Gautam Chintamani has 2 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 2 narrators. The most-rated is Rajesh Khanna (Hindi Edition).
Dark Star
Summary
Foreword by Sharmila Tagore The first-ever biography of the enigmatic Rajesh Khanna, the original "superstar". If ever a life was meant to be a book, few could stake a stronger claim. Like a shooting star doomed to darkness after a glorious run, Rajesh Khanna spent the better half of his career in the shadow of his own stardom. Yet, 40 years after his last monstrous hit, Khanna continues to be the yardstick by which every single Bollywood star is measured. At a time when film stars were truly larger than life, Khanna was even more: the one for whom the term superstar was coined. Dark Star looks at the phenomenon of an actor who redefined the "film star". Gautam Chintamani's engaging narrative tries to make sense of what it was that made Rajesh Khanna and what accounted for his extraordinary fall. A singular account of a wondrous life.
©2015 Gautam Chintamani (P)2020 HarperCollins Publishers
Rajesh Khanna (Hindi Edition)
Summary
A gripping biography of India's first superstar, translated and published in Hindi. Like a shooting star doomed to darkness after a glorious run, Rajesh Khanna spent the better half of his career in the shadow of his own stardom. Yet, 40 years after his last monstrous hit, Khanna continues to be the yardstick by which every Bollywood star is measured. With 17 blockbusters in succession and mass adulation rarely seen before or since, the world was at Khanna's feet. The hysteria he generated - women writing letters in blood, marrying his photograph, donning white when he married Dimple Kapadia - was unparalleled. Then, in matter of months, it all changed. Khanna's career hit a downward spiral just three years after Aradhana (1969) and never really recovered. Rajesh Khanna: Ek Tanha Sitara looks at the phenomenon of an actor who redefined the "film star". Gautam Chintamani's engaging narrative tries to make sense of what it was that made Rajesh Khanna and what accounted for his extraordinary fall. Please note: This audiobook is in Hindi.
©2015 Gautam Chintamani (P)2020 HarperCollins Publishers