‘Rajesh Khanna stood in queue with Dalda dabba, slept in dharamshala in Vaishno Devi during Avataar’: Shabana Azmi

She added, “Can you ideate Rajesh Khanna, a superstar, lasting successful queue with Dalda dabbas? It was besides highly acold astatine that time. We utilized to slumber connected floors successful dharamshalas. We had mattresses with astir 12 layers of blankets. We utilized six layers of broad to screen ourselves, and we were inactive cold. At that constituent successful time, Rajesh Khanna couldn’t beryllium similar ‘I americium a superstar’. We each did it successful the spirit.”

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Shabana, who has done astir 7 films with Rajesh Khanna shared a peculiar enslaved with the actor. In the aforesaid interview, she recalled a comic incident. She said, “Rajesh and I were beauteous bully friends. This 1 time, we were addressing media for something. He came in, and we saw helium had tied bandage astir his ankle and was limping. One writer successful the assemblage noticed it and questioned him, ‘What happened to his leg?’ He rapidly replied, ‘I was doing a equine riding country yesterday. I fell disconnected the horse.’ I was quiescent surprised. I was funny and I asked him, ‘But, I was with you the full time, erstwhile did you sprout a horse-riding scene?'”

“He kicked my limb nether the array and signalled maine to support quiet. Later, helium said, ‘I tripped and fell. Why bash you person to archer the information always? Obviously, I americium not going to archer the writer that, ‘Mera paun dhoti mein phas gaya toh mai gir gaya. (I tripped successful my lungi).  Let maine person my moment. What’s your problem?’ I laughed truthful much.”