Sanjeev Kumar bankrolled Boney Kapoor to facilitate Anil Kapoor’s debut in films
Sanjeev Kumar bankrolled Boney Kapoor to facilitate Anil Kapoor’s debut in films
Sanjeev Kumar was labelled as an actor who never helps people in need and that he was a ‘stingy’ person. But filmmaker.Boney Kapoor proved it wrong.
Boney Kapoor recently over a media interaction revealed that veteran actor Sanjeev Kumar had come to his rescue and financially helped him with the funds required for launching his brother Anil Kapoor with his film Woh Saat Din.
Notedly Sanjeev Kumar played the lead role in Boney’s first production venture, Hum Paanch. Boney’s second film Woh Saat Din had his brother Anil Kapoor essaying the lead role. He played a handful of bit parts in films before debuting as a leading man in the early 1980s. It was in the midst of this critical juncture in his career that his brother, producer Boney Kapoor, conceived the idea of remaking K Bhagyaraj’s Tamil film Andha 7 Naatkal in Hindi as Woh Saat Din. The move marked Anil Kapoor’s debut in a leading role in a Hindi film, providing him with the proper launch he needed.
Nevertheless, for Boney Kapoor, who was just one film old at that point, producing Woh Saat Din was far from easy, primarily owing to limited financial means. He recently revealed that veteran actor Sanjeev Kumar came to his rescue, and lent him the money needed to purchase the rights of Andha 7 Naatkal.
It is learnt Satish Kaushik Anil Kapoor had forced Boney Kapoor to give him a hike in Woh Saat Din
Amid a conversation with the media Boney Kapoor revealed that when he approached Govind Rajan, a partner at Venus Studio, to secure the rights for remaking
K Bhagyaraj’s Andha 7 Naatkal, he faced a waiting period before Rajan eventually agreed to sell the rights for
Rs 1,25,000.
However, Boney noted, Rajan required the payment the following day, as he was short of funds for his film’s release. It is then when Sanjeev Kumar came to know about it, he stepped forward to help Boney Kapoor.
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