New Delhi, April 7 -- Bollywood star Sunny Deol talked about his father and veteran actor Dharmendra's close bond with the late Manoj Kumar.

While speaking to the media, he said, "They both were together in the industry. He had always been a father figure for us, and since childhood, I had seen him with my father. My dad had a great connection with him. I would just say that the films that he did were about India, and bahut pyaari thi. Usi se deshbhakti ka silsila shuru hua that."

He recalled how his father shared an incident with him just before coming to the Capital. "Before coming here, dad was telling me that when he was with Manoj ji in the early days, they were struggling; jeb mein paise nahi hote the."

Sunny was in the Capital f...