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The Deol family has been in the limelight since actor Dharmendra’s grandson Karan Deol’s wedding with ate filmmaker Bimal Roy's great-granddaughter Drisha Acharya in Mumbai last month. The wedding was a grand affair which was attended by famous B-town celebs and the entire family, but Dharmendra’s second wife Hema Malini and their kids Esha and Ahana Deol missed the ceremony.

After his first marriage to Prakash Kaur in 1954, when he was just 19 years old, Dharmendra married Hema Malini in 1980. The 87-year-old actor has two daughters, Ajieta Deol and Vijeta Deol, and two sons, Sunny Deol and Bobby Deol, with his first wife. 

Do you know Hema Malini Never Met Dharmendra’s First Wife?

In her biography Hema Malini: Beyond the Dream Girl, written by journalist and filmmaker Ram Kamal Mukherjee, Malini had stated, according to DNA, “I didn’t want to disturb anyone. I am happy with whatever Dharamji did for me and my daughters. He played the role of a father, like any father would do. I guess I am happy with that. Today I am a working woman and I have been able to maintain my dignity because I have devoted my life to art and culture.” 

“I guess, if the situation was even slightly different from this, I wouldn’t be what I am today. Though I have never spoken about Prakash, I respect her a lot. Even my daughters respect Dharamji’s family. The world wants to know about my life in detail, but that is not for others to know. It’s no one’s business,” she further explained.

Recently, Prakash Kaur defended her husband and slammed the people who labeled him as ‘womanizer’. In a conversation with India Today, Prakash Kaur said, “Why only my husband, any man would want have preferred Hema to me. How dare anyone call my husband a womanizer when half the industry is doing the same thing? All the heroes are having affairs and getting married a second time.”