![]() ![]() But more importantly, it is rich in content. ![]() The book reads like a novel, such is the writer’s narrative skill. The concluding line in the obituary that I wrote for the December 1983 issue of the monthly Herald was: ‘Waheed did not die of a heart attack, he died of a broken heart’.īack to the Indian superstar, the Delhi-based Yasser Usman has authored a real page-turner, Rajesh Khanna: The Untold Story of India’s First Superstar. Waheed Murad is also reported to have sought refuge in an ‘external source’. He thought he remained a superstar till the end. Rajesh Khanna took to the bottle and ultimately died of liver cancer. ![]() His story is reminiscent of the case of Pakistan’s first superstar Waheed Murad, who too had a rise and fall that has no parallel in the cinema of our part of the subcontinent. And then, the tidal wave dissipated in as dramatic a manner as it once had dizzying heights. Widely called the first superstar of India, Rajesh Khanna emerged like a tidal wave which towered above everything else in Bollywood, for a three-year period.įrom 1969 to 1972, he had not one, not two, not even 10, but as many as 15 mega hits to his credit. Book cover - Rajesh Khanna: The Untold Story of India’s First Superstar ![]()
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