was her
mother who enrolled her in dance classes and was very strict
about them. She says that she did feel very bad then as she
saw other kids playing and having fun but today when she looks
back, she is very grateful.
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SEGMENT 2
We begin with a video capsule on Hema's school where she studied
till 10th standard( Madrase Higher secondary school). Very
few people know that hema was brought up in Delhi and moved
to chennai only after finishing her 10th standard. When she
started performing in Chennai, she was publicized as "Delhi
Hema Malini" as there was already a Hema Malini performing
on stage in Chennai. After her school, there is a video message
from Nandita Ahlavar, fondly referred to as "Diloo" by Hema.
She is Hema's childhood friend.
Hema's mother and Nandita's mother are very close friends
and thats how they became friends. Hema claims that she has
spent some of the best moments of her life with Nandita. Nandita
and she were in Delhi together. They used to hang around after
school as they stayed in the same compound. Nandita, in her
video message, tells hema how they both confessed to eachother
when they were 8-9 years old that they both had a crush of
krishan bhagwan and their favourite pass time was to buy his
posters from Birla mandir. She said that till date their choice
in men hasn't changed as she married a jat and so did hema.
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The guest
in this segment is Padma Subramanium who is a dancer in
Chennai and also heads a cultural organisation called "Nrityodya".
She is the daughter of K Subramanium, a big director and
star maker down south responsible for introducing Hema to
the cultural community and critics in Chennai as well as
Raj Kapoor who launched Hema with "Sapno Ka Saudagar". It
was because of Raj Kapoor that Hema got the Tag of "Dream
Girl". Padma and Hema have been friends ever since hema's
initial days in Chennai. Padma throws light on Hema's early
days as a stage performer. She also talks about how hema's
first brush with films was a bitter experience as Director
Sridhar, who was an icon down south, threw hema out of his
movie and got it published in trade papers that hema was
a bad actress but Padma's father was confident and told
raj kapoor that he should definitely take hema as she would
go far.
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SEGMENT 3
The third segment starts with Hema and Dharmendra's daughters
, Esha and Ahana, coming in. They talked about how hema
is an inspiration and how they all made dad agree to let
esha do films. Esha spoke about dharmendra thinking that
she looks like a doll when he saw her first on screen. Hema
said that their father always gets emotional when he sees
their photographs or sees them. He starts crying and is
speechless. We end the segment with personal family snaps
of Hema, Dharmendra and the kids together.
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SEGMENT 4
Neetu Kohli, an interior designer and hema's close friend
since the last thirty years, is the first guest in this segment.
She talks about her friendship with hema and how hema fell
in love with Dharmendra for the first time( He took her out
on a drive when they were shooting together on Nasik). She
also talks of the time when Hema was pregnant with Esha and
noone knew. To avoid the press, Dharamji had booked a whole
hospital which had 100 room for the delivery. She was the
first person after the immediate family to see esha when she
was born.
The second person to walk in is Soordas Prabhu, who heads
Iskcon temple in Mumbai. He talks about the deep connection
to spirituality that Hema has and her devotion to propagating
Indian culture in its purest form. Hema has done dance ballets
like "Meera", "Durga", "Draupadi", "Radha" etc and dance will
always be her first love. Soordas Talks about how hema is
drawn from within to perform for the pleasure of God and that
is remarkable as he has never seen a person of her stature
to be so involved .
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SEGMENT 5
The segment kicks off with Director Ramesh Sippy making an
entry. Sippy has directed hema in three of her landmark films-
Andaaz, Seeta aur Geeta and Sholay. Sippy cast her in Andaaz,
which was his directorial debut, right after Hema's debut
film Sapno ka Saudagar and his decision was mainly a blind
risk. He had heard a lot about the "Dream Girl" and just took
a chance by casting in a tough role of a widow with a seven
year old son but it worked and inspired sippy to cast hema
in "Seeta aur Geeta". With "Seeta aur Geeta", he gave hema
a rare opportunity of doing a role most would not have thought
of casting her in as she had this prim and proper image. The
gamble paid off and Seeta aur Geeta was a huge hit.
After that we have a video Message from Co-star and friend
Jeetendra who talks about their first experience together
where he was unceremoniously thrown out of a film to be directed
by Subodh Mukherji called "Abhinetri". He was so excited at
the chance of working with the "Dream Girl" that he even quit
a film called "Jeene ke Raah" with L V Prasad. But Subodh
without telling him threw him out of the film which came as
a big blow to Jeetendra and he was shattered. At that time
L V Prasad was kind enough to take him back in "Jeene ki Raah".
SEGMENT 6
The Segment starts with Writer Director Gulzar's video message.
He has directed hema in four films- Khushboo, Kinara, Lekin
and Meera. Hema has done her best work with Gulzar. Gulzar
talks about hema being a director's delight and how she has
walked with dignity through thirty years of superstardom.
He says that she is a royal figure and a committed mother.
The next video message is from friend and director Aruna Raje.
Aruna says that it did take hema some time to trust her. People
was surprised that Aruna cast her in "Rihaee" a film about
sexual suppression but Aruna was confident that Hema would
be perfect for the character Taku Bai. She also said that
a lot of people don't know the lighter, fun side of Hema.
The last video message is of Dharmendra. It's the first time
that Dharmendra has spoken about hema on television. He says
that his heart is in his eyes and his eyes speak volumes.
He says that Hema is the best person he has worked with. The
most beautiful woman he has seen. He talks about her being
dignified, Non demanding and says that she has often sacrificed
her own happiness for the sake of others.
We end the show with rare never
seen before photographs of their wedding and holidays.
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