Rajesh Khanna: Rajesh Khanna was the first superstar of Bollywood. The craze of fans for him is probably unmatched for any other actor. No one has been able to break the actor’s record of giving 17 consecutive hit films in Bollywood till date. Rajesh Khanna created a sensation in Bollywood with the 1969 film ‘Aradhana’. This one film made him a star overnight.
After the massive success of ‘Aradhana’, the actor never looked back and became a demanding star in the 70s. Every director and producer wanted to do films with him. But did you know that once 6 to 7 producers visited his film sets to sign films with him?
7 directors came to sign Rajesh Khanna
Rajesh Khanna made the audience crazy with his powerful acting in dozens of superhit films like ‘Aradhana’, ‘Anand’, ‘Do Raaste’, ‘Haathi Mere Saathi’, ‘Kati Patang’, ‘Roti’, ‘Amar Prem’, ‘Aap Ki Kasam’, ‘Namak Halal’ and ‘Bawarchi’. Recently, the story of Rajesh Khanna’s stardom was shared by Aruna Irani, which is attracting everyone’s attention at this time. Actually, Aruna Irani recently joined Indian Idol 13 as a guest. On the show, the veteran actress shared an interesting story about Rajesh Khanna’s stardom.
She said, “At that time only Rajesh Khanna’s charisma was famous. Once I was shooting a film with Rajesh Khanna when seven producers came there to sign Kaka. Rajesh Khanna was not able to understand whom to refuse and whose film to agree to.”
the lottery was drawn
Aruna Irani told that the actor told everyone, “All of you come to Chembur in the evening. I am shooting there. We will decide it there, all the producers reached on time and Aruna Irani herself was also present there. Then Rajesh Khanna said, “I do not want to upset anyone. In such a situation it will be very difficult to decide whose film should be made. Therefore I will draw the name through lottery.
After this, the names of all the people were written on slips and the slips were tossed. By chance, Bappi Lahiri’s name came out in the lottery and Rajesh Khanna agreed to do his film. Aruna Irani finally said that she herself was present there and was surprised to see Rajesh Khanna’s stardom.
