Rajesh Khanna

She finds solace in two very different people.

One is Anand, a melancholic married man struggling with alcoholism, played by Mr. Rajesh Khanna.

And the other is a young boy named Nandu, played by Master Bobby, who lives in her neighborhood.

But here is the thing.

You can see the weariness of a woman who has spent her entire life giving to others without ever asking for anything in return.

That is how Pushpa is written and that is exactly how Sharmila Tagore portrays her.

And finally, we come to my favorite performance in the film, Mr. Rajesh Khanna.

In my humble opinion, this is his greatest performance.

But here we get one of the biggest Indian superstars ever.

Not in our movie, but Rajesh Khanna became a phenomenon.

He had 17 movies that were absolute hits.

And the term, in India, the term superstar was invented for him.

Very filmy now that I look at it in hindsight.

It's one of those Rajesh Khanna movies where there's a house going on auction and you're looking at it on the outside.

I'm sure like when this was happening and I was going through it, it felt hard.

But I think the piece that really stayed with me for many years was that I felt responsible to do something about it.

While still in jail, Phoolan stood as an independent candidate for a parliamentary by-election in Delhi in 1992.

She was among 125 candidates and polled only 753 votes, losing to the Congress Party's Rajesh Khanna.

Bandit Queen, the film In 1994, Phoolan was released.

She got married again to Umair Singh, an acquaintance of one of her political contacts.