Panjim, Aug 22
Veteran Bollywood actor, Dharmendra, who completes 50 years in films this year, is completely off alcohol after a recent health scare. According to a report in ‘DNA’, he promised daughter Esha on the sets of their new movie ‘Tell Me Oo Khuda’, being shot in Goa, that he will not touch alcohol again.
He now says that no power on earth can make him take to the bottle again, even if it means doing less convincing drunken sequences than his ‘suicide’ act in ‘Sholay’, for which the star, apparently, had taken several large swigs.
For a scene in his new film, Dharmendra and his two sons, who also star with him in the film, were required to do a drunken boys’ night out scene, but he refused to consume any alcohol for it. He says, “My days of ‘masti’ are over. I wake up early, do yoga and meditate.”
Director Samir Karnik said: “Sunny has always been a teetotaller, but it was surprising to see Dharamji ordering apple juice for the scene. The only one who really drank in the sequence was Bobby Deol.”
