Neetu Kapoor-Rishi Kapoor engagement was plotted by his sister Ritu, prophesised by Dilip Kumar

Rishi Kapoor married his longtime girlfriend Neetu Singh in 1980. The 2 stars featured collectively in a number of motion pictures and had been one of the vital wanted {couples} of Bollywood. But when it weren’t for Kapoor’s sister Ritu, the 2 lovebirds would have by no means taken their relationship to the following stage.

In his biography, Khullam Khulla, Kapoor devoted a chapter to his spouse Neetu the place he talked about how he was hesitant of telling his mother and father about Neetu. However his father Raj Kapoor was conscious of his love for Neetu, and it was his sister Ritu who ‘plotted’ his engagement in Delhi.

“Though my brothers knew, my mother and father knew, and just about the entire world knew, I might by no means voice my intentions to Neetu or to them. I wasn’t even positive if I used to be prepared for marriage. I used to be twenty-seven years previous and nonetheless dwelling with my mother and father in Chembur. Given how dedicated we had been to one another, no one might fathom why I wasn’t popping the query. How might they know that I used to be battling 1,000,000 demons in my head?” the Bobby actor wrote in his guide.

Rishi Kapoor and Neetu Singh in a nonetheless from Rafoo Chakkar (Picture: Categorical archive).

Kapoor was apprehensive of marrying Neetu as a result of he doubted an actor’s longevity in Bollywood after marriage. “I typically suppose I could by no means have married Neetu, or we might have gotten married a lot later than we did, if it weren’t for my sister Ritu. Left to myself, I could by no means have taken our relationship to the following stage,” Kapoor famous.

Kapoor’s sister Ritu invited him to Delhi to attend an engagement ceremony in her household and when he returned to Mumbai, the actor had a hoop on his finger.

Rishi Kapoor and Neetu Kapoor received married in 1980. (Categorical Archive Picture)

“I hadn’t a clue that Ritu had been plotting and planning together with my buddies Gogi (film-maker Ramesh Behl) and Ravi Malhotra (father of Karan Malhotra, the younger director of Karan Johar’s 2012 movie Agneepath). On the airport in Mumbai, as I waited to board my flight, I met Saira Banu and Dilip Kumar, who requested me the place I used to be going. After I instructed him I used to be headed for Delhi to attend an engagement, Dilip sa’ab joked, ‘Don’t pull a quick one on me. Aren’t you going there to get engaged your self?’ How prophetic Dilip sa’ab’s phrases turned out to be,” learn an excerpt in Khullam Khulla.

Neetu Kapoor turns 63 right now. Rishi Kapoor handed away final 12 months after an extended battle with most cancers.