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Rajesh Khanna the super star. I had one memory of Rajesh Khanna. My Grandmother was working in Dr Dholkia's hospital. When Rajesh Khanna was admitted in that hospital (hhati mere sathi). She was his nurse and he use to call her maaji.

Really interesting to know that Aradhana was the milestone for Rajesh khanna and Kishor kumar.. the movie had fantastic songs❤️ Loved watching this amazing video👌🏻

I was born in 1969, same year of aradhana. I was named Rajesh due to this hit movie.

Shakti Samanta was born at my neighbour village Bokra...always proud of him

Sadly most Indians had misunderstood that people of Tamilnadu are anti Hindi. Anti Hindi propaganda was its peak during the release of Aradhana only Hindi speaking people and few Urdu speaking people of T N used to watch Hindi films Aradhana was released in a mini theatre soon it was a resounding hit Tamizhians who had no knowledge of Hindi at all mass and class liked the film especially the songs and it became a super duper hit in whole of Tamilnadu. It ran to housefull shows for more than a year. Aradhana records were all sold out. Hindi lyrics were transliterated in Tamizh and sold like hot cakes. Aradhana songs were a must at wedding receptions and musical shows. The locals who sang the songs could not pronounce Hindi properly and had a heavy accent but sang with passion and were accepted wholeheartedly by the audience. It’s a milestone for Hindi films in TN many Tamizhlilans named their sons as Rajesh or Rajesh Kanna ! Thereafter all Rajesh Khanna films were hits in Tamilnadu. Om Shanti

@70mm with Rahoul My mother studied in Mount Carmel college in Bangalore. After Aradhana released, one day nearly 3/4 college was missing. Many students had bunked college to go to the nearby movie theatre. The principal took a college bus and went to the theater. She got the screening stopped. Loaded all students on the bus and took them back to college.

An evergreen film which I saw at the age of 6 in 1969...and learnt to sing my first Hindi song ...mere sapno ki rani...😀😀

I remember seeing Aradhana when it was released in 1969 in Delhi. We had seen it in Sheila Theatre (India's first 70 mm cinema) in Pahargunj. I was 13 years old. The vibrant colours, the songs are unforgettable. Thank you providing the back story for the film.

Aradhana was indeed a cult film of that time. The lethal combination of Rajesh Khanna- Sharmila Tagore- Shakti Samanta and SD Burman created celluloid magic

Rajesh Khanna was one of the finest actors of Hindi film industry, my mother worked in Rajesh Khanna's home she saw almost all first screening of Rajesh Khanna with him. Aradhana, Kati patang, Anand etc. No one till today could break his record of 10 back to back super hits....

How Kishore Kumar involved with Aradhana movie that was also an interesting story. Actually Md.Rafi was only choice as singer of that movie. But he was in the tour that time. Shakti samant was not ready to wait for Rafi sab.He proposed name of Kishore Kumar as singer. But Sachin Dev Burman had doubt about Kishore whether he would sing for another actor or not. He said "Kishore gayega?"But Shakti Samanta replied "agar ap kahenge to fir kiu nahin gayega ".Then they went Kishore Kumar's house. And...rest is the history. ...

Really interesting.........and Rajesh Khanna is my all time favourite.....

One reason, was the film’s songs. Kishore and Sachin Dev Barman created magic. Some light on that?

SD Burman fell sick during the making of this film. Shakti da requested R D to do record songs. S D Burman had recorded few songs with Rafi. R D recorded songs with Kishore! Most people have forgotten this fact. Shakti da roped in R D for his next film Kati Patang which turned out to be a a musical hit

What a story. Reminds me of a story i've heard long back. May be, you can shed light to this. Kishore Kumar wanted to make a very low budget bangla movie called 'Lukochuri'. The objective was to make a flop to avoid the tax implication of a huge success he had with another film that year. Finally, lukochuri became such a big hit that it superseded the earlier hit by some multitude. Shakti Samant had two big movies stuck and wanted to make a low budget movie. Ended up making a cult.

Acchi cheez kuch bhi karke ban he jaati hai Interesting video ❤️👍🏼

It's knowledgeable video, Aradhna is a beautiful movie. Good movie to attributes mother.nice work to give knowledge about Bollywood. THANK you brother. God bless you

Good video about Rajesh Khanna 😀

Fantastic story telling with amazing bolly facts about a nice movie. Still I remember the songs Mere Sapno ke Rani... and Rup Tera Mastana...from thus movie Aradhana. Really you are a storehouse of bolly info. 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👌🏽👏🏽👏🏽

The production of block buster 'Aradhana' has such a thrilling/surprising story, who could guess? Rahoul Saab, you rock.

