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Rajesh Khanna
Rajesh Khanna
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Born	Jatin Khanna
Other names	Superstar Rajesh Khanna ; Kaka ; RK
Years active	1966 - 1991, 1992-1999, 2008- present
Spouse(s)	Anju Mahendru (Ex Girl friend) ; Dimple Kapadia (1973–1984 divorced)

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Rajesh Khanna
File:Rajesh Khanna.jpg
Born
Jatin Khanna
Other names Superstar Rajesh Khanna
Kaka
RK
Years active 1966 - 1991, 1992-1999, 2008- present
Spouse(s) Anju Mahendru (Ex Girl friend)
Dimple Kapadia (1973–1984 divorced)

Rajesh Khanna (Hindi: राजेश खन्ना; Punjabi: ਰਾਜੇਸ਼ ਖੰਨਾ) (born Jatin Khanna on 29 December 1942) is an Indian Bollywood thespian and officially acknowledged as the “first Superstar” of Indian cinema.^[1] During his career, he won three Filmfare Best Actor Award and was nominated for the same fourteen times. He was awarded the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005 besides several best actor awards and life time achievement awards of national and international reputes. He also served a five year tenure as MP in the Indian parliament (1991–1996). He is also known as Kaka or affectionately called RK by his fans.In many of his heroic roles Rajesh Khanna projected an assuredness and self confidant attitude worthy of his given screen name that means, 'king of kings'^[2].He has done wide range of memorable performances during his film career.

Early life

Khanna was born in Amritsar on 29 December 1942. He was raised by adopted parents (relatives of his biological parents) since they were childless. Jatin lived in Thakoredwar which was near Girgaon. In the same locality another Punjabi boy Ravi Kapoor also growing up and the two became friends. Both studied in the same school – St. Sebastian’s Goan High School in Girgaum^[3]. Their mothers were both keertan pals. Jatin gradually started taking interest in theatre and did a lot of plays in his school and college days.Jatin became a rare newcomer who struggled in his own MG sports car to get work in theatre and films^[4].Both friends later studied in Kishinchand Chellaram (KC) College^[5] .Ravi Kapoor is known to the world now as Jeetendra and Jatin as Rajesh Khanna. When Jeetendra went for his first film audition it was Khanna, who tutored him.^[6]

Adult life

In the late 1960s, Khanna dated Anju Mahendru. The couple eventually drifted apart, and split in the early-1970s.He married Dimple Kapadia in 1973 and has two daughters from the marriage.^[7] Khanna and Dimple Kapadia separated in 1984, as his schedule kept him away much of the time and she became interested in pursuing an acting career. After the separation, he was romantically involved with Tina Munim for a period of time^[8]. Following a few years of separation, the relationship between Kapadia and Khanna and in the early ninties his relations with Anju blossomed once again, and remained that of close friends.^[9].Their elder daughter Twinkle Khanna, an interior decorator and also a former Hindi film actress, is married to actor Akshay Kumar and younger daughter Rinke Khanna, also an Indian actress is married to an entrepreneur Sameer Saran.^[10]

Early success (1966–1975)

Rajesh Khanna joined the film industry after winning an All India Talent Contest through a nation-wide selection procedure jointly organized by United Producers and Filmfare.Chetan Anand, G.P. Sippy, Shakti Samanta and B. R. Chopra were the judges in the contest.The Filmfare awards function held in 1965 saw the introduction of the Filmfare and United Producers Talent Contest where the chosen candidates shortlisted from more than ten thousand star aspirants were first introduced^[11].The winning prize Khanna received was acting as the leading man in the film produced by each of the judges.He made his film debut in the 1966 film Aakhri Khat, followed by Raaz opposite heroine Babita, but neither was a major success. He was noticed for his performance in his next film Baharon Ke Sapne which was followed by box office successes like Aurat (1967) ,Aradhana and Ittefaq. It was Aradhana that catapulted him to instant fame and gave the Indian film industry its first superstar,Rajesh Khanna.^[12].In that film, Rajesh Khanna was cast in a double role (father and son) opposite Sharmila Tagore and Farida Jalal.The film also saw the resurgence of Kishore Kumar, who eventually became the official playback voice of Rajesh Khanna.The Kishore Kumar-Rajesh Khanna combination worked miracles and it was almost impossible to see them as separate identities. This became the most popular singer-actor duo and together they gave innumerable hits till 1989^[13].

