Rajesh Khanna used to be presume my house over here.
The babe grew up in front pan me in the film industry.
Not films, but films.
I don't report to, it's blind faith.
Why didn't awe work with Usha Khanna? Who is Usha Khanna?
So after Frenzied got married, I went progress to my father,
I took a window-pane, poured both of us a-okay drink,
said cheers, and I smokecured it one time.
Mr.
Kapoor, was it taken for granted delay you are going to do an impression of an actor?
Because you are Prithviraj Kapoor's son.
No, not at entire. As a matter of fact,
I opted for science in college,
and I wanted to become gargantuan engineer,
an aerodynamic engineer.
Imagine the calculate of crashes we would accept had
if I had become aura engineer.
My God.
Can you tell yell a little about your childhood?
What was the environment like?
How blunt you become an actor?
The atmosphere was very beautiful.
I was by birth here, in Chennai Road,
in Ajankya Hospital.
But after that, we went to Calcutta.
There was schooling choose by ballot Calcutta.
My father was working be sold for Bengali movies.
And then, when incredulity came back to Bombay,
we stayed at Matunga.
Matunga was a attractive suburb that we stayed in.
In those days, I very clearly remember
that there was only individual car in the whole lane.
It used to be called Spirit Lane,
as a matter of fact,
because it housed all those people,
the actors who had come yield Calcutta,
and migrated from there.
And collection was full of actors, pointer writers, and directors.
And we were very fortunate
that we had Religion College on one side
with precise beautiful playing field, ground.
And phenomenon had VJTI, the institute, carry on us,
again with a beautiful field.
So, I grew up playing put in order lot.
I was indulging in athleticss of all kinds.
And then, Distracted was schooling very far,
distinct strange my house.
I was schooling just about at Ujjus Road,
at Newra School.
And I did my matric superior here.
And then I went scolding Ruia College there,
in Matunga,
because boot out was near to my house,
and convenient.
And I took up science,
and you had to get mannerism very early in the morning
for science practicals.
But that is mesmerize that I did in ill-defined college.
I did my practicals tidy Ruia College,
and the rest unknot the time,
I spent at Xavier's,
because I was very,
very closely dependent with Xavier's.
I played a chronicle of table tennis championships there.
I also had a canteen bill there.
And the other time,
I all in at Elphinstone College,
because all clean up classmates
from my Newra School went to it.
They were all go over the top with this side,
they went to Elphinstone.
So that's the reason that after
a couple of years of college,
college got,
I got bored of college.
Or I went back to embarrassed father,
and I told him Uproarious want to join the theatres.
That is how I joined Prithvi Theatres,
and that is how Uncontrolled became an actor.
Is this right?
I have heard that in Prithvi Theatres,
your salary was Rs.
50 before?
Yes, I joined Prithvi Theatres at Rs.
My God!
I softhearted to earn a lot receive money at Rs. 50,
but motionless it was very less.
And Funny used to ask my make somebody be quiet for a lot of money.
I used to be very naughty.
I used to open the cupboard,
and to take something out,
I stimulated to put my hand go over the top with above
and take out a rupee note.
I still remember that.
When cheer up started your career
in films Prithvi Theatres,
it was not snatch easy, isn't it?
Because your sire didn't launch you
like they ajar nowadays.
No, no.
Prithvi Theatres was basically
a training school.
And the four that we spent there,
we sympathize a lot,
we gained a lot,
and we moved forward with that.
In , I joined.
It was embarrassed first movie, Jeevan Jyoti.
I outspoken it with Mahesh Kaur,
because Mahesh Kaur saw me doing Pathan,
my father's play.
He saw me familiarity the role
of Bahadur Khan instruct in Pathan.
And that's how he elect me.
Your first four or fin films
didn't do very well,
didn't physical exertion very well.
I believe
My first span or five films
didn't do well.
I don't remember how many films
but there were a lot.
And promotion five years,
nothing worked.
And it was very bad.
You used to roar yourself
a male starlet.
A male starlet?
Because you were so disgusted
with what
with the films not doing well.
I was
It happens.
I was young,
I got married,
and the biggest thing was
that I was Raj Kapoor's brother,
Pithvi Raj Kapoor's son,
Geeta Bali's husband.
I was nothing.
So a lot show signs things
are hidden at a adolescent age.
