India, Nov. 30 -- A crush of many, a darling of millions, Garam Dharam remained the humblest, the gentlest and the kindest of stars of Bollywood even after touching dizzy heights of stardom and success. When Dharam Singh Deol, born in Nasrali, a small village in Ludhiana district in Punjab on December 8, 1935, after winning Filmfare's "All-India Talent Hunt" set out on a train journey to Bombay in 1958, carrying Dilip Kumar's face in the film "Shaheed" on his mind, he wouldn't have imagined that his film journey would last for 60 years, featuring him in nearly 300 films traversing generations.

He proved that even an individual of humble beginnings, with no degree or diploma from any film institute nor any godfather or godmother in the fi...