New Delhi: If the novice actor gets the opposite lead role of Sridevi in the debut film, then that dreams used to be true. Yash Chopra gave such an opportunity to a new-well-known actor in his memorable film ‘Lamhe’, which was a famous 80 era model. Big brake felt that he would soon get stardom, but the opposite was upside down with him. (Photo courtesy: Instagram)
We are talking about Deepika Malhotra, who played the role of Sridevi’s husband Siddharth Kumar in the film ‘Lamhe’, who was considered to be a competition of stars like Aamir Khan and Shah Rukh Khan, but in the film, one of his dialogues was soaked that Sunny Deol’s ‘Dar’, Salman Khan’s ‘Suryavanshi’, Rahul Roy’s ‘Roy’ went out. (Photo courtesy: YouTube@videoograb)
Apart from Sridevi in the film ‘Lamhe’, Anil Kapoor, Anupam Kher, Waheeda Rehman also played an important role. Sridevi’s performance was highly praised, due to which the film won from the National Award to the Filmfare Awards, but neither the film could run at the box office nor the acting of Deepak Malhotra. (Photo courtesy: imDB)
Why did Yash Chopra then give Deepak Malhotra an important role in the film ‘Lamhe’? Actually, he emerged as a famous model in the late 80s. According to the report of Hindustan Times, he was the face of ‘Vimal’ brand and was also the most expensive model. He was charging Rs 1.5 lakh in the year 1987. During this period, he was approached by Yash Chopra. (Photo courtesy: imDB)
Sridevi played a double role in the film ‘Lamhe’. She was seen in the role of mother-daughter Pallavi and Pooja. Deepak Malhotra was shown as Pallavi’s lover in the film, who later became her husband. (Photo courtesy: imDB)
The acting of the rest of the stars was praised in the film ‘Lamhe’, but Deepak Malhotra faced criticism due to his poor screen presence. He proved to be a laggard in acting. (Photo courtesy: imDB)
Deepak Malhotra was so evil, due to one of his scenes, in which he is trying to awaken Sridevi lying unconscious in bed by calling Pallo-Pallo. Saying Deepka’s ‘Pallo-Pallo’, many people became part of the mimes and jokes. Today many mimes are made on that scene. Deepak got offers from films like ‘Dar’, ‘Junoon’ and ‘Suryavanshi’, ‘Bekhudi’, but his acting in ‘Lamhe’ destroyed everything. By 1993, he did not have a single film left. (Photo courtesy: YouTube@videoograb)
Deepak Malhotra left cinema that year and settled in America, where he received many modeling offers. Apart from ‘Lamhe’, he was seen in another film, which is named ‘Tejaswini’. Deepak went to New York and named his name ‘Dino Marteli’. He has also studied engineering and modeling. They are doing business. He married Lubna Adam. (Photo courtesy: imDB)
