Rishi Kapoor believes in saying things as they are, whether it is on his Twitter account or his book, Khullam Khulla. The actor launched his biography with wife Neetu Kapoor in Delhi on Tuesday, just a day after Karan Johar’s memoirs An Unsuitable Boy was launched in Mumbai.
The vibe of both books is the same – a no-holds-barred account of the life of a star. Rishi talks about the relationships with his father Raj Kapoor and his son Ranbir Kapoor, his career, Amitabh Bachchan and his wife, Neetu.
At the book launch, Rishi’s daughter Riddhima was there with her family but son Ranbir was absent. Talking about his Bollywood career, Rishi said it was not smooth sailing despite him being the son of Raj Kapoor. The 64-year-old actor said, “People say I was born with a silver spoon in my mouth. Yes, I agree but what’s my fault in it? I may have not slept on pavements or gone hungry and had a huge hit in ‘Bobby’, but the struggles I faced were of a different kind.”
The one reason his career hit a roadblock was Amitabh Bachchan. “My films flopped and I was at ground zero. I was as good as any of my contemporaries. Then, I had to fight the system.”