Established as a popular protagonist, he appeared in many romantic, melodramatic and social films, forming legendary romantic pairs with actresses namely Sharmila Tagore,Mumtaz,Asha Parekh,Hema Malini and Tina Munim in the seventies.His pairing with Shabana Azmi,Smita Patil and Poonam Dhillon proved to be very lucky to him in the eighties^[14].

Rajesh Khanna touched a raw nerve with the audiences. Whether it was the cancer-afflicted man in Anand, or the jealousy-driven husband in Aap Ki Kasam, from the animal lover in Haathi Mere Saathi to the blind but suave lover in Mere Jeevan Saathi, from the silent lover in Amar Prem or the tragic protagonist in Namak Haraam, Khanna had powerful scripts written with especially him in mind.Indiatimes ranks Anand amongst the Top 25 Must See Bollywood Films^[15].

Rajesh acted alongside Mumtaz in eight major super-hit films^[16].Both of them were neighbours and got along very well as a result they shared a great on-screen chemistry.When Mumtaz gave up films,Rajesh-Mumtaz were the topmost pair.After Khanna married,Mumtaz decided to marry millionaire Mayur Madhwani in 1974.At the time when her mairrage was fixed she was doing three films Aap ki Kasam, Roti and Prem Kahani with Khanna.She decided to quit movies only after completing these films.When she left films Khanna felt very lost.In one of her interviews ,Mumtaz was quoted saying " I would pull his leg and tease him about his fan following.Whenever Rajesh entered a hotel in Madras, there was a queue of 600 girls waiting to see him at midnight.As a result, even I would get some importance, as people would ask for my autograph as well.He very generous with his associates, and would party a lot"^[17].

During the peak of his career he would be mobbed during public appearances. Fans kissed his car, which would be covered with lipstick marks, and lined the road, cheering and chanting his name. Female fans sent him letters written in their own blood^[7].There used to be a line of cars of his producers and hysterical fans outside his bungalow every day.So popular was Khanna that even actor Mehmood parodied his popularity in his hit film Bombay to Goa where the driver and conductor of the bus were called 'Rajesh' and 'Khanna'. Even today, he remains the favourite of mimicry artists, who copy his trademark style and dialogue delivery.During the filming of Amar Prem there was scene that needed to be filmed at Howrah Bridge in Calcutta with a boat carrying Khanna with Sharmila moving under the bridge but the authorities ruled this scene out as they realised that if the public found out that the hero of the film would be there, it may create problems on the bridge itself, and that it might collapse due to the amount of people trying to get a glimpse of their favourite actor^[18].

Several songs sung by Kishore Kumar in the 1970s were based on Rajesh Khanna.During the filming of the song 'Mere Sapnon Ki Rani' in Aradhana, Sharmila Tagore was shooting for a Satyajit Ray film and the director Shakti Samanta had to shoot their scenes separately and then join the scenes together. Needless to say this was the most popular song of its generation and went on to become the biggest attraction of the movie Aradhana.

The BBC made a film on him, Bombay Superstar, in 1974 , the shooting for which began the same time when he got married and his film Daag premiered^[19].In the video it can be noticed that Khanna was shooting for Aap Ki Kasam.A textbook was prescribed by the Bombay University contained an essay, 'The Charisma of Rajesh Khanna!'^[20].

Music remained one of the biggest attractions of all Rajesh Khanna films throughout his career, and most of the best scores for his films were composed by S.D.Burman ,R.D. Burman and Laxmikant-Pyarelal. The trio of Rajesh Khanna, Kishore Kumar and R. D. Burman went on to make several hits, including Amar Prem, Apna Desh, Mere Jeevan Saathi, Aap Ki Kasam, Kati Patang, Namak Haraam, Phir Wohi Raat,Aanchal,Kudrat,Awaaz,Hum Dono, Alag Alag among others.

Rajesh Khanna had 15 consecutive hits between 1969 to 1971, which is still an unbroken record in Indian film history. His success began to diminish in terms of box office results of his films in the period 1976–78.

