Shammi kapoor biography video of albert einstein

00:00Rajesh Khanna used to be at my house over here.

00:03The child grew up in front of me in the film industry.

00:06Not 4-5 films, but 40-50 films.

00:10I don't know, it's blind faith.

00:12Why didn't we work with Usha Khanna? Who is Usha Khanna?

00:15So after I got married, I went to my father,

00:17I took a glass, poured both of us a drink,

00:20said cheers, and I smoked it one time.

00:22Mr. Kapoor, was it taken for granted that you are going to be an actor?

00:33Because you are Prithviraj Kapoor's son.

00:35No, not at all. As a matter of fact,

00:37I opted for science in college,

00:43and I wanted to become an engineer,

00:45an aerodynamic engineer.

00:47Imagine the number of crashes we would have had

00:49if I had become an engineer.

00:51My God.

00:53Can you tell us a little about your childhood?

00:56What was the environment like?

00:58How did you become an actor?

01:00The environment was very beautiful.

01:02I was born here, in Chennai Road,

01:07in Ajankya Hospital.

01:09But after that, we went to Calcutta.

01:11There was schooling in Calcutta.

01:13My father was working in Bengali movies.

01:17And then, when we came back to Bombay,

01:20we stayed at Matunga.

01:22Matunga was a beautiful suburb that we stayed in.

01:25In those days, I very distinctly remember

01:30that there was only one car in the whole lane.

01:35It used to be called Hollywood Lane,

01:38as a matter of fact,

01:39because it housed all those people,

01:44the actors who had come from Calcutta,

01:47and migrated from there.

01:49And it was full of actors, and writers, and directors.

01:54And we were very fortunate

01:56that we had Khalsa College on one side

01:59with a beautiful playing field, ground.

02:03And we had VJTI, the institute, behind us,

02:07again with a beautiful field.

02:10So, I grew up playing a lot.

02:13I was indulging in sports of all kinds.

02:17And then, I was schooling very far,

02:21distinct from my house.

02:23I was schooling here at Ujjus Road,

02:25at Newra School.

02:27And I did my matric from here.

02:29And then I went to Ruia College there,

02:31in Matunga,

02:33because it was near to my house,

02:35and convenient.

02:37And I took up science,

02:38and you had to get up very early in the morning

02:40for science practicals.

02:42But that is all that I did in my college.

02:44I did my practicals in Ruia College,

02:46and the rest of the time,

02:48I spent at Xavier's,

02:50because I was very,

02:52very closely associated with Xavier's.

02:55I played a lot of table tennis championships there.

02:59I also had a canteen account there.

03:02And the other time,

03:04I spent at Elphinstone College,

03:06because all my classmates

03:08from my Newra School went to it.

03:10They were all from this side,

03:11they went to Elphinstone.

03:13So that's the reason that after

03:15a couple of years of college,

03:17college got,

03:21I got bored of college.

03:23Or I went back to my father,

03:25and I told him I want to join the theatres.

03:27That is how I joined Prithvi Theatres,

03:29and that is how I became an actor.

03:32Is this right?

03:34I have heard that in Prithvi Theatres,

03:36your salary was Rs. 50 before?

03:38Yes, I joined Prithvi Theatres at Rs. 50.

03:41My God!

03:42I used to earn a lot of money at Rs. 50,

03:44but still it was very less.

03:46And I used to ask my mother for a lot of money.

03:50I used to be very naughty.

03:52I used to open the cupboard,

03:54and to take something out,

03:56I used to put my hand from above

03:58and take out a 100 rupee note.

04:00I still remember that.

04:02When you started your career

04:04in films from Prithvi Theatres,

04:07it was not very easy, isn't it?

04:09Because your father didn't launch you

04:11like they do nowadays.

04:13No, no.

04:14Prithvi Theatres was basically

04:16a training school.

04:18And the four years that we spent there,

04:23we learnt a lot,

04:25we gained a lot,

04:27and we moved forward with that.

04:29In 1952, I joined.

04:31It was my first movie, Jeevan Jyoti.

04:34I did it with Mahesh Kaur,

04:36because Mahesh Kaur saw me doing Pathan,

04:39my father's play.

