PERSONALITIES BEHIND SHOLAY 1975:
Sanjeev Kumar as he appears in Sholay
Hari bhai died in 1985. He was only forty-seven,
but a lifetime of unhealthy eating and drinking habits had caught up with him. Sanjeev never achieved the status of 'phenomenon' as Rajesh Khanna or Amitabh Bachchan did. In fact, toward the end, he had become increasingly careless about his looks. But his name was a standard for good acting. And unlike other stars, he wasn't bound by commercial considerations. He enthusiatically donned a gray wig to play the Thakur. For Sanjeev, always, the role was the prize.N.B. May I add here that Sanjeev was one of the men who was very much in love with Hema Malini, it is rumored that to appease that love which was rebuffed, he resort to the bottle and eventually that was partly the cause for his demise:
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