By the time I started watching movies, Rajesh Khaana was a Superstar in passe. But my mother used to tell me that in her time girls used to go crazy for Rajesh Khanna aka Kaka. They used marry with his photo, write letters to him with their blood and what not. Rajesh Khanna’s soul might have departed but his fans still remembers him.
Yasser Usman has come up with many untold stories of this superstar which will be a delight for his yesteryear fans and we as a new generation will get more to know about Kaka. Rajesh Khanna : The Untold Story of India’s First Suprstar by Yasser Usman is a biography written after his death but promises to have many anecdotes and shocking facts.
In this riveting biography, journalist Yasser Usman examines Rajesh Khanna’s dramatic, colourful life in its entirety: from little-known facts about his childhood to the low-down on his relationships and rivalries, from his ambitious hopes to his deep-seated insecurities. What emerges is a tantalizingly written, meticulously researched chronicle of a fascinating and mercurial man–one who was both loved and feared by those closest to him. It is a story that encapsulates the glittering, seductive, cut-throat world of Bollywood at its best and its worst.