{"id":270521,"date":"2026-01-29T17:53:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T17:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/270521\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T17:53:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T17:53:12","slug":"rajesh-khanna-yelled-at-god-when-he-had-seven-flops-dimple-kapadia-came-running-success-hit-me-i-couldnt-take-failure-hindi-movie-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/270521\/","title":{"rendered":"Rajesh Khanna yelled at God when he had seven flops, Dimple Kapadia came running: ‘Success hit me, I couldn’t take failure’ | Hindi Movie News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Rajesh Rajesh Khanna<\/a> was 31 when he married a much younger, 16-year old Dimple Kapadia<\/a> in 1973. Their marriage left everyone surprised however, he did not want her to continue acting after marriage and that led to leaving movies despite a huge hit like ‘Bobby’. However, soon, after having two daughters – Twinkle<\/a> and Rinkle Khanna, the duo separated. Though, they never officially got divorced. Years later, Dimple reflected on that turbulent phase with rare honesty. Speaking to Pritish Nandy in a 1994 interview, she admitted how ill-prepared she had been for the life she stepped into. She said, \u201cI think we were two very different kinds of people. And I was probably very young to understand what was happening to this man who was a superstar. I mean I have never been able to understand stars and their behaviour patterns at all because I am not one myself. It\u2019s very difficult for me to\u2026 I couldn\u2019t understand it. I just couldn\u2019t understand it.” <\/p>\n

When Rajesh Khanna opened about not allowing Dimple Kapadia to act: ‘I wanted a mother for my children\u2019<\/p>\n

When asked whether that chapter of her life had been traumatic, she replied simply, \u201cYes it was.”Rajesh Khanna, too, spoke openly about his emotional struggles during that period. In a 1990 interview with Movie magazine, he recalled breaking down after enduring a string of box-office failures. He said, \u201cOne after another, seven films had just flopped in a row. It was raining, pitch-dark and up there alone on my terrace, I lost control. I yelled out. \u2018Parvardigar, hum garibon ka itna sakt imtihan na le ki hum tere wajood ko inkar kar de (God, don\u2019t test my patience to such an extent that I question your very existence).\u2019”He went on to explain the moment further, saying, \u201cOf course, Dimple and my staff came running, thinking that I had gone insane. It was because success hit me so much that I couldn\u2019t take the failure.”Following their separation, Dimple rebuilt her career and carved a respected space for herself in the industry once again. Rajesh, on the other hand, was briefly linked to his co-star Tina Munim.Despite living apart for decades, Rajesh Khanna and Dimple Kapadia never legally ended their marriage. Asked in 1994 if she would consider marrying again, Dimple responded with guarded optimism.\u201cYes, I would. I don\u2019t know how I\u2019d be able to adjust because I am so used to being my own person, but sure, I would love to get married again.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rajesh Khanna was 31 when he married a much younger, 16-year old Dimple Kapadia in 1973. Their marriage…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,132542,5188,132541,132544,93,61,60,39831,132543,132545,39641],"class_list":{"0":"post-270521","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-dimple","10":"tag-dimple-kapadia","11":"tag-dimple-kapadia-career","12":"tag-dimple-kapadia-interviews","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-rajesh-khanna","17":"tag-rajesh-khanna-flops","18":"tag-rajesh-khanna-marriage","19":"tag-twinkle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}