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Rajesh Khanna enjoyed a crazy fan following at the peak of his career in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It is well known that Rajesh’s stardom had women falling over his car, and putting the dirt from his car tyres on their forehead just to show their love for him. Recently, Rakesh Roshan recalled an incident where he got to witness Kaka’s stardom first-hand. He recalled an incident when the unit of his film forgot about him because they were so busy getting Rajesh out of a chaotic situation at an airport.
Talking to Mid-Day, Rakesh Roshan recalled the time when they were shooting for the 1977 film Chalta Purza. Rakesh said that they were to shoot at Bhakra Nangal Dam and had to drive from Delhi. When they got out at Delhi airport, fans crowded around Rajesh Khanna and the unit had to make sure that we was safely taken aside. “Both Rajesh and I got down at the Delhi airport and he was crowded. He was surrounded with people. And because of that chaos, the unit people forgot to take me. They went away. They left me behind at the airport,” he said.
Previously, Amitabh Bachchan had shared an anecdote about Bollywood’s ‘first superstar’. On his quiz show, Kaun Banega Crorepati, Big B recalled that Rajesh Khanna was a big star in the 1970s. “At the time, Rajesh Khanna was the biggest superstar in India. Kya aura tha, kya following thi…His presence was so powerful that when he arrived, women would take the dirt from his car’s tyres and apply it to their foreheads as a blessing,” he said.
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