

"When we were filming Bobby, Dimple would pull it off and wear it on her finger. Yasmin had given Rishi Kapoor a ring, which Dimple Kapadia used to wear during the filming of Bobby. But it put an end to my relationship with Yasmin, I tried hard to get her back in my life, but she did not agree" he wrote. Dimple, who by this time was already married to Rajesh Khanna, was not greatly affected by it. "By the time Bobby was released in 1973, Stardust, which was the most popular magazine of its time, published a story about a budding romance between Dimple and me. In his memoir Khullam Khulla, Kapoor wrote that he was in a serious relationship with a girl named Yasmin Mehta, which came to an end after tabloids wrote about a budding romance between him and Dimple. The chemistry between him and Dimple Kapadia looked so real, that it appeared to have flowed off-screen as well. However, the glowing success of Bobby created havoc in his real life. He didn’t believe taking stars in the film, in the sense that, his vision and thinking were different,” he added.įor Rishi Kapoor, his film Bobby was a subject of glowing pride, a 'masterpiece', he had said during the promotions of his book, Khullam Khulla.

That is why Rajesh Khanna and that time, I am told, Sharmila Tagore and Mumtaz were keen to work with Raj Kapoor. And the easiest way out after Mera Naam Joker debacle was to take big stars and make a film as there was a 100 percent hit chance since Raj Kapoor was making it. He added, "So, Bobby was made at a time when Raj Kapoor needed a successful film. He was so passionate about his films."Īlso Read | When Ranbir Kapoor said he was petrified of dad Rishi Kapoor: ‘He would say eat your veggies and I would start crying’ It was never invested in any other kind of industrial zone…it was always his films. Whatever money he earned all his life, was always invested in his films. Rishi Kapoor told Bollywood Hungama at the time, "Bobby was a film made because Raj Kapoor had to be bailed out. The duo were considered an iconic pair, with people drawing comparisons to Raj Kapoor and Nargis. He couldn't afford Rajesh Khanna, and so he launched his 20-year-old son, Rishi Kapoor, cast alongside Dimple Kapadia.

It changed the manner of lip syncing in its time, because director Raj Kapoor wanted Rishi Kapoor to sing all the songs loudly, rather than enacting them.īobby was a gamble, as it was a desperate measure to recover the losses incurred by Raj Kapoor's previous films, Mera Naam Joker and Kal, Aaj Aur Kal. But after the film, a realization that they could be just a boy and a girl, set in. He had said prior to Bobby, a hero and heroine would be a man and a woman. Rishi Kapoor established himself as a young romantic hero, and had often expressed his pride in setting the tone of romantic films to come. The film is a classic for innumerable reasons - portraying the concept of young, rebellious love, and changing the texture and grammar of Bollywood romances. It has been 48 years of Raj Kapoor's watershed romance, Bobby, which starred Rishi Kapoor and Dimple Kapadia.
