On Stats Alone, The Most Popular Actor In The History Of Cinema!
The only actor to enjoy near God-like status across the length and breadth of India for a quarter century!
Elected in several expert online polls, as The Greatest Actor In The History Of World Cinema !
With 100+ All-Time Blockbusters- 48 Platinum Jubilee hits + 27 Golden Jubilee hits + 26 Silver Jubilee Hits, & 17
average hits, over 25 yrs.
So these quite wonderful film business websites have come up with a inflation adjusted analysis of few of his random films, which I shall present about now, just to open the eyes of today's audiences, to just the massive quantum of collections, achieved by this one actor alone.
They've done this chronologically for just few of his mildly to very successful (~42/125 ie 1/3rd) lead/parallel lead films leaving out vast sums of his other massively successful films , from late 60s to late 90s, & only inflation-adjusted worldwide collection numbers, so audiences of today can get a decent idea.
1. Raaz - 284 Crores
2. Bandhan - 437 Crores
3. Aradhana - 1092 Crores
4. Ittefaq - 266 Crores
5. Doli - 344 Crores
6. Do Raaste - 1014 Crores
7. Kati Patang - 540 Crores
8. Safar - 426 Crores
9. The Train - 284 Crores
10. Sachcha Jhutha - 781 Crores
11. Aan Milo Sajna - 710 Crores
12. Amar Prem - 387 Crores
13. Mehboob Ki Mehndi - 233 Crores
14. Anand - 220 Crores
15. Haathi Mere Saathi - 903 Crores
16. Andaz - 516 Crores
17. Maryada - 581 Crores
18. Dushman - 644 Crores
19. Apna Desh - 492 Crores
20. Shehzada - 223 Crores
21. Daag - 689 Crores
22. Namak Haraam - 212 Crores
23. Aap Ki Kasam - 311 Crores
24. Prem Nagar - 440 Crores
25. Ajnabee - 243 Crores
26. Roti - 388 Crores
27. Prem Kahani - 168 Crores
28. Maha Chor - 143 Crores
29. Mehbooba - 177 Crores
30. Chhaila Babu - 197 Crores
31. Aashiq Hoon Baharon Ka - 146 Crores
32. Muqabla - 175 Crores
33. Amar Deep - 139 Crores
34. Thodisi Bewafai - 143 Crores
35. Kudrat - 174 Crores
36. Fiffty Fiffty - 179 Crores
37. Rajput - 339 Crores
38. Ashanti - 217 Crores
39. Dharam Kanta - 272 Crores
40. Maqsad - 318 Crores
41. Swarg - 85 Crores
42. Aa Ab Laut Chalen - 153 Crores
Have a look at that. And we've just begun checking (a random 1/3rd of his films) !
He was born on 29 December 1942 in Amritsar, Punjab,
India, and entered Hindi films in the year 1965 when began
shooting for Raaz and did 180 films - 163 feature films and 17 short
films. By 2011, he held the record for maximum number of films as solo
lead hero and least number of multi star cast films in Hindi Cinema. Of
the 163 films - 106 were solo hero films and 22 were multi star films
and 29 films had him in special effective guest appearances(though only
97 solo and 20 two hero films only released and 11 unreleased from 1966
till 2013).He ranked first and won the United Producers All India
Contest held in 1965 by beating 10000 candidates and the prize of it
was acting in films Akhri Khat and Raaz. He first tasted success as an
actor with 3 consecutive hit films like Aakhri Khat,Raaz and Aurat.His
first brush with super-stardom was when outburst from his fans forced
the director to change the story of Baharaon Ke Sapne's ending from a
tragic one to a happy one after 1 week of its release. Though Baharon
Ke Sapne was average in some centers it was declared flop in most
places. In 1969 Rajesh Khanna achieved super-stardom with Shakti
Samantha's 'Aradhana" (1969).He became the craze of the nation, and
critics across India started calling him the First Superstar of both
Indian Cinema (No. 1 Actor) and Hindi Films and remained so alone as
the Superstar for 7 years (1969-1976) and had to share the status with
Amitabh from 1977-1991 till he left films to join politics in 1991.He
overtook his predecessors Dev-Dilip-Raj, Shammi Kapoor,Rajendra Kumar
in terms of extreme popularity with audience and critics, quality of
performances, variety of roles and films by doing quickly 47 films from
1966-75 which included 36 Golden Jubilee Hits(21 of the 36 were
platinum) and 4 silver silver jubilee hits and only 7 flops in 9 years.
