Such was his craze among women that they would wait for hours to have a glimpse of him, marry his photographs and even name their sons after him (as was the case with my aunt’s sister). There was no looking back after this as Khanna delivered one hit after another. The movie which set Khanna on his superstardom was Shakti Samanta’s Aradhana. Khanna’s first movie was Chetan Anand’s Aakhri Khat, a movie which everyone has forgotten by now except for the rather soulful number “ baharon mera jeevan bhi sawaron” sung by Lata Mangeshkar and set to tune by Khaiyyam. )ĭeath and Khanna finally came together today on a rainy afternoon in Mumbai. Mujhse ek kavita ka vaadaa hai milegi mujhko…Ī poem has made pact with me that I shall meet her. In this scene Anand (the character played by Khanna is dying) is dying due to the lymphosarcoma of the intestine and there is tape playing in the background which has Babumoshai (played by Amitabh Bachchan, someone who would become Bollywood’s next superstar) speaking the following lines:
Actors often enact death scenes in movies and Rajesh Khanna enacted a particularly powerful scene in Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s Anand. Rajesh Khanna died today after years of loneliness and a drinking habit he couldn’t overcome. “My sister even named her son after him,” she told me. As we went around on the Carter Road in Bandra I showed her Rajesh Khanna’s bungalow, Aashirward. Sometime in March this year I was taking a Tamil aunt of mine around Mumbai.
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