04:41He saw me doing the role

04:43of Bahadur Khan in Pathan.

04:45And that's how he selected me.

04:48Your first four or five films

04:51didn't do very well,

04:53didn't do very well.

04:55I believe...

04:57My first four or five films

04:59didn't do well.

05:01I don't remember how many films

05:03but there were a lot.

05:05And for five years,

05:07nothing worked.

05:09And it was very bad.

05:11You used to call yourself

05:13a male starlet.

05:15A male starlet?

05:17Because you were so disgusted

05:19with what...

05:21with the films not doing well.

05:23I was...

05:25It happens.

05:27I was young,

05:29I got married,

05:31and the biggest thing was

05:33that I was Raj Kapoor's brother,

05:35Pithvi Raj Kapoor's son,

05:37Geeta Bali's husband.

05:39I was nothing.

05:41So a lot of things

05:43are hidden at a young age.

05:45And the same things happen

05:47that make a person passionate,

05:49that make a person...

05:53become a source of inspiration

05:55to do something,

05:57an incentive to go out there

05:59and create your own identity.

06:07My father got married at 18.

06:09I got married at 23.

06:11Fair enough.

06:15Raj Kapoor got married earlier, I think.

06:17He got married at 22.

06:19When you wanted to marry Geeta ji,

06:21was there any opposition at home?

06:23Were they all right about it?

06:25No, no.

06:27How did you marry Geeta ji?

06:29There was no opposition.

06:31As a matter of fact,

06:33when I told them that I was in love,

06:35we were having no affair as such,

06:37but I was terribly in love with her.

06:39And when it came to my marriage,

06:41my family was not here.

06:43Not my father,

06:45my mother,

06:47Raj ji was here,

06:49but I told Raj ji

06:51that I was married.

06:53And there was

06:55no objection.

06:57As a matter of fact,

06:59when I rang up my father,

07:01I called him and told him

07:03that I have brought my daughter-in-law.

07:05He told me to come to Bhopal

07:07and tell him.

07:09He was in Bhopal with the theatre at that time.

07:11He told me to come and tell him

07:13and give him blessings.

07:15We went down to Bhopal.

07:17I performed as a matter of fact,

07:19there in the theatre.

07:21And most importantly,

07:23that night,

07:25I had promised my father

07:27that when I get married,

07:29I would like to be more with you.

07:31And since I am a smoking man,

07:33drinking man, I run away from you.

07:35It's very customary.

07:37In front of my father,

07:39he respects me a lot.

07:41I said, I will respect you anyway.

07:43But,

07:45after I got married,

07:47I kept my promise. After I got married,

07:49I went to my father, took a glass,

07:51poured both of us a drink,

07:53said cheers, and I smoked in front of him.

07:55And I felt,

07:57I didn't feel bad about it.

07:59Because I did it all my life

08:01till the end.

08:03And that kept me nearer to him

08:05and I spent a lot of time with him.

08:09Geetaji was your co-star, isn't it?

08:11Yes, we did

08:13two film movies.

08:15We did Coffee House,

08:17that's where we met.

08:19And then we did Miss

08:21Coca-Cola.

08:23I haven't even seen that picture.

08:25That was

08:27produced by Kuldeep Kaur.

08:29And then we did

08:31a movie called Rangeen Raat,

08:33in which she played a cameo role.

08:35But that's when we went outdoors

08:37to Rani Khed.

08:39We went to Rani Khed

08:41for the first time.

08:43And I spent

08:4520 days of my life there.

08:47I fell in love with her.

08:49Ironically, wasn't that the place

08:51where she also passed away?

08:53Rani Khed?

08:55No, Geeta passed away.

08:57She passed away in this house.

08:59I thought she fell in...

09:01No, no, no.

09:03Was Tumsa

09:05Nehri Dekha, would you call that

09:07the point when your career

09:09really went in for a complete change?

09:11Absolutely.

09:13I think

09:15Tumsa Nehri Dekha had to happen.

09:17It's like an accident

09:19waiting to happen.

09:21It's like

09:23I went for broke,

09:25I shaved my moustache,

09:27long hair,

09:29like Dhoni.

