In an exclusive throwback interview with senior most journalist Bharathi S Pradhan for Lehren, the talented Rajiv Kapoor opens up on his bonding & resemblance with uncle Shammi Kapoor & the experience of directing the megastar in Prem Granth (1996) film. The actor talks about his great-grandfather Prithviraj Kapoor's on-screen perfection & persona in turn elaborating upon father Raj Kapoor's cinematic brilliance & collaborating with the showman in Ram Teri Ganga Maili (1985) movie. Chimpu ji also gives an honest take on the current generation Kapoor Family Actors including Karisma Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor & Ranbir Kapoor, expressing them as the perfect candidates for carrying forward their family's grand legacy in the cineworld! Watch the full video featuring the RK Studios filmmaker in the most candid andaz... #rajivkapoor #rajivkapoorinterview #prithvirajkapoor #rajkapoor #shammikapoor #shashikapoor #ranbirkapoor #karismakapoor #kareenakapoor #kapoorfamily
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00:00And at one night, when I came to my house, I came to my house and I asked myself to sit here and ask myself if I'm going to work on my picture.
00:07I said sir, I'm going to say sir, why are you doing this? I'm going to work. I'm going to say what I'm going to say. When do you start to start?
00:14One time, I felt like I had seen Shami uncle in a magazine, and I thought it was my photo.
00:20And when I was a make-up man, two or three other people, they always thought it was my film.
00:28In my head, I saw the film. It was a very good job.
00:32I also said to him that, son, don't go up to your head. Keep your head on your head.
00:38And you have worked on the film. It doesn't feel like you're the first picture.
00:41When you were told about Shami uncle, can you tell me what he's like as an uncle?
00:49What about Shami uncle?
00:53The world knows that he's a very good person.
00:58He's a very big uncle.
01:00And I'm watching him from childhood.
01:03I'm watching his films.
01:05I'm feeling his love and love.
01:11And I'm so happy that he's a very big man and a legend in this country.
01:19Do you have any incident?
01:22Any one incident?
01:23Any way some memorable time you spent with him?
01:25I'm so happy.
01:25It's a very interesting thing.
01:28I remember when I was a little child, we were going to shoot and fishing.
01:33We were going to shoot and fishing.
01:37We were going to shoot and shoot.
01:39and I just got some time
01:41when I came back with the uncle
01:44and I was very shocked
01:46and I was very shocked
01:47and then
01:49the sea lake
01:51or the sea lake
01:53or whatever it was, the lake
01:55there was a shock
01:56and then whenever I got a chance
02:00in the small time, when I came to Kashmir
02:02then in Kashmir we got trout fishing
02:04so I got some time to go
02:06and then I looked at it
02:08How did he make a big feeling?
02:15Did you see his super stardom?
02:18I was very small. I was just listening to the truth.
02:23I watched the movies and the music.
02:26The person felt that there were so big stars.
02:30How big their music was.
02:33There were romantic films.
02:35They were dancing superstars.
02:38There were different people.
02:42There were different people.
02:44There were different people.
02:46When I saw it, they were very small.
02:51I didn't feel it.
02:53But I knew it.
02:55I saw it in a convertible car.
03:00People knew it.
03:03But they were just very familiar.
03:06He always loved Rajiv.
03:09He was a very king.
03:10He was a very stylish man.
03:13He was very strong.
03:17He was drinking food.
03:20He was living in style.
03:22He was living in cars.
03:24He was living in parties.
03:26He was living in the outside.
03:28He was living in others.
03:30All of his things were living in others.
03:34The others of us were listening to us.
03:36And we were always listening to us.
03:38The shock of wearing clothes.
03:40The shock of buy clothes.
03:42The empty convertible cars.
03:44The focus of talking about things.
03:48The focus of walking.
03:50The focus of moving.
03:52They were very stylish.
03:56Have you worked with him?
03:59Yes, yes.
04:01What was it like?
04:03The most fun thing is that my first film,
04:09which I started my career,
04:13one of them,
04:15he played my father in the film.
04:18It was very good that I worked with them.
04:23It's the most strange thing.
04:27It's my face.
04:30My family is a family.