The Bad Phase 1976-78

Post-1976, Khanna had a string of unexpected box office flops up to 1978, including films which were rated highly by critics upon their release and have achieved strong cult status over the years among the viewers for their story content and memorable performances by the cast like Mehbooba ^[21] , Palkon Ki Chhaon Mein ,Naukri , Chakravyuha and Janata Havaldar. Each film of the combination of Rajesh Khanna-Shakti Samanta were huge blockbusters but Anurodh became an exception by becoming an average grosser inspite of it being given three stars by critics and having awesome music,good storyline and amazing performances by the entire cast^[22]. The performances of the lead actors from these films were applauded by critics and the songs from these films remain popular among the Indian audiences. K Balachandar then remade his 1973 National Award winning Tamil film Arangetram in Hindi as Aaina with Mumtaz in the lead and Khanna in a cameo appearance in 1977^[23] but even this film did not work at the box office.The changing trend from romantic and social movies to action oriented multi-star films in this period caused the decline of Khanna's career in terms of box office ratings to some extent.However, he continued basically in solo hero social sober household meaningful films during multi-star masala films' era. During this phase too he had box office hits like Maha Chor , Chhaila Babu, Tyaag and Karm.

Later Career 1979-present

Khanna met with more success again in challenging roles with critically acclaimed box office hits such as Amardeep, Phir Wohi Raat, Bandish^[24]^[25], Thodisi Bewafaii, Dard, Kudrat, Dhanwan, Avtaar, Agar Tum Na Hote, Souten ,Awaaz^[26] ,Naya Kadam^[27],Babu,Aaj Ka M.L.A. Ram Avtar^[28], Shatru^[29],Anokha Rishta, Nazrana, Angaarey, Amrit(1979 onwards till 1989). Director Bharathi Raja decided to remake his 1978 Tamil box office hit film Sigappu Rojakkal in Hindi with Khanna playing the role of psychopath^[30]. Kamal Haasan who played the same role in Tamil won Best Actor Award for Sigappu Rojakal in South Filmfare awards for his portrayal as the antihero^[31].But the Hindi movie was seen as controversial by traditional and orthodox Hindi moviegoers and thereby became a box office failure .Though Rajesh Khanna was praised for his performance in Red Rose by the critics the film did not fetch Khanna even a single nomination for the best actor award at the award functions.Over the years people have rated Red Rose better than the original due to a stellar performance from Khanna^[32]. He also acted in the Marathi hit film Sundara Satarkar in 1981^[33].He has performed in the least number of multistar films in comparison to his contemporaries and had the main central characters in the few multistarrers he acted such as Rajput,Dharam Aur Kanoon^[34],Zamana,Dil-E-Nadan,Ashanti,Awam (film) and Ghar Ka Chiraag.He did three potboiler movies with Jeetendra, which were big blockbusters Dharam Kanta^[35] ,Nishaan and Maqsad^[36].The year 1985 saw him turn a producer with Alag Alag.Twelve films with Khanna in the lead role released in the year 1985 and competed against each other and ate up the box office collection of his own films resulting in eight hits^[37].

He shared a very close relationship with R.D. Burman^[38] and Kishore Kumar. The trio were very close friends and have worked together in more than thirty films.Work of Pancham with Khanna is regarded as legendary and far superior than any other actor-music director combinations^[39].The king of playback singing Kishore Kumar had even credited Rajesh Khanna for his resurgence, so much so that he sang for Alag Alag,the first film produced by Rajesh Khanna without charging anything^[40]. In 1985 Pancham found himself being sidelined after failure of few films but Rajesh Khanna was among the few who continued to stand by him^[41].Rajesh and Pancham worked together even after the death of Kishore in the films Jai Shiv Shankar and the unreleased film Police Ke Peechhe Police,both produced by Khanna and Sautela Bhai.Khanna even helped Leena Gangully and Amit Kumar in completing Mamta Ki Chhaon Mein, the last film directed by Kishore himself as Kishore died before the completion of the film.

Actors who were part of the cast of most of his films include Ashok Kumar,Sujith Kumar, Prem Chopra, Madan Puri, Asrani, Bindu, Vijay Arora,Roopesh Kumar and A. K. Hangal, who remained part of his " working team" since the start until the late eighties. The lyricist whom he prefered for his movies were Anand Bakshi.His other close friends from the film industry include Raj Babbar,J.Om Prakash and Jeetendra.

