Esha Deol and Bharat Takhtani at their wedding June 29 at the ISKCON temple in Mumbai

Esha Marries Bharat in Lavish, Star-Studded Ceremony

In typical “band baaja baraat” style, veteran Indian actors Hema Malini and Dharmendra’s daughter Esha tied the knot June 29 with businessman Bharat Takhtani in a traditional Hindu wedding ceremony.

The Bandra-based groom came to the venue on a white horse before the couple took the marriage vows around a sacred fire.

Wearing a Kanjeevaram saree, Hema and her husband Dharmendra, looking dapper in a suit, welcomed the groom at the temple.
Esha and Bharat got married in South Indian style at the ISKCON temple in Juhu here.

Esha, too, was clad in a red and gold Kanjeevaram saree, sourced from Chennai for the wedding day by her mother, to which designer Neeta Lulla had made some changes.


The couple had been dating for quite some time and had exchanged rings Feb. 12 this year.

The wedding was the climax of three days of festivities that included a sangeet, haldi and mehndi ceremony.

Besides family members like sister Ahana and Abhay Deol, several B-town celebrities were present at the occasion including Amitabh Bachchan with son Abhishek, Manoj Kumar, Vinod Khanna, Vyjayanthimala, Ramesh Sippy, Fardeen Khan, Poonam Sinha, Madhoo, Anu Malik, and designer Neeta Lulla and her daughter Nishka.
Their reception took place June 30 at the five-star Hotel Lalit drew still more personalities from the film and political worlds.


Deol siblings Sunny and Bobby were  conspicuous by their absence at the grand wedding reception  hosted by their half-sister Esha and her husband Bharat Takhtani at a five-star hotel here June 30. When asked about the absence of Sunny and Bobby, Esha’s father, Dharmendra, said, “It is our personal matter.”

 Dharmendra married Esha’s mother, Hema Malini, in 1980 without divorcing his first wife Prakash Kaur, the mother of Sunny and Bobby Deol.

Among the glitterati who attended the reception were  veteran actors Dilip Kumar and his wife Saira Banu, Jeetendra,  Rekha, Zeenat Aman, Salman Khan, besides Tusshar Kapoor,
Sanjay Khan, Vidya Balan, Madhuri Dixit and her husband Dr. Sriram Nene, Sushmita Sen, Tabu, Kajol, Sridevi and her  producer husband Boney Kapoor.
Actors Fardeen Khan, Anupam Kher with wife Kirron,  Shamita Shetty, Mandira Bedi and business tycoon Subrata Roy  also graced the occasion.  Politicians of all hues including L.K. Advani, Sushma  Swaraj, Chaggan Bhujbal, Sushil Kumar Shinde, Narayan Rane,  Amar Singh, Uddhav Thackeray and Raj Thackeray attended the
event. 

Deepika to shoot with Hema Malini

Deepika Padukone is super excited. She is set to shoot with Hema Malini who has floored Dips by complimenting her work and looks.

Hema we hear told Deepika that if there is a dream girl in today's generation, then it is she. In fact, very interestingly in Deepika's debut film, Om Shanti Om, Deepika is referred to as the 'Dreamy Girl' in the film, which was an ode to Hema Malini's Dream Girl image. Deepika says, "It is an absolute honour to work with Hemaji. She is so lovely and graceful. She is one of the finest actresses of all times. I'm very excited to learn from her."

Four cars, 5 kg gold and 4 houses are part of Hema Malini’s asset

New Delhi, 23 Feb -  Hema malini, the evergreen beauty, has been the origin of inspiration for many poets and shayars. She is the quintessential Dream Girl of bollywood. Bollywood has welcomed her with open arms. She stunned the silver screen with her performance. She is an actress, director, producer and Bharatnatyam dance-choreographer. She debuted in the hindi film industry in “Sapno ka saaudagar”(1968) and since then, she has acted in several blockbusters. She has made it to the top, and she is rightly called one of the most successful actresses of bollywood, who starred both in commercial as well as in art films.