04:33When I worked with the film,
04:38it was my character,
04:41the character that I had portrayed in the film,
04:44it was the cause of the film,
04:49the technicians,
04:51the director,
04:52the music director,
04:53the choreographer,
04:55all of them,
04:56all of them,
04:58because I felt like my character,
05:01I had a full of my character,
05:03I had a full of my career.
05:05I had a job with them.
05:08I had my age of 20 years,
05:10so I had a new life.
05:11I had a new life.
05:13I had a new life.
05:15I had a new life.
05:16I had a new life with my movies.
05:18I had a new life with my friends.
05:20I had one life with both friends,
05:22I had a new life.
05:23I feel a new life,
05:27very young people.
05:29I reached a new life before them,
05:30seeing them even when I put up with new reactions
05:32to Scenna,
05:34so I needed to adjust it.
05:35I need to change my musicES.
05:38As far as new things,
05:41I felt like something's made it.
05:42It looks only like works, scenes,
05:44acting best to have a better parts than it.
05:46I loved it.
05:47When I watched a film for me,
05:49So I felt like I had a feeling that I had to see the original picture of my magazine and that I had to see my photo.
05:57And when I had a makeup man, two or three people, they always had a film that I had to see my film.
06:06There was so close proximity in my face.
06:10But the people had to understand this.
06:12They had to understand this.
06:14Shami Kapoor, Rajiv Kapoor
06:16and it was just
06:19one or two films
06:20that I also felt
06:22that I had a style of my own
06:25because it feels like it
06:28it's not a bad thing
06:30it's so handsome
06:30it's so big
06:31so it's good
06:35but
06:36it's my experience
06:39you directed it
06:41yes
06:42then again I've worked with the first picture
06:45I've worked with the first picture
06:47and the first picture I've also worked with the first picture
06:49Shami Uncle
06:50and I've worked with the Rishi
06:53Tau Ji
06:55and it was a great
06:57it was a great feeling
06:59he's such a legend
07:01he's such a great actor
07:03and
07:04everything I said
07:07he used to do
07:08and I gave a great free hand
07:10I gave a lot of confidence
07:13that
07:15no, just as you want
07:16or just as you say
07:17we will do that
07:18and there was no interference
07:19and there was no interference
07:20and there was no relief
07:20and there was no relief
07:21and there was always
07:23encouragement to me
07:24that you're doing a good job
07:25you're doing a good job
07:26and I felt a good feeling
07:28I helped me
07:29a good message
07:29I used to know
07:30I was just in the movie
07:31I used to know
07:31that role
07:32in the film
07:32in the film
07:32you're doing this
07:34no
07:34I used to know
07:35that scene
07:36it was a big thing
07:37in the pre-climax
07:38It was a big issue that I felt good, but we were shooting, and there was a moment that the shooting was attacked, and there was a night shooting, and I thought that 9.30 to 9.30 will be done, but Shami uncle didn't work so many days, so it's not a good thing.
08:07I thought that I was attacked, and I had to finish my work, because I had to finish my work in Mumbai, and we were 10.30 to 10.30, and I had to finish my work, and if I finished my work, I would finish my work in the next year, which was 6-8 or 4-5 months later, so I thought that the director could finish my work.
08:36I thought that the director could finish my work, so that you would already film your work.
08:40So I went to Shami uncle, and I said, sir, there's a little problem, if you don't mind, and I said, what happened, and what happened, and what happened, and what happened, if you can help me on it.
08:51I thought that the director could finish my work, and I said, I was thinking, I'll do it with you.
08:57I can say that I wanted to be with my friends.
08:59I used to have had half a day in the night.
09:01And my people had never seen anything.
09:04I didn't, I had a couple of hours on my video.
09:06I did not want to come.
09:08I had taken care of me next day.
09:10I promised, I wouldn't happen.
09:12I had told them I didn't have any time,
09:15but I said I had no time,
09:17I didn't have anything, I didn't say anything.
09:19I would say I'll go, I'll go, or I'll do something,
09:22nothing.
09:23I had such encouragement,
09:25just how many times you want to do that.
09:27I don't have any problems, do it, I am with you.
09:30What do you need more people?
09:32What do you think after Shamitopur and after all of you, do you think Ranbir is going to keep this Kapoor's flatline?
