He worked with Nutan in Soorat Aur Seerat (1962), Bandini (1963), Dil Ne Phir Yaad Kiya (1966). He had a supporting role in the film Boy Friend in 1961, and was cast as the romantic interest in several films between 19.
He later made his debut with Arjun Hingorani's Dil Bhi Tera Hum Bhi Tere in 1960.
That time schools of Punjab came under Panjab University, Chandigarh.ĭharmendra was the winner of Filmfare magazine's nationally organised new talent award and went to Mumbai from Punjab, to work in the movie promised, being the award winner, but the movie was never made. He did his matriculation in Phagwara in 1952.
He spent his early life in the village of Sahnewal and studied at Government Senior Secondary School at Lalton Kalan, Ludhiana, where his father was the village school's headmaster. His ancestral village is Dangon, near Pakhowal Tehsil Raikot, Ludhiana. Dharmendra was born Dharam Singh Deol in Sahnewal, a village in Ludhiana district, Punjab on 8 December 1935 to Kewal Kishan Singh Deol and Satwant Kaur into a Jat Sikh family.