From 1969-75, I saw his superstardom at dose quarters and I have no hesitation in stating that the heights of stardom he reached have never been achieved by any other star in the world of Hindi cinema. Rajesh didn't just make a name for himself, but in a short span of time took his stardom to a new peak. With them around, it was no mean task for any new actor to find a niche and be recognized. The industry was ruled by actors like Dilip Kumar, Raj Kapoor, Dev Anand, Sharnmi Kapoor and Rajendra Kumar. In those days, the film industry was much smaller in size than it is today, but it was no less competitive.

But even after years of getting to know him, he remained a particularly baffling man-not someone you could easily categorize as just good or bad. When his star was in the ascendant, I was a regular part of the gatherings at his bungalow, Aashirwad. We were also neighbours in Bandra and used to meet almost daily. We would discuss several new story ideas with him, and we gradually became good friends. It was during the production of this film that we got to know each other better. Then we worked together for the first time in G.P. When Javed Akhtar and I first met Rajesh Khanna, he was already proclaimed a superstar, and two of his films Aradhana and Do Raaste had been released. He is also a bilingual columnist for and News Today.īy early 1970, both Rajesh Khanna's career and mine gathered momentum, almost around the same time. He has worked for over a decade in leading TV news organizations and is currently with ABP News (formerly Star News). A Master's in environmental science, he remembers more films and songs than classroom theories. He has been recipient of the prestigious Ramanath Goneka Award for excellence in journalism and the NT (News Television) Awards thrice over. Yaseer Usman is a journalist by tribe, a television producer by creed and a film commentator by caste. It is a story that encapsulates the glittering, seductive, cut-throat world of Bollywood at its best and its worst. What emerges is a tantalizingly written, meticulously researched chronicle of a fascinating and mercurial man-one who was both loved and feared by those closest to him. In this riveting biography, award-winning journalist Yasser Usman examines Rajesh Khanna’s dramatic, colourful life in its entirety: from little-known facts about his childhood to the low-down on his relationship and rivalries, from his ambitious hopes to his deep-seated insecurities.

But was it something else buried deep in his past?

In the 1970s, Rajesh Khanna achieved the kind of fame that no film star had ever experience before-or has since.īut then he saw it all vanish.

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