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.
01:17My friend Razi's friend, Aakish Oshun, is the director of this film.
01:22It's really fun to work with him.
01:24Yes.
01:25It's very proud.
01:26I feel very proud to work with him.
01:28But...
01:29I am very happy to work with him.
01:31What is the film in the film?
01:33It's been a lot of times.
01:35It's been a lot of times.
01:36When people are busy, we have no time to do it.
01:41This scene is about Anil buying your love.
01:46So, what is it like to be at the receiving end?
01:50Receiving end?
01:51What is it like to be at the receiving end?
01:52That means that your girl friends are coming up with you?
01:54No.
01:55It is not done so bluntly.
01:56There is a little bit of...
01:58It's done very subtlely.
02:00And this is the difference that people can buy love, love just happens, you just can't buy love.
02:13I mean you obviously know that he is trying to wean her.
02:17No, I did not know at this stage. When I come to know what is happening, then it's a different ball game out here.
02:24What is it like to play a character like that?
02:27I mean an actor, it doesn't make me a difference what kind of character he plays.
02:32I mean I know how to moat, I know how to deal with the situation.
02:36It may be good, bad, indifferent, but the situation demands at that point of time to do exactly what the director wants me to do.
02:45We are seeing a razor now?
02:48Yes.
02:49Oh naturally.
02:51Play, play and turn.
02:53Yes!
02:54Yes, yes, yes.
02:56Okay.
02:57So, try it now.
02:58Now, because the glass is closed, this face should be covered.
03:12Should be covered.
03:13Yes.
03:14What has been like doing this film as compared, this is a romantic read definitely, but which
03:23is a romantic read.
03:24Yeah, well, yeah.
03:25Yes, well, yeah.
03:26So, what do you say when you interview an actor on the TV, you say what is your role or your picture.
03:34It's different.
03:35But what is different?
03:36Every Hindi picture is like a Hindi.
03:38You can think of a role in the 19th century.
03:41It's different.
03:42But basically, our pictures are not 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.
03:56You role in the businessmen.
03:57You role in the music.
03:58You can sing a song.
03:59You can sing a song.
04:00There will be 50 dancers behind you.
04:02So, why do we say that it's different?
04:05Different in the sense that it is, I don't know.
04:09I can't say anything about this.
04:16You said that this is a romantic film.
04:20Yes.
04:21You have given the romantic film.
04:24Is it a romantic film?
04:26Is it a romantic film?
04:27No, it's not a romantic film.
04:29I've been doing it for 20 years.
04:3025 years of romance is a long time.
04:33I've been making a picture.
04:35I don't want to leave acting.
04:36I'm going to do acting.
04:37But I don't want to do anything.
04:39I'll get a good role.
04:41I'll do it.
04:42I've done enough.
04:43I've been doing it for many years.
04:45I've been doing it for many years.
04:46I've been doing it for many years.
04:47I've been doing it for many years.
04:48I'm very thankful about that.
04:49If you have an offer for me today,
04:53what will you do?
04:54No.
04:55I'm not that young to play romantic film anymore.
05:01So, I'll do it.
05:03I would not like to.
05:05Unless it has a different story.
05:07It doesn't have me to do what I've been doing all these years.
05:09In the past.
05:11I can't run around trees now.
05:13I'm not that age.
05:14How does being an actor help you as a director?
05:17Well, my experience, probably over the years,
05:21contributes to my thinking about how I should deal with the situation.
05:26And 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.
05:39And my actors have done a marvelous job in the film.
05:42They are very disciplined, very good to me.
05:45They've done, I owe a lot to my actors in my film.
05:48This is how it has been.
05:50It's an image that is the majority of so many people who arey.
05:52We're talking about the same thing now.
05:53So, we want to change the stage.
05:54I mean, I'm sorry, the one who's like.
05:55I don't want to change the stage.
05:56I don't want to change the stage.
05:57I don't want to change the stage of my life.
05:58I want to change the stage.
05:59I want to change the stage.
06:01I want to change the stage of this situation.
06:02Now, I am always bad saying this to me.
06:03I didn't think about it. I will be very honest.
06:10I didn't think about it.
06:13What is the dream role?
06:15No, it's not a dream role.
06:17Or any character you want to play?
06:20Look, they actually play from the story.
06:25The character who plays the character, they play from the story.
06:30I don't want to do any condition.
06:33I don't want to say anything.
06:35Nothing of that sort.
06:37Straight.
06:38Fun from the heart.
06:40What I would like to do with the heart.
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, including Tapu, have said that Neetu Singh and Rishi Kapoor were the ultimate romantic pair.
06:56So, what is your ultimate romantic pair on this screen?
06:59No, I don't want to.
07:01What is my ultimate romantic pair?
07:03Would you feel to you, over the years of Hindi cinema, are the ideal romantic pair to your favourite romantic pair on the screen?
07:10Hindi screen.
07:11They are very nice. They are very nice. They all look very nice.
07:17How do you feel about being rated at? You really come topmost when it comes to romantic pairs.
07:28I think being very kind. Thank you.
07:32What is your favourite romantic song in Hindi cinema?
07:36Are you singing so much?
07:39How can you sing a lot of one song?
07:42All films have had a good reason.
07:44What about this film?
07:48There's one song I like very much. Very well written by Jagat Saat.
07:52And of course Raju. Raju Roshu.
07:57Arzu Ke. That song. I think it's very well.
08:01I haven't seen it on screen but I've only heard it. It's been picturised. I like it. Very nice.
08:06It's been picturised on?
08:08Yes. Juhi and myself. It sounds very good.
08:12Could you tell us something about it?
08:14No. I think now we call it picturised. I've got to go on. Thank you.