09:42Of course, why not?
09:44I hope that Kapoor's flatline, the son of his son, his son, Ranbir, will always be able to keep this country.
09:59He will continue to grow his name, Kapoor's flatline.
10:05I believe, I hope to give him a good job, give him a good job, give him a heart, give him a good mind, and I believe that Ranbir will be able to keep this country.
10:18In my head, I watched his film, it was a better job.
10:22I said to him, I didn't say that he didn't go above his head, always keep his head on his head.
10:29And you have worked in this film, it doesn't feel like you have the first picture.
10:32It feels like you have worked in 25 or 30 pictures before, and you have already worked in such an experience,
10:38and you have already worked in that way.
10:42So these things are very happy, it feels very good.
10:47And I believe that he will do it, I am sure, positive.
10:51It's been so many years since Arkane has made a film.
10:56Do you feel like Ranbir will be able to make a film with Ranbir and Ranbir will also make a film with Ranbir?
11:01Yes, it will be possible.
11:03Yes, it will be possible. Why not?
11:06Okay, we haven't made a few years of films.
11:09We were thinking about how to make it and what to make it.
11:13Do you see enough years, generations will go and years, years will be undulter.
11:18Now, the original films will become different, and a lot of films will become different,
11:23and there are other films will become different.
11:25The audience is still different, the expectations are different.
11:28So the man feels like to think.
11:30Understand, they say that man is like this.
11:32If you are working together, people are telling you everything.
11:34If you want to make it, as much as the rest, you will not make it.
11:37You will not make it.
11:38We did not make it.
11:40We were thinking that we are thinking that we can not make it.
11:42I believe that it's a little time left
11:44But it's better late than never
11:46And it's never too late
11:48And it's never going to be late
11:50We will make it in the film
11:52We start a film in a 2-3 films
11:54We will make it in a moment
11:58And we will make it with Ranbir
12:00We will make it with Ranbir
12:02We will make it with Ranbir
12:04And as I said
12:06We will always keep the people
12:08And we will make it
12:10Do you feel
12:12With Kareena and doing
12:14Also very well, do you think it's the time
12:16Of the Kapoor again?
12:18Look
12:20By the grace of God
12:22The name of the Kapoor Pariwar
12:24Is still alive
12:26The four of them
12:30The name of the Kapoor Pariwar
12:32Is still alive
12:34The name of the Kapoor Pariwar
12:36Is still alive
12:38The name of the Kapoor Pariwar
12:40That we know
12:42The name of the Kapoor Pariwar
12:44That we know
12:46The name of the Kapoor Pariwar
12:48And we are happy to see
12:50That it will be
12:51The name of the Kapoor Pariwar
12:52That we will be
12:53Well
12:55At all
12:56At all
12:57The name of the Kapoor Pariwar
12:59Does everyone have already
13:01At all
13:02At the way
13:04At all
13:05The way
13:06At the top
13:07The name of the Kapoor Pariwar
13:08Is it a little bit of a male orientation?
13:10Is it a little bit of a male oriented thing that you want to make films of Drali but you never thought it was made with Kareena?
13:40is it?
13:57And then you can think that it's who comes from.
14:00And then you can think that you can do a new car, or a new car, or a new car, or a new car.
14:08Then you can see that.
14:10Like this, like Ranbir, he's an actor, he's a tailor, he's a tailor, he's a tailor, he's a tailor, he's a tailor.
14:22And he's designed.
14:23Do you feel proud of the doctor about Kareemah and Garim's success?
14:48Yes, of course. I feel that it's part of the family. We have our children.
14:55It's very happy that they have achieved their work.
14:58It feels good when they go out and talk about them.
15:02They do good things.
15:06They give their love. They give their prayers.
15:11They give their love. They give their love.
15:18They give their love. They give their love.
15:25And they give their love. That's all.
15:35He will be able to achieve his name, his family, and his father's name, and his father's name, and his father's name, and his father's name.
15:44And what else would you like? What else would you like to do?
15:49And as Raj Kapoor's son, do you feel very proud of what you've inherited as a film like?
15:57Of course, of course.
16:00Yes sir.
16:01I would like to thank you and thank you.
