Are you an expensive surgeon, Rajesh Khanna asked

Updated On: 26 July, 2012 07:58 AM IST | | IANS

"I hope you are not a very expensive heart surgeon, I may need your services some day!" This was Rajesh Khanna's prayer to cardiologist Mukesh Hariawala when the superstar called on legendary composer R.D. Burman after the latter had been operated upon in a London hospital

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Are you an expensive surgeon, Rajesh Khanna asked

It was the fifth day after the now US-based Hariawala's bypass surgery of Burman at London's Princess Grace Hospital. Rajesh Khanna trooped in with "Aradhana" director Shakti Samanta. The year was 1989, Hariawala recalled to IANS in an interview from Boston.

Dr.Mukesh Hariawala with late composer R.D.Burman at a London hospital in 1989. Pic/IANS