And for Shah Rukh Khan it was “ Dilwale Dulhainya Le Jayenge (DDLJ)”.Īnand was Rajesh Khanna’s Deewar. In case of Robert de Niro it was “ Raging Bull”. He was great friends with Mehmood’s younger brother Anwar Ali.Įvery “big actor” does one role during his character that people remember him for. As IMDB points out “Mehmood advised Amitabh Bachchan to grab a secondary role alongside the then heartthrob Rajesh Khanna in the film, saying, “All you need to do is feed off Khanna, the rest will take care of itself.””īachchan had just landed in Mumbai a few years back giving up his comfortable job (what we now call a boxwallah) with Byrd & Co, in Calcutta, as it was then called. The role of Dr Bhaskar Banerjee eventually went to Amitabh Bachchan. In fact, it is said that Mukherjee also considered Bengali matinee idols Uttam Kumar and Soumitra Chatterjee for the roles of Anand and Dr Bhaskar Banerjee.
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The court directed Kishore Kumar to complete the movie and thereafter Mukherjee would pay him the remaining half.īeing the cranky genius that he was Kishore Kumar landed up on the sets with his head and moustache half shaved and apparently told Mukheree that “ Aadhe paise mein aadha Kishore hi milega!”Īfter this Rajesh Khanna got the role of Anand. Mukherjee took him to court and won the case. But Kishore Kumar wanted the entire amount in advance. Mukherjee paid him half the amount agreed on in advance and the remaining half was to be paid after the film was shot. Mukherjee who was a prolific film director wanted Kishore Kumar to act in one of his movies. But the story goes that he had a tiff with Mukherjee. Kishore Kumar was also considered for the role. Kapoor and Mukherjee were great friends and Kapoor referred to Mukherjee as babumoshai The trouble was that Mukherjee was superstitious about letting Raj Kapoor die on screen. Then Raj Kapoor, Shashi’s elder brother, and a great buddy of Mukherjee came into the picture. But Shashi Kapoor had just tasted success with Jab Jab Phool Khile and was probably more interested in doing romantic roles rather than a role in which his character died in the end. Mukherjee, who also wrote the story, originally wanted Shashi Kapoor for the film. A story of a character called Anand who is dying of cancer but who does not give up his zest for life, even though he knows that he has a very short time to live. But the Rajesh Khanna movie that has stood the test of time is Hrishkesh Mukherjee’s Anand. Kati Patang is clearly a movie of the late sixties and the early seventies with a rather predictable storyline.
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News channels have been broadcasting songs, trivia, interviews and even a documentary in remembrance of India’s first Superstar.Ī television channel has advertised on the front pages of a Mumbai daily that it shall be showing Kati Patang and Anand in the evening today (as you read this Kati Patang has probably started and Anand plays at 9pm).
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While returning home the taxi driver told me “ kya gaane the sahab Rajesh Khanna ke, subah se Radio waale wahin baja rahe hain.” “ Aaj subah sab se kewal Rajesh Khanna hi bick raha hai,” a shop attendant told me as I paid for my purchases ( I wasn’t buying Rajesh Khanna by the way.
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Rhythm House has also created a special shelf where all the Rajesh Khanna audio CDs, VCDs and DVDs have been separately put up.
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For the half an hour I was at Rhythm House only Rajesh Khanna-Kishore Kumar songs were played. So the world has rediscovered Rajesh Khanna or so it seems.Īround one pm today I was at Rhythm House, the only decent music shop to survive in Mumbai, after the onslaught of MP3s and what not.Īs soon as I entered the shop I heard Kishore Kumar singing “ zindagi ke safar main guzar jaate hain jo makam wo phir nahi aate”.