Bindu Remembers how she Impressed Rajesh Khanna in ‘Do Raaste

With the late Rajesh Khanna, legendary actress Bindu appeared in roughly 13 movies. Here’s an intriguing story she told.

Veteran actress Bindu said how college ladies and boys used to swarm around superstar Rajesh Khanna in large numbers, even forbidding him from entering the film set, after her performance in the 1969 film “Do Raaste,” which also starred Mumtaz, startled the superstar.

She said: “I did a film with Rajesh Khanna called ‘Do Raaste,’ and he was already a star because he had already signed two-three films before that. It was my first experience shooting with him, he was to play my brother-in-law.

“My first scene with him was where I was playing the role of a very arrogant girl and Prem Chopra was portraying my husband. In the sequence, I had to shout at him while he was lying on the sofa, and he was shocked by my performance because he considered me a newcomer,” Bindu said.

Bindu, who is most known for playing Shabnam in the movie Kati Patang, has also appeared in the movies Anpadh, Ittefaq, Chhupa Rustam, Prem Nagar, Phandebaaz, Tyaag, Nafrat, Gehri Chaal, and Dastaan.

With the late Rajesh Khanna, the 81-year-old actress and dancer appeared in roughly 13 movies.

After collaborating with him on “Do Raaste,” Bindu recalled shooting a song with him in one of the subsequent films.

“Post this film, we worked on several films together and became good friends. We once had to go to Mohan studio for a song called ‘Jeevan Sathi,’ and when we got there, we saw there was a huge crowd of college girls and boys screaming and yelling for Rajesh Khanna… we did not have a place to even enter the set, that was how huge his stardom was,” she added.

Bindu is a celebrity guest on the singing reality show “Indian Idol 13” alongside seasoned actress Aruna Irani.

Aruna has appeared in more than 500 films, both in Hindi and other regional languages, and has shared the screen alongside A-list actors like Rajesh Khanna and Amitabh Bachchan.

While sharing her experience of working with them, she said: “Rajesh Khanna was one of the first superstars, and the girls used to be crazy about him, run behind his cars, and give him flying kisses. Post that, there was a time when Amitabh Bachchan was a huge superstar and today also, there is the same craze among the people for him.”

‘Indian Idol 13’ airs on Sony Entertainment Television