He also made the world record of having 17 successive super-hits in 3
years from 1969-71 which included 15 consecutive solo super-hit films
and 2 two hero films namely Andaz and Maryada. The main difference
between him and his predecessors,successors, contemporaries was that
Khanna's films ran successfully in whole of India and not just Hindi
speaking areas and he did films of every genre simultaneously and has
more critically acclaimed films to his credit than all other Hindi
Actors of every generation. He stands out even by selection of his
films as he regularly did both offbeat alternate cinema along with
commercial potboiler films and had success in both.He introduced
intelligent cinema to the masses with ease. Those 15 consecutive hit
solo lead hero films from 1969-71 were Aradhana, Doli, Bandhan,
Ittefaq, Do Raaste, Khamoshi, Safar, The Train, Kati Patang, Sachaa
Jhutha, Aan Milo Sajna, Mehboob Ki Mehendi, Choti Bahu, Anand and Haathi
Mere Saathi. His next release Maalik flopped ending thereby the record.
Anju Mahendru was his girl friend in 1968-1972, the then aspiring
actress but they had breakup in 1972 when Anju was not ready for
marriage while Khanna wanted to marry her, and Khanna married his fan
Dimple Kapadia in March 1973, 8 months before Dimple's debut film Bobby
released in theaters.
Khanna's pairing with Mumtaz always produced much success as they had
all of their 8 films together as major platinum jubilee hits.His films
with Sharmila Tagore, Asha Parekh, Tanuja, Hema Malini and Zeenat Aman was a favorite with
audiences too in 70's.
From 1976 on-wards till 1978, he had 5 box office hits as lead hero(2
silver jubilee hits, 2 platinum hits, 1 average hit), 3 hits in guest
appearances, 1 flop in guest appearance and 8 films of him as the main
lead flopped unexpectedly although his performances and the film's
music were praised by critics and thereby 76-78 is considered his bad
phase.
K.Balaji wanted to establish himself in Hindi film industry as a
producer and thereby wanted to remake his Tamil film Sivaji Ganeshan
starer Dheepam in Hindi. At a time when Khanna's films were not working
at the box office, Khanna got this film out of the blue and went on to
become a big hit. Khanna bounced back with twin success of Amardeep and
Prem Bandhan then again started giving many critically acclaimed and
commercially successful films including 35 Golden Jubilee Hits(includes
25 platinum) and 14 SJH starting from 1979 till 1991 and had 9 average
hits from 1976-1996. In the 80's his films opposite Tina Munim, Hema
Malini, Reena Roy, Rekha, Shabana Azmi, Smita Patil and Poonam Dhillon
were big hits.
He produced three films and co-produced 4 films. He had total 105 box
office hits(91 as lead hero and 14 in guest appearance) from
1966-1991.He left film industry in 1991 and entered politics by joining
the Congress Party in 1991 and became a member of parliament. Khanna
was awarded Filmfare Special award in 1991 for having starred in 101
films as the solo lead hero(92 solo film released till 1992 and
includes 7 unreleased solos and Anuraag) and having done just 21 two
hero films(only 19 released till 1991) but having appeared in 153 films
in short span of 25 years between 1966-1991. Has won most number of All
India Critics Award for Best Actor for a record 7 times and was
nominated for same 10 times.He holds record for being the actor to win
maximum BJFA awards for Best Actor - 4 and was nominated the most for
it - 25 times.He is still adored and fondly remembered by the masses.
Songs from his films adorn the lips of youth and adolescents. He was
the first mega-star and has left behind a storehouse of the finest
moments in film history.
