Rajesh Khanna and Sharmila Tagore came together in 1969's Aradhana, and the sensuality between them felt so real. it virtually set the screen afire.

Producer-director Tony Singh (‘Left Right Left’ on SAB) is so impressed with his lead actor Rajeev Khandelwal’s “sense of commitment and dedication” that he has plans to make a full-fledged feature film with him .

In fact, Tony even invited Rajeev as a special guest, besides his protégée Mona ( Jassi) Singh, for the party to mark the telecast of the premiere episode of his show ‘Jeete Hain Jiske Liye’ (Sony). The show has Renuka Shahane staging her comeback after a hiatus.

Tony said, “I plan to make a romantic thriller with Rajeev. Every time I watch him performing his romantic scenes I am reminded of the legendary superstar Rajesh Khanna.”

Refuting reports that Rajeev is a ‘fussy, tantrum-prone actor’, who was soon poised to walk out from ‘LRL’ as he was dissatisfied with his role, Tony said, “On the contrary, he is so involved with his character that he shoots extra hours and was even willing to reduce his fees, if the show was going over budget. ( Super Star Rajesh Khanna ).

Being a serious actor who prefers a logical undercurrent in his scenes, Rajeev’s commanding presence on the sets keeps everyone on their toes.”

He added, “We are completing 125 episodes of ‘LRL’ shortly and there is no reason for Rajeev to quit the show.” Meanwhile Rajeev seems excited with the film offer.

“Why not? I am game to work in a movie directed by Tony because I share a personal bonding with him,” says Rajeev.

He was the loverboy without compare.

She was the demure girl with a bod to kill for.

Rajesh Khanna and Sharmila Tagore came together in 1969's Aradhana, and the sensuality between them felt so real. it virtually set the screen afire.

AWARDS :

Filmfare Awards Won• 1971 - Filmfare Best Actor Award for Sachcha Jhutha • 1972 - Filmfare Best Actor Award for Anand • 1973 - Special Award for Guest appearance for Anurag • 1974 - Filmfare Best Actor Award for Aavishkaar • 1990 - Special Award for twenty-five years in the film industry • 2005 - Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award Nominated• 1969 - Filmfare Best Actor Award for Aradhana • 1969 - Filmfare Best Actor Award for Ittefaq • 1971 - Filmfare Best Actor Award for Kati Patang • 1972 - Filmfare Best Actor Award for Amar Prem • 1972 - Filmfare Best Actor Award for Dushman • 1973 - Filmfare Best Actor Award for Daag • 1974 - Filmfare Best Actor Award for Prem Nagar • 1979 - Filmfare Best Actor Award for Amar Deep • 1980 - Filmfare Best Actor Award for Thodi Si Bewafai • 1981 - Filmfare Best Actor Award for Dard • 1983 - Filmfare Best Actor Award for Avtaar Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards• 1971 - Winner Best Actor for Anand • 1972 - Winner Best Actor for Bawarchi • 1974 - Winner Best Actor for Namak Haraam • 1987 - Winner Best Actor for Amrit.

OTHER AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS:

• In 1982 Rajesh Khanna was awarded Best Actor Award for his outstanding double role performance in Dard by Lions Club, New Delhi by Sri Dilip Kumar. • in 1994 he was awarded Best Actor Award for Khudai at Ujvegistan at Russian Film Festival. • In 1995 Rajesh Khanna was honoured with the Kala Ratna Award by Punjabi Kala Sangam at Delhi by the then Human Resource Development Minister Mr. Arjun Singh. • In 2001, Khanna was honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award by Sansui Film Awards • In April of 2003, he had been chosen for the Maharastra state government’s Raj Kapoor Award. He had been chosen for his contribution to the film industry.• In January of 2004, he was honoured with the Star Screen Lifetime Achievement Award • In March of 2004, he has bagged the Bollywood Awards 2004's Lifetime Achievement Award and also received the Lifetime of Glamour award at the Kingfisher Bollywood Fashion Awards at USA.• He was awarded the "Pride of Film Industry" by the Stardust Awards on February 21, 2005. • He is the recipient of the “Outstanding Contribution to the Motion Picture Industry of India” Awards at the eighth annual Bollywood Movie Awards in Trinidad (Centre of Excellence) on June 10, 2006. • On February 4, 2006, he was awarded with "Yugantar Gaurav Puraskar". • He is a recipient of the "Glory of India Award" by IIAF, London. These are in addition to a number of Best Actor/Life Time achievement Awards of international and national repute. On 30th April, 2008 he was awarded Dada Saheb Phalke Award.

