Veteran actor Dharmendra sadly passed away at the age of 89 after battling an age-related illness. He breathed his last at his residence. He was admitted to Breach Candy hospital earlier this month due to respiratory complications. While he was admitted to the hospital from October 31, 2025, he was later discharged and kept under observation at home. The actor passed away today, but his family’s official statement is yet to arrive.

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His colleagues from Bollywood, including Amitabh Bachchan, Salman Khan, Shah Rukh Khan and more paid their last respects earlier in the afternoon. They visited the crematorium and supported the Deol family through the difficult time. Many celebrities, including Karan Johar, Ranveer Singh, Sushmita Sen and more shared heartfelt tributes for the Sholay star. Now, Shah Rukh Khan and Alia Bhatt have shared their condolences on social media as well.

Taking to Instagram, Shah Rukh Khan wrote, “Rest in Peace Dharam ji. You were nothing short of a father figure to me… thank u for showering me with blessings and love the way you did. An inconsolable and irreplaceable loss to not just his family, but to cinema and film lovers world over. You are immortal… and your soul will live through your films and your beautiful family forever. Love you always.” Alongside the note, SRK shared a heartfelt click where the veteran actor is embracing him in a side hug.

Alia Bhatt shared a screengrab from her movie Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahani, where she is seen chatting with Dharmendra. Alia penned, “A legend who lit up every frame… and every heart. You will be missed, Dharam ji [white heart emoticon].”

Dharmendra’s family members, including Hema Malini, Esha Deol, grandsons Rajveer Deol and Karan Deol were also present at the crematorium. Kajol, Rekha, Farhan Akhtar and more visited the late actor’s family post the cremation.

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Sharmila Tagore and Dharmendra made for an iconic pair at the movies. They starred together in 8 films through the years giving us classics like Satyakam (1969), Chupke Chupke (1975) and more. Not many know that Sharmila and Dharmendra’s chemistry had launched two other high-profile projects which didn’t see fruition. They were to be seen opposite each other in Bimal Roy’s Chaitali, which was eventually made by Hrishikesh Mukherjee and where Saira Banu ended up playing the lead. There was also the ambitious Devdas project by Gulzar which was to feature Sharmila, Dharmendra and Hema Malini in the iconic pair of Paro, Devdas and Chandramukhi. But that project never saw light of day. After Dharmendra’s passing away today, we reached out to Sharmila Tagore to chronicle her thoughts on her dashing and handsome co-star and good friend. Without much ado, we bring you her words of love and affection…

Dharmendra was charming and so good looking

He was a man without guile, so charming and adorable. We even share a birthday. This birthday on Dec 8, I will miss him more. Uff! What a charming and good-looking man!

My first ever memory is shooting with him for Mohan Segal’s Devar (1966) with him, Deven Verma and others. The film had such wonderful music. Dharam was all heart, he would discuss the highs and lows of his life when we met. But we didn’t really meet socially like say I met Shashi (Kapoor) or Kaka (Rajesh Khanna). We would meet at industry functions say at Yusuf saab’s (Dilip Kumar) house to discuss the problems faced by technicians or sundry other matters. Those days the industry was so close knit, everyone showed up for one another.

Dharmendra and I had beautiful camaraderie

We did so many nice films like Anupama (1966), Satyakam (1969), Chupke Chupke (1975), Mere Hamdam Mere Dost (1968), right upto Raj Khosla’s Sunny (1984). Those days, film making was rather hurried and everyone worried about wastage of raw stock so we all focussed on work and tried to wrap up early to save the producer extra expense. But there was a beautiful camaraderie. We all looked out for one another.

Dharamji seemed to have touched everyone. His death seems strangely… so personal.

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Farmers in Dhamnar village of Madhya Pradesh’s Mandsaur district took out a funeral procession for onions after market prices crashed so low that they could not even recover their basic production and transportation costs