Hema Malini re-launches daughter Esha into Bollywood

Hema Malini’s film, Tell Me Oh Khuda, the one she had planned for her daughter Esha is finally in its pre-production stage. Starring Arjan Bajwa opposite Esha, the film is about a girl who is on the search for her father. It bears too much resemblance to Hema Malini’s first and only film as a director, Dil Aashna Hai which was about a girl on the lookout for her mother and starred Divya Bharati and Shah Rukh Khan.

The film will be directed by Om Shanti Om’s dialogue writer and Dhoom’s associate director, Mayur Puri. Arjan was thrilled to meet Hema Malini and was overjoyed when she said that she had liked his work in Fashion. Tell Me Oh Khuda is supposed to be Esha’s Bollywood re-launch. The film will commence shooting from the end of this year.

Shotgun Shatrughan and Dream girl Hema Malini Together Again!

The last time we saw them together on screen it was for Manoj Kumar’s Santosh in 1989. Now Shatrughan Sinha and Hema Malini are back together on Dus Ka Dum, apparently on Shatru’s insistence.

Salman Khan’s very popular game show Dus Ka Dum has bonus guests. In an additional episode that was shot on Sunday (August 30) Salman brought two of his favorite people Shatrughan Sinha and Hema Malini, both BJP workers, together for what turned out to be quite a show of strength.

Shatru dressed in a long- flowing Sherwani was playfully asked by Salman, if this was the Nehru code of dressing.

The actor never short of retorts replied, “No nowadays it’s known as the Jinnah code of dressing.”

This was an obvious reference to the BJP’s current claim to controversy for expelling Jaswant Singh from the party for writing a book on Jinnah.

When asked about the incident Shatrughan Sinha laughed, “Yes, this did happen. I did refer to my dress code on Dus Ka Dum as the Jinnah style of dressing. Salman had been keen on inviting Hemaji and me together for a long time. We decided to go on the show on the grand finale.”

Speaking out for the first time on the Jinnah controversy, Shatrughan Sinha says, “I’ve so far kept quiet. But now I’ll say this much. How can a senior member of a party be expelled for writing a book, which no one had written? And how can a politician not be allowed to have a personal ideology? I play so many roles. If tomorrow after watching me play a dacoit, some youth decides to rob a bank, does it mean I should give up acting?”

Reverting to Dus Ka Dum Shatru says, “I was asked which is my favorite party. I said when I’m invited to Hemaji’s house, I love the tea party that we have. When I’m invited to her other half Dharamji’s home I love the drinking party there. So it’s all very flexible.”

The Shatru-Hema episode of Dus Ka Dum will be aired as the grand finale.

“When it’s me and Hema it cannot be anything less,” is Shatru’s parting shot.

Dream Girl Hema Dreams of Little Girls

Yesteryear’s most desirable actress Hema Malini recently expressed a desire to perform a Ballet with the child artiste Drishti. The child has charmed our dream girl with her natkhat stints in the serial ‘Jai Shree Krishna’.

Hema is known to keep her personal life under wraps, but she could not help sharing Esha’s childhood memories with media after meeting Drishti. “When I was carrying Esha I was gifted a picture of lord Krishna that exactly resembled her (pointing at Drishti). Esha was born same like her; at times I also use to dress her up like Krishna with mukut and all. Her activities reminds me of little Esha,” Hema goes back to the time of her first motherhood experience.

Hema Malini admits that she tries to catch up with the show whenever she has time. As the interaction progressed she also divulged Esha’s fondness for Drishti, “I am sure Esha will definitely put me through the mill for not taking her along here to meet Drishti. She has always wanted me to bring Drishti home,” conveys Hema.

She was taking pleasure in watching Drishti’s activity and was apparently on and off in the memories of Esha’s childhood.

Aishwarya Rai is today’s ‘dreamgirl’, says Hema Malini

For Bollywood’s original ‘dreamgirl’ Hema Malini, beauty queen-turned-actress Aishwarya Rai is the only one who deserves the ‘dreamgirl’ tag among all the new age actresses.
“Whoever is on top is the dreamgirl. I feel it is Aishwarya Rai,” Hema told reporters on being asked who, according to her, deserves to be called the ‘dreamgirl’ nowadays.

Taking about the hardships an actress has to face, she said: “An actress’ life is the same - nothing has changed. It is what it was even 20 years back. They have to work very hard, make themselves look beautiful and need a lot of dedication to remain at the top,” said Hema, who was in this suburb of the national capital Monday to felicitate winners of supermarket Big Bazaar’s ‘Meet The Dreamgirl’ contest.

Snubbing the whole idea of having a size zero figure, Hema said: “There’s no need (for a size zero figure). I was not a size zero. You must have a flat stomach - not a pot belly - and a nice and beautiful face - at least a tolerable face - and you can be an actress.”

Dressed in a pale yellow, elegant sari, the 60-year-old actress was at her forthright best when asked about her future projects.

“I’ve signed one or two (films) which are held up because of the financial problems in the whole world. Otherwise I would have finished those two and they would have released by now.”

“One is with Nana Patekar which Deepa Sahi is directing, and the other is with another producer. It is not right to expose everything about a film,” she said.

Another film that Hema is working on is “Ek Thi Rani Aisi Bhi” - in which she will play a role based on the life of prominent political figure Vijayaraje Scindia.

Hema, who has delivered hits like “Seeta Aur Geeta”, “Satte Pe Satta”, and “Sholay” in the past, is also toying with the idea of getting into production and returning to direction after almost 17 years.

“I’m planning to start production. I don’t want to say much about it because every time I talk about these things, they never happen. It’s my desire to make lovely films because I am an artist and a very creative person,” she said.

“But filmmaking is not a joke…so many things are involved,” she added.

The actress, who had her first stint with direction in 1992 with Shah Rukh Khan-starrer “Dil Aashna Hai”, says she would want to be a liberal producer and not want to impose her ideas on the youth.