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 almost...
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 motherly...
Indian cinema has known no bigger star than Rajesh Khanna. Between 1969 and 1974 he had to his credit a staggering 16 blockbusters, most of them...
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 undisputed...
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 film Kai...
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 also...
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 Jaya Bhaduri ...
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 when...
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 role...
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 one ...
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 for Aan ...
Rajesh Khanna’s rich repertoire of melody-drenched performances in Aradhana, Amar Prem. Kati Patang,Dushman, Sachcha Jhutha, Roti, Premnagar, Aap Ki Kasam, etc etc have been rightly celebrated. But as a diehard Khanna fan I can tell you Khanna did better than what...
After stand-up comic Bharati Singh and her husband were arrested for drugs possession, one of India’s oldest and most respected stand-up artistes Raju Shrivastava condemned the culture of substance abuse. “I...
Lies, damned lies! How Hrishikesh Mukherjee loved telling the truth about people who lied. In Anand Rajesh Khana makes up a friendship with strangers on the road pretending to have met them in...
Cold wars between two actresses in the times gone-by were not unheard-of. It is said that when Sharmila Tagore and Raakhee worked together in Yash Chopra’s Daag Yash Chopra had to pamper both the heroines...
Ever wondered why the most sensitive poetic romantic filmmaker Gulzar never worked with the most sensitive poetic romantic star Rajesh Khanna? Although Gulzar wrote some really sensitive dialogues and songs for Rajesh Khanna in the clasic Anand, the director ...