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Dharampaji visits `apne' in Phagwara

Phagwara: He may be a Bollywood veteran-turned politician now, but for ageing actor Dharmendra it was a very special and emotional journey down the memory lane to Phagwara, where he spent most of his childhood.

Busy these days in shooting of his newest venture `Apne' in Punjab, co-starring his two actor sons Sunny and Bobby Deol, Dharmendra took time off from his packed schedule to come to Phagwara early this morning to visit his childhood haunt and a quick meal of `paranthas' and sweets at his relatives' place.

Accompanied by wife Parkash Kaur, Dharmendra went to the house of his maternal uncle in the crowded by-lanes of Sarafan Bazar and met his sister-in-law Sunita.

Little aches and pains forgotten, the 70-year-old actor ran up the stairs and enthusiastically climbed the parapets, where he used to sit as a boy.

At the famous sweet shop of Katehra Chowk Halwai, where he used to eat sweets as a young boy he ate a `pinni' and posed for pictures with the local people. -- PTI

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