Dimple Kapadia, who was chosen to be his love interest in this teenage, mushy love story, also made her debut in this film. Kapoor entered films with the clichéd ‘bang’ as the romantic hero in another film directed by his father, Bobby (1973). And to his credit, Kapoor portrays the role brilliantly, deservedly winning the National Award for Best Child Actor for the same. Rarely has an Indian filmmaker captured the early sexual stirrings in a young teenage boy so beautifully. While the film, swinging between moments of sheer brilliance and some terrible self-indulgence on Raj Kapoor’s part, flopped dismally at the box-office, the first chapter with Rishi Kapoor is easily the film’s highlight. This particular episode of the film is said to have been picked by Raj Kapoor from his own childhood memory of his crush on his teacher. When he discovers that the teacher is already engaged to another, he feels betrayed and is hurt, heartbroken and angry. He plays the younger avatar of the joker, Raj Kapoor, a school boy, who develops a massive crush on his beautiful, young teacher, played by Simi Garewal. Then, the chubby, cherubic, peach-complexioned teenager appeared in Mera Naam Joker (1970) in the first part of his father’s doomed magnum opus. This is what distinguishes Rishi Kapoor as a star-actor in his own right.īorn in Bombay, now Mumbai, on September 4, 1952, we first saw Rishi Kapoor on-screen as a chubby and sweet, little, raincoat-clad boy of about three in that immortal song sequence, Pyar Hua Ikrar Hua, walking across the rain-splashed streets with his elder brother and sister in his father’s masterpiece, Shree 420 (1955). Nor did he follow in the footsteps of his elder brother Randhir Kapoor but devised his own style, one that was effortless.
He strove out on his own, did not imitate the theatrical style of his grandfather or the naïve innocence of his father Raj Kapoor’s screen image. But Rishi Kapoor, the third-generation successor of the Kapoor family beginning with his grandfather, Prithviraj Kapoor, still managed to establish his own distinctly individual identity through his unique charisma and underrated acting talent. To be born into a family regarded as the ‘first family’ of Indian cinema can be a two-edged knife, which cuts both ways.
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