Bollywood's 'He-Man' Dharmendra dies in Mumbai at 89

Veteran Hindi film actor Dharmendra died at his home in Mumbai on Monday, November 24. He was 89 and had been unwell for some time.

He had recently spent weeks at Mumbai's Breach Candy Hospital and was being treated at home after his discharge on November 12. He was cremated in Juhu, where Amitabh Bachchan and many other stars gathered.

Dharmendra was born on December 8, 1935, in Nasrali village in Punjab and grew up in Sahnewal near Ludhiana. After winning a film magazine's talent contest, he moved to Mumbai and made his debut in 1960 with 'Dil Bhi Tera Hum Bhi Tere'.

Over a career of more than six decades he acted in over 300 films, the best known being 'Sholay' (1975). He was a Member of Parliament from Bikaner in Rajasthan from 2004 to 2009, and received the Padma Bhushan in 2012.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said his death marks the end of an era in Indian cinema, calling him an iconic film personality and a phenomenal actor. In Punjab, too, people remembered a son of the soil.