16:08I would like to thank you and thank you for your attention.
16:11You have brought me to this land and have been so beautiful in the world.
16:17And I would like to thank you.
16:21My son is a very big thing.
16:24It's a very responsible thing.
16:26You can do things and not.
16:29And I would like to say,
16:32I would like to thank you and thank you for your support.
16:35We have great joy and love.
16:37We have a great respect.
16:39We have a great respect.
16:41We have great respect.
16:42We have great respect.
16:44We have great respect.
16:46Our pillar of strength is my mother, and that's what I've seen from my parents today.
16:56And I always want to say that if my mother comes to life, my mother and girlfriend comes to life,
17:01then that's what I want. That's what I want to say. That's what I want to say in the world.
17:06Do it, do it, do it, do it. The love is always inside.
17:12Would you like to tell me a little bit about your dad's films and he directed you also?
17:16Yes, I've watched my dad's films and I've watched my kids.
17:22I've watched a lot of films. They're not just a film. It's an encyclopedia.
17:29It's my own kind of knowledge and reading books.
17:36I don't know that get one, two or three, or a few films or something that all films are good.
17:43Every film is in the style of a very good way
17:50There are some things that we have to say
17:53That's what we have to say
17:55Like when I was an assistant
17:59I was an assistant for Rahul Ravel
18:02When I was an assistant for school
18:04And I had only one thing that I would like to be an assistant for me
18:11My brother is my guru and I will be my friend
18:14And when I got my friend and I said to him
18:19He said to him to me to join me
18:23And who can I get better people?
18:25Where can I learn from?
18:27Where can I learn from?
18:29Where can I learn from?
18:31I'm talking about art and craft
18:33I was talking about 2-3 years ago
18:37And many people have been interacting with me
18:41Films made them
18:43As I know the moment
18:45During my mind, I had an idea
18:47I had to talk to them
18:49I asked him to think
18:51He'd always thought I could be
18:53Before I start my own
18:55Who could I start my own
18:57Why could I start my own
18:59Why had I started to start my own
19:01So this thing in mind, in mind
19:03It was a possibility
19:05to learn to fight your own battle
19:29let's learn to fight your own battle
19:29I was able to learn myself to learn and learn the lives of my life.
19:34I told myself that I was able to do a film.
19:37When I worked on my own work, when I saw it, I was able to learn so much.
19:43I was able to learn my mind.
19:46I was able to sign 4-5 pictures.
19:48I was able to make my own father's work.
19:52I was able to work on my own actor.
19:56I was not in his mind.
20:01As I started shooting shooting, I went to six-sept.
20:04And at one night, I came to my home.
20:07I came to my home and I said, sit here.
20:11And he asked me, are you going to work in my picture?
20:16I understood that you are asking.
20:20And he asked me, are you going to work?
20:24I said, no.
20:26What is your position?
20:27What is your position?
20:28What is your position?
20:29I want you to work.
20:32I didn't know what happened.
20:34I knew it.
20:35I went straight and went to my house.
20:37I found such a moment.
20:39Like the director of Raja Kapoor,
20:42he asked me, are you going to work in my film?
20:45I said, sir.
20:47Why are you doing this?
20:49I am going to work.
20:50You said, how do you start?
20:52He said, I was going to work.
20:54When I got the date, I got the date.
20:56When I got the date, I got the date.
20:57The other director, producer, I got the date.
20:59I got the date.
21:00I got the date.
21:01Now, everything depends on the date.
21:03I got the shooting.
21:05The secondary manager said,
21:07I asked him,
21:09what position could I get?
21:11I said, sir.
21:12I said, sir.
21:13I said, sir.
21:14I said, sir.
21:15I said, sir.
21:16I said, sir.
21:17I got the date.
21:18I got the date.
21:19I got the date.
21:20The best thing is that I was an actor.
21:23But I was an assistant and a few actors.
21:26Because I was an assistant and actor.
21:29I always felt like I was an assistant.
21:31I didn't have a shooting.
21:33I was on the set.
21:34I was on the trolley.
21:36I was on the crane.
21:37I was on the production.
21:39I was an assistant.
21:41I was an assistant.
21:42And I was able to find my experiences.
