II – Biography Profile of Super Star Rajesh Khanna

Name	Rajesh Khanna
Nick Name	Jatin Khanna (Real Name) Kaka
Birth Date	29 December 1942
Birth Place	Amritsar – Punjab – India
Zodiac Sign	Capricorn
Debut Film	Aakhri Khat (1966) as Govind
Actor Biography Profile Rajesh Khanna joined the film industry in 1966 after winning an All India Talent Contest jointly organized by United Producers and Filmfare. His film debut was in Aakhri Khat which went unnoticed. He achieved overnight stardom with Shakti Samantha’s ‘Aradhna” (1969). He became the craze of the nation, the first no. 1 superstar of Hindi films and remained so for next 6 years. Some of his most successful films in this period included Do Raaste (1969), Anand (1970), Kati Patang (1970), Amar Prem (1971), Andaaz (1971), Bawarchi (1972) and Namak Haraam (1973). During his heyday he would be mobbed during public appearances. Fans kissed his car, which would be covered with lipstick marks, and lined the road, cheering and chanting his name. Female fans sent him letters written in their own blood. During the 1970s, He left Anju Mahendru and married Dimple Kapadia, a Bollywood actress who had just made her film debut in Bobby. At the time of Kapadia’s film debut, she was sixteen years old; Khanna was thirty-four. They became the parents of Twinkle Khanna and Rinke Khanna, who would also become Bollywood actresses. Khanna and Kapadia separated in the early 1980s. Rajesh Khanna won the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award in 2004. Khanna was also a Member of Parliament for the New Delhi constituency (1991-96).

Super Star Rajesh Khanna campaigning for the December 1 Assembly election

Loudspeaker is passé, personal contact the in thing
Tribune News Service

New Delhi, November 29, 2003.
With campaigning for the December 1 Assembly election ending today, the stage is set for polling on Monday. Eight odd million voters are eligible to vote in NCT of Delhi. The Election Commission (EC) has said any candidate trying to violate the restrictions imposed on campaigning would face imprisonment or a fine or both.

The candidates spent the day walking from house to house to canvas for support and holding public meetings in a bid to reach out to as many voters as they could. The evening brought to a close three weeks of intense activity in which political parties wooed the voters with personal contact programmes, traditional long-winded speeches and hi-tech gadgets.

Despite the presence of cinema and television stars, the campaigning has remained a low-key affair in the presence of strict EC regulations. The electioneering this time has remained focussed on public meetings, personal contact programmes and distribution of handbills. The use of vehicles and loudspeakers has been barred by the EC.

Several companies of paramilitary forces have been requisitioned for the smooth conduct of polling. An estimated 55,000 polling officers, assisted by 35,000 security personnel, had been assigned the task for the peaceful conduct of the election. Security would be stepped up along the border with Haryana and Uttar Pradesh.

Thirty polling stations have been identified as “hyper-sensitive” and 200 polling stations as “sensitive”. There are 84.24 lakh voters eligible to exercise their franchise in the Capital. Votes will be cast using the ten thousand-odd EVMs. The EC has approved as many as 8,900 polling stations in NCT of Delhi.

The EC has also appointed 36 observers for the nine districts of NCT of Delhi – New Delhi (2), South Delhi (5), South West Delhi (4), North West Delhi (5), East Delhi (4), North East Delhi (4), Central Delhi (3), North Delhi (4) and West Delhi (5). Also, three polling officers instead of four, besides a presiding officer, would be deployed.