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Wouldn't have been able to handle stardom today: Asha Parekh

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She worked as a child actress, before making her big Bollywood foray with the 1959 Shammi Kapoor starrer "Dil Deke Dekho", helmed by Nasir Hussain who later cast her in multiple films including "Teesri Manzil", " Jab Pyar Kisi Se Hota Hai", "Phir Wohi Dil Laaya Hoon" and "Caravan". During her prime, Asha worked with directors like Shakti Samanta, Raj Khosla, Vijay Anand and leading actors like Dharmendra, Joy Mukherjee, Jeetendra, Sunil Dutt, Rajesh Khanna and Shammi, but chose to bow out from the screen in the mid-1990s. Was it a premature decision?