When Rishi Kapoor Opened Up About His Last Romantic Film, Challenging Roles & Hindi Film Industry

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Rishi Kapoor was an Indian actor, film director, and producer who worked in Hindi films. Over a career spanning 50 years, he is regarded as one of the most successful and accomplished actors in Hindi cinema. On the 5th anniversary of Rishi Kapoor's passing, let's revisit an interview from the shooting of Rakesh Roshan's film Karobaar, where he mentioned that the stories of Hindi films often followed a similar pattern, and that Karobaar would likely be his last romantic film in which he would be seen as a hero. Let's watch this flashback interview in his memory. #rishikapoor #ranbirkapoor #neetukapoor #lehren #podcast

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00:00The love just happens. You just can't buy love.

00:08If you interview an actor on TV, you ask your role or your picture.

00:13It's different. What is different?

00:16It's like a Hindi picture.

00:18Why are our pictures not different?

00:21We basically make love stories.

00:25Musical love stories.

00:27People have spent a lot of years.

00:29I'm very thankful about that.

00:32In terms of the film, we can tell our editor Aakish Oshun.

00:37He told me that you and Juhi and Anil are a love writer.

00:44Yes.

00:46This is a bit of a mature story.

00:50It's a bit of a doubt that our pictures are very youth oriented.

00:56So, it's not.

00:58And I think this is my last romantic film.

01:03As a romantic hero.

01:05After that, I want to talk about it.

01:13So, I'm very happy that I am here.

01:17I am very happy to work with it.

01:30I am very happy to work with them.

01:31What kind of film are you doing in the film?

01:33It is often in the film.

01:35It is often that when people are busy,

01:39they don't have time to do the film.

01:42In this scene, this scene is about Anil buying your love.

01:47So what is it like to be at the receiving end?

01:50Receiving end, what love?

01:51That means that you come in front of your girls and girls?

01:54Oh no, it is not done so bluntly.

01:56There is a little bit of, it is done very subtly.

02:01And this is actually the difference.

02:05You cannot buy love.

02:07You cannot buy love.

02:10It just happens, love just happens.

02:12You just can't buy love.

02:14So you obviously know that he is trying to win.

02:17No, I did not know at this stage.

02:19When I come to know what is happening,

02:22then it is a different ball game out here.

02:25So what is it like to play a character like that?

02:28I mean, as an actor, it doesn't make me a difference

02:29what kind of character it plays.

02:32I mean, I know how to move.

02:33I know how to deal with the situation.

02:36It may be good, bad, indifferent.

02:37But the situation demands me at that point of time

02:43to do exactly what the director wants me to do.

02:46We are seeing a razor now?

02:48Yes.

02:49Room, actually.

02:51Play, play and turn.

02:53Yes.

02:54Cheers, cheers, cheers.

03:01Okay.

03:04So, try it again.

03:07Now, because the glasses are closed,

03:10this face should be covered.

03:12Should be covered, yes.

03:14What has it been like doing this film as compared,

03:20this is romantically definite, but which is different?

03:23Yeah, well, yeah.

03:25What is it?

03:26When you interview the actors on the TV,

03:31what is your role or your picture?

03:33It's different.

03:34But what is it different?

03:36It's like a Hindi picture.

03:37It's different.

03:38You can think of your role in 19 years.

03:41But basically, why are our pictures different?

03:45It's that we basically make love stories.

03:48Musical love stories.

03:50Now, you role in the police, lawyer, doctor or businessman.

03:57You role in the film.

03:57You can sing the song.

04:00You will be behind 50 dancers.

04:03So, why do we say it's different?

04:06Different in the sense that it is...

04:12I don't know.

04:12I can't say anything about this.

04:14It's like you said that this is your last romantic film.

04:20Yes.

04:21So, you gave this romantic film to your last name.

04:24Is it a special reason?

04:27No, it's not a special reason.

04:28I've been doing this for 20 years.

04:3025 years of romance is a long time.

04:33I'm making a picture now.

04:34It's not that I've left acting.

04:36I'll have to do acting, but don't.

04:38I'll have to get a good role.

04:41I'll have to do it.

04:42I've done enough.

04:43I've done it for many years.

04:45I've done it for a long time.

04:47I'm very thankful about that.

04:49If you come back in front of me, what will you do?

04:54No, I'm not that young to play romantic film anymore.

05:01So, I'll do it.

05:03I would not like to.

05:04Unless it has a different story.

05:06It doesn't have me to do what I've been doing all these years in the past.

05:10I can't run around trees now.

05:12I'm not that age.

05:13How does being an actor help you as a director?

05:16Well, my experience probably over the years contributes to my thinking about how I should

05:24deal with the situation.

05:25And then, I don't think I'd like to show my actors to do the way I do.

05:33I just explain to them and then they do it in their own way.

05:36So, it's their style that is actually speaking.

05:40And my actors have done a marvelous job in the film.

05:42They're very disciplined, very good to me.

05:44They've done, I owe a lot to my actors in my film.

05:50Shishi Ji, this Swap Jai Sahib has said that I am going to do the last thing.

05:53So, if you want to change the whole thing, you want to change the whole thing.

05:57What do you want to do?

05:58So, what kind of character do you want to do this Swap?

06:00Now, to say it is difficult.

06:06I didn't think about it, to be very honest.

06:08I didn't think about it.

06:12What would you say about the dream role?

06:14No, no dream role.

06:15I don't think about it.

06:16I don't think about it.

06:17Or any character you want to play?

06:19Look, these characters actually play from the story.

06:25The characters who play from the story, they play from the story.

06:30I don't want to do any kind of condition.

06:32I don't want to do any kind of dream role.

06:34I don't know anything about it.

06:36Straight.

06:38Fun from the heart.

06:40They'll say the kirdaar mhane, that I would like to do.

06:44We've been doing a story on what people feel are the best romantic pair on screen.

06:49And lots of actors and actors included Tapu.

06:51I've said that Neetu Singh and Rishi Kapoor were the ultimate romantic pair.

06:56So, what is your ultimate romantic pair on the screen?

06:59No, I don't want to.

07:01What is my ultimate romantic pair?

07:03What would you feel to you over the years of Hindi cinema?

07:07Are the ideal romantic pair to your favorite romantic pair on the screen?

07:10Hindi screen?

07:11Yes.

07:11There are a lot of people.

07:13There are a lot of people.

07:14There are a lot of people.

07:15There are a lot of people.

07:16They always look very nice.

07:17They all look very nice.

07:21How do you feel about being made to that?

07:24You really come topmost when it comes to romantic pairs with Neetu Singh.

07:28I think being very kind but thank you.

07:31What is your favorite romantic song in Hindi movies?

07:36Are you singing so much?

07:39How can you sing a lot of one song?

07:42All films have never had a good reason.

07:43What about this girl?

07:44Your favorite song in Hindi movies?

07:48There's one song I like very much.

07:50Very well written by Jagat Saath.

07:52And of course Raju.

07:53Raju Roshu.

07:57Arzu Ke.

07:58That song.

07:59I think it's very well.

08:01I haven't seen it on screen but I've only heard it.

08:03It's been picturized.

08:05I like it.

08:06Very nice.

08:06It's been picturized on?

08:08Yes.

08:09Juhi and myself.

08:10It sounds very good.

08:12Could you tell us something about it?

08:14No.

08:14I think now we call it bits.

08:15I've got to go on.

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