"No sex please!" Dharmendra cracks filmi joke, I can't help cracking up

Dharmendra has expressed serious concern over the rise of sex and violence in Indian cinema and said it was “ironical” as the country took pride in its rich cultural traditions, PTI reported on Sunday.

Indian films were ignoring “our cultural heritage and civilisation,” the filmstar-turned-politician told reporters at Uttar Pradesh’s Ballia.

It indeed is ironical but et tu Dharampaaji. Come on, most of your films in the last 10 years have served violence on a platter with a generous garnishing of sex.


Typical publicity material for D's Z-cat films. Dharam with garam gun with a volcanic eruption in the background.

The difference is most people have not heard of those films, which are mostly C- and D-grade A-certificate films. Dear No-longer-Garam Dharam ji, I guarantee you have not seen most of them. I doubt your daughters Esha and Ahna even know that these films exist.

Do you have any idea that after becoming a screen icon, you slipped into movies where mammary glands play the lead, you play the second fiddle? And by the way most of India doesn’t know the stars you star opposite.

Two of the biggest stars you get to work with these days are Sultry C-grade superstar Satnam Kaur of Meri Dhoti Tera Ghaghra fame and Durgesh Nandini. Compared to your those movies, the well-publicised Kis Kiss Ki Kismet with Mallika Sherawat is as tame as a family drama.

For benefit of my readers, I sum up the stories in all these films in one para:
Satnam or Durgesh Nandini or occasaionally Sapna are village belles, who get raped all the time, gangraped by a gang of four most of the time. Dharamendra sometimes helps them take revenge as they go on a killing spree. Most people leave the cinema hall after the rape scene that focuses on the titillation (forgive the pun if any) part and not the horror of rape. With interpolated sex scenes, ones snipped by the Censors and even those lifted from baser films. There is a list of his recent films at the end of this blog.

Back to Ballia, Dharmendra also said he was not interested in joining politics and attributed his entry into politics to “fate”. Dharmendra, who is a Lok Sabha member from Bikaner, said he would strive hard for all-round development of his constituency.

We heard contrary things, Dharam paaji. People in Bikaner recently put up a Missing Person notice because they couldn’t find you after the elections were over. May God Bless you and the people of Bikaner.


And when finds time for kicking some patriotic ass, he takes a rocket launcher in his hand and fires straight in films that use names of various other patriotic films. Like Kargil: The Border or Border Kashmir (above).

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A SMALL LIST OF NOTICEABLE DHARMENDRA STARRERS IN THE LAST DECADE

Bhai Thakur
Babbar Sher
Ek Lootera
Thakur Daler Singh
Daku Bhairav Singh
Reshma Aur Sultan
Jagira

Daku Kali Bhawani
Aandhi Aur Toofan
Saugandh Geeta Ki
Daku Bhairav Singh
Kaali Ki Saugandh
Aaj ka Paighaam

Jeene Nahin Doongi (He had earlier done Jeene Nahin Doonga, where he played the lead)
Jaane Tamanna
Shakti Deva
Dacait (not the Sunny Deol one, this one has his dad with Durgesh Nandini)
Galiyon Ka Badshah
Hamara Faisla

Bhookha Sher
Jallad No. 1
Great Target
Munnibai
Zohrabai
Sultan
Meri Jung Ka Elaan (not to be confused with Dharampaaji's Elaan-e-Jung or Anil Kapoor's Meri Jung or Mithunda's Elaan, they didn't belong to this category)
Shiva Ka Insaaf (not the Jackie Shroff one)
Kaise Kahoon... Ke Pyaar Hai (This one had sonny Sunny too)