09:31They did good for Dhoni,

09:33not for me.

09:35I cut them off.

09:37I got myself a crew cut.

09:39And I got myself a style.

09:41And I did it.

09:43And that was the movie

09:45that gave me the first opportunity

09:47to sing songs

09:49the way I wanted to

09:51and act the way I wanted to act.

09:57You were called

09:59Rebel Star.

10:01Why were you called

10:03Rebel Star?

10:07In those days,

10:09in the film industry,

10:11in our film industry,

10:13there were only three great actors.

10:15Mr. Raj Kapoor,

10:17Mr. Dilip Kumar,

10:19and Mr. Dev Anand.

10:21And after that,

10:23we used to come

10:25right under the stairs.

10:27And they didn't even bother

10:29about us.

10:31So, what I was trying to do

10:33was break through that wall.

10:35I was not trying

10:37to be a conformist.

10:41I would climb up the ladder,

10:43go there, break through that wall

10:45and make myself something.

10:47And they called me the Rebel Star.

10:51But isn't this

10:53great that

10:55the three of them, the reigning tribe

10:57that was there, there was also Shammi Kapoor.

10:59He stood up to them, isn't it?

11:01You were as big a star, isn't it?

11:03I mean, after I broke through.

11:05Yes, after.

11:07After I broke through with history.

11:09Yes.

11:11I didn't look back.

11:13Was it very dizzy up there?

11:15Because I hadn't

11:17been there at all.

11:19It was very new to me.

11:21But I would

11:23tell you one thing, in all sincerity.

11:25My wife,

11:27whose name was Geeta Bali.

11:29She was a very mature person.

11:31And she stood

11:33by me like a pillar.

11:35Even when I was an

11:37ornate entity, and even

11:39after I had an identity.

11:41So, in this

11:43whole environment,

11:45if there was one person

11:47who held me

11:49and kept me, who had faith in me.

11:51He was sure

11:53that this person would do something one day.

11:55And who also

11:57held me down.

11:59Don't

12:01go overboard.

12:03She did that. And that's the reason

12:05I did some very good pictures after that.

12:07I did Dil Dekhe Dekho,

12:09I did Jangli, I did Professor.

12:11I did some very nice movies.

12:13As a matter of fact,

12:15even Teesri Manzar,

12:17I signed.

12:19During her, I started Teesri Manzar,

12:21and she died when I was making Teesri Manzar.

12:23And Teesri Manzar

12:25also was, because of her,

12:27and my association with

12:29Masood Hussain.

12:31Shall we talk about

12:33Yahoo?

12:35Yahoo and Shammi Kapoor are synonymous.

12:37Yahoo was something that was there

12:39all the time within me.

12:41And the first opportunity it

12:43got, it came out.

12:45And that was in Tumsa Ne Dekha.

12:47It was not in Jangli.

12:49It started with Tumsa Ne Dekha

12:51It was a Bhangra song,

12:53Sar Pe Topi Laal Gaana.

12:55In that,

12:57a girl runs, a boy runs after her,

12:59and he yahoos and runs.

13:01That yahoo expression

13:03was embedded in my mind.

13:05It came from there.

13:07I did the same thing

13:09in Dil Dekhe Dekho.

13:11There also, a girl runs,

13:13a boy runs after her, he falls,

13:15he yahoos, and he sings

13:17Yaar Kil Bula.

13:19Eventually that

13:21thing all culminated

13:23in a song.

13:25In the whole situation, the whole scene of Jangli

13:27is built on this.

13:29That here is a man who doesn't smile,

13:31who is absolutely an introvert,

13:33who hasn't expressed

13:35anything in life.

13:37Except he knows what money is.

13:39And for the first time he falls in love.

13:41He's

13:43caught down by the storm,

13:45he's got snow around him, everything.

13:47But there's a beauty who overcomes everything.

13:49And then eventually,

13:51when the doors and windows

13:53open up,

13:55comes out with that one expression.

13:57And that was yahoo.

13:59And the whole song was made because of that.

14:01After that you were called

14:03the yahoo star.

14:05Oh, I don't know.

14:07But that was a good song.

14:09It was a very good moment in the picture.

