On his first death anniversary, the film fraternity pays tribute to the ever-popular actor as the world remembers some of his most iconic performances.
Bollywood colleagues and family took to social media to pay tributes to late actor Rishi Kapoor on his first death anniversary today.
Niece Kareena Kapoor dropped a heart emoji on Rishi Kapoor’s picture on Instagram story. Kareena’s sister Karisma, too, shared a picture on Instagram story of Rishi Kapoor in his younger days with a heart emoji.
Randeep Hooda shared a picture of the late actor on Twitter and captioned it: “#RishiKapoor”, while Arjun Kapoor share a picture with Rishi Kapoor on Instagram and wrote: “My constant reaction when I was next to him…Mouth shut ears open. Miss you Chintoo uncle. Cheers to that twinkle in your eyes…Always & forever.”
Actor-host Maniesh Paul posted an image with the late star shot during their New York meeting and wrote: “Miss you sir…love you sir….”
Divya Dutta recalled working with the actor.
“Childhood was you. And your movies!! That handsome face!! Dancing n singing and acting like a dream !! Cherish each moment of working with you, learning from you, knowing you!! You lived life beautifully!! All heart! That’s what you are!! Miss you #RishiKapoor,” she wrote.
Actress Payal Ghosh, who worked with Rishi Kapoor in the film “Patel Ki Punjabi Shaadi”, shared a picture from their promotions of the film and tweeted: “Remembering #RishiKapoor Sir on his first death anniversary, he was really a gem of a person. You will always be missed Rishi uncle.”
The actor passed away on April 30 last year at the age of 67 after battling cancer.
MEMORABLE ROLES
Rishi Kapoor’s stellar filmography cannot be defined by a handful of films. Although widely popular as a lover boy and chocolate-box hero in his heydays, the late actor would go on to carve his space as one Bollywood’s most versatile actors ever in a five decade-odd career. Here are a few films that underline his stature as an actor of many parts.
Mera Naam Joker
Rishi Kapoor received the National Award as Best Child Actor for his role in the Raj Kapoor film. He essayed the childhood of the protagonist Raju. The tearjerker melodrama was about Raju the joker, who must make people laugh, irrespective of his own troubles and suffering. The film also featured Simi Garewal, Kseniya Ryabinkina and Padmini.
Bobby
The Raj Kapoor superhit marked Rishi’s entry into Bollywood as a romantic hero in 1973, and also set off the trend of teenybopper romance in Hindi films. The pair of Rishi and Dimple Kapadia became a rage among the young audience, and is still considered one of the greatest romantic pairs on Bollywood screen. The film about a rich boy in love with a fisherman’s daughter had superhit music by Laxmikant-Pyarelal.
Amar Akbar Anthony
His role of the qawwal Akbar Illahabadi remains popular to this day. Manmohan Desai’s multistarrer had Amitabh Bachchan, Vinod Khanna and Rishi Kapoor playing three brothers who are separated in childhood and grow up in three different backgrounds of faith. The 1977 superhit showed Kapoor could hold his own in a film with many stars.
Do Dooni Chaar
The delightful urban comedy united Rishi and Neetu Kapoor after years, as a middle-class couple in Delhi, who are parents to two teenage kids. Kapoor delighted as the guy next door as the Habib Faisal film, released in 2010, created humour out of everyday situations an average middle-class family faces, highlighted by the ‘challenge’ they face while buying a new car.
Agneepath
The 2012 film directed by Karan Malhotra was a remake of the original 1990 film of the same name, but Rishi Kapoor’s character Rauf Lala was written as an original. “Agneepath” remains special in Kapoor’s filmography because contradicting his feel-good image, he portrayed Rauf Lala as a cold, cruel and calculating criminal, yet deeply caring about his family and dear ones.
D-Day
The 2013 action thriller by Nikhil Advani saw Rishi Kapoor excel as an out-and-out antagonist role, as Iqbal Seth Aka Goldman, a character said to be based on Dawood Ibrahim. The film is about an elite team from India that must infiltrate Pakistan and bring back The Most Wanted Man. The film also starred Irrfan Khan, Arjun Rampal, Huma Qureshi and Shruti Haasan.
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