When Kishore Kumar Went All-Bald, Singing & Dancing Just To Avoid Doing Rajesh Khanna’s Role In Anand
Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s movie Anand, which was launched in 1971, is among the cult basic movies that Bollywood ever produced. Rajesh Khanna’s efficiency because the lead function was extensively appreciated. Whereas we will’t consider another actor enjoying the function, Indian cinema’s famous person wasn’t the primary alternative. It was Kishore Kumar!
Well-liked poet-lyricist Gulzar in his guide Truly… I Met Them: A Memoir spoke about what made the legendary actor to not take up such a career-defining function. Whereas the movie was helmed by the late filmmaker, it was Gulzar who wrote the dialogues of the movie.
Apparently, it’s also one of many two movies solely two movies that Rajesh Khanna and Amitabh Bachchan have starred collectively. The opposite was the 1973 movie Namak Haraam and each have been directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee. As per Gulzar, it was Kishore Kumar who was imagined to play the lead function. Just a few days forward of the shoot a gathering was held to debate the look of Kumar.
Nevertheless, the legendary actor had different concepts. He shocked everybody by going fully bald. “We have been all shocked! On high of that, Kishoreda went across the workplace dancing and singing, ‘What’s going to you do now, Hrishi?’ (the movie’s director, Hrishikesh Mukherjee).
“Consequently, Rajesh Khanna was finalized for the function in a really brief time. Maybe Kishoreda by no means needed to play the character. However, I’ve by no means seen somebody reducing off their nostril to spite their face in such a way,” recalled Gulzar in his guide.
Anand ended up profitable a number of awards, together with the Filmfare Award for Greatest Movie in 1972. The poet-lyricist additional wrote, “Not solely administrators, many producers have been additionally on the receiving finish of Kishore Kumar’s mischief. Actually, certainly one of Kishore Kumar’s favorite issues to do was “to land his producers in bother.”
So what do you concentrate on Kishore Kumar’s antics? Tell us within the feedback.
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