Rishi Kapoor father of Ranbir Kapoor who never minced his words and gave his opinion on everything. Right from social issues to movies, he participates on Twitter and never goes back. Rishi was a hero then, and Ranbir is a hero now. Both ruled the box office and come from a cinema family.
The Kapoor children grew up knowing well just how big a deal their family was and Kapoor is honest about how success went to his head when he got a National Award for playing junior Raju in Mera Naam Joker (1970) and especially after the stupendous success of Bobby (1973).
He admits to buying a popular magazine award for Bobby, and then feeling guilty for a long time, thinking this was the reason for the initial coldness between him and actor Amitabh Bachchan who probably felt that he deserved the award for Zanjeer.
“It was a mistake, and I’m owning it up in the book. But that doesn’t mean after that I bought all my awards,” he says in an Facebook live interview with media. “I was so naive then… a 20-year-old brash bacha.”
But being a Kapoor, he says, does not mean everything came easy and living up to the family legacy was a struggle in itself. “I may have not slept on pavements or gone hungry and had a huge hit in Bobby, but then on what? I was in the choppy sea all my life.
I was battling the huge hurricane of action movies and competing with stars such as Amitabh Bachchan, Dharmendra, Shatrugan Sinha, and so on. I was a romantic hero in an action-films era.”
In the recent times he talked about beef Ban, he talked against Modi and the BJP Government. The Government has no business to talk about what should public eat he said.
