Nostalgia: Rishi Kapoor accused Javed Akhtar for his ‘false’ statement on Raj Kapoor for lyricist Shailendra’s death

Nostalgia: Rishi Kapoor accused Javed Akhtar for his ‘false’ statement on Raj Kapoor
for lyricist Shailendra’s death

Rishi Kapoor and Javed Akhtar had several exists over the years, which he wrote in his autobiography Khullam Khulla. But once incident drove their equation to breaking point.

For the unversed Late actor Rishi Kapoor dedicated an entire chapter in his autobiography to his ‘fights and flare-ups‘ with the legendary writer duo Salim-Javed. While he eventually patched up with Salim Khan after an unpleasant incident at a club, he was never able to mend fences with Javed Akhtar.

Rishi wrote that following a couple of exists with Javed that usually involved alcohol in one way or another, he reached breaking point after Javed made certain public statements that hurt him ‘very deeply’.
In a programme on some television channel, amid an episode dedicated to lyricist Shailendra, who was a member of his father’s core group until his dying day, Javed blamed his father for the lyricist’s untimely death.

When ‘drunk to the gills’ Javed Akhtar approached Rishi Kapoor at a bar, vowed to ‘never write again’ if his film isn’t a bigger hit than Bobby
Rishi couldn’t understand why Javed would do such a thing.

Perhaps he wanted to ‘spice up’ the episode he wondered, but Rishi also remembered that people had told him that Javed ‘always had a hang-up’ about his father, Raj Kapoor. He is hurt and upset about it to this day, and he has let Javed know that he does not appreciate his baseless, irresponsible and false accusation. He did say that he did not mean it the way it came across, so he let sleeping dogs lie.

News input KV Raman