Bollywood Kiss: Bollywood veteran and late actor Rishi Kapoor was very strict. Along with his films and acting, he was also much talked about for his nature. His strict nature is still discussed a lot even today. But do you know that once Rishi Kapoor was given a big threat by Salman Khan’s father Salim Khan.
Salman Khan’s father Salim Khan is a famous screen writer of Bollywood. He has written the stories of many big films. In Bollywood, the pairing of him and Javed Akhtar has been famous by the name of ‘Salim-Javed’. Actors like Amitabh Bachchan and Rajesh Khanna made their mark with the films written by Salim-Javed. Salim and Javed had also offered their film to Rishi Kapoor but Rishi refused.
Salim had threatened Rishi Kapoor to ruin his career
The story we are narrating to you was mentioned by Rishi Kapoor in his book ‘Khullam-Khulla’. According to the information written in the book, Salim-Javed had offered their film ‘Trishul’ to Rishi Kapoor. But this film was rejected by Rishi. Rishi had also told that at that time he was probably the first actor who had refused to work in a film written by Salim-Javed.
Salim Khan did not like Rishi Kapoor’s no. Salim Khan even threatened Rishi Kapoor to ruin his career. It is written in Rishi’s book Khullam Khulla that Salim Khan had told him – ‘How dare you reject Salim-Javed’s film.’ Then Rishi Kapoor said that I did not like the role. On this Salim had said, ‘Do you know that till date no one has said no to us. We can ruin your career.
What happened to Rajesh Khanna will do the same to you.
Salim further said to Rishi, ‘Who will work with you, you know we had offered Zanjeer to Rajesh Khanna and he rejected it. We did not do anything with them. But we have prepared an option for him, a diamond named Amitabh Bachchan, who destroyed Rajesh Khanna, we will do the same with you.