Dharmendra was madly in love with this actress, not Hema Malini, but Dev Anand came in between and ended the relationship

Dharmendra: The pair of Bollywood's dream girl Hema Malini and actor Dharmendra is very much liked. Dharmendra was crazy in love with Hema Malini even after being married. Dharmendra's craze for Hema was such that he crossed all limits. But Hema Malini is not the first actress on whom Dharmendra has showered so much love. Before Hema, Dharmendra had fallen in love with an actress who was a senior actress of the film industry. Dharmendra was so infatuated with her that he used to walk miles every day to get a glimpse of her. Let us tell you what is the whole story…

Dharmendra was crazy in love with this beauty

The actress Dharmendra was madly in love with was Suraiya. Suraiya was the best actress of her time. The actress' beauty and acting not only grabbed the limelight in the film industry but she was also a hit with her singing. Her film Dillagi was released in the year 1949. Dharmendra liked this film so much that he watched it about forty times. The special thing is that the theatre in which this film was screened was several kilometres away from his house. Despite this, he used to walk to the theatre every day and watch Suraiya's film Dillagi.

Dharmendra used to do this work before coming into films

This is from the time when Dharmendra had no intention of coming into films. Suraiya's film Dillagi was released in 1949. While Dharmendra's film career started in 1966. His first film was Phool Aur Patthar. After this film, Dharmendra kept doing one film after another and became a big star. In the year 2012, he was also awarded with an honour like Padma Bhushan.

Dev Anand fell in love with Dharmendra's actress

While Dharmendra was madly in love with Suraiya, Dev Anand was also drowning in the love of the actress. In an old interview, Dev Anand spoke about Suraiya without any hesitation. Suraiya had helped Dev Anand a lot during his struggling days. This was the reason why Dev Anand fell in love with Suraiya. Dev Anand himself told in the interview that when he fell in love with Suraiya, she was a star who used to drive cars.

While Dev Anand was a new actor, he used to travel in buses. Despite this, both of them liked each other's company. Even when Dev Anand proposed to Suraiya, she accepted the proposal. But due to the actress's grandmother, she rejected the proposal.