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‘How am I going to cope’: Hema Malini breaks down in emotional tribute to Dharmendra | Bollywood News

‘How am I going to cope’: Hema Malini breaks down in emotional tribute to Dharmendra | Bollywood News

4 min readHyderabadMay 1, 2026 09:55 AM IST The grief of losing a life partner of decades is not something that comes with easy words. Hema Malini found herself reaching for them anyway at a tribute held in Dharmendra’s memory this week, reflecting openly on what his absence means and what his presence meant for the better part of six decades. Standing before an audience gathered to honour Dharmendra at the opening of Lens & Legacy: Bollywood in Focus at the National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi on Thursday, she spoke about what it meant to have shared a life with him and what it now means to carry on without him. “He was a great man. I am truly blessed to have been with him, but I miss him a lot now. He is no longer there, so I don’t know how I am going to cope with the rest of my life,” she said, visibly emotional. Her words about his relationship with cinema were equally personal. She recalled how deeply he believed …

‘Take Bus 93 to Chembur’: When Raj Kapoor kicked son Rajiv out of his car, told Rishi he lacked the ‘stature’ to sit with him | Bollywood News

‘Take Bus 93 to Chembur’: When Raj Kapoor kicked son Rajiv out of his car, told Rishi he lacked the ‘stature’ to sit with him | Bollywood News

Veteran music director Amar Haldipur, who has worked closely with legends like Laxmikant Pyarelal, Khayyam, Rajesh Roshan and Shankar Jaikishan, recently revisited memories from Hindi cinema’s golden era, sharing anecdotes about icons like Raj Kapoor, K Asif and Dilip Kumar. Haldipur recalled an incident from the time Satyam Shivam Sundaram was being worked on. “The background music of Satyam Shivam Sundaram was being recorded. Raj Kapoor saab’s younger son, Rajiv Kapoor, got into his Ambassador car. I had just taken my payment and was leaving when I saw this. Raj Kapoor came out, opened the car door and saw his son sitting inside. He asked him, ‘Why are you sitting in this car?’ Rajiv said, ‘We are going home, right?’” What followed, he says, was a moment of firm parenting. “Raj Kapoor told him, ‘This is Raj Kapoor’s car. The day you become Raj Kapoor, you can sit in it.’ He made him get down and said, ‘Bus number 93 goes to Chembur, take that and go home.’ And he actually had to get down.” …