He married Dimple Kapadia in March 1973, eight months before her debut film Bobby was released and had two daughters from the marriage. He was also a Lok Sabha member of the Indian National Congress from New Delhi (Lok Sabha constituency) from 1992 to 1996. He was the highest paid Indian actor from 1970 to 1987 whereas Amitabh Bachchan shared the same tag with Khanna from 1980 to 1987. In 1991, he was awarded the Filmfare Special Award for achieving the feat of doing the most solo hero films in Hindi Cinema and in 2005, he received the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award. He received the Filmfare Best Actor Award three times and the BFJA Awards for Best Actor (Hindi) four times. During his career he appeared in more than 168 feature films and 12 short films. He made his debut in 1966 with Aakhri Khat. 82 of the 127 films with Khanna as the lead protagonist (of them 117 released and 11 unreleased) were critically acclaimed films with ratings above 4 stars out of 5 by film reviewers of various newspapers unanimously. He acted in only 22 films with multi-star cast. He did 106 solo hero films of which 97 were released between 19. Amritsar, Punjab, British India (present-day Punjab, India)
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