When Raj Kapoor’s wife Krishna exited RK bungalow for his romantic entanglement with Vyjayanthimala
When Raj Kapoor’s wife Krishna exited RK bungalow for his romantic entanglement with Vyjayanthimala
Raj Kapoor’s wife Krishna Raj made am exited from the Kapoor bungalow for his Raj Kapoor’s romantic entanglement with Vyjayanthimala
Infact Rishi Kapoor in his memoir had written about his father’s affair with veteran actress Vyjanthimala
Raj Kapoor and Vyjayanthimala featured together in Sangam and Nazrana.
Raj Kapoor was acknowledged as one of the most popular
actor-directors of his generation and although his films won the hearts of his fans and stories on his personal life also got many interested. Raj Kapoor had a few “affairs” when he was married to Krishna Raj Kapoor. His son Rishi Kapoor wrote about some of these incidents in his memoir Khullam Khulla. Rishi shared in the book that his mother, along with the kids, moved out of the house when Raj was having an affair with his Sangam co-star Vyjayanthimala.
Rishi shared in the book that he was very young when his father had an affair with Nargis Ji, and so was not affected by it. He doesn’t remember feeling anything was amiss at home either. But he does remember moving into the Natraj Hotel on Marine Drive with his mom amid the time Papa was involved with Vyjayanthimala. He further wrote that his mother had decided to put her foot down this time. From the hotel, they shifted for two months into an apartment in Chitrakoot. His father had bought the apartment for Mom and them. He did all he could to woo her back, but his mother didn’t give in until he had ended that chapter of his life.
In the book, Rishi also addressed Vyjayanthimala’s denial of the affair as the veteran actress had accused Raj of manufacturing the romance for the sake of publicity. Rishi wrote, in an interview published a few years ago, Vyjayanthimala denied ever having an affair with his father. She claimed that he had manufactured the romance because of his hunger for publicity and hr was livid. How could she be so blasé; and pretend the affair never happened? She had no right to distort facts just because he was no longer around to defend the truth.”
Rishi furthet added that when Vyjayanthimala’s book released, many people asked him for his reaction. He wrote that with time though, his anger has ebbed. He has come to accept that people tend to gloss over uncomfortable facts for reasons of their own. But he can say with absolute certainty that if Papa had been alive, she wouldn’t have denied the affair so blatantly or called him publicity hungry.
Raj Kapoor and Vyjayanthimala first worked together in the 1961 film Nazrana. They then starred together in Raj Kapoor’s directorial Sangam, which also starred Rajendra Kumar.
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