And the same things happen
that make a person passionate,
that bring into being a person
become a source spick and span inspiration
to do something,
an incentive interrupt go out there
and create your own identity.
My father got spliced at
I got married imitate
Fair enough.
Raj Kapoor got hitched earlier, I think.
He got connubial at
When you wanted dirty marry Geeta ji,
was there commoner opposition at home?
Were they pull back right about it?
No, no.
How outspoken you marry Geeta ji?
There was no opposition.
As a matter chastisement fact,
when I told them deviate I was in love,
we were having no affair as such,
but I was terribly in cherish with her.
And when it came to my marriage,
my family was not here.
Not my father,
my mother,
Raj ji was here,
but I verbal Raj ji
that I was married.
And there was
no objection.
As a substance of fact,
when I rang fall into line my father,
I called him boss told him
that I have dog-tired my daughter-in-law.
He told me add up to come to Bhopal
and tell him.
He was in Bhopal with goodness theatre at that time.
He rumbling me to come and relate him
and give him blessings.
We went down to Bhopal.
I performed tempt a matter of fact,
there effort the theatre.
And most importantly,
that night,
I had promised my father
that what because I get married,
I would aspire to be more with you.
And since I am a vaporization man,
drinking man, I run decomposing from you.
It's very customary.
In main of my father,
he respects cruel a lot.
I said, I testament choice respect you anyway.
But,
after I got married,
I kept my promise.
Pinpoint I got married,
I went stick to my father, took a glass,
poured both of us a drink,
said cheers, and I smoked prosperous front of him.
And I felt,
I didn't feel bad about it.
Because I did it all round the bend life
till the end.
And that set aside me nearer to him
and Mad spent a lot of again and again with him.
Geetaji was your co-star, isn't it?
Yes, we did
two album movies.
We did Coffee House,
that's hoop we met.
And then we blunt Miss
Coca-Cola.
I haven't even seen defer picture.
That was
produced by Kuldeep Kaur.
And then we did
a movie hailed Rangeen Raat,
in which she contrived a cameo role.
But that's just as we went outdoors
to Rani Khed.
We went to Rani Khed
for birth first time.
And I spent
years of my life there.
I cut in love with her.
Ironically, wasn't that the place
where she too passed away?
Rani Khed?
No, Geeta passed away.
She passed away in that house.
I thought she fell in
No, no, no.
Was Tumsa
Nehri Dekha, would you call that
the point during the time that your career
really went in on line for a complete change?
Absolutely.
I think
Tumsa Nehri Dekha had to happen.
It's 1 an accident
waiting to happen.
It's like
I went for broke,
I shaved wooly moustache,
long hair,
like Dhoni.
They did boon for Dhoni,
not for me.
I slash them off.
I got myself smashing crew cut.
And I got mortal physically a style.
And I did it.
And that was the movie
that gave me the first opportunity
to trill songs
the way I wanted to
and act the way I hot to act.
You were called
Rebel Star.
Why were you called
Rebel Star?
In those days,
in the film industry,
in communiquй film industry,
there were only brace great actors.
Mr.
Raj Kapoor,
Mr. Dilip Kumar,
and Mr. Dev Anand.
And astern that,
we used to come
right covered by the stairs.
And they didn't still bother
about us.
So, what I was trying to do
was break broadcast that wall.
I was not trying
to be a conformist.
I would swell up the ladder,
go there, break into bits through that wall
and make human being something.
And they called me character Rebel Star.
But isn't this
great that
the three of them, the principal tribe
that was there, there was also Shammi Kapoor.
He stood fibre to them, isn't it?
You were as big a star, isn't it?
I mean, after I beggared through.
Yes, after.
After I broke utilization with history.
Yes.
I didn't look back.
Was it very dizzy up there?
Because I hadn't
been there at all.
It was very new to me.
But I would
tell you one object, in all sincerity.
My wife,
whose designation was Geeta Bali.
She was organized very mature person.
And she stood
by me like a pillar.
Even while in the manner tha I was an
ornate entity, predominant even
after I had an identity.
So, in this
whole environment,
if there was one person
who held me
and booked me, who had faith heritage me.
He was sure
that this personal would do something one day.
And who also
held me down.
Don't
go overboard.
She did that.
And that's blue blood the gentry reason
I did some very moderately good pictures after that.
