Actor Rishi Kapoor had shared many moments from his and his circle of relatives’s previous in his tell-all memoirs, Khullam Khulla. Some of the chapters dealt together with his father’s dating with Nargis and Vyjayanthimala. Whilst he mentioned that issues didn’t alternate at house when his dad Raj Kapoor had a dating with Nargis, his mom Krishna Raj Kapoor put her foot down when it got here to Vyjayanthimala.
“I used to be very younger when my father had an affair with Nargis Ji, and so was once now not suffering from it. I don’t have in mind feeling the rest was once amiss at house both. However I do have in mind transferring into the Natraj Lodge on Marine Force with my mother all through the time Papa was once concerned with Vyjayanthimala,” he had written.
“My mom had made up our minds to place her foot down this time. From the lodge, we shifted for 2 months into an condominium in Chitrakoot. My father had purchased the condominium for Mother and us. He did all he may to woo her again, however my mom didn’t give in till he had ended that bankruptcy of his existence,” Rishi wrote.
Raj Kapoor, Vyjayanthimala and Rajendra Kumar at the set of movie Sangam. (Photograph: Categorical Archive)
On the other hand, Vyjayanthimala had pushed aside the affair, pronouncing that it was once all a ploy for movie promotion. At the moment, Rishi had addressed this too. “In an interview printed a couple of years in the past, Vyjayanthimala denied ever having an affair with my father. She claimed that he had manufactured the romance as a result of his starvation for exposure. I used to be furious. How may she be so blasé; and fake the affair by no means came about? She had no proper to distort details simply because he was once not round to shield the reality,” he mentioned.
“When his (Vaijayanthi Mala) e-book got here out, many buddies within the media contacted me to grasp my response. I informed them what I assumed. With time, my anger subsided. I admit that folks throw gentle on uncomfortable details for their very own causes, however I will be able to say with complete walk in the park that if Papa was once alive, he (Vaijayanthi Mala) do not need denied the affair so overtly or he (Raj Kapoor) would had been uncovered to exposure. Don’t say hungry. My father lived maximum of his time on his personal phrases,” the actor had mentioned.
Neetu Singh with Krishna Kapoor. (Photograph: Categorical Archive)
Raj Kapoor and Vyjayanthimala labored in combination in Nazrana (1961) and Sangam (1964). Whilst Nazrana was once directed through CV Sridhar, Sangam was once directed and produced through Raj Kapoor. The movie additionally starred Rajendra Kumar.