Pyarelal quoted in an interview that “Rajesh Khanna was lucky for us and we were lucky for him too. From the 1969 Do Raaste to the 1986 Amrit, we gave hits together both as films and as music scores. He was very particular about his music and would take a tape home if he could not assess a song. He would then give his feedback after a day or two. But if he liked a song at the sitting, he would loudly shout “Wah! Wah!” in appreciation. When we went on our first overseas concert tour in 1984, he came and danced to three songs.It was God’s blessing that we came up with such a vast range of hit songs for him, including in his home productions Roti and films like Chhailla Babu,Chakravyuha,Fiffty Fiffty,Amar Deep and Bewafai. Incidentally, he had a stake in Mehboob Ki Mehndi too.He had great interest in music and a terrific sense of melody too. His music is dominated by Pancham (R.D.Burman) and us and we accepted Shakti Samanta’s Anurodh only because Rajesh Khanna had had some misunderstanding with Pancham then and did not want to work with him.” Khanna would always request music directors to fit in Kishore Kumar wherever possible. Infact Kishoreda was very reluctant to sing Waada tera waada in Dushman and suggested Laxmikant Pyarelal to get it sung by Rafi. Then Laxmikant made Kishoreda meet Rajesh Khanna and Khanna winked at Laxmikant and told Kishoreda that in that case the song should be scrapped. On hearing this Kishore immediately agreed to sing it by himself for Khanna^[42]. Celebrity of post 2000 era like Bhandarkar says that he takes at least three or four turns in Carter Road even today only to see Khanna^[43].The younger generation stars like Imran Khan still regard Rajesh Khanna as someone who would take the top slot as the most romantic hero of all time ^[44].

From the early nineties onwards he stopped acting and served as M.P. of New Delhi Constituency from 1991 to 1996. During that period, he returned to acting, appearing in Khudai(1994). He made a comeback as a NRI in Aa Ab Laut Chalen(1999), and Kyaa Dil Ne Kahaa(2002). In September 2007, he officially announced his planned return to the big screen, signing a contract for several new films, including some Television serials.

Television

He is a life member of the International Film And Television Research Centre, the International Film And Television Club and the Asian Academy of Film & Television. He is the Guest Faculty of 'Specialized Cinema Courses At Asian School Of Media Studies'.On April 10, 1999 Khanna inaugurated the live concert of S.P.Balasubramanyam held at Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium,Hyderabad as a tribute to Pancham^[45].In 2001 and 2002, Rajesh played major roles in two television serials: Aapne Parai (B4U & DD Metro) and Ittefaq (Zee TV). He performed in a video album based on Tagore's songs (Rabindra Sangeet) without payment, and is currently in the process of creating his own music channel "R.K. Music Channel". He also endorsed Star se Superstar tak - a talent hunt programme in 2007 and donated a Gold Trophy of Rs. 1 crore with Priyanka Chopra. In its Silver Jubilee Episode on 14–15 March 2008, K for Kishore aired a Rajesh Khanna special. He signed a TV serial with Creative Eye Banner (Dhiraj Kumar) in 2007, and in 2008 performed in a T.V. serial, Bhabhima, with Leena Ganguly as his co-star. His successful TV serial Raghukul Reet Sada Chali Aayi began in November 2008 and ended in September 2009.^[46].Khanna cites there are lack of good roles for actors like him in the films this is the reason he was rarely seen in films after 2000.He said in an interview on being queried about his decision to do T.V serials, "The reach of TV is much more than cinema today and one episode of my serial is likely to be watched by more people than a super-hit film"^[47]. In 2009, on his 67th birthday Shemaroo Entertainment released his films and a song collection titled Screen Legends-Rajesh Khanna-the Original Superstar^[48].

Political career

Rajesh Khanna was a member of Parliament for the Congress Party, from the New Delhi constituency, where he won the 1992 bye-election, retaining his seat until the 1996 election.^[49] He has since been a political activist for the Congress Party.

Awards

Filmfare Awards

Won

1970 – Filmfare Best Actor Award for Sachaa Jhutha
1971 – Filmfare Best Actor Award for Anand
1974 – Filmfare Best Actor Award for Aavishkaar
1990 –- Special Award for twenty-five years in the film industry
2005 – Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award (Golden Jubilee function)

Nominated

1970 – Filmfare Best Actor Award for Aradhana
1970 – Filmfare Best Actor Award for Ittefaq
1971 – Filmfare Best Actor Award for Kati Patang
1972 – Filmfare Best Actor Award for Dushman (1972)
1972 – Filmfare Best Actor Award for Amar Prem
1973 – Filmfare Best Actor Award for Daag: A Poem of Love
1974 – Filmfare Best Actor Award for Prem Nagar
1980 – Filmfare Best Actor Award for Amardeep
1981 – Filmfare Best Actor Award for Thodisi Bewafaii
1982 – Filmfare Best Actor Award for Dard
1984 – Filmfare Best Actor Award for Avtaar

Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards

1972 – Winner BFJA Awards, Best Actor for Anand^[50]
1973 – Winner BFJA Awards, Best Actor for Bawarchi^[51]
1974 – Winner BFJA Awards, Best Actor for Namak Haraam^[52]
1987 – Winner BFJA Awards, Best Actor for Amrit^[53]

Dada Saheb Phalke Academy Award

2008 Legendary Golden Actor Award at Mumbai on the occasion of Dada Saheb Phalke Birth day celebration.

IIFA Award

2009 Lifetime Achievement Award for Super Star Rajesh Khanna in Macau, China

Tamil Cine World Award

2009 All India Film Workers Association Life Time Achievement Award

International Pune Film Festival Award

2010 Life Time Achievement Award

Bollywood Awards

2004 Lifetime of Glamour award at the Kingfisher Bollywood Fashion Awards
2004 Lifetime Achievement Award at the Bollywood Awards held in US^[54]

Sansui Film Awards

2001 Lifetime Achievement Awards at the Third Sansui Film Awards held at at the Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium^[55]

Other Awards

1982 – Winner Lions Club, New Delhi– Best Actor Award for Dard
1994 – Winner Russian Film Festival, Ujvegistan- Best Actor for Khudai
2003 Maharashtra State Government's Raj Kapoor Awards presented on April 30,2003
2006 Gaurav Yugantar Gaurav Puraskar awarded on 4 February 2006 by Maharastra Government
2006 Award for Outstanding contribution to Indian cinema at the 2006 Bollywood Movie Awards held on June 10, at the Centre of Excellence, Macoya^[56].
Khanna was a recipient of the Glory of India Award by IIFS, London. [2]

Kala Ratna Awards

1995 – Winner Kala Ratna Award

In 1995 Rajesh Khanna was honoured with the Kala Ratna Award by Punjabi Kala Sangam at Delhi by the then Human Resource Development Minister Mr. Arjun Singh.

Filmography

References

External links

Rajesh Khanna at IMDb

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[32] ttp://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Business_of_Bollywood/A_rose_by_any_name/articleshow/2547342.cms

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[34] ttp://boxofficeindia.com/cpages.php?pageName=top_actors

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[51] BFJA Awards 1973

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v t e Filmfare Award for Best Actor
1954–1975	Dilip Kumar (1954) Bharat Bhushan (1955) Dilip Kumar (1956) Dilip Kumar (1957) Dilip Kumar (1958) Dev Anand (1959) Raj Kapoor (1960) Dilip Kumar (1961) Raj Kapoor (1962) Ashok Kumar (1963) Sunil Dutt (1964) Dilip Kumar (1965) Sunil Dutt (1966) Dev Anand (1967) Dilip Kumar (1968) Shammi Kapoor (1969) Ashok Kumar (1970) Rajesh Khanna (1971) Rajesh Khanna (1972) Manoj Kumar (1973) Rishi Kapoor (1974) Rajesh Khanna (1975)
1976–2000	Sanjeev Kumar (1976) Sanjeev Kumar (1977) Amitabh Bachchan (1978) Amitabh Bachchan (1979) Amol Palekar (1980) Naseeruddin Shah (1981) Naseeruddin Shah (1982) Dilip Kumar (1983) Naseeruddin Shah (1984) Anupam Kher (1985) Kamal Haasan (1986) Not awarded (1987) Not awarded (1988) Anil Kapoor (1989) Jackie Shroff (1990) Sunny Deol (1991) Amitabh Bachchan (1992) Anil Kapoor (1993) Shah Rukh Khan (1994) Nana Patekar (1995) Shah Rukh Khan (1996) Aamir Khan (1997) Shah Rukh Khan (1998) Shah Rukh Khan (1999) Sanjay Dutt (2000)
2001–present	Hrithik Roshan (2001) Aamir Khan (2002) Shah Rukh Khan (2003) Hrithik Roshan (2004) Shah Rukh Khan (2005) Amitabh Bachchan (2006) Hrithik Roshan (2007) Shah Rukh Khan (2008) Hrithik Roshan (2009) Amitabh Bachchan (2010) Shah Rukh Khan (2011) Ranbir Kapoor (2012) Ranbir Kapoor (2013) Farhan Akhtar (2014) Shahid Kapoor (2015) Ranveer Singh (2016) Aamir Khan (2017) Irrfan Khan (2018) Ranbir Kapoor (2019) Ranveer Singh (2020) Irrfan Khan (2021) Ranveer Singh (2022) Rajkummar Rao (2023) Ranbir Kapoor (2024)