Remembering Rishi Kapoor: When Neetu Kapoor Opened Up On Ranbir Kapoor`s Relationship With His Dad

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SEPTEMBER 04,2023

It has been three years since Bollywood lost one of its precious gems, Rishi Kapoor. As the years pass by, we may have lost track of time, but not a day passes by when we don't miss the veteran actor. It was in 2020 that Rishi Kapoor breathed his last. Today, he would have turned 71.

As we remember Rishi Kapoor on his birth anniversary, let's take you down memory lane to when Neetu Kapoor opened up about Ranbir Kapoor's relationship with his father. While everyone remembers Rishi's loud and brash behavior, he never even once raised his voice in front of his kids.


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Rishi Kapoor and Neetu Kapoor were the perfect Bollywood couple who grew old together. They share two children: Ranbir Kapoor and Riddhima Kapoor. While the former is a celebrated actor, Riddhima chose to stay away from the movie business.

Neetu Kapoor on Rishi Kapoor as a father and husband

In an old interview with Film Companion, the JugJugg Jeeyo actress opened up about how her children, Ranbir and Riddhima, would want to remember and celebrate their father.

She said, 'This is the way I'll be this is the way I'll be this is the way I'll heal. Some people cry and heal some people are happy and heal. I cannot forget my husband he'll be here with me and my children all our lives. Like, even today when we meet for a meal (where) half of the time we're only discussing him, that's how we miss him.'


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Opening up about Ranbir's equation with Rishi Kapoor, Neetu said, 'Ranbir still has him on his phone's screensaver. That's the way we miss him we don't have to be sad to miss him we can celebrate him. We remember all the good times and what a great person he was. The way he was with my children - I can't even tell you - the way he nurtured them - he's never screamed at them he's never raised his voice at them. He was so good.'

The father-son relationship

Time and again, the Brahmastra actor has emphasized how he shared a stressful and strained father-son relationship. In fact, Rishi Kapoor even wrote about it in his book.

The late veteran actor mentioned, 'The distance that exists between us is similar to the one between my father and me. Ranbir and I see each other through this space but can't feel each other. At least, I can't. There are times when I feel I've missed out on being a friend to my son.'

Neetu Kapoor on Ranbir Kapoor's relationship with Rishi Kapoor

Speaking on Rishi Kapoor's relationship with his kids, Neetu Kapoor said that while he was intimidating, he never meant ill for Ranbir or Riddhima.


'He was intimidating to the children, but he never said anything to them directly. Maybe he said it through me, like, Tell your children... I also used to do something like that when I would sign their report cards, I'd tell them, Now next year, get your father to sign your report cards,' so I used to scare them also. These things keep happening between a husband and a wife, but he was a very good father he instilled some great qualities in them, for which I'll always be thankful to him. The qualities he had were amazing besides his brash behavior and loudness, he was inherently a very good human being," she added.

We miss you, Rishi Kapoor. We hope you are smiling wherever you are.

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