This article was first published on July 18, 2015 and is being republished on December 29, 2018, Rajesh Khanna’s birth anniversary. Towards the end of his career, Rajesh Khanna had almost totally disappeared from public view. But you can’t keep a superstar down for long – there is a revival of interest in him and the success of two books on him demonstrates that he continues to hold his fans in thrall. The 1960s were the decade of Eastmancolour romance in Hindi cinemas, full of bubble gum love stories set in locations like Kashmir, Nainital or, for the big budget filmmakers, Switzerland or Paris.