History Creator / HemaMalini

Her [[{{Polyamory}} bigamous]] marriage to Creator/{{Dharmendra}} was highly controversial. The nearest parallel in Hollywood might be the public reaction to the affair between Creator/ElizabethTaylor and Creator/RichardBurton (both then married to other people) when they were filming ''Film/{{Cleopatra}}''. In Hema's and Dharmendra's case this controversy came from a number of factors: his married status, the numerous other marriage proposals that she had received and turned down, and her reputation in the industry as a very pious, ladylike woman who just didn't do things like that. She and Dharmendra have two daughters together: EshaDeol and Ahana Deol. She is also on amicable terms with his sons from his first marriage: Creator/SunnyDeol and Creator/BobbyDeol. She is mostly retired from acting, but sometimes produces or directs movies.

* ''Bollywood/SeetaAurGeeta'': where she plays a TomboyAndGirlyGirl dual role
* ''Bollywood/{{Sholay}}'': a very successful "curry western." During the filming, she fell in love with her future husband Creator/{{Dharmendra}}

* ''Bollywood/{{Trishul}}'': A complex saga of family feuds and corporate sabotage.
* ''Bollywood/JohnnyMeraNaam''
* ''Bollywood/DreamGirl'': where she takes a string of orphan children to [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Disneyland]].

'''Her most famous films include:'''
* ''SeetaAurGeeta'': where she plays a TomboyAndGirlyGirl dual role

* ''The Burning Train'': basically Film/TheToweringInferno [[RecycledInSpace On A Train! With Musical Numbers]]
* {{Trishul}}: A complex saga of family feuds and corporate sabotage.
* {{Johnny Mera Naam}}
* {{Dream Girl}}: where she takes a string of orphan children to [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Disneyland]].

Nicknamed the ''Dream Girl'', Hema Malini was an extremely popular and prolific UsefulNotes/{{Bollywood}} actress, starring in over 150 films between the late sixties and mid-eighties. In her heyday, she was noted for her skills as a classical dancer and her ability to play both comic and dramatic roles. She was considered [[WorldsMostBeautifulWoman the most beautiful woman in Bollywood]], and one of her [[HopelessSuitor unrequited suitors]] [[Creator/SanjeevKumar died unmarried]], allegedly because he decided that if he could not marry Hema, he would marry no one.

* {{Dream Girl}}: where she takes a string of orphan children to {{Disneyland}}.

Nicknamed the ''Dream Girl'', Hema Malini was an extremely popular and prolific {{Bollywood}} actress, starring in over 150 films between the late sixties and mid-eighties. In her heyday, she was noted for her skills as a classical dancer and her ability to play both comic and dramatic roles. She was considered [[WorldsMostBeautifulWoman the most beautiful woman in Bollywood]], and one of her [[HopelessSuitor unrequited suitors]] [[Creator/SanjeevKumar died unmarried]], allegedly because he decided that if he could not marry Hema, he would marry no one.