Rajesh Khanna’s live-in partner sends legal notice over his home Aashirwad

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Mumbai, July 20, 2012: A  controversy has begun over a move to evict Rajesh Khanna’s live-in partner Anita Advani from the iconic bungalow Aashirwaad on Carter Road, Bandra.

The cold war brewing between Anita Advani and the Khanna clan threatened to spill out into public view during Kaka’s funeral procession on Thursday.

MidDay quoted a source saying, “During the procession that started from the actor’s home, Advani attempted to climb into the vehicle carrying Kaka’s body. However, Akshay [Kumar] spotted Advani and asked her to get off, as the vehicle was only for family members.”

Kaka’s family members have always shared an uneasy relationship with Anita Advani.

Their history with Kaka too has been chequered and fraught with bitterness.

Dimple Kapadia, Akshay Kumar, Twinkle and Rinki were reconciled with Khanna in the final stages of his life.

Anita Advani, according to the MidDay report, had sent a legal notice to his family members, a  day before Rajesh Khanna breathed his last, opposing the move to evict her from Aashirwaad  bungalow.

Anita Advani told MidDay  that she has been living in Aashirwad for the past 10 years.

She admitted that only recently, when ‘Kakaji’ was slipping in and out of consciousness owing to his debilitating illness, he would sometimes fail to recognise her.

“He had started pushing me away. There were days where he didn’t even want to speak to his own family. They began isolating me, and I had begun to feel lost. I sent that notice when I was annoyed… without him, I had nowhere else to go. But I never thought I would actually lose him. The timing was really bad.”

 

Meanwhile, Aashirwad has been swiftly transformed into a shrine for mourning fans, and there is even talk of its conversion into a museum.

Anita Advani sent the notice to the Khanna family members invoking the Domestic Violence Act.

Section 19 of the Act bars the family from ‘dispossessing or in any other manner disturbing the possession of the aggrieved person from the shared household, whether or not the respondent has a legal or equitable interest in the shared household’.

A source said, “For the last one month, the family has been trying to oust Advani from the house, where she claims she has been living with Khanna for the last eight years. This is why she sent the notice.”

Advani sent the notice through her advocate Mridula Kadam.