You could have easily missed people, they are with you for some reason. This comes true in this. You never know who and when can life change. Shakti samanta sir simply made a iconic movie with lot of complications. 😉👍

I've personally witnessed the phenomenon of changing fate of kishor kumar and him turning into a mega star/super singer after Aradhna. Those 4 fateful songs of kishor were a highlight of the film and proved a turning point of his singing career. Being a college student from Pakistan in those days ,had no access to the movie. Had to wait till VCR days to watch it many years later and learn about RK and rest. But Kishor kumar is another story. My favourite from the biggining and all through the young days. Great insight given about a movie which formed part of our early days .

As per my knowledge firstly Shakti Samat approached Asha parekh for Aradhna. However she refused to work in view of old lady. Due to this ,relation between Shakti samant and Asha ji became strained. which latter on become normmal. I appreciate your style of narrating the episode.

After its stupendous success in Madras and Tamilnadu the so called anti Hindi Tamizh people recycled the hit tunes of Aradhana for other films. It was also remade in Tamizh and Telugu average success as most moviegoers had watched the original and the remakes were no patch to the original. Roop tera Mastana song was a smash hit in Southern India. Still very popular

Excellent back-story about a memorable film Aradhana. Well narrated.

Aap ko bohat award milega zaroor. U r so good mate and this made the Superstar like never b4 and Shakti Samantha the making of Unforgettable Rajesh Kaka Zindabad.

Thank you Rahoulji. Wonderful presentation! Glad Aradhana made it. Great movie beautiful music and film direction and cast!

Some very moving scenes . Sharmila ji seeing her grown up son walking towards her after stepping off the plane and kishore ji's voice in the background .

Kya Baat hai sirji, maza aagaya , awesome presentation. Thank you.. looking for such more videos

Nice Presentation.

Rajesh Khanna...the greatest star

Great info. Doing excellent 👌👌 keep sharing 👍👍

What a story on Aradhana Rahoulji...great story on a super duper hit story of Aradhana... Shayad Ishwar ne Shakti Samanta ko ashirwad de diya tha "SAFAL HOGI TERI ARADHANA" , the film changed Hindi Film Industry forever

Tq rahul for the information iam big fan of kaka Even shakti samantha what combination.

Maza ata ha apko sun k, Kise beh movie ya actor k bare ma sun k🥰, jaise koi Kahani SUNA Raha ho or wo Kahani hamare Pasand ki ho, thanks alot

Very riveting story of challenge, setback,confusion, disappointment around films story,aradhana .Gives a great glimpse of their challenges that we will never know except for you Thanks for making this highly informative and educational documentary.

Another amazing revelation about Aradhana film l was only 13 years old and watched at my local cinema

Just Wow..... thanks for sharing

Very well presented video on unknown facts of aradhana movie

Fantastic Video...Kya content khoj ke nikala Issa baar maaja aagaya...👌👌👍👍

Great I heard Something new thanks 🙏 Thier are many stories of this movie... Which I heard in Radio... About how Rajesh Khanna convenience Kishoreda to sing for him... Pls release that story also. And thanks for this information 🙏🙏🙏

Before Selecting Rajesh Khanna for this film,two other hero rejected this film,i think they were Devanand & Shashi Kapoor

Amazing information about aradhna moive 👌 nice

Ara Wah!! Kya masaaledaar vidoe hai, maaza aa gaya 👍

Your style is smooth, & content is interesting. Lot other film journalists are dull & boring, both in videos & articles.

You deserve an award for making such entertaining stories and giving us the real live action on what happened decades ago seriously Aradhana was a beautiful movie n the songs were my dad's favourite, have to say Shakti Samanta really struggled with this one but I guess with his great conviction n determination, came a great ending. Accolades will come to those who believe in their work, just like you Rahoul, another gem in your pocket here.

Nice narrations and story telling. Keeps ond glued to hear more. Well done Rahul bhai

Rahoul - your presentation is excellent. You talk well and your body language is very confident. Your script also leaves no doubt about the incidents that you narrate ( which is quite common with few other presenters). And above all your big smile in the beginning is inimitable. Keep it up.

Superb video. So much information of Bollywood on this channel

Your presentation is really interesting and gets me hooked. Thanks for making the video

thnx a ton for gathering details of such iconic films and sharing with us

Thank you very much for history of my favourite movie and favourite actor Rajesh Khanna love him ,miss him

Beautiful as usual 👍

Your every video takes to newer links and hours are going like minutes. Wonderfully narrated story keeps watcher captivated. And something more ... mystical smile... all the best

Is it true that Sharmila Tagore continued to give Shakti Samanta a lot of trouble during the shooting of the film, and, when dates clashed, ran away to Kolkata to shoot for Sajyajit Ray's Nayak without telling him? Some famous romantic sequences between Rajesh Khanna and Sharrmila Tagore were in fact shot separately?

