‘आजकल भीड़ कहां है…’, राजेश खन्ना के सुपरस्टार बनते ही जब बदला मंजर, शम्मी कपूर को मिलते थे ताने

New Delhi. The history of Bollywood is witness that a new face emerged in every era and the choice of the audience changed. In the 50–60s, Raj Kapoor, Dilip Kumar and Dev Anand were considered all three big stars. Then in the 60–70s, Shammi Kapoor’s charisma was covered. After this, Rajesh Khanna was called a superstar, whose crowd of thousands used to gather outside the bungalow ‘Ashirwad’. Recently, Bollywood veteran actor Ashish Vidyarthi has mentioned an interesting incident related to Shammi Kapoor in an interview. He told that when Rajesh Khanna became the new superstar of Bollywood, people started taunting Shammi Kapoor.

During a conversation with Siddharth Kannan, veteran actor Ashish Vidyarthi recalled the words of Shammi Kapoor that became a learning of life for him. He remembered how people used to open him (Shammi Kapoor) openly as soon as Rajesh Khanna became hero.

Ashish Vidyarthi told, ‘Shammi ji had told me one thing many years ago. I was shooting a serial named ‘Dastan’ in Sharjah and Shammi Kapoor came there with a producer to shoot ‘Chattan’. One day suddenly he advised me and said, ‘Son, remember, the people of this industry will remove your air. When my stardom started decreasing, people started saying to me, ‘Shammi ji, what happened, where is the crowd nowadays?’ I replied to him, ‘Son, nowadays he is outside the blessing (Rajesh Khanna’s bungalow).’

People will leave you, who praise you…

Ashish further said that these words of Shammi Kapoor settled in his mind forever. He explained, ‘They meant that people would leave you. The same people who used to praise you will go away one day and you will be left alone. Success is achieved by your luck, so celebrate that moment, but do not consider it forever.