Hindi cinema is celebrating 100 years of the showman, Raj Kapoor! To commemorate the event, a movie competition showcasing 10 movies of the legendary actor-director, has been launched. The grand premiere evening of the celebrations of the competition noticed the total Kapoor clan come collectively. Kareena Kapoor Khan with Saif Ali Khan, Karisma Kapoor, Ranbir Kapoor with Alia Bhatt, Neetu Kapoor and the total household had been seen collectively. While Kapoor is understood for his lengthy listing of films which have left a large mark, globally, he was additionally all the time below the scanner for his private life.
Kapoor’s identify has been linked to many actresses however largely, it was his affair with Nargis which was extremely spoken about. Reportedly, the movie-maker was romantically concerned with her, for seven years, regardless of being married to Krishna Raj KapoorThey apparently met and fell and in love on the units of ‘Shree 420‘ and she was simply 16 that point. They had a relationship which lasted for seven years as they had been deeply in love. But ultimately, they parted methods as a result of he wasn’t able to divorce Krishna and marry her. She went on to marry Sunil Dutt.
Nargis and Sunil tied the knot in March 1958 and Raj was devastated. So a lot so, that he harmed himself. According to a in style ebook of creator Madhu Jain which is titled, ‘The Kapoor: The First Film Family of Indian Cinema’, Raj felt betrayed when Nargis married Dutt. It was written in the ebook that he burnt himself with cigarette butts. He additionally drank a lot, which took a toll on his household.
This ebook additionally mentions that Raj Kapoor’s spouse, Krishna Raj Kapoor, would overtly discuss her husband’s affair with Nargis. She spoke about it throughout a chat with creator Bunny Reuben. She recalled that after Nargis married Dutt, Raj began coming house drunk each evening for a while and he would collapse in the bath tub crying for her. It was a turbulent section for her to see her husband cry for an additional girl.
Nargis tried her greatest to marry Kapoor and develop into Mrs Raj Kapoor. She reportedly additionally went to India’s then Home Minister Morarji Desai in order to seek out out methods in which she may legally marry Raj, who was a Hindu and a married man. However, it was all futile as Raj didn’t need to divorce his spouse Krishna. Some reviews recommend that Nargis’ brother got here in between their relationship, whereas some speculate that Raj was by no means going to have the ability to marry Nargis however he simply all the time stored her in the darkish.
