Rajesh Khanna expected 10 dishes on the table; would take a bite from every parantha and leave the rest: ‘If you didn’t serve options…’

Rajesh Khanna liked to live like royalty and would want to be served an array of dishes every single day.

Rajesh Khanna lived like a king, and expected to be served like a king. (Photo: Express Archives)

Rajesh Khanna lived like a king so when he wanted to eat, he expected to be served like a king. In a recent interview, his alleged girlfriend Anita Advani said that Rajesh always wanted an array of dishes at the dining table. She shared that even when he wanted to eat a parantha, he would expect a variety of paranthas on the table, following which, he would eat one bite from every parantha, and leave the rest.

In a chat shared on the YouTube channel Reel Meets Real with Pooja Samant, Anita shared that Rajesh always wanted a huge selection of food items on the dining table. She recalled that even though he had a cook, she would sometimes cook for him. “He had about 6-7 staff members and a cook was always there in the house. I would also cook for him sometimes. Like he really enjoyed ‘chhole’ so I learnt to make that with ‘bhaturas’. He really liked all of that. He enjoyed eating such dishes. He was quite a foodie,” she said.

She shared that he wanted dosa every day and he would not like it if there were less than 10 items on the dining table. “He wanted dosa everyday. He wouldn’t like it if there were less than 10 items on the table. Me and the staff of the house wouldn’t understand what to do. Like when he wanted paranthas, he would ask us to make one each of aloo, mooli, gobhi. He would take a bite from each of the paranthas,” she recalled.

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When the host wondered if the rest of the food would go to waste, she shared that the staff of the house would eat the same food as him. “Even the staff would eat the same thing. The staff wouldn’t eat separately,” she said and added, “If you didn’t serve him food with so many options, he would ask ‘Hum refugee hain kya? Khana nahi dete (Are we refugees? That there’s no food’)’.” But, despite being a foodie, Anita added that he was a “frugal eater’ as he would only eat two chapatis.

Rajesh Khanna passed away at 69 in 2012 after a long battle with cancer.

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