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Before coming into the Bollywood industry, Anil Kapoor’s life was full of struggle. He also lived in a rented room for a long time.
If I had to express my life in one word, I would say ‘Labour’. I feel that one should not feel shy in any work in life. That’s what I’ve always done. Whatever work I got, whether it was big or small, or even a trivial task, I never hesitated in doing it. A person should always think about what he has brought and what he will take with him.
Anil Kapoor had said this during an interview. Even though today he has a distinct identity in the industry and everyone praises his fitness, there was a time when he did not have a house to live in and he lived in a garage with his family.
Not only this, he used to stand outside the directors’ house for hours, or keep running behind them, to get a small role in the film. Anil Kapoor, who never failed in studies, failed in the exam of his first love i.e. acting, which gave him a big shock and left him heartbroken.
On Anil Kapoor’s 68th birthday, let us know about some interesting stories related to his life…
I had a dream of becoming an actor since childhood, I gave my first audition at the age of 15. Anil Kapoor considers acting as his first love and to achieve this love, he started dreaming since childhood. While sleeping and waking up, he always thought about becoming an actor. Even when he went to the terrace of his house, he continued acting.
Anil Kapoor’s father did not want him to make his career in acting. But despite this, at the age of just 15, Anil auditioned for the film ‘Tu Payal Main Geet’ without informing his family and was selected. When the shooting of the film began, he felt as if his dream had come true. He was so happy that after the shooting he did not remove his makeup and slept.
Not only this, the next day he also went to school wearing the same make-up, so that people could know that he has now become an actor. Let us tell you that he played the childhood role of Shashi Kapoor in the film ‘Tu Payal Main Geet’, but due to some reason this film could not be released.
Anil Kapoor lived in Raj Kapoor’s garage Raj Kapoor’s father Prithviraj Kapoor and Surinder Kapoor were cousins. Despite belonging to such a big family, Anil Kapoor had to struggle a lot to make a career in acting. Moreover, the financial condition of his family was so bad that they did not even have a house to live in.
In such a situation, when Surinder Kapoor came to Mumbai, Raj Kapoor gave him a place to stay. Anil Kapoor’s family started living in Raj Kapoor’s garage. However, after some time, he took a small rented room in a chawl in Mumbai, in which he lived for a long time.
When his father was diagnosed with illness, he worked as a spotboy. When Anil Kapoor completed his studies, he came to know that his father Surinder Kapoor was suffering from heart disease. During this time, the financial condition of the house was also not good, due to which he started looking for work for his livelihood. At that time he was about 17-18 years old.
Anil Kapoor with father Surinder Kapoor.
Initially, Anil Kapoor got work not as an actor but as a spotboy on the film sets. In this, he had to do tasks like waking up the actors from their sleep, picking and dropping them at the airport, and then dropping them at the location.
Anil Kapoor did the same work for some time, then he got the job of casting director. He did the casting of the film ‘Hum Paanch’. During this time, the desire to act arose in his mind. After this he started looking for such projects in which he could get a chance to work as an actor.
Anil Kapoor cried a lot when he did not get admission in acting school Anil Kapoor did his entire education from Mumbai and never failed, but when he gave the entrance exam of Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune, he failed in it. For him, failing in the acting exam was no less than a deep shock. He kept crying day and night.
At that time, the director of FTII was famous writer and actor Girish Karnad. Anil Kapoor first fought a lot with him to get admission and then requested him with folded hands. However, despite this he did not get admission.
Anil Kapoor (left), Boney Kapoor (centre) and Sanjay Kapoor (right).
Talking about this in an interview, Anil Kapoor had said, ‘I also asked the in-charge of the institute, Girish Karnad, what is the relation between acting and exams? He simply said that rules are rules. Although today when he looks at himself, he is happy, but he never forgets those who passed that exam.
Anil Kapoor once used to sell tickets in black Anil Kapoor had revealed in ‘Comedy Nights with Kapil’ that how he plays the role of Tapori in films so well. According to Anil, in his childhood he and his friends used to behave like thieves and even sell movie tickets in black.
