Khanna became a rare newcomer who had his own MG sports car, who once struggled to get work in theatre and films in the early 1960s.
In 1962 Khanna played a wounded mute soldier in the play Andha Yug and impressed with his performance the chief guest suggested that he get into films soon. Khanna gradually started taking interest in theatre, did many of stage and theatre plays in his school and college days, and won many prizes in inter-college drama competitions. Sebastian's Goan High School with his friend Ravi Kapoor, who later took the stage name Jeetendra. Khanna lived in Saraswati Niwas, in Thakurdwar near Girgaon, Mumbai. His adoptive parents belonged to a family of railway contractors who had moved from Lahore to Bombay in 1935. Lala worked as headmaster of the MC High School in Burewala (in present-day Vehari District, Punjab, Pakistan). His biological parents were Lala Hiranand Khanna and Chandrani Khanna. His father had migrated from West Punjab to Gali Tiwarian in Amritsar. He was adopted and raised by Chunnilal Khanna and Leelawati Khanna, who were relatives of his biological parents. Rajesh Khanna was born on 29 December 1942, in Amritsar in the present-day state of Punjab, in a Hindu Khatri family as Jatin Khanna. In 2018, a one kilometre fitness trail in Lajpat Nagar National Park was named after Khanna, which was inaugurated by his wife Dimple Kapadia. In 2014, his biography Rajesh Khanna: The Untold Story of India's First Superstar by Yasser Usman was published by Penguin Books. He has been honoured with a stamp and statue in his likeness, and a road renamed after him by the Prime Minister of India. Khanna died on 18 July 2012, after a period of illness.
Their elder daughter Twinkle Khanna is an actress who is married to actor Akshay Kumar, while they also have a younger daughter Rinke Khanna. He was married to Dimple Kapadia in March 1973, eight months before her debut film Bobby was released and had two daughters from the marriage. He was a Member of Parliament in the 10th Lok Sabha from New Delhi Lok Sabha constituency between 19, elected in the 1992 New Delhi by-election as an Indian National Congress candidate. In 2005, he was honoured with the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award on the 50th Anniversary of the Filmfare Awards. Khanna made his debut in 1966 with Aakhri Khat which was India's first official Oscar Entry in 1967. His accolades include four BFJA Awards and five Filmfare Awards, and in 2013, he was posthumously awarded the Padma Bhushan, India's third highest civilian honour. He was the highest-paid actor in Hindi cinema throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Dubbed the "First Superstar" of Bollywood, he consecutively starred in a record 15 successful films between 1969 to 1971.
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