Today marks the 69th birth anniversary of the late Bollywood legend Rishi Kapoor.
Rishi Kapoor had passed away in early 2020 after succumbing to his leukaemia related ill health.
The whole Kapoor family is known to be filled with talent and love but Rishi Kapoor had once shared some very useful and important advice his father, the late Raj Kapoor, had shared with him.
Sourced from a report, Rishi-ji had shared in an interview, “People ask me where I learned acting, if I went to a school or an institution. I tell them that there can never be a bigger institution than the Kapoors. Never did my father behave like he was my secretary, or choose subjects for me. He said, ‘I have given this boy a break, and now he’s on his own; he will fall, he will get up, he will take care of himself; that’s how he’ll learn about life’. He said, ‘I’m your father, not your secretary’. I have continued with that, with my son.“
Kapoor also mentioned how he followed the same rule with his iron, Ranbir Kapoor. He had said, “I know the whole film industry. I’ve worked with most of them. Everybody calls him and I have to say the same thing. I tell them I’m his father, not his secretary. You go talk to him, he’s got to make his own decisions. If I was in his place I would have never, ever let him do a film like Barfi. ‘Are you mad! He can’t speak, he can’t hear, who will watch this movie?’ I would never let him do a film like Wake Up Sid, or a Rockstar, or a Rocket Singh. Never!“
Rishi Kapoor battled with cancer for two long years. His demise had left the whole country shocked, leaving fans and the industry grieving. He is survived by his wife Neetu Singh, children Ranbir and Riddhima and their extending families.