TELEVISION CAREER:

In 2001-2002, Rajesh Khanna played major roles in two television serials: Aapne Parai (B4U & DD Metro) and Ittefaqu (Zee TV).He performed in a video album based on Tagore's immortal songs (Rabindra Sangeet) free of cost. Currently he is busy in processing his own music channel viz. R.K. Music Channel.He has recently endorsed a talent hunt programme namely "Star se Superstar tak" as the First Superstar of Indian Cinema, under the banner of Red Carpet Entertainment and donated a Gold Trophy of Rs.1 Crore with Ms. Priyanka Chopra.Recently he has signed a TV serial with Creative Eye Banner (Dhiraj Kumar).He is also participating as Celebrity Judge in a reality show at Sony Channel called K for Kishore, based on the legendary singer late Kishore Kumar Ganguly.He is also going to perform in a T.V. Serial Bhabhima with Leena Ganguly as Lead Pair of the serial.

POLITICAL CAREER:

During 1991-1996, Rajesh Khanna was a Member of Parliament for the Congress Party, from the New Delhi constituency. He has since been a political activist for the Congress Party expressing noteworthy, objective and constructive patriotism for India.

BOLLYWOOD CAREER

LATER CAREER:

However the success perhaps caused him to be complacent, often turning up very late for shoots and throwing tantrums as well as having a whole entourage of sycophants accompany him for his shoots. This behaviour coupled with the changing trend from romantic movies to action oriented films in the late 1970s and 1980s caused the decline of Khanna's career in term of box office rating, but he continued to play lead roles in sober social household meaningful movies during the downtrodden trend of Hindi Cinema without any compromisation and gave the high profile films like Mehabooba, Anurodh, Karm, Palko ki Chaon Mein, Amar Deep, Thodi si Bewafai, Avataar, Souten, Amrit, Agar Tum Na Hote, Ghar Ka Chirag and many more during 1976 to 1991. He also performed central characters or guest roles in multi-starrer films as well such as Disco Dancer,Kudrat, Rajput, Dharam Aur Kanoon and Dharam Kanta, Ashanti etc.. He also took great risk and experimented with negative roles in Red Rose where he played a psycopath and in Dhanwaan, where he played an arrogant businessman . By the early 1990s he quit acting for many years and served as Hon'ble M.P. from prestigious seat of New Delhi Constituency from (1991-1996). During that period he appeared in Khudai (1994) and won Best Actor Award at Ujvegistan at Russian Film Festival. He made his acting comeback with three to four years gaps in Aa Ab Laut Chalen (1999) and Kyaa Dil Ne Kahaa (2002) where he played elderly father roles. In 2006 he appeared in Jaana - Let's Fall in Love But in 2007 he has officially announced his second innings and has signed about ten new films simultaneously and some new TV serials. He is also going to participate as Celebrity Judge in a reality show at Sony Channel called K for Kishore, based on the legendary singer late Kishore Kumar Ganguly.

LATER LIFE:

Rajesh Khanna and Dimple Kapadia separated in the early 1980s, but still they are fulfilling all the responsibilities of their social life especially in establishing the life of their daughters. Their elder daughter Twinkle who is an interior decorator is married to current star Akshay Kumar and younger daughter Rinkee is married to a businessman, after getting higher study from USA.Khanna was a Member of Parliament for the New Delhi constituency (1991-96).He is the life member of International Film And Television Research Centre and International Film And Television Club Of Asian Academy Of Film & Television. Recently he announced his appearance in a spate of forthcoming films for which he is hopeful of renewing previous success. He is also going to participate as Celebrity Judge in a reality show at Sony Channel called K for Kishore, based on the legendary singer late Kishore Kumar . He is also going to perform in a T.V. Serial Bhabhima with Leena Ganguly as Lead Pair of the serial.

EARLY LIFE:

Rajesh Khanna came from an affluent family. Khanna's father had misgivings about Rajesh's taking on a professional acting career. His initial foray into cinema with renowned film maker Chetan Anand was not a resounding success. Nonetheless, Rajesh persisted and exceeded all expectations. His previous theatrical background assisted him with the characterization of the personas of the cinema which he portrayed effortlessly and naturally. He is Hindi cinema's first officially acknowledged Superstar. In March of 1973 Rajesh Khanna married Dimple Kapadia, a Bollywood actress who had just made her film debut in Raj Kapoor's coveted blockbuster Bobby. At the time of Kapadia's film debut, she was sixteen years old; Khanna was thirty-one. They became the parents of Twinkle Khanna and Rinke Khanna, who would also become Bollywood actresses.

RAJESH KHANNA - THE GREATEST LEGEND & REAL SUPER STAR OF INDIAN CINEMA.

There are romantic leading men and there are romantic leading men, but very few have taken cinematic love to legendary heights. While there might be other icons but Super-Star- Actor Rajesh Khanna after four decades, he is the ultimate true romantic legend.