14:11It was a very good expression.

14:13I think very original.

14:15Mr. Kapoor, is this right that

14:17once you really took off,

14:19you did not really

14:21go for established girls to work with you?

14:23You made it a point to have new girls with you?

14:25Because I think it made no

14:27difference to me.

14:29I had the experience of having worked

14:31with... I had worked with Ameeta.

14:35It was a super hit picture.

14:37Dil Dekhe Dekho

14:39Mein Asha Paari. It was her first picture.

14:41It was a super hit picture.

14:43Jangli Wa Saira Bano.

14:45Now three times if I can do it with new girls,

14:47why can't I continue?

14:49That's what I did.

14:51And it made no difference to me.

14:55Would you be able to tell me a little bit about these three girls?

14:57Asha Paari,

14:59her first film.

15:01Asha Paari is a fabulous girl. Basically she is a very fine person.

15:03And she tries very hard.

15:05She tried very hard also.

15:07And

15:09Achcha Naachti Hai

15:11Achcha Naachti Hai

15:13She is a good character.

15:17She worked very hard.

15:19She came up. She is a star.

15:21Mujhe Chacha Bulaati Hai.

15:23Unn Dinu she had just been dropped

15:25from a film which she had shot for, isn't it?

15:27Gunjuti Shain Nahi.

15:29She had been dropped from it but she got her break with you.

15:31And she made it.

15:33I don't know much of her history.

15:35I really don't.

15:37But I believe so. You are right I think.

15:39You are right.

15:41Yes, she was dropped and

15:43Amitabh was taken in place of her.

15:45And Amitabh was taken because

15:47Tumsa Nahi Dekha Bata Hai.

15:49Yes, yes, yes.

15:51I remember that.

15:53Okay.

15:55Toh Asha Paari

15:57kaise thi jab pehli film

15:59jawab ke saath?

16:01What was she like as a newcomer?

16:03She was a very

16:05nice person.

16:07Aapko kya accha lag raha hoon

16:09ki aapne haan kahe diya ki

16:11in ke saath mein kaam kar hoon?

16:13I had total belief in Mr. S. Mukherjee.

16:15And Nasir was a friend,

16:17very dear friend of mine.

16:19Humne saath mein

16:21Tumsa Nahi Dekha Bata Hai thi aur peh

16:23badi umedhi thi ki aage chalke bhi kuch karenge saath mein.

16:25Aur

16:27ek faithwari baat hoti hai.

16:29I don't know, it's blind faith.

16:31Why didn't we work with Usha Khanna?

16:33Who is Usha Khanna?

16:35It was fabulous music.

16:37I think there were 200 songs in that picture.

16:39Itne gaane the.

16:41Aur har gaana

16:43bada achcha tha.

16:45Situation bhi bada hota tha.

16:47There was a brain S. Mukherjee behind the whole thing.

16:49And Nasir was there to do it.

16:51We all did a good job and

16:53Asha was very nice.

16:55She made a very fine effort and she was very successful.

16:57What about

16:59Saira Bhanu? Aapne jab unke saath

17:01Chandli mein kaam kiya hai,

17:03can you tell me little bit about Saira?

17:05And as an actress, the first time she

17:07worked with you.

17:09Saira Bhanu ke baare mein bhi main baahut kam

17:11jaanata hoon. Very little.

17:13And that is

17:17when she came, she

17:19had a very

17:23jisse kehate hain

17:25a head

17:27advantage over all the other

17:29girls. She was a very pretty

17:31girl.

17:33She was very young.

17:35Phir wo London se aayi thi.

17:37Aamare yaan

17:39Kalba Devi aur Goregaon se nahi.

17:41And she

17:43had the background. Her mother,

17:45Naseem Bhanu.

17:47Look at the family and

17:49look at everything.

17:51So she came on a pedestal.

17:55And the fact that she was

17:57very pretty kept her going.

17:59Then eventually,

18:01the picture was very successful.

18:03And people liked her immensely.

18:05And she became a good actress

18:07after that.

18:09When these girls, Sharmila

18:11Tagore was another person.

18:13Sharmila came from a

18:15background where she had already

18:17worked with Satyajit Ray.

