They don’t make stars like Dharmendra anymore — charming on-screen, fearless off it. Long before gangsters stopped calling the shots in Bollywood, the veteran actor had already made it clear he wasn’t someone to be messed with. Actor-director Satyajeet Puri recently shared a wild story that perfectly sums up Dharmendra’s no-nonsense attitude, one where he literally warned the underworld that if they dared to come after him, he had an army ready in Punjab.

In a chat with Friday Talkies, Puri recalled just how strong the underworld’s presence was in Bollywood back in the day and how Dharmendra stood tall, unshaken.

“At that time, the underworld was very strong. Many actors would get scared if they were summoned. But Dharamji and his family never feared them. He would tell them, ‘If you com

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