21:44It's the first time.
21:45I was on the set.
21:46So, I won't give my career.
21:47I am on the date.
21:48I found, i was on the client.
21:49I was on the что-to-go-do and I was on the previous day.
21:51I was on the date.
21:52I was on the date.
21:54There was no work.
21:55I had nothing to do.
21:56There had me,
21:57I worked on the date.
21:59And I got developed.
22:00So, I worked on the date.
22:02And I got the data.
22:04And I had to find out.
22:06I got the disfrut.
22:07And when I came in the film.
22:08When I was on the clip,
22:09I had asked myself,
22:10If anyone can say that you feel like Shami Kapoor, then I said no sir.
22:14But I said, sir, that's what you can say.
22:16How many other Raj Kapoor have I?
22:18They are the only one.
22:20If they are the only one, they are the only one.
22:22But every person is not the only one.
22:24It's the only thing that I get to work for them.
22:28What do I give to them?
22:30Isn't it strange that our new person who is going to include a flag flying,
22:38his name has been named after your dad, isn't it?
22:42Of course.
22:43The name of the father has given him.
22:45It's a pleasure.
22:47But there is a lot of time for him to move forward.
22:50And he will do it.
22:51He will do it.
22:52He will do it.
22:53The first step is left in the street.
22:55He has a lot of life.
22:58And he will do it.
23:00We will do it.
23:01We will do it.
23:02We will do it.
23:03We will do it with love.
23:04We will do it with love.
23:06And we will move forward.
23:08And as much as we can do it,
23:11we can do it with love, love, love and love.
23:14We will do it with love.
23:16We will try to do it.
23:18To come back to Shami Ji.
23:20Have you felt that you are Shami Kapoor?
23:26Have you heard it all your life?
23:28Yes.
23:29I will say it.
23:30I will say it.
23:31I will say it.
23:32I will say it.
23:33And it is not intentional.
23:35I will say it.
23:37It is not intentional.
23:38It is not intentional.
23:39It is inborn.
23:40Why is it?
23:41What is it?
23:42What is it?
23:43I am not sure.
23:44But it is.
23:45It is a very simple thing.
23:46Like when my grandfather,
23:49my grandfather,
23:50I will see him watching.
23:52I will see you with me.
23:53I've watched it.
23:54Got it.
23:55I was like,
23:57I've watched it.
23:58I always felt like this film.
23:59I watched it.
24:00In fact,
24:01I watched it.
24:02You can see it.
24:03I have a mirror.
24:04You see the thing.
24:05I have a physical thing.
24:07It has a look.
24:08It is completely visible.
24:09Now I have always liked it.
24:11I still have watched it.
24:12He worked hard when he felt that he was a big one.
24:17He said that this is not a Prithvi Raja Kapoor.
24:21But because of his face, he was confident that he didn't.
24:26He was confident that he didn't.
24:28He said that he didn't.
24:31I'm not a star.
24:35I'm not a star.
24:37I'm not a star.
24:39I'm not a star.
24:41I was a star.
24:44I noticed that the face of his face was a star.
24:53Even today, when I go out,
24:58people always say that.
25:01First, they say that.
25:04Then they say that.
25:06Then they say that.
25:08Then they say that.
25:09Then they say that.
25:10Then they say that.
25:11Then they say that.
25:12You said that.
25:13Look, that's the face of their eyes.
25:15Then they say that.
25:17And it's the thing that's not.
25:18My brother and my brother are so big.
25:20They say that.
25:21Then they say that.
25:22Then they say that.
25:23Then they say that.
25:24And they say that.
25:25That's the face of their eyes.
25:26They say that.
25:27Yes, as you said, sometimes.
25:28Sometimes.
25:29Sometimes.
25:30Sometimes.
25:31Sometimes.
25:32Sometimes.
25:33Sometimes.
25:34I don't think it's intentional. I don't think it's intentional.
25:40But sometimes it's like a change.
25:44It's like it's like Shami Kapoor is talking.
25:48Or it's like it's like it's like Raja Kapoor is talking.
25:52But there's a lot of weight, a lot of weight in Shami Kapoor's name.
25:56And just like I said, what do I do?
26:00All the best.