Director Arjun Hingorani on how Dharmender got his first film: His tiny hair pink face impressed me, in Punjab

From the archive record

My cousin's sister Nima was no..1 in the film contest, his brother used to take her to the studio and one day he got sick I took her to the studio and showed Dharmendra in the car he was going from Times of India to Mohan studio in Andheri to give screen test to Bimal Roy I thought if he will stand in front of the camera he will be hero, his tiny hair pink face and his health highly impressed me. Dharmendra was going back to his village, The Times of India's editor Rao was my best friend I asked him about Dharmendra, and he told me Dharmendra was very disappointed Yesh Mukherji called him but he rejected him, I told Rao to ask him to come tomorrow to Das building at 12 PM and he came to me I was discussing with my 3 partners about him and they like Dharmendra we gave him 51 rupees to Dharm