When Rajesh Khanna stated success made him really feel ‘next to God’, he couldn’t deal with flops: ‘Dimple thought I had gone insane’

When Rajesh Khanna was on the high of his sport within the early Nineteen Seventies, there was nobody who was remotely in the identical bracket as him. The actor had loved a success streak of 15 movies and was the most well-liked star on the time. Years later, Kaka, as he was fondly known as, shared that he felt ‘next to God’ in that section. In a chat with Movie Magazine in 1990, Rajesh recalled the precise second when he felt profitable.

He shared, “I felt next to God! I still remember the exact moment when for the first time I became aware of how mind-blowing super-success can be. It psyches you totally — or you’re not human. It was just after Andaaz, at a lottery draw held at the Vidhan Sabha in Bangalore.” Kaka recalled that Andaz’s premiere was held there and there was a sea of people that welcomed him. While Shammi Kapoor was the star of the movie, Rajesh Khanna featured in it for the tune ‘Zindagi Ek Safar Hai Suhana’, and that tune grew to become the spotlight of the movie. “One couldn’t see anything but heads bobbing down the whole road, which was not only broad but almost ten miles long. And there was just one echo of the voices – `Haaaaa…’ You know, it was like a stadium in the times of the Romans. I wept like a baby,” he stated.

After discussing this second, Kaka recalled the crash that he confronted in his profession when his movies stopped working. He shared that he was consuming rather a lot on the time and one night time, he began yelling. “Later, when I started slipping, I hit the bottle. I mean, I am not a super human being. You are not Jesus Christ and I am not Mahatma Gandhi. I remember that once at three o’clock in the morning I was pretty high on spirits and suddenly it was too much for me to stomach because it was my first taste of failure,” he stated.

This was the section of Khanna’s profession when he had seven flops back-to-back. “One after another, seven films had just flopped in a row. It was raining, pitch-dark and up there alone on my terrace, I lost control. I yelled out. ‘Parvardigar, hum garibon ka itna sakt imtihan na le ki hum tere vajood ko inkar kar de (God, don’t test my patience to such an extent that I question your very existence).” Of course, Dimple and my employees got here working, pondering that I had gone insane. It was as a result of success hit me a lot that I couldn’t take the failure,” he shared.

Rajesh Khanna continued to work in motion pictures within the Nineteen Eighties, however not like the early Nineteen Seventies, his movies now weren’t as huge, and even as profitable. Films like Avatar, Swarg, have been rarities for him now. One of the final notable roles that he did was for Rishi Kapoor’s Aa Ab Laut Chelein in 1999.