Started
Career
With
Tamil
Cinema
Hema
Malini
started
her
career
with
Tamil
film
Idhu
Sathiyam,
but
was
rejected
by
Tamil
producers
for
being
"too
skinny".
She
also
faced
rejection
in
1964
by
Tamil
director
CV
Sridhar
for
not
being
a
‘star
material'.
However,
Hema
Malini
got
her
first
break
in
1965
with
a
small
role
in
a
film
called
Pandava
Vanavasam.
Draconian
Contract
After
facing
rejection
in
south
films,
Hema
Malini
moved
to
Mumbai
and
was
immediately
signed
by
producer
Ananthaswamy
for
Sapnon
Ka
Saudagar.
According
to
reports,
later
Hema
and
her
mother
had
an
ugly
fall-out
with
Ananthaswamy
for
having
tied
down
the
debutante
with
a
draconian
contract.
"I
didn't
know
what
was
I
was
doing,
what
I
was
signing,
and
what
it
meant.
My
mother
and
I
were
taken
advantage
of
because
of
our
financial
ignorance," said
Hema
in
an
old
interview.
Hema
Malini
And
The
Kapoors
Hema
Malini
has
starred
in
more
than
150
films
in
her
career,
she
is
also
the
only
actress
in
Bollywood
who
has
acted
opposite
all
Raj
Kapoor
clan
actors.
She
starrer
in
Sapno
Ka
Saudagar
as
a
debutante
with
Raj
Kapoor,
then
Andaaz
with
Shammi
Kapoor,
Trishul
opposite
Shashi
Kapoor,
Haath
Ki
Safai
alongside
Randhir
Kapoor
and
Ek
Chaadar
Maili
Si
with
Rishi
Kapoor.
Hema
Malini-
Sunny
Deol
It
is
common
knowledge
that
Hema
Malini
and
Dharmendra
converted
to
Islam
to
get
married.
Post
conversion,
they
also
changed
their
names
as
Aisha
Bi
R
Chakravarty
and
Dharmendra
was
named
Dilwar
Khan.
However,
what
people
don't
know
is
that
Hema
Malini
is
just
six
year
elder
to
Sunny
Deol,
one
of
Dharmendra's
four
children
from
his
first
wife
Prakash
Kaur.