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In Rajesh Khanna achieved super-stardom with Shakti Samantha's 'Aradhana" ().He became the craze of the nation, and critics across India started calling him the First Superstar .

Dilip Kumar. Actor Writer Director Gunga Jumna Dilip Kumar is widely considered the greatest acting exponent India ever produced. Credited with pioneering method acting in Indian cinema in mids, before Marlon Brando introduced it to Hollywood in s, he has been often called as "Abhinay Samrat" Hindi for "Emperor of Acting" by the audience.

He was the biggest Indian star since Post-Independence period throughout s, starring in some of the biggest commercial and critical successes of Indian cinema. Irrfan Khan, while saying that Kumar is the only one who should be called "legend", justifiably quoted the reason as, "the combination of artiste and star that he brought, started and ended with him.

Rajesh Khanna was Indian cinema’s first superstar, in the real sense of the term.

He had his schooling in Deolali and graduation in Mumbai. He started with managing a shop and selling fruits in an army canteen in Pune. Upon a rebellion in the canteen during Indian National Movement, he gave a speech justifying India's struggle for Independence, which resulted in his eviction from the canteen. Having no clear intention of working there, he still accepted the job because of the high salary.

Kumar later accepted that by the age of 14, he hadn't watched a film, and later in his teenage, watched few English films.