Yesteryears beauty Hema Malini took a minute out of her busy campaigning schedule to share a few anecdotes about legendary actor, the late Feroze Khan. She recalled that he was the only person she knew who called her baby. Constantly used to being addressed respectfully, she admits that at first it was a shock to her and her mom to hear him addressing her so. But she reveals that she wishes more people used a familiar term of endearment for her the way Feroze did.

Hema Malini goes on to recount that when he signed her up for his hit movie Dharmatma, he made it very clear that she would be present only in the first-half. He then proceeded to revamp her role and make it a sensuous one – a role she had never done before. She divulges that it was Feroze’s ambition to make her more glamorous than her peers. Dharmatma was shot at Kabul and the actress remembers that it used to be freezing cold, and that she and her mom used to keep to themselves after the shooting. But Feroze Khan, with his inimitable flair, coaxed even Hema’s reticent mother out of her shell.