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'Apne' is the right film to bring sons and me together: Dharmendra
30th June 2007 16.24 IST
By Agencies

With his powerful performance in this Friday’s release Apne , Dharmendra has proved that he has not lost command over the skill of acting.

His has been a 50-year-long romance with films which saw him try his hand at a wide variety of roles in films running across diverse genres, from romance to comedy to action.

With the exception of a few unforgettable roles in the last few years, Dharmendra has been away from the arclights for nearly a decade. But his long absence from films, which have been his all-encompassing passion, has only made his heart grow fonder for a tryst with the lakhs of his fans across the country through a fresh innings in films.

Not surprisingly, then, with the release of 'Apne', his comeback venture which also features his two sons Sunny Deol and Bobby Deol Dharmendra seems like an excited teenager waiting expectantly for a tryst with his beloved.

“Apne is my comeback to films after a gap of ten years. All these years, I have been dying to get before the movie camera,” Dharmendra told mediapersons at a press meet for 'Apne' in the capital.

In a voice choked with emotions, with son Bobby and director of 'Apne' and family friends of Deols Anil Sharma looking on, Dharmendra said: : “All these ten years, I badly missed my people - my colleagues in the industry and the audience that has bestowed the boundless love to me and my sons all these years. In fact, I much admit I was a bit apprehensive that the absence from films would extinguish the flame of love between us.”

Needless to say, Dharmendra’s apprehensions have been falsified. He recently received Lifetime Achievement Award at IIFA where Amitabh Bachchan praised him to the skies.

Speaking to media persons, Dharmendra also spoke about working with his two sons.

“It has been my ardent desire and my biggest ambition, for a long time, to work with my sons together in a film. However, for this to happen, a suitable script had to be found where all of us would fit well as actors. This is what took such a long time for all three of us to come together in a film,'' Dharmendra said.

“Anil Sharma had been planning, for quite a long time, to make a film with all of us together but could not find the right script,” he said.

“In fact, a couple of story ideas were scrapped at the scripting stage itself after Anil felt that they would not do justice to our status as actors. Then, he came upon the story of 'Apne' which seemed just the perfect film for all of us to come together,” Dharmendra said.

Speaking on the occasion, director Anil Sharma said, “Apne is not just another film because it is Dharmendraji's comeback on the big screen. The film is a representation of the stature of Dharmendraji and holds a lot of emotional value to him, his family and everyone associated with the film.”

Featuring the three Deols along with Kiron Kher , Shilpa Shetty and Katrina Kaif as their leading ladies, 'Apne' is the story of a disgraced boxer (Dharmendra) who wants to get back his honour by making his elder son (Sunny Deol) a boxer of international repute.

However, ultimately it is the younger son (Bobby Deol) who steps in to fulfill his father's dream when the elder one refuses to become a boxer.

The film has got good reviews from film critics. The family audiences are particularly liking the film a lot.

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