One evening while dancing at a party, Gary Sobers suddenly proposes to Anju and puts on the ring. Anju also accepted Gary’s ring. Although she was still the girlfriend of Rajesh Khanna..
Rajesh Khanna, who attained the status of a superstar at the age of 28, had a very difficult life. There was a time when his films started beating one after the other. Here his films were flopping at the box office, his personal life with Dimple Kapadia was also going through difficulties. There were frequent reports of a fight between the two. Rajesh Khanna was dating Anju Mahendru before his marriage to 16-year-old Dimple Kapadia. Discussions of both were common in the film corridors. Anju was Rajesh Khanna’s live-in-girlfriend and lived with her in his house ‘Ashirwad’.
Ashirwad’s staff used to call him as Mem Sahab and everyone thought that Kaka would marry him. However, a few days after the relationship, a situation of differences arose between the two. The reason for this was Anju Mahendru’s work in films. Rajesh Khanna did not want his future wife to work in films. However, it was common discussion in the film industry that if Rajesh Khanna wanted to, he could pursue Anju’s career and help establish him, because at that time there was a Kaka coin in the industry.
The third person came between Kaka and Anju:
Senior journalist and writer Yasir Usman writes in Rajesh Khanna’s biography “Some people will say” that such differences and fights between Rajesh Khanna and Anju were still there when Kaka Superstar Were not made. He writes, “During a similar quarrel, another character suddenly appeared between the two.” The matter had gone so far that Rajesh Khanna had gone mad and started crying loudly.
Gary Sobers wore the ring at the party:
Yasir Usman writes that it was during those days that Anju Mahendru met West Indian cricketer Gary Sobers. In those days, Gary Sobers used to be the world’s legendary cricketer and had a different status. A few days later, news and photos of the two met in print magazines started appearing. Meanwhile, Gary invites Anju to Kolkata to watch his match.
Dancing at an evening party here, Gary Sobers suddenly proposed to Anju and put on the ring. Anju also accepted Gary’s ring. Although she was still the girlfriend of Rajesh Khanna. Yasir Usman writes, ‘When Anju Mahendru returned to Mumbai with the ring and Rajesh Khanna came to know about this, he was shocked. Anger shouted and shouted at Anju. After arguing for a long time, holding his head, he started crying badly.
Engagement was broken by calling Gary from Kaka’s house:
In an interview to the famous film magazine ‘Stardust’, Anju Mahendru recalled the incident saying, ‘To be honest, I was in a relationship with Kaka at that time. We had a fight over something and irritated I had an affair with Gary, but that didn’t mean that I liked Gary. I called Gary from Kaka’s house and had broken off the engagement.
