Rajesh Khanna wondered if Bigg Boss would make him a ‘better person’, was worried if he’ll be asked to do dishes: alleged girlfriend Anita Advani

Anita recalled telling him that people are expected to do household chores on Bigg Boss which shocked Rajesh even further as he wondered if they would make him do the dishes as well. “I told him that they make you perform household chores there, they will ask you to do the dishes. He wondered if they would ask him to do the dishes as well? I said, ‘no, they won’t ask you to do that’,” she recalled.

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As per a 2012 article by Rediff, journalist Ali Peter John claimed that the makers of Bigg Boss offered Rs 3.5 crore per episode to Rajesh Khanna to participate in the show. “I tried to convince him, but he said no. The Colors people told me they were willing to pay him Rs 3.5 crore for every episode he appeared in, but he said no,” he recalled and added, “A few days later, he called me and said he wanted to do the show, but by then Colors had lost interest.”

After Rajesh Khanna’s death in 2012 at 69, Anita participated in Bigg Boss.