Rajesh Khanna
Rajesh Khanna is an Indian Bollywood actor who was extremely popular in the 1970s. He also served as a Member of Parliament for the New Delhi constituency.
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Golden glimpses
Golden glimpses of superstar Rajesh Khanna proving that the decades may come and go but the romantic hero’s charisma will remain intact for the rest of the coming decades and decades.
V, India - 17 January 2007
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The Cary Grant of India
Rajesh Khanna irrevocably impacted Indian cinema and culture like no actor before him. His acting perfection and application of talent were drawn solely from his inward vision. Khanna did not cultivate the phenomenal attributes that created his "superstardom" by reason or will, but through the connectedness to his own persona that the masses then idealized. For he is one who is impervious as to who is ahead and who is behind. Khanna’s inward vision, a special gift from the divine leads him always. Today he is the indomitable and highly respected veteran of one hindred and fifty films. For me, he is like the Cary Grant of India. Both actors are Capricorns that have played the widest variety of roles without ever bankrupting the fascination of the audience. Khanna is the platinum standard for landmark performances and sheer screen presence. Ever since the camera discovered his photogenia it has been having a love affair with it. His Byronic inspirations of romance as autographed elegantly on screen endure. Rajesh Khanna is a lovemark because he kindles our affections at the highest denominators and that is a life nobly lived means.
Stratis, Canada - 07 January 2007
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An actor par excellence
On his sixty fourth birthday, I may highlight some inner capabilities of the FIRST SUPER STAR OF INDIA as a most refined actor, rather, an actor par excellence, which I have experienced for the last four decades through his outstanding performances. These are in addition to his classic facial expressions which emerge effortlessly on his face and the style and arrogance brought by him on the silver screen. The rigorous use of his voice to communicate a character’s lines and express emotion, which he achieved through attention to diction and projection through correct breathing and articulation. It has also achieved by him through the tone and emphasis that an real actor puts on words. Characterization/Physicalisation of a role in order to create a believable character for the audience and to use the acting space appropriately and correctly. Use of gesture to complement the voice, interact with other actors and to bring emphasis to the words in a play, as well as having symbolic meaning.
mintoo, India - 03 January 2007
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Taking movies ahead in quantam leaps
Rajesh Khanna evoked a type of hysteria in India that only Elvis and the Beatles did in the West. The receptivity to his persona was due to the actor’s exuberant presence on screen. The masses felt a type of "deliverance" to a higher and better level through his films. They were elevated and taken forward. They wanted this progress; to cast off the "static" patterns of the past. There was no mere identification with Khanna. He broke all previous success barriers without a godfather or godmother to guide him or shower their favouritism to him. He did it alone and so was called "superstar" for the same reason. Rajesh Khanna in the eyes of the Indian cinema-goer was taking movies ahead in quantam leaps. Wherever he took them, they would follow. This was a celluolid utopia no one had experienced before or since. As an actor, he broke out of orbit to become a "superstar" and lead. Rajesh Khanna delivered the cinema from a usual place, and ended "where they lived well" to the other, "but we lived better". Until another breaks his unforgettable groundbreaking precedent of euphoric conditions, he is still ’the pride of the nation" and the "national superstar."
Ssefra, Germany - 03 December 2006
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The original phenomenon of Indian cinema
Rajesh Khanna: the original phenomenon of Indian cinema. Yes, he is an unique mix of style and substance. Rajesh Khanna rewrote cinematic performance’s syntax, yet will be remembered as a peerless romantic hero forever. He has established himself as a most successful Superstar-Actor-both as a romantic hero and a most versatile serious actor, who can perform emotions and inner feelings with depth effortlessly. He ruled Bollywood like no one else before as well as after him. His class movies like Anand, Aradhna, Dushman, Haathi Mere Saathi, Amar Prem, Avataar, Prem Nagar, Amar Deep, Dard, Babu, Amrit, etc., etc., etc. got him a place of honour in Indian cinema’s hall of fame in such a manner that nobody can be matched with him in terms of balancing artistic and commercial aspects simultaneously.
mintoo, India - 22 November 2006
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A lovemark of humility
It is impossible not to acknowledge Rajesh Khanna as the colossus of Indian cinema. From his films we have been imparted the wisdom to know that "pain" is but an element of life. This Titan however, has surpassed himself in all portrayls by the faith he has inspired that "life "is stronger than the element. That life and love are capable to counterbalance all. Rajesh Khanna is endowed with the charismatic capability of profound giving. He is a lovemark of humility.
Ashok, United States - 16 October 2006
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The truest of actors
The truest of actors is Rajesh Khanna for he has scorned illustration, overstatement and vain glory. He makes the invisible, visible; the poetic and unreal, real. He replaces an impoverished strand of words as elocuted by others suited to inspiring visions with the natural power of recalling the known. And it is thus the world explodes at his will and is whatever he has conjured. Analogy then yields to identification. That is how and why he has gained the title "superstar". Rajesh Khanna is a lovemark as wondrous as a Homeric rhapsody.
Sunmi, India - 12 October 2006
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The Immortal Lover of Indian Cinema
Our profound gratitudes to the Immortal Lover of Indian Cinema. Through the Silver Screen, he revealed the glorious journey of our precious life before us. We learnt through his classic performance how to laugh, how to cry, how to love, and above all how to live gracefully, maintaining highly moral humanity.
Jatin, India - 11 October 2006
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Eminent and illustrious thespian
The eminent and illustrious thespian Rajesh Khanna is also revered for his eclectic taste and discerning mind. He conveys that everything is possible when what we see and what we imagine, not only continue to interact, but wind up being truth. That is where Rajesh Khanna wants us to be; in that extolled and idealized truth he has emoted and imbibed into our psyches from celluloid. Wherever the dignity of the heart is not present, we will not find him. He has taught me that whoever we do not forget, will remember us again. Khanna is lovemark of infinite beauty and the serendipity of dramatic poetic reflections that are unflawed. Yet he is a lovemark of truths greater than those that are yet to be discovered.
Sunmi, India - 10 October 2006
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Romantic spirit
A deep longing in the soul is awakened when we think of Rajesh Khanna. His romantic spirit wounds and heals us still. It makes us ponder if a gentle zephyr breeze is capable of sustaining love. Rajesh Khanna has stopped our passageways with flowering trees. Without remembrance of him it is impossible to leave. His acting excellence has dressed us all in elements that revive life, so that we may remain. His cinematic portrayals exorcize us to return; as if we had a choice. He is the lovemark that levels out all physiognomies with love. Khanna is the lovemark that unites lemon blossoms with pebbles. Rose-nymph laurels attest to it in their quivering...
Sunmi, India - 08 October 2006
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