Thread: Excepts from Stardust 1973

I got hold of a few old stardust issues of 1973.
here are some excerpts. makes really interesting reading.

1973 January
Raakhee-Gulzar Marriage Off!
The reporter talks about bollywood speculation that Gulzar and Jaya Bhaduri may be having an affair. Then adds for special effect that Jaya calls the director Gulzar-bhai.

Then finally comes out with the closely guarded secret that Jaya's secretary, Susheela Kamath is behind the break-up. Supposedly Gulzar had met her for long 'story sessions' for Jaya's films (without Jaya)!

Apparently, Gulzar was not very keen on the marriage to a more famous Raakhee, and wanted her to get out of films before they get married.

Four months after this, Stardust duly carried a photo-feature on Raakhee-Gulzar wedding (May '73).

1973 March
Stop Telling Those Lies About Us: Amitabh
Lie 1: Jaya was married to one Bhaskar Chowdhury, a FTII classmate!
Lie 2: She was already the mother of two kids, trying to pay her supposed husband Bhaskar Rs 10 Lakhs (a princely sum in those days) to divorce her!
Lie 3: Amitabh was using his relationship with Jaya to further his career (now was it really a lie?).
Other details in the story - Amitabh regularly goes out with Sheila Jones, a friend from his Calcutta days and has gone for a couple of dates with Mumtaz. . He is also supposed to have mentioned in an interview that he would not like to marry an actress or career-woman.

Three months later, Amitabh married Jaya(June '73). Stardust had a photo-feature titled "Guddi becomes Mrs Lambuji!"


1973 May
End of A Seven-Year Romance
Reports the end of the Rajesh Khanna-Anju Mahendru romance through separate interviews with both of them but the answers are put in alternate fashion to give the effect of a conversation.
"Dimple is a clever little girl. Rajesh and I met her together for the first time. Then we were Rajesh Uncle and Anju Aunty to her..."
"Anju used to deliberately snub Dimple. You know how Dimple is. Young, sweet and carefree..."
"Rajesh took the step first. If only he had told me himself that he wanted to marry another girl, I would have understood..."
"I had intended to go to Anju on my return from Khandala and tell her simply that everything was finished between us. But when I met my driver, he told me that memsaab asked him to give me a message - that if I stepped through her gates, she would ask the gurkha to throw me out..."



Hope the girls here would specially enjoy this

Where did you find these old issues?

at my parental house. few issues my mother kept and forgot.