18:19Uthna exposure tha usse.

18:21Ke acting kya hai.

18:23Only thing is she got into the wrong vehicle.

18:25Wo gaadi thiye, wo Bengali

18:27gaadi nahi thi. Wo yahoo

18:29gaadi thi yahaan par.

18:31Aur yahaan par wo yeh gaane aur yeh

18:33karna aur wo uchhal kood karni.

18:35Bechari she got.

18:37But she wanted to

18:39become a commercial artist.

18:41And that's what she did.

18:43Eventually she did.

18:45The next picture after this, she was a

18:47super hit star.

18:49But she was a good actress. Basically, she was a very fine actress.

18:51She was a very intelligent girl.

18:53Padhi likhi ladki hai.

18:55She came from a very intelligent family.

18:57She often said that

18:59you swept her off her feet.

19:01I did, did I?

19:03I must have.

19:07She was a nice kid.

19:09There was also

19:11Evening in Paris after that, isn't it?

19:13We did Evening in Paris. At that time, Patodi swept her.

19:15She got

19:17married after that.

19:19Aapne Shakti Saaman ki saath

19:21kaafi filme ki?

19:23Shakti ki saath

19:25My first movie with Shakti

19:27was Singapore.

19:29We shot that

19:31in Singapore as a matter of fact with Padmini.

19:33And then he took me into

19:35his company. I did

19:37Chinatown with him. I did

19:39Kashmir ki Kali.

19:41I did Evening in Paris.

19:43I did Jaane

19:45Anjaane.

19:47What did you like about his

19:49working style?

19:51Shakti is a very

19:53what you'd call a very

19:55correct man.

19:57Very correct producer.

20:01A little feeble director but

20:03he's made hit movies.

20:05So he's to the point, he doesn't

20:07go around experimenting or something.

20:09He knows his script. He knows what

20:11he wants to do. And that's that.

20:13And he's a very fine man.

20:15A very fine man.

20:17He's a very dear friend of mine.

20:19Mr. Kapoor jab

20:21unhone

20:23after Evening in Paris he started

20:25working with Rajesh Khanna.

20:27Because Rajesh Khanna was the next big thing

20:29in Aradhana and other films.

20:31Did that hurt you?

20:33Were you able to take that transition?

20:35How were you able to tell yourself

20:37look it doesn't work anymore?

20:39It didn't hurt me

20:41at all as a matter of fact.

20:43Rajesh Khanna coming into

20:45the movies

20:47Rajesh Khanna

20:49used to be at my house over here.

20:51Baccha mere saamne bada hua

20:53in the film industry.

20:55Aur us

20:57usne jo kuch kiya hai

20:59usse main kaise hurt ho sakta ho?

21:01And I knew where

21:03he was going.

21:05So Shakti Babu

21:07took him down. Not at all as a matter of

21:09fact. I encouraged I used to go

21:11on the sets of Katipathan

21:13before Aradhana.

21:15And I suggest as a matter of fact

21:17I sat on the music of

21:19R.D. Burman's Katipathan

21:21songs.

21:23So Kaka

21:25was a good friend

21:27till he became a superstar.

21:29I think you did

21:31Andaz also which was one of your last films

21:33as a hero.

21:35And

21:37how did you feel when

21:39just this guest appearance of this

21:41walked away with all the accolades?

21:43That's what

21:45that's what

21:47superstars are all about.

21:49I was on my

21:51way out. He was on his way

21:53to the top.

21:55And he was excellent.

21:57That role fit him to a glove.

21:59As a matter of fact

22:01I suggested him for that role.

22:03Because the whole movie

22:05was built around characters

22:07which

22:09Sachin Bhaumik

22:11Ramesh Sippy, myself, we sat

22:13on the script.

22:15And the script was directly

22:17taken from a French movie.

22:19An Om-Ethiophan

22:21Man and a Woman.

22:23And

22:25he was just perfect for it.

22:27He would go that far in it

22:29and they would give him that much footage

22:31and he got a super song

22:33behind it. A super hit song.

22:35Don't forget that super hit song

22:37Zindagi

22:39goes places.

22:41So when your luck is running

22:43you better any number it comes in.