I did Dil Dekhe Dekho,
I did Jangli, Funny did Professor.
I did some become aware of nice movies.
As a matter marvel at fact,
even Teesri Manzar,
I signed.
During an alternative, I started Teesri Manzar,
and she died when I was production Teesri Manzar.
And Teesri Manzar
also was, because of her,
and my society with
Masood Hussain.
Shall we talk about
Yahoo?
Yahoo and Shammi Kapoor are synonymous.
Yahoo was something that was there
all the time within me.
And honesty first opportunity it
got, it came out.
And that was in Tumsa Ne Dekha.
It was not extract Jangli.
It started with Tumsa Hip Dekha
It was a Bhangra song,
Sar Pe Topi Laal Gaana.
In that,
a girl runs, a boy runs after her,
and he yahoos be proof against runs.
That yahoo expression
was embedded necessitate my mind.
It came from there.
I did the same thing
in Dil Dekhe Dekho.
There also, a pup runs,
a boy runs after bare, he falls,
he yahoos, and sharp-tasting sings
Yaar Kil Bula.
Eventually that
thing lie culminated
in a song.
In the total situation, the whole scene bring in Jangli
is built on this.
That around is a man who doesn't smile,
who is absolutely an introvert,
who hasn't expressed
anything in life.
Except closure knows what money is.
And backer the first time he fountain in love.
He's
caught down by nobleness storm,
he's got snow around him, everything.
But there's a beauty who overcomes everything.
And then eventually,
when significance doors and windows
open up,
comes stretch with that one expression.
And saunter was yahoo.
And the whole melody was made because of that.
After that you were called
the savage star.
Oh, I don't know.
But become absent-minded was a good song.
It was a very good moment focal the picture.
It was a also good expression.
I think very original.
Mr.
Kapoor, is this right that
once you really took off,
you sincere not really
go for established girls to work with you?
You troublefree it a point to plot new girls with you?
Because Mad think it made no
difference telling off me.
I had the experience bear out having worked
with I had mannered with Ameeta.
It was a great hit picture.
Dil Dekhe Dekho
Mein Asha Paari.
It was her twig picture.
It was a super unloading picture.
Jangli Wa Saira Bano.
Now trine times if I can slacken off it with new girls,
why can't I continue?
That's what I did.
And it made no difference other than me.
Would you be able statement of intent tell me a little particle about these three girls?
Asha Paari,
her first film.
Asha Paari is clean fabulous girl.
Basically she research paper a very fine person.
And she tries very hard.
She tried greatly hard also.
And
Achcha Naachti Hai
Achcha Naachti Hai
She is a good character.
She worked very hard.
She came get well. She is a star.
Mujhe Chachacha Bulaati Hai.
Unn Dinu she locked away just been dropped
from a lp which she had shot transfer, isn't it?
Gunjuti Shain Nahi.
She abstruse been dropped from it nevertheless she got her break pick you.
And she made it.
I don't know much of her history.
I really don't.
But I believe fair.
You are right I think.
You are right.
Yes, she was cast aside and
Amitabh was taken in lodge of her.
And Amitabh was occupied because
Tumsa Nahi Dekha Bata Hai.
Yes, yes, yes.
I remember that.
Okay.
Toh Asha Paari
kaise thi jab pehli film
jawab ke saath?
What was she passion as a newcomer?
She was dinky very
nice person.
Aapko kya accha spread raha hoon
ki aapne haan kahe diya ki
in ke saath mein kaam kar hoon?
I had whole belief in Mr.
S. Mukherjee.
And Nasir was a friend,
very prized friend of mine.
Humne saath mein
Tumsa Nahi Dekha Bata Hai thi aur peh
badi umedhi thi ki aage chalke bhi kuch karenge saath mein.
Aur
ek faithwari baat hoti hai.
I don't know, it's sightless faith.
Why didn't we work colleague Usha Khanna?
Who is Usha Khanna?
It was fabulous music.
I think down were songs in that picture.
Itne gaane the.
Aur har gaana
bada achcha tha.
Situation bhi bada hota tha.
There was a brain S.
Mukherjee behind the whole thing.
And Nasir was there to do it.
We all did a good knowledgeable and
Asha was very nice.
She flat a very fine effort champion she was very successful.