Nowadays she spends most of her time in social activities, along with playing some brief roles in films. She has recently filed nomination papers for Rajya sabha for Mar 3 polls from Karnataka. According to what she mentioned while filing nomination, is that she has got 5 kg of gold approximately, 4 houses worth of Rs 35 crore or little more, and 4 cars. To be more specific, she has 3779 gms of twenty carat gold and 969.86 grams of eighteen carat, 25.51 kg of silver and 116.850 carat diamonds. The all total valuation of all this is Rs 1.40 crore. She has lot of other assets like claims and interests worth Rs 23 crore nearly and a huge liability of Rs seventeen crore to be repaid to ICICI and IDBI banks.

Katrina is ready for the cut

To get under the skin of her character in Dibakar Banerjee's Seeta aur Geeta, Kat wants to get tips from Hema Malini on the techniques of hurling knives at her co-stars in the remake.

In the original the veteran actress had played a knife-throwing gypsy street performer.

She tells us, "Hemaji seems to have so much fun playing Geeta! I want to do all the daring stuff she did, including climbing the ceiling-fan in the police station. But what I'm especially fascinated by are the knives."

When told that Kat wants tips for throwing knives, Hema sportingly tells us, "Sure, why not? I think Katrina would make a wonderful Geeta in Seeta Aur Geeta.

But let me warn her it wasn't easy for me to do all the stunts and running around. To play Geeta I needed very high energy levels.

As for the knife-throwing scenes they were made somewhat easy because I had played a knife-throwing gypsy girl in my very first Hindi film, Sapnon Ka Saudagar.

It was great fun and I'm sure Katrina would have fun doing the role."

The part of 'Geeta' requires Katrina to play a knife-throwing gypsy street-performer, a street-side entertainment that was popular 20 years ago. Sadly the genre barely exists today.

Since, Katrina intends to aim real knives at her partners for the street-side entertainment sequences, the hunt is on for real gypsies, who roam the streets in pairs, like Dharmendra and Hema Malini played in the original Seeta Aur Geeta.

Given how Hema and Dharmendra turned out, it might help if the other gypsy is Ranbir.

Vidya grabs Satte Pe Satta remake

Remember a sharp Hema Malini throws a watermelon from her balcony onto an unkempt Amitabh Bachchan, standing beneath her house to woo her?

And when she lines up all seven brothers and marches them off to take a bath? That Amitabh's most cherished films is being remade after 28 years, with Sanjay Dutt stepping into his shoes is known.

But now this adaptation of the 1954 Hollywood musical, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, will have Vidya Balan play Hema Malini's straight-talking, no-nonsense bhabhi.

The director, Soham, wanted someone who looks mature and very charming at the same time. He thought of a few other names, but after consulting apna Sanju baba, he felt that Vids would do justice to the role.

The actress has been on an all-time high after an award-winning spree this year for her stellar performance in Ishqiya.

If all goes well, the film will take off with the Lage Raho Munnabhai pair.

A source close to Vids told Mumbai Mirror, "Soham sounded it off to Vidya, who was blown away by the script. She has agreed. The modalities are being worked out."

While Vidya chose not to respond to our calls and text messages, Ashtavinayak Films and Soham Shah refused to comment on the story.

But we had this ace up our sleeve, so we thought we'd share it with you.

Hema Malini Turns Director To Dharmendra And Esha Deol

Actress Hema Malini will reportedly wield the mike again for an upcoming film that hits theaters early next year. According to reports from Bollywood, the actress will return to direction after a span of eighteen years with her husband Dharmendra and daughter Esha Deol as stars of the upcoming Bollywood film. In a statement to the media, Hema Malini says that she had a very nice time shouting directions at her hubby and daughter. Considering that Dharmendra is known for his angry image, did he work according to Hema Malini’s directions? The actress turned director says that Dharmendra did object to her methods of direction initially, but since Hema Malini was strict about what she wanted from her actors, he too was bound to listen to her!

Hema Malini makes it clear that she has returned to direction only for her daughter Esha Deol, who unfortunately cannot boast of a real career in Bollywood! But mommy dearest is hopeful that her second directorial venture Tell Me Oh Khuda with Esha Deol will be liked by the masses. Hema Malini says that she shared a wonderful relationship with her daughter on the film’s sets and she loved the fact that Esha Deol always made it a point to take her advice before and after each shot.

Tell Me Oh Khuda will hit theaters in March next year. Hema Malini’s first film as a director was the Shah Rukh Khan and Divya Bharati starrer Dil Aashna Hai, which was one of the first hits of superhit actor Shah Rukh Khan.