Br…..It’s. Untold. STORY…..Very good. ..Waiting for next video .. good luck……. USA 🇺🇸 LA

Agar subha ki shuruwaat ho jaye aap ki video dekhne se, toh kya baat hai... Pura din achha se beet jata hai... You definitely deserve a award for making such wonderful videos.. ❤️

Great 👏 information presented in the superb quality style!

Excellent and enjoyable presentation. Very well done!

Rahoul Saab! It's quite interesting to know the unknown stories of Bollywood. You are doing it fine 'with subject' indeed. Keep it up

The way you have presented is admirable, throughout with a smile, continue doing the good work and at this rate it can't falter for sure. Great going

who noticed legendary director subhash ghai in a small role in aradhana movie .

This is ur 3rd video I have seen u actually deserve award so I liked u

Amazing ❤️❤️🙏🙏 ... Thanks for such beautiful video .. Why your name Rahoul rather than Rahul ??

Rohoul, YOU are fantabulous. What details !!! I heard the episode twice. Great. Thank you

बहुत अच्छी और दिलचस्प समीक्षा है. Keep it up.

Bhai ji.... Picchle 3 dinon se aapki videos back to back chal rahi hain 👍🏼🥲🌚✌🏼🔥 .... Lovin it ❤️🤗

Simply amazing and interesting. Narrative style is unique and don't allow you to leave.

You are an excellent narrator. Seen a few of your videos and though not a fan of bollywood I still enjoyed them. What intrigues me is where do you get your obscure and hard to find facts from. Kudos for doing diligent research.

Boht khub Royal super video kakaji ki aradhana ki real story super

Hi Rahoul from Brisbane Australia. 🖐thank you Rahoul for Bollywood stories. Your podcast introduces me alot of beautiful Old Gold movies. Indeed some movies were very famous in my childhood in kabul Afghanistan. We move to Australia in 1980s. Sometimes, I come home from, long day work,This is the best entertainment I have in here. I like to watch the movie after your podcast about the movie. So far I watched Pakeyza last week. I think it was the best movie ever made. I am watching Arraddna now. Keep up the good job mate 👍💚

Nice Rahoul ji,super job done. keep it up,.

As usual great mostly untold facts

Very nice & real information about this film evergreen song and music

Rahul... Smashing presentation... U rock bro... 👍🏻wtng fot ur nxt video..

Good information. Good illustrations. Lots of interesting bits about Aradhana 1969 movie 👏

Beautiful presentation.

Fabulous fantastic

So nice information we all viewers knew today thanks you so much

sir you are so talented about your story telling style., thank you so much.

Rahul sahab apki malumaat sunehre dino ki yaad dilati hy . Thank you for that dil khush krdiya. God bless you..

Excellent work 🌷

I am amazed.. If it is really true.. You deserve an award from viewers..💗💗💗

Lovely info. Just liked it......smash hit.

What a presentation, warre wah. Really superb, No wards. Thanq.

You're the best narrator of these classics. Keep up the good work.

Rahoul ji, Hum is video ko jaroon like karenge, kyonki hai hi bahut achcha!. Mazaa aa gaya. Very nicely made, just like Aradhna was very nicely made. Aap, aapki smile aur story telling are outstanding. Blockbuster.

Excellent narration for an excellent movie.

Rahul bhai Good stuff Khurram from Pakistan keep it up

Love your videos Rahoul Bhai, extremely well researched👏👏

It’s amazing how u narrate the stories. It feels as if I’m living in that era. Beautiful work Rajul jee. Lots of love from “ sarhad paar”.

Sir bada hi interesting khabaar collecti bhi itne taqlif se karte hain aur presentation bhi zabrdazt dete hai KHUSH RAHIEY SIR GOD BLESS YOU🙏

Your way of presentation is really amazing... Very lively...

So nicely made in video sir all Bollywood games

Entertaining and informative video 👍

सचिन भौमिक ने तो शक्ति शामन्त की almost वाट लगा ही दी थी। 😃😃 वैसे आराधना फिल्म और उसके गाने , सदा फ्रेश ही लगते है ।

I am from south and not much familiar with Hindi. The narration, voice and pronunciation are so clear that I could understand everything. I went all the way to Bangalore to see this film on the very release day. I was a student then.

Awesome!♥️

Nice Video👌👌👍👍