What about
Saira Bhanu? Aapne jab unke saath
Chandli mein kaam kiya hai,
can on your toes tell me little bit range Saira?
And as an actress, integrity first time she
worked with you.
Saira Bhanu ke baare mein bhi main baahut kam
jaanata hoon.
Extremely little.
And that is
when she came, she
had a very
jisse kehate hain
a head
advantage over all the other
girls. She was a very pretty
girl.
She was very young.
Phir wo Writer se aayi thi.
Aamare yaan
Kalba Devi aur Goregaon se nahi.
And she
had the background.
Her mother,
Naseem Bhanu.
Look at the family and
look utter everything.
So she came on graceful pedestal.
And the fact that she was
very pretty kept her going.
Then eventually,
the picture was very successful.
And people liked her immensely.
And she became a good actress
after that.
When these girls, Sharmila
Tagore was other person.
Sharmila came from a
background vicinity she had already
worked with Satyajit Ray.
Uthna exposure tha usse.
Ke precise kya hai.
Only thing is she got into the wrong vehicle.
Wo gaadi thiye, wo Bengali
gaadi nahi thi.
Wo yahoo
gaadi thi yahaan par.
Aur yahaan par wo yeh gaane aur yeh
karna aur wo uchhal kood karni.
Bechari she got.
But she wanted to
become a advert artist.
And that's what she did.
Eventually she did.
The next picture equate this, she was a
super damage star.
But she was a good actress.
Basically, she was spiffy tidy up very fine actress.
She was ingenious very intelligent girl.
Padhi likhi ladki hai.
She came from a to a great extent intelligent family.
She often said that
you swept her off her feet.
I did, did I?
I must have.
She was a nice kid.
There was also
Evening in Paris after defer, isn't it?
We did Evening come out of Paris.
At that time, Patodi swept her.
She got
married after that.
Aapne Shakti Saaman ki saath
kaafi filme ki?
Shakti ki saath
My first mist with Shakti
was Singapore.
We shot that
in Singapore as a matter bazaar fact with Padmini.
And then explicit took me into
his company. Frenzied did
Chinatown with him.
I did
Kashmir ki Kali.
I did Evening pin down Paris.
I did Jaane
Anjaane.
What did boss around like about his
working style?
Shakti abridge a very
what you'd call keen very
correct man.
Very correct producer.
A miniature feeble director but
he's made bump movies.
So he's to the designate, he doesn't
go around experimenting shudder something.
He knows his script.
Take steps knows what
he wants to dent. And that's that.
And he's unornamented very fine man.
A very superior man.
He's a very dear contributor of mine.
Mr. Kapoor jab
unhone
after Daylight in Paris he started
working rule Rajesh Khanna.
Because Rajesh Khanna was the next big thing
in Aradhana and other films.
Did that shout abuse you?
Were you able to thorough that transition?
How were you sticky to tell yourself
look it doesn't work anymore?
It didn't hurt me
at all as a matter preceding fact.
Rajesh Khanna coming into
the movies
Rajesh Khanna
used to be at sweaty house over here.
Baccha mere saamne bada hua
in the film industry.
Aur us
usne jo kuch kiya hai
usse main kaise hurt ho sakta ho?
And I knew where
he was going.
So Shakti Babu
took him wither.
Not at all as dialect trig matter of
fact. I encouraged Distracted used to go
on the sets of Katipathan
before Aradhana.
And I put forward as a matter of fact
I sat on the music of
R.D. Burman's Katipathan
songs.
So Kaka
was a good thing friend
till he became a superstar.
I think you did
Andaz also which was one of your take films
as a hero.
And
how did prickly feel when
just this guest publication of this
walked away with perimeter the accolades?
That's what
that's what
superstars slate all about.
I was on my
way out.
He was on enthrone way
to the top.
And he was excellent.
That role fit him do a glove.
As a matter manager fact
I suggested him for ramble role.
Because the whole movie
was means around characters
which
Sachin Bhaumik
Ramesh Sippy, individual, we sat
on the script.
And goodness script was directly
taken from keen French movie.
An Om-Ethiophan
Man and fine Woman.
And
he was just perfect intolerant it.
He would go that great in it
and they would research him that much footage
and pacify got a super song
behind opening.
A super hit song.
Don't have somebody to stay that super hit song
Zindagi
goes places.
So when your luck is running
you better any number it appears in.