{"id":417176,"date":"2026-02-10T02:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T02:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/417176\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T02:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T02:05:08","slug":"rajesh-khanna-refused-to-go-downstairs-to-meet-akshay-kumar-recalls-raju-shrestha-main-uska-sasur-hoon-main-kyun-jaoon-hindi-movie-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/417176\/","title":{"rendered":"Rajesh Khanna refused to go downstairs to meet Akshay Kumar, recalls Raju Shrestha: \u2018Main uska sasur hoon… main kyun jaoon’ | Hindi Movie News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Rajesh Raju Shrestha<\/a>, popularly known as Master Raju, has shared more anecdotes highlighting Rajesh Khanna<\/a>\u2019s legendary ego, this time involving his son-in-law, actor Akshay Kumar<\/a>. Recalling an incident from Khanna\u2019s home, Raju said the late superstar maintained his rigid sense of hierarchy even within family circles.<\/p>\n

Khanna\u2019s reaction when Akshay came to meet him<\/p>\n

Speaking about what he had heard, Raju recounted how Akshay Kumar once visited Rajesh Khanna at his residence. According to him, Khanna chose not to come downstairs to meet the actor. Raju told Siddharth Kannan, \u201cI have heard another instance about him when Akshay Kumar went to his home to meet him, and Rajesh Khanna was sitting upstairs in some room, and somebody informed him that Akshay Kumar has come to meet him. His reaction was, \u2018Main uska sasur hoon, woh aayega mere paas, main kyun jaoon (I am his father-in-law, he will come to me, why should I go?)\u2019\u201dAkshay Kumar married Rajesh Khanna and Dimple Kapadia\u2019s daughter, Twinkle Khanna, in 2001.<\/p>\n

\u2018He worked with me as a child, still didn\u2019t recognise me\u2019<\/p>\n

Raju also recalled how Khanna carried the same attitude at work, even towards people he had previously collaborated with. Sharing his own experience, he said, \u201cRajesh Khanna worked in a serial, and I worked in the direction team of that show, so I would meet him regularly at his office. Still, he refused to recognise me. After a year of working with him, one day, he called me by my name.\u201dThe moment left Raju stunned. \u201cI was surprised that he knows my name, and when I asked the director about it, he confirmed that the veteran actor recognises me, and he also often talks about me and how he has worked with me when I was a child artist, but Rajesh Khanna never showed this to me.\u201dRaju added that Khanna\u2019s behaviour stemmed from a belief system rooted in stardom and authority. \u201cHe had this attitude. I don\u2019t know why, but he would think that why should I talk nicely to this person or why should I give him respect?\u201d <\/p>\n

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Producers fetched him from home, sets waited for his arrival<\/p>\n

Sharing another example of Khanna\u2019s starry tantrums, Raju spoke about the actor\u2019s on-set behaviour during the shooting of Palkon Ki Chhaon Mein. \u201cDuring the shooting of the film, Palkon Ki Chhaon Mein at China Creek, that area at that time was outside Bombay and there was a single dirt track that went to that area. All the actors, including Hema Malini, and myself would reach in the morning.\u201dHe added that Rajesh Khanna would arrive only if personally fetched by the producer. \u201cRajesh Khanna was the lead actor of the film, so producer used to go to his house to fetch him up. We used to keep sitting and waiting for him.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u2018We knew if he was coming by the speed of the car\u2019<\/p>\n

Raju revealed that the crew could predict whether the shoot would happen based on the producer\u2019s car speed. \u201cAlso, we got to know whether Rajesh Khanna is coming to the set by the speed of the car. If the speed is high, that means that Rajesh Khanna is coming behind, and if the speed is slow that means Khanna is not coming today and the producer is bringing this bad news, and he\u2019s going to declare pack up.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Raju Shrestha, popularly known as Master Raju, has shared more anecdotes highlighting Rajesh Khanna\u2019s legendary ego, this time…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6780,6788,6491,96,36548,154209,17459,154210,154208,154207,154206,17456,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-417176","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-akshay","9":"tag-akshay-kumar","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-hema-malini","13":"tag-master-raju","14":"tag-rajesh-khanna","15":"tag-rajesh-khanna-akshay-kumar","16":"tag-rajesh-khanna-ego","17":"tag-rajesh-khanna-personality","18":"tag-raju-shrestha","19":"tag-twinkle-khanna","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-united-kingdom","22":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}