Whoa! Rishi Kapoor paid 30,000 for his best actor award

Rishi Kapoor is coming up with his autobiography Khullam Khulla: Rishi Kapoor uncensored, where he also explained his equation with Amitabh Bachchan. He revealed that he got an award for the best actor in Bobby that actually Bachchan deserved for Zanjeer.

He said, “I think that Amitabh was sulking because I had won the best actor award for Bobby, given by the leading film magazine of the era. I am sure he felt the award was rightfully his for Zanjeer, which released the same year. I am ashamed to say it, but I actually ‘bought’ that award. I was so naïve. There was this PRO, Taraknath Gandhi, who said to me, ‘Sir, tees hazaar de do,toh aap ko main award dila doonga.’ I am not the manipulative sort but I admit that I gave him the money without thinking. My secretary, Ghanshyam, also said, ‘Sir, dete hain, mil jayega award, isme kya hai.”

Sr Kapoor revealed the reason for it too by saying, “I can only say it was 1974, I was twenty-two years old, and incredibly naïve and bratty. I was flush with money and was not wise or mature enough to understand what I was doing.” In fact, he even had another theory as to why AB and he didn’t get along on the sets of Chopra’s romantic musical. “I have another theory about why Amitabh didn’t warm up to me during Kabhi Kabhie. He was playing the role of a rather serious, unsmiling man in the film and his character was not supposed to like mine. Perhaps he just wanted to stay in character and that was one of the reasons why he was aloof throughout the filming. Or perhaps the truth is that my guilt over having bought that award made me read too much into everything.”

Whoa, Rishi Kapoor’s book is bringing forth industry secrets like never before!