My Old Carnatic Concert Review - of Sanjay Subrahm.Death of a Superstar - Remembering Rajesh Khanna.That stage, combined with the great singing of Kishore Kumar, than to Munim’s Hits – Souten and Alag Alag – is more a tribute to Kaka’s residual charm at The fact that a couple of these were reasonable Wits), is a tribute to Kaka’s keen interest in her career. You can keep looking at a fixed expression without getting bored out of your Talent as an actress (yes, she was quite beautiful – but there is only so long Mumtaz, astonishingly, is Tina Munim which, considering her almost-nonexistent Was legendary in its day and made such blockbusters like Do Raaste, Saccha Jhoota, With 9 (including the all-time favourites Aradhana, Amar Prem, and Safar) and She acted with Kaka in several films in the Mehbooba in 1976 (of the “Mere naina sawan bhadon” fame), the criticallyĪcclaimed Palkon Ki Chhaon Mein in 1977, and Kudrat in 1981. Malini leads the pack with 12 films, including films like Prem Nagar in 1974, The late 70s and 80s, Rajesh Khanna could have continued to succeed with hisīrand of sensitive, complex emotional dramas, had he but known better how toĬultivate relationships with people in the film industry. Whether, despite the trend towards action-based movies and the Amitabh wave of There are other examples, but one does wonder Lekh Tandon scored big with Khanna with Agar Tum Na Hote. Successful Dushman, but no other with Khanna. Kaka in just one film, Chakravyuha, but it fetched Kaka an award Jhoota, was one of Khanna’s biggest hits.ĭin Dayal Sharma made just one film, Tyaag, with Khanna, but it wasīhattacharya made only one film, Aavishkar, with Khanna, but that fetched him a Manmohan Desai made two movies with Khanna, and one of them, Saccha Which even garnered Khanna an award nomination. National acting contest, and the other, Kudrat, featured some fine performances Which he was contractually obligated to sign Khanna for because Khanna won the Only two movies with Kaka, but one of them was his first release, Aakhri Khat, Khamoshi and Safar, both featuring terrific performances by Khanna, and some One or two movies with many directors have turned into unforgettable Including the critically acclaimed Daag and the song-less crime thriller Ittefaq. He also had three films with Yash Chopra, Om Prakash, including the outstanding Aap Ki Kasam. Incidentally, died yesterday – RIP) but most of these were forgettable fare in Hrishikesh Mukherjee, notably Anand, Namak Haram (both with Amitabh Bachchan),Īnd Bawarchi, and also worked with him on Naukri. Including Awaaz, Ajnabee, and his home production, Alag Alag. Some of his all-time great hits such as Amar Prem, Kati Patang, andĪradhana. Shakti Samanta was his favourite director, having been responsible for Analysis of the data given in the Wikipedia page on Rajesh Khanna’sįilmography reveals that he has worked with as many asĩ0 different directors (not counting special appearances), which is a