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I was born in an odd generation that somehow missed the Rajesh Khanna euphoria. I missed inheriting it from my parents, who had been young and film-crazy when Ashok Kumar, Shammi Kapoor and Dev Anand had been in their prime.

And I missed being part of it; I was born just after Rajesh Khanna—who had one of the shortest-ever reigns of any superstar anywhere—had come to the last of his fifteen-in-a-row super hit films.

Yes, I admit it: I am not too much of a Rajesh Khanna fan.

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I like him alright; I think he's gorgeous in films like Aradhana, and so very poignant in Anand. But I wouldn't go out of my way to read a biography of the man. So, when I received a review copy of Gautam Chintamani's Dark Star: The Loneliness of Being Rajesh Khanna (Harper Collins Publishers India, P-ISBN: 978-93-5029-620-2; E-ISBN: 978-93-5136-340-8; ₹499; 242 pages), I was a little ambivalent.

I was not particularly interested in the li