Overview
- The Deol family hosted a 'Celebration of Life' memorial at Taj Lands End on November 27 from 5 to 7:30 pm for fans and the film fraternity.
- A separate remembrance at Hema Malini’s home featured bhajans and a Bhagavad Gita reading in a more intimate setting.
- Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan, Rekha, Aishwarya Rai, Karan Johar and many others attended, with Sunny and Bobby Deol greeting guests as a musical tribute was performed and singer Sonu Nigam was among those present.
- Hema Malini shared her first public message since the loss, calling Dharmendra “everything to me” and posting unseen photographs from their life together.
- Dharmendra died on November 24 at his Mumbai residence at 89 after recent hospitalisation and was cremated at Pawan Hans; he will appear posthumously in Sriram Raghavan’s Ikkis, slated for December 25.