There were lot of his fans who are mourning in his birth city Burewala, Pakistan. Rajesh Khanna was born in 1942 at Burewala, part of Vehari district of Punjab province. And back in India, Bollywood stars and film fans have paid their last respects to one of India's first superstars, Rajesh Khanna, as his body was cremated in a Hindu ceremony in Mumbai.
Thousands of fans braved monsoon rain in Mumbai to pay their respects as his body was driven through the city in a glass coffin wrapped in white flowers. According to NDTV, the dead body of legend actor was taken to the cremation ground from his home on Bandra's Carter Road in a glass casket to allow his fans, thousands of whom lined Mumbai's roads braving the rain, to pay their last respects.
He was known as the "King of Romance" and played the lead in most of his 170 movies, earning fame that had directors booking him for his box-office draw. Indian newspapers and television channels devoted their frontpages and news bulletins to the death, as tributes poured in from fellow actors, leading politicians and sports stars.
"King of Hearts," said the front page of the English-language tabloid Mail Today. The serious-minded broadsheet The Hindu ran the headline: "Superstar who turned romance, and even death, into a high art."
Thousands of fans braved monsoon rain in Mumbai to pay their respects as his body was driven through the city in a glass coffin wrapped in white flowers. According to NDTV, the dead body of legend actor was taken to the cremation ground from his home on Bandra's Carter Road in a glass casket to allow his fans, thousands of whom lined Mumbai's roads braving the rain, to pay their last respects.
He was known as the "King of Romance" and played the lead in most of his 170 movies, earning fame that had directors booking him for his box-office draw. Indian newspapers and television channels devoted their frontpages and news bulletins to the death, as tributes poured in from fellow actors, leading politicians and sports stars.
"King of Hearts," said the front page of the English-language tabloid Mail Today. The serious-minded broadsheet The Hindu ran the headline: "Superstar who turned romance, and even death, into a high art."
