Rishi Kapoor was famously known for his strong and bold demeanour and sometimes, he would even be described as a “bully”. There have been many instances when his wife Neetu Kapoor described him as a “brat” and someone who was “loud”. Recently, Anubhav Sinha, who collaborated with Rishi on the 2018 film Mulk, recalled his experience working with him and called him a “Punjabi bully”.
In an interview with Mashable India, Anubhav Sinha shared, “Whenever I used to narrate him scenes, he would love to hear it from me. He was a Punjabi, and he had to play a man from Benaras. He would always tell me, ‘You once read it for me’. I told him, ‘Sir, the fact that I know you are looking at me, I won’t be able to perform. So whenever I am narrating the scene to you, please hear me then. I don’t know more than that.’ So he would find excuses to discuss scenes with me.”
He added, “Later, I realised, he was bullying me by making me narrate scenes and lines. He was a Punjabi bully. He would randomly come to me and be like, ‘What have you written here? I don’t understand. How do I say this line?’ And I used to be stunned. I would ask, ‘Why sir, what’s wrong?’ And when I would read it for him: ‘Main tumhare bina nahi jaa sakta’, he would be like, ‘Acha acha, Main tumhare bina nahi jaa sakta’.” The director laughed as he recalled the incident.
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However, in the same interview, Anubhav shared how respectful the legendary actor was to him. Recalling his greatness, the Article 15 director said, “He was a born star. He became a star at 12. He was born to Raj Kapoor, that by default makes him a star. Then he appeared in Mera Naam Joker, and everybody found him cute. Yet, he would come to me and be like: ‘Ji Anubhav Ji, bataiye’. I convinced him so much to not call me Ji. I don’t like it. And he was like, ‘You are my director, what else do I call you?’ He even used to call me ‘Sir’, and eventually he started to call me ‘Sinha sahab’. So we agreed to Sinha sahab.”
In an earlier interview with Peeping Moon, Ranbir Kapoor shared, “My father was always a big bully and he used to test his directors. If he comes on too strong and the director doesn’t hold his own and agrees to everything he says, he knows he has to take over the project. So he always did this testing.” Previously, on Annu Kapoor’s radio show, Suhaana Safar, Neetu Kapoor recalled her first meeting with her husband and called it “horrible”. She said, “He had a habit of bullying, so he would comment on my make-up and clothes, and I’d feel so angry.”
Rishi Kapoor passed away in 2020 due to cancer.
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