1. Shashi Kapoor was Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s second choice for Anand.The first choice wasKishore Kumar. Shashi was finalized . But when the reigning superstar Rajesh Khanna showed a keen interest in the role Shashi was dropped. 2. The feud with Rajesh Khanna continued when Khanna was...
1. Amar Prem(1971): Playing the kothewali with a heart as pure as the GangotriSharmila Tagore brings to her character Pushpa a sense of sublime selfnegation and craving for unconditional love that makes her shower her...
Rajesh Khanna was the undisputed king of the world Rajesh Khanna‘s golden period lasted exactly three years. Between 1969 and 1971, Rajesh Khanna was the...
Eerily, Sushant Singh Rajput died in 5 out of the 12 films he completed before his sudden shocking and untimely death on June 14, 2020. In his big-screen debut...
Sushant Singh Rajput once wondered to me why the national costume is not as favoured by Indian male celebrities as the saree is favoured by women in the limelight. Before Sushant other major Bollywood stars have...
At one point in her career(circa 1973-75) Jaya Bhaduri was a bigger star than Amitabh Bachchan.Her much-lauded performances in the obvious films Abhimaan, Uphaar, KoraKagaz, etc need no recommendation. But what about...
The legendary Dharmendra was filmmaker Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s favourite actor. And RajeshKhanna who was extremely possessive about his favourite directors didn’t like thie partiality at all. Hrishida told me how irked “Kaka”(Khanna) would get...
Anand marked the first of Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s 3 historic collaborations with RajeshKhanna, the other two being Bawarchi and Namak Haraam. Anand is without a shred of doubt Rajesh Khanna’s career’s finest performance.Just how he got the...
The trailer of Haathi Mere Saathi would have pacified Rajesh Khanna. This Haathi Mere Saathi has nothing to do with Mr Khanna’s 1971 blockbuster of the same title. This...
In her 30-year career as a leading lady, the legendary Asha Parekh says she has never seen stardom like Rajesh Khanna’s. “When we were shooting...