Anil Kapoor was rejected for ‘Rocky’ When Anil Kapoor was struggling to get work in films, he also went to Sunil Dutt for the film ‘Rocky’, but Sunil Dutt rejected him and launched his son Sanjay Dutt.
Anil Kapoor used to steal Jackie Shroff’s clothes and wear them The bonding of Anil Kapoor and Jackie Shroff is very deep not only onscreen but also offscreen. Both of them often stole each other’s clothes. Anil Kapoor had told in an interview that the trousers he wore in the film Virasat were actually Jackie Shroff’s. One day when Anil saw Jackie wearing those trousers, he borrowed them. Since then, Anil did not return the trouser, although Jackie had asked several times to return it.
Anil Kapoor and Jackie Shroff did 12 films together.
Apart from this, filmmaker Vidhu Vinod Chopra had also told that Parinda was made on a very low budget and all the actors cooperated fully keeping the budget in mind. The car seen in the film was Jackie Shroff’s own car. Not only this, all the shirts that Anil Kapoor wore in the film were Jackie’s shirts.
Jackie Shroff slapped Anil Kapoor 17 times In 1988, Jackie Shroff played the role of Anil Kapoor’s elder brother in Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s film ‘Parinda’. It was Anil Kapoor’s wish that the director should give Jackie the role of his elder brother in this film. However, in real life Jackie Shroff is one year younger than Anil Kapoor.
When Jackie and Anil were shooting for the film ‘Parinda’, during the shooting of a scene, Jackie slapped Anil 17 times, so that the scene was perfect.
Anil Kapoor does anything for a role, once got his mustache cut Anil Kapoor is always looking for good films and best roles. He can do anything for his work. There were many occasions when he did something that no one had even imagined.
Anil Kapoor has sported a mustache in many films in his acting career, which used to be his distinct identity, but in 1991, he sacrificed his mustache for director Yash Chopra’s film Lamhe.
Anil Kapoor in the film ‘Lamhe’.
Actually, Yash Chopra had already rejected Anil Kapoor for the film Lamhe and said that his look did not fit the film. After this, Anil got his mustache cut and sent some photographs of his clean shaven look to Yash, seeing which he was quite impressed and his casting for the film Lamhe was finalized. Anil Kapoor and Sridevi were seen in lead roles in this film.
Anil Kapoor wanted to take a break from films There came a time when Anil Kapoor wanted to take a break from films. He took advice from Amitabh Bachchan in this regard and Big B advised him not to take a break from films. He had said that do not do this even by mistake, because after taking a break it becomes very difficult to return. Anil Kapoor followed the advice of Amitabh Bachchan and till date has not taken a break from films.
Sanjay Dutt has been accused of snatching Trimurti film Even though Jackie Shroff, Anil Kapoor and Shahrukh Khan starrer film ‘Trimurti’, released in 1995, flopped at the box office, there was talk that Anil Kapoor had snatched this film from Sanjay Dutt. In an interview, Anil Kapoor denied these allegations and said that Sanjay Dutt was in jail at that time, due to which he could not do the film. When Subhash Ghai offered him to work in the film, he could not refuse because he considers Subhash Ghai like his father. However, before doing the role, he wrote a letter to Sanjay Dutt and took permission from him.
Anil has also worked in TV shows
In the year 2010, Anil Kapoor worked in the American series ’24’. Anil was quite impressed with the concept of this series, after which he bought the rights of this series from Fox Production in the year 2011. For this he also paid an amount of approximately Rs 120 crores. He wanted to make a Hindi language series of ’24’ in his home production.
In 2013, Anil Kapoor made his debut on the small screen with the show ’24’.
After receiving rejections from many channels, Anil Kapoor sold his rights to Colors channel for Rs 150 crore. At the same time, he decided to produce it himself. After this, in 2013, Anil Kapoor made his TV debut with the limited series ’24’. However, both the seasons of the series released in 2013 and 2016 failed to impress the audience.
Apart from this, recently Anil Kapoor was also seen hosting the third season of Bigg Boss OTT.
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