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The Kapoors The First Family of Indian Cinema MAOHU JAIN PENGUIN VIKING Google Original from Digitized by UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN VIKING · Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Books India Pvt. Ltd, 11 Communiry Centre, Panchlheel Park, New Delhi 110 017, India Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, USA Penguin Group (Canada), 90 F.glinton Avenue East, Suite 700, Toronto, Ontario, M4P 2Y3, Canada (a division of Peanon Penguin Canada Inc.) 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All rights reserved 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 ISBN 13: 9780670058372 ISBN 10: 0670058378 Typeset in Sobon Rm,um by SORYA, New Delhi Printed at International Print-0-Pac, Ltd., Noida This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwiae. be lent, resold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher's prior written consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser and without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no pan of dm publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced int_o a retrieval system, or ' transmitted in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise), without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the above-mentioned publisher of this book. Google Original from Digitized by UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN To my parents the late Lakhpat Rai and Padma Sethi For giving me everything and more Google Original from Digitized by UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Google Original from Digitized by UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Contents a ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS FAMILY TREE X1 INTR.ODUCTION xm PART 1: THE PATRIARCH 1. llfE SOCIALIST FROM PESHAWAR: PRITlMRAJ KAPOOR 3 PART 2: THE CONSOLIDATORS • 2. THE SHOWMAN AND llfE JOKER: RAJ KAPOOR 67 3. llfE JUNGLE£ AND llfE GENT: SHAMMI KAPOOR 164 4. llfE PER.FECT GENTLEMAN: SHASHI KAPOOR 214 PART 3: THE INHERITORS S. FOREVER YOUllfFUL: RISHI KAPOOR 275 6. LOST IN llfE SHADOWS: RANDHIR KAPOOR AND RAJIV KAPOOR 303 7. LES GIRLS: KARISMA KAPOOR AND KAREENA KAPOOR 322 Google Original from Digitized by UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN EPILOGUE 339 NOTES 344 BIBLIOGRAPHY 348 SELECTIVE FILMOGRAPHY 350 INDEX 355 Google Original from Digitized by UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Acknowledgements l am grateful to all those who in their interviews and eminiscences gave so unstintingly of their time, and of themselves. Their conversations with me have been included in the book as far as possible in their own voices. The list of those I would like to thank is unending. I have mentioned many from the Kapoor family and circle of friends in the introductory chapter. There are numerous others. From the world of cinema: Tinnu Anand, Tanuja, Nadira, Amit Khanna, Lekh Tandon, Yograj Tandon, Dara Singh, Shyam Bcnegal, Govind Nihalani, Ramesh Sippy, Sudhir Mishra, Amitabh Bachchan, Sharmila T agore, Shakti Samanta, Nanda, Ali Raza, Nimmi, Zul Vellani, Sanjay Lecia Bhansali, Prem Chopra, B.R. Chopra, the late Yash Johar, Yash Chopra, Zohra Segal, B.M. Vyas, Vishwamitra Mehra 'Mamaji', Dev Anand, Simi Garewal, Ramanand Sagar, Kumar Shahani, Vyjanthimala and James Ivory. I owe special thanks to the late Ismail Merchant, a friend who encouraged me from the outset: I deeply regret the fact that he is no longer with us to read this book, and tell me what more I could have done. The contribution of P.K. Nair, a walking encyclopaedia of cinema, is invaluable. As is that of Bunny Reuben, who was not only generous in sharing his knowledge of the Kapoors, but whose biography of and articles about Raj Kapoor were immensely important in my research. Ritu Nanda's book on her father was studded with nuggets of information about the rest of the Kapoors. She and Shashi Kapoor have very generously provided a large number of the photographs used in this book. Friends have been pillars of support, and a few of them like Google Original from Digitized by UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN x Acknowlcdgcmcnu Rashmi Shankar and Madhu Malik shed some new light on Raj Kapoor. The contribution of Bina Ramani, a close friend of many of the Kapoors, is considerable. I am also grateful to Rupika Chawla for the trip to Loni, Raj Kapoor's farm: she was researching a book on Raja Ravi Varma not far from there at Karla Caves. I would also like to thank her for our many conversations about the Kapoor films, and the challenge of getting under the skin of the respective subjects of our inquiry. I would also like to thank fellow journalists and film writers for the insights they shared with me: Khalid Mohammed, Suresh Kohli, Sunil Sethi, Nasreen Munni Kabir, Nina Arora, Anupama Chopra, Dinesh Raheja, Namrata Joshi, Deepa Gahlot and Lata Khubchandani. This book would not be possible without the generous hospitality of Anuradha and Udayan Patel in Mumbai: their home was my home while researching there. I am grateful to Udayan for the endless conversations we had over the years which gave me a deeper understanding of the Kapoors and their films. Special thanks to my editors at Penguin: Ravi Singh, whose gentle pressure spurred me through what at times seemed an impossible task over the long years, and Sumitra Srinivasan and Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri who stepped up the required pressure. It was fun working With them. I would also like to thank David Davidar and Karthika at Penguin. · Lastly, but most importantly, I would like to thank my family. My sister, Nina, and her husband Ranjit Puri have always been very supportive. My husband, Krishna, has not only encouraged me but more importantly, all but locked me into the study to write. I could not have written this book without his prodding or understanding. Or without the moral and loving support of our two children, Sonali Jain-Chandra and Siddharth Jain, and son-in-law Rinku Chandra. Google Original from Digitized by UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Kapoor Family Tree 0 <O !:!. Dewan Keshavmal N ro a. I CF '< C") Basbeshamath Kapoor I 0 Prithviraj Kapoor m Ramsami (Rama) Mehra ~ ~ Ranbir Raj (Raj) m Krishna Malhotra Ravinder (d ) Dninder (d) Shamsher Raj (Shammi) [: Gcera Bali (acaess) Urmi (a ctor Rajendranath Neela Devi (daughter) and Premnath's sister) I Randhir m Babita Riru m . Rajan Nanda Rishi m Neetu Singh Rima m Manoi Jain Rajiv (Daboo) (actress) (Cbinru) (..:aess) (Chimpu) Shashi m Jennifer C z Kendal I < (actress) Karisma m Sanjay Kapur Kareena Ranbir Raj Riddhima Annaan ~dar m ;;o (Lolo) (Bebo) (/)Q I I ~~ Aditya Raj Kanchan m Keun Desai ::, Samaira 0~ I I (Manmohan ,, =l' :s Nikhil m Shweta Bachchan Nitasha Desai• s son) _30 (Amitabh and Jaya (") I Bachchan's daughter) Cl Kuna! m Sheena Sippy Karan Sanjana rm Aditya Bhattacharya )> z (Ramesh Sippy's (son of Basu Bhattacharya Navya Navcli Agastya daughter) and grandson of Bimal Roy) m Valmik Thapar Google Original from Digitized by UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
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