Hema Malini was so beautiful in her heydays that she didn’t ever fall short of her suitors at any point of time.
Two particular popular actors, Jeetendra and Sanjeev Kumar, always wished to marry her at any cost.
Jeetendra flew to Chennai to meet with Hema to propose her for marriage but Hema rejected his proposal.
As for Sanjeev, he wished to marry Hema but the damsel actress turned his proposal down which morally shocked Sanjeev for the rest of his life.
Hema, for her own, wished to get married only to actor Dharmendra Deol.
In her heydays there was no dearth of suitors for Hema. It seems every leading man of those times, married or unmarried, wanted to marry her. But the two heroes who nearly convinced her to do so were Jeetendra and Sanjeev Kumar. Jeetendra even flew down to Chennai with the shaadi ka shagun. She turned him down. As for Sanjeev Kumar, Hema was the only woman he ever wanted to marry. When she turned him down he was devastated. He never recovered. Says Hema, “I don’t know who all wanted to marry me. I only wanted to marry one man.”
Hema was also an actress with immense popularity and a number of superhits at the box office.
In fact, Hema rescued the careers of iconic actors Manoj Kumar and Rajesh Khanna when they were both going through a career slump. She starred with Manoj and Rajesh in the films "Sanyasi" and "Premnagar" respectively and helped to revive the careers of these two iconic actors
since both the films turned out to be major blockbusters at the box office.She was considered the only female actor with a solid box office draw. Rescued the careers of iconic leading men. Manoj Kumar and Rajesh Khanna were both going through a career slump when they asked Hemato join them on screen in Sanyasi and Premnagar, respectively. The two actors staged a comeback with these films. “I never looked at who was my co-star except when I was working with Dharamji. Then it was different. Otherwise I was indifferent.”
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