“I spent my life with him as I USED TO BE 16 once I got married. He was not a standard man, he was an overly special man,” Dimple said at the sidelines of the inauguration of “Retrospective of Rajesh Khanna-Superstar Forever” on the Siri Fort auditorium Saturday.
“There are such a lot of things I WILL say about him but what's very very special about him is that his DNA was that of superstar,” she added.
Recalling the previous couple of days she spent with Rajesh Khanna, Dimple said: “In the previous couple of days he said to me ‘Pack up, the show is over’. He also said that ‘I lived my life with lot of grace and please be sure that it lives forever’.”
The retrospective is being organized by the Directorate of Film Festivals (DFF) and the Ministry of data and Broadcasting as a tribute to the cinema legend, who died July 18 at his Bandra residence after a protracted illness. He was 69.
The three-day event starts Saturday and can screen ten of the actor’s landmark films. These are “Aap Ki Kasam”, “Aradhana”, “Aakhri Khat”, “Amar Prem”, “Kati Patang”, “Ittefaq”, “Avishkaar”, “Bawarchi”, “Safar” and “Anand”.
The 55-year-old Dimple, who was accompanied by daughter Rinke, thanked the ministry for organising the retrospective and help Rajesh Khanna fans relive the memories.
“I love to salute his each fan for having made this possible. I FEEL the only thing that he would have said if alive today to his fans is – ‘humein tumse pyar kitna yeh hum nahi jaante, magar jee nahi sakte tumhare bina’.”
“I want to thank DFF and the ideas and broadcasting ministry for having this retrospective. Thank your for giving a possibility to relive his memories,” she said.
Also present on the opening ceremony was producer-director Om Prakash, who worked with Kaka, as Rajesh Khanna was fondly called, in “Aap Ki Kasam”.
“It’s the good gesture to bear in mind Kaka along with his films including ‘Aap Ki Kasam’, during which I had the privilege to cast him. Rajesh and that i had an association for therefore a few years. He was an excessively warm-hearted person and an ideal actor. I FEEL he was an asset and rather pride of any filmmaker he worked with,” said Om Prakash. – IANS
