Life Style of Rajesh Khanna

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Rajesh Khanna was an Indian actor, film producer and politician who is known for his work in Hindi cinema. He is referred to as the "first superstar".He starred in 15 consecutive solo hit films from 1969 to 1971, still an unbroken record.He did 106 solo hero films of which 97 were released between 1967 and 2013.He acted in only 22 films with multi-star cast.82 of the 127 films with Khanna as the lead protagonist (of them 117 released and 11 unreleased) were critically acclaimed films with ratings above 4 stars out of 5 by film reviewers of various newspapers unanimously.He made his debut in 1966 with Aakhri Khat. During his career he appeared in more than 168 feature films and 12 short films.He received the Filmfare Best Actor Award three times and the BFJA Awards for Best Actor (Hindi) four times.In 1991, he was awarded the Filmfare Special Award for achieving the feat of doing the most solo hero films in Hindi Cinema and in 2005, he received the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award.He was the highest paid Indian actor from 1970 to 1987 whereas Amitabh Bachchan shared the same tag with Khanna from 1980 to 1987.He was also a Lok Sabha member of the Indian National Congress from New Delhi (Lok Sabha constituency) from 1992 to 1996.He married Dimple Kapadia in March 1973, eight months before her debut film Bobby was released and had two daughters from the marriage. Their elder daughter Twinkle Khanna is married to actor Akshay Kumar, while they also have a younger daughter Rinke Khanna.Khanna died on 18 July 2012, after a period of illness.Khanna has been posthumously awarded India's third highest civilian honour, Padma Bhushan. On 30 April 2013 he was bestowed the title First Superstar of Indian cinema at the Dadasaheb Phalke Academy Awards.He has also been honored with a stamp and statue in his likeness, and a road being renamed after him.Rajesh Khanna was born on 29 December 1942, in Amritsar in the present-day state of Punjab, as Jatin Khanna.Khanna was adopted and raised by Chunnilal Khanna and Leelawati Khanna, who were relatives of his biological parents. His father had migrated from West Punjab to "Gali Tiwarian" in Amritsar. His biological parents were Lala Hiranand Khanna and Chandrani Khanna. Lala worked as headmaster of the MC High School in Burewala (in present-day Vehari District, Punjab Pakistan).His adoptive parents belonged to a family of railway contractors who had moved from Lahore to Bombay in 1935.Khanna lived in Saraswati Niwas, in Thakurdwar near Girgaon, Mumbai. He attended St. Sebastian's Goan High School with his friend Ravi Kapoor, who later took the stage name Jeetendra.Khanna gradually started taking interest in theatre, did many of stage and theatre plays in his school and college days, and won many prizes in inter-college drama competitions.In 1962 Khanna played a wounded mute soldier in the play Andha Yug and impressed with his performance; the chief guest suggested that he get into films soon.Khanna became a rare newcomer who had his own MG sports car, who struggled to get work in theatre and films in the early 1960s.Khanna did his first two years of Bachelor of Arts in Nowrosjee Wadia College in Pune from 1959 to 1961.Khanna later studied in K. C. College, Mumbai and Jeetendra studied from Siddharth Jain College. Khanna tutored Jeetendra for his first film audition. Khanna's uncle KK Talwar changed Khanna's first name to Rajesh when he decided to enter films.His friends and his wife called him Kaka (meaning baby faced boy in Punjabi).

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