It’s rare to come across illustrious figures who are not intimidating, just like it’s rare to come across bullies who are adored. But then those who speak from the heart are hardly ever politically correct! Those who’ve lived life to the fullest already hardly need quantum of years to be eternal. While he was particular about the look of each and every character of his, when it came to his statements, the actor couldn’t care less. By the way is it looking okay, has it been tied properly?” he asked the interviewer on the sets of Patiala House. “We have this guy Jassi whom we get from Mumbai and he ties my turban. She adds, “We visited him in the US and I remember telling him how he will be our original and only heartthrob.” Even though Punjabi film industry can’t boast of a film with Rishi Kapoor in the credit rolls, however, the actor played a ‘turbanator’ more than once in his career, in the films Patiala House and Love Aaj Kal. “He’d ask Jaspal ji as to when was he going to get sarson ka saag from him?” laughs Savita Bhatti, whose mother-in-law did send the culinary parcel of love for the late actor. Be it the penchant for speaking without thinking or the love for food, which took him from restaurants in New York to old Delhi to Pal dhaba in Chandigarh! However, that did not stop his Punjabi characteristics from flaring up every once in a while.
Khullam khulla pyaar karenge (Khel Khel Mein, 1975).Hum tum ek kamre me band ho (Bobby, 1973).
Well, that’s how the late actor viewed leukemia and that speaks volumes about his way of looking at things as well as laughing them off!\
“It’s been 45 years plus of wear and tear at the movies,” he cleared the air over a tweet. In 2018, when Rishi Kapoor left for the US for treatment, the actor urged fans and speculators not to assume.
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