Rajesh Khanna's success as a romantic hero in dozens of films in India in the 1960's and 70 made him one of the first superstars of Bollywood, died Wednesday in Mumbai. He was 69.
His death was said to have followed a long illness, was confirmed by a son-in-law, actor Akshay Kumar.
Mr. Khanna, a handsome actor and aerodynamics of a well-to-Punjabi family, played a leading role in many films that the interception of the greatest social tensions that arise in Indian society during the second generation after independence.
In "Namak haram" (1973), has played a leading trade union struggle against the rich factory owners in Mumbai. In "Love Hit" (1972), he played a man who falls for a prostitute.
He achieved fame in the 1969 film "Aradhana", playing a dashing pilot who dies in an accident, leaving behind the woman who married in secret to live as an outcast, the orphan son.
Mr. Khanna plays a role rather romance, that by convention Bollywood often necessary to perform its most passionate scenes, while the synchronization of lips long passages of opera songs in Hindi, all sung by another person actually .
But among the leaders of his time, was considered hard to choose a number of functions as a bad guy, or at least problems.
He played a drunk truck driver who accidentally runs over and kills a man in "Dushman" (1971), a jealous husband who abandons his pregnant wife in "Kasama AAP Ki" (1974) and a serial killer in "Rose Red" (1980 ).
Mr. Khanna was a star at the top for nearly a decade, until the birth of the action hero of Bollywood genre of late 1970. Between 1969 and 1972, he appeared in 15 consecutive shots. "Khanna witnessed great popularity, so that no one had seen or imagined," Javed Akhtar, a writer and poet, told The Times of India. "In fact, from 1969 to 1973, was a race horse." For their fans has always been known as "Kaka", a nickname meaning "uncle", "brother" or "baby" in some parts of India.
In its glory days as a hero after Mr. Khanna fans around the world, mobbing his public appearances. The women planted kisses on the limousines have ridden in. He said he had received marriage proposals written in blood.
After his film fame diminished, Mr. Khanna was a Member of Parliament for the Congress Party from 1991 to 1996. He remained active in politics until the disease has started to slow last year.
In the television interview in 1990, Mr. Khanna said he was prepared for the celebrities. "I never thought I would be so successful," he said. "At some point I was a superstar." The sudden end of his celebrity disorient him, he said. However, he added: "Of course, the show must go on trends are changing people are looking for something new ..."
Jatin Khanna, who later took the name of Rajesh, was born in Amritsar, Punjab, December 29, 1942, and was adopted by a wealthy couple. He made his film debut with "Aakhri khat" ("The last letter"), the entry in India for best foreign language film Oscar in 1967.
In 1973 he married 16 years, actress, Dimple Kapadia. Although they separated in 1984, the couple never divorced. She survives him with their two daughters, Twinkle Khanna and Rinke.
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