Rajesh Khanna born Jatin Khanna; 29 December 1942 – 18 July 2012) was an Indian actor, film producer and politician who worked in Hindi movies. Considered as one of the greatest and most successful actors in the history of Indian cinema, he is known as the to begin with Genius of Indian cinema. His honors include five Filmfare Awards, and in 2013, he was after death awarded the Padma Bhushan, India's third highest civilian honour.

Khanna made his debut in 1966 Aakhri Khat which was India's to begin with official Academy Awards entry in 1967. In 2005, he was honoured with the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award on the 50th anniversary of the Filmfare Awards.He was a Member of Parliament in the 10th Lok Sabha from New Delhi Lok Sabha constituency between 1992 and 1996, chosen in the 1992 Modern Delhi by-election as an Indian National Congress candidate. He was hitched to Dimple Kapadia in March 1973, eight months some time recently her make a big appearance film Bobby was discharged and had two girls from the marriage. Their elder daughter Twinkle Khanna is an actress who is married to actor Akshay Kumar, whereas they moreover have a younger daughter Rinke Khanna.

Khanna passed on on 18 July 2012, after a period of illness. He has been respected with a stamp and statue in his resemblance, and a road renamed after him by the Prime Minister of India.

Early life and background

Khanna's ancestral residence in Burewala, Punjab Pakistan
Rajesh Khanna was born on 29 December 1942, in Amritsar in the Punjab Area of British India,[1] as 'Jatin Khanna' into a Punjabi Hindu Khatri family. He was received and raised by Chunnilal Khanna and Leelawati Khanna, who were relatives of his organic guardians. His father had relocated from West Punjab to Gali Tiwarian in Amritsar. His organic guardians were Lala Hiranand Khanna and Chandrani Khanna. Lala worked as superintendent of the MC Tall School in Burewala (in present-day Vehari Area, Punjab, Pakistan). His receptive guardians had a place to a family of railroad temporary workers who had moved from Lahore to Bombay in 1935.Khanna lived in Saraswati Niwas, in Thakur-dwar close Girgaon, Mumbai.

He gone to St. Sebastian's Goan Tall School with his companion Ravi Kapoor, who afterward took the arrange title Jeetendra.[20] Khanna continuously begun taking an intrigued in theater, did numerous arrange and theater plays in his school and college days, and won numerous prizes in inter-college dramatization competitions.

In 1962 Khanna played a injured quiet trooper in the play Andha Yug and inspired with his execution; the chief visitor recommended that he get into movies before long. Khanna got to be a uncommon newcomer who had his claim MG sports car, who once battled to get work in theater and movies in the early 1960s.

Khanna did his to begin with two a long time of Single man of Expressions at Nowrosjee Wadia College in Pune from 1959 to 1961.He afterward considered at Kishinchand Chellaram College, Mumbai and Jeetendra considered at Siddharth Jain College. Khanna mentored Jeetendra for his to begin with film try out. Khanna's uncle KK Talwar changed Khanna's to begin with title to Rajesh when he chosen to enter movies. His companions and his spouse called him Kaka (meaning a child confronted boy in Punjabi).

Acting career
Early works (1966–1968)
Rajesh Khanna was one of eight finalists from more than 10,000 contenders in the 1965 All India Ability Challenge, composed by Joined together Makers and Filmfare, along with other FTII understudies Subhash Ghai and Dheeraj Kumar.Khanna won the challenge along with Farida Jalal BR Chopra, Bimal Roy, GP Sippy, HS Rawail, Nasir Husain, J.Om Prakash, Mohan Saigal, Shakti Samanta and Subodh Mukherji and others had made the Joined together Makers association and were at that point judges of the contest.

He made his film make a big appearance in the 1966 film Aakhri Khat, coordinated by Chetan Anand, taken after by Raaz (1967), coordinated by Ravindra Dave, both of which were a portion of his foreordained prize for winning the All-India Joined together Producers' Ability Competition. G.P. Sippy and Nasir Hussain were the to begin with to sign Khanna after he won the contest.

"Though 'Aakhri Khat' is my to begin with film, I gotten my to begin with break as a driving on-screen character in Ravindra Dave's, 'Raaz', in 1967. My courageous woman was Babita, as of now a well known performing artist at that point. In spite of the fact that I had parcels of certainty, I was modest in confronting the camera at first. In my to begin with three shots, I had to perform with push on my body dialect and discourse conveyance. In spite of the fact that I was right with my exchanges, my developments were not up to the stamp. Ravindra Dave clarified me my scenes and developments exceptionally clearly adjusting my way of walking."

Khanna's comments after Aakhri Khat was India's entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 40th Oscar Academy Awards in 1967.

Being beneath contract with United Makers, he got projects, such as Aurat (1967) and Baharon Ke Sapne (1967), both of which were commercially unsuccessful.