#Rajesh khanna

[ohmybollywood]

"Babu Mushoi, zindagi badi honi chahiye ... lambi nahin" - Anand (1971)

[bollywoodirect]

Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Rajesh Khanna, and Amitabh Bachchan captured during the shoot of Namak Haraam (1973).

[suvarnarekha]

anand x babu moshai 🌻

[neilperrysme]

tumhare hi hone se aabaad hai dil

tumhi jab na hoge toh veeraan hoga

tum hi se hai hasrat tumhi se hai armaan

na hasrat hi hogi na armaan hoga

tumhe dillagi

nusrat fateh ali khan

[amindindisarray]

70s-80s Hindi album covers

Kasam Paida Karne Wale Ki (1984), Apna Desh (1972), Qurbani (1980), Tezaab (1988), Disco Dancer (1982), Muqaddar Ka Sikandar (1978)

[inmyworldblr]

Rajesh Khanna and Sharmila Tagore in a still from Aradhana (1969)

[nuthingness]

तेरे होंठो पे रात ये बहाना था

गोरी तुझको तो आज नहीं आना था

[urlbx]

13:08

03.01.25

This day was all about random things happening in our lives, I'm feeling sleepy. GN 🥱💤

aap ki kasam (1974)

Your tears a sea for me to swim

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anchor up to me love 🌹🌹

[deathelegy]

how do i extract the shade of evening who blushes like the lover ran to my arms after a tiring day ?

how do i paint the sun who never sleeps to keep the promises he made to his 2 wives—the 2 sides of the world ?

how do i draw the shimmering waves at the coast, imitating the shivering lips of my squirrel (my girl) after i left her breathless with a scintillating kiss ?

how do i portray the longing of the mother's eyes sitting at the door, waiting for her only hope, her son, to come back ?

how do i depict the rage of silence of a girl who never felt loved by her father ?

how do i reproduce the anxiety of the single parent to go back & kiss their child waiting for them at the child care centre & give them all the attention they craved for ?

how do i enact the remorse of the desert who engulfed another wanderer who trusted her ?

how do i render the sacrifice of a father coming back on a local train, holding on to that hanging strap with his weary hands like he is holding hope on his children for a better life ?

how do i carve out the mirage smile on the farmer's face who is looking at the drenched field, who is looking at the people enjoying rain, who is worrying about the intensity of rain, who is worrying about his child's fee ?

 --apollo-- 

[stevensgus]

Do you ever just go "Yahi Ki kya farq hai 70 saal aur 6 mahine me? Maut ek pal hai Babumoshai .... Aane Wale 6 mahino me jo laakhon pal main jeene wala hu uska kya hoga?... Babumoshai... Zindagi badi honi chahiye, Lambi nahi! ... HADD KARTE HO!!!! Maut ke dar se agar Zinda rehna chhod diya, to maut kise kehte hai! kyu dost? BABUMOSHAI... JAB TAK ZINDA HU TAB TAK MARA NAHI...jab mar gaya saala main hi nahi...To darr kis baat ka?" Or are you normal?

[cosmoincosmos]

just fell to my knees

Song: O Mere Dil Ke Chain

Singer: Kishore Kumar

Movie: Mere Jeevan Saathi

[apoptosisofthestars]

मौत तू एक कविता है

मुझसे एक कविता का वादा है मिलेगी मुझको

डूबती नब्ज़ों में जब दर्द को नींद आने लगे

ज़र्द सा चेहरा लिये जब चांद उफक तक पहुँचे

दिन अभी पानी में हो, रात किनारे के करीब

ना अंधेरा ना उजाला हो, ना अभी रात ना दिन

जिस्म जब ख़त्म हो और रूह को जब साँस आए

मुझसे एक कविता का वादा है मिलेगी मुझको

आनंद(1971)

[bollywoodirect]

Dilip Kumar, Saira Banu, Dimple Kapadia and Rajesh Khanna.

[kaafiron-ka-kafka]

Remind me to never watch Anand the day i have to give an important presentation. Crying like a baby for hours😭😭😭.

[aadarsh-kannyaa]

When Rajesh Khanna said, "Babumushaey, zindagi badi honi chahiye, lambi nahi" we all felt that..

[salmankhanholics]

★ Pathaan and The  SUPERSTARS Of Indian Cinema!

February 8, 2023

Pathaan has smashed records at the box office and it should put into no doubt who are the superstars of INDIA are. The film confirms the box office clout of Shahrukh Khan which had not gone anywhere despite the last decade not being as kind as the decade before. There was a box office change towards the end of 2000-2010 decade where digital prints allowed far wider releases on day one and as this process got bigger and bigger it meant the genre which was the forte of Shahrukh Khan was never going to get record numbers. But through the 2010-2020 decade the numbers coming with films which were not action films were still huge.

Pathaan had a guest role for Salman Khan and the public response has to seen to be believed and this should be enough for the naysayers who have appreaed due to his last few films not doing as well as expected. Stardom does not dissapear with a few films failing at the box office, just like it does not come overnight and takes many films to establish.

The Hindi film industry is probably the most secular place there is in India but the fact that the biggest stars of India over the last two decades are Muslim has not sat well in some quarters of the country and the media over the last few years. In fact the third biggest also with Aamir Khan though this is arguable with Hrithik Roshan and Akshay Kumar in the fold as well. The cinema going audience does not care one bit about religion and within the industry nobody notices the religion baring when things get bought up from the outside. There are these non secular voices also within the industry but the way the industry has functioned for decades these people soon become outcasts and work will just dry up.

The last few years has seen this Pan India thing pop up so you have regional stars names being put up as the biggest superstars of the country laughable as it may seem. There are no doubt some great directors in the Southern industries so it is possible their films can do well in the Hindi belts but that hardly means the actors in these films become stars and superstardom is far away except for the regional one which they probably have already..

India has seen seven stars achieve megastardom and two of them are Salman Khan and Shahrukh Khan. The others being Dilip Kumar, Rajendra Kumar, Dharmendra, Rajesh Khanna and Amitabh Bachchan. There is not one name in sight from regional film industries and yet today you see names like Prabhas, Yash, Allu Arjun and others put up with there with two superstars who are not only the biggest superstars of the day but among the biggest ever.

This is not to say that someone from the regional industry cannot become a huge superstar tomorrow because if the public takes to you then anything can happen but to reach the level of above names will take some doing not only for the regional stars but even for Hindi filmstars.

The simple reason why the the big superstars have come from the Hindi film industry is because the language has a wider reach. If other languages had a reach as wide as Hindi then maybe it would be a different story. Yes movies can be dubbed but that is the film reaching out and not the actor.  

Basically the negativity towards the Hindi film industry has led to many claims as to which is the biggest film industry and who are the biggest stars and when the national media is like this you get the regional one badmouthing Hindi cinema as and pushing their own which is natural. But at the end of the day nothing much has changed despite the claims as the HINDI film industry easily remains the biggest film industry in India as content may go wrong but that does not change the reach.

 As for the stars, Salman Khan and Shahrukh Khan remain the biggest stars in India and that does not look like changing for sometime yet even though the starpower may not be as big as it was other points in their careers