RARE PIX: Bollywood celebrates Holi over the years

Holi has always been an important festival in Bollywood -- whether on screen or off it.

We stumbled upon some rare pictures of movie stars celebrating Holi -- in the famous parties of Raj Kapoor, Subhash Ghai and Shabana Azmi among others.

Have a look.

We start with Raj Kapoor's Holi bash at his Chembur residence. In this picture, the legend dances with another movie legend, Amitabh Bachchan.

A young looking Shah Rukh Khan tests his water gun before aiming at the guests.

Check out this video of SRK playing Holi, and later, dancing with his wife Gauri.

Salman Khan (centre) fools around with Ratan Jain of Venus Records and Ramesh Taurani of Tips Cassettes.

Back in the days when they were dating, Raveena Tandon and Akshay Kumar look happy in each other's company.

Much before he joined the film industry, Abhishek Bachchan looked youthful as he bonded with Shah Rukh Khan.

Madhuri Dixit shares some fun times with her mentor Subhash Ghai (they delivered two hits in Ram Lakhan and Khalnayak).

Karan Johar, Shilpa Shetty and Kirron Kher take some time out from playing with colours to chat.

Ajay Devgn gets drenched in water and colours.

Tabu and music composer Aadesh Shrivastava chat after playing with colours.

Gulshan Grover obviously likes to party.

Actress Anjana Sukhani wears white and gets ready to play Holi.

Shabana Azmi and Javed Akhtar dance during the Holi celebrations at their home. Son Farhan also looks like he's having fun.

Pooja Bedi gets drenched in Holi colours at a Zoom party.

Arshad Warsi and Dia Mirza reach out to their fans on Holi.

Neha Dhupia gets the different colours of Holi smeared on her face.