After his death, 64 unplanned suitcases were found in Ashirvad, the house of Rajesh Khanna.
Finally, it was just left behind Stardom Rajesh Khanna, but was the silence of uncontrolled suitcase. Perhaps the echo of a life that longed to connect, yet chose solitude.
In short
- After his death, 64 unplanned suitcases were found in Rajesh Khanna’s house
- Khanna preferred to host people in his bungalow and still demanded loneliness
- Khanna died in 2012, wife Dimple Kapadia and daughters survived
Gautam Chintmani’s ‘Dark Star: The Lonalism of Being Rajesh Khanna’ tells the story of the person who was India’s first superstar – an icon, yet an puzzle. While the book shows Khanna’s meteorite growth in the film industry, it also portrays him as a mystery – a person who revealed in his stardom and never left his regial lifestyle during his fall.
An excerpt from the book shows how Khanna loved to love during his foreign trips. For a personality like his king, he often bought gifts for people, but often forgot about him after purchasing.
Chintamani writes in the ‘Dark Star’ that after Khanna’s death in 2012, more than 64 packed suitscases were found in his bungalows, Ashirvad, who had taken the gifts, which he brought from abroad, but never gave it.
Part reads:
These uncontrolled suitcases stood as a will for Khanna’s loneliness or selective companionship. He nurtured the people around his bungalow, often recalling about the days of his pride, his colleagues who were no longer around, and an industry that completely changed to the 2000s.
Book Note:
The author tries to read the symbolism of those uncontrolled suitcases.
Khanna, a superstar like someone else, died in Mumbai on July 18, 2012 after a prolonged illness. He is alive by his wife, Dimple Kapadia and daughters, Twinkle and Rinke Khanna.
