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Filmdom, Fans Grieve Over Loss of Bollywood Romantic Hero and The Friday, May 1, 2020 Ramadan 8, 1441 AH Doha today 270 - 330 Rishi rests Filmdom, fans grieve over loss of Bollywood romantic COVER STORY hero and the shining star of the Kapoor family. P2-3 CUISINE BACK PAGE Simple home-cooked food ‘Moderate food, self-control can for homebound Ramadan. help increase work productivity.’ Page 6 Page 16 2 GULF TIMES Friday, May 1, 2020 COMMUNITY COVER STORY Rishi: romantic hero and blunt PRAYER TIME Fajr 3.34am Shorooq (sunrise) 4.59am Zuhr (noon) 11.32am Asr (afternoon) 3.01pm Maghreb (sunset) 6.06pm twitterati Isha (night) 7.36pm USEFUL NUMBERS Emergency 999 Worldwide Emergency Number 112 Kahramaa – Electricity and Water 991 Local Directory 180 International Calls Enquires 150 Hamad International Airport 40106666 Labor Department 44508111, 44406537 Mowasalat Taxi 44588888 Qatar Airways 44496000 Hamad Medical Corporation 44392222, 44393333 Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation 44845555, 44845464 Primary Health Care Corporation 44593333 44593363 Qatar Assistive Technology Centre 44594050 Qatar News Agency 44450205 44450333 Q-Post – General Postal Corporation 44464444 Humanitarian Services Office (Single window facility for the repatriation of bodies) Ministry of Interior 40253371, 40253372, 40253369 Ministry of Health 40253370, 40253364 Hamad Medical Corporation 40253368, 40253365 Qatar Airways 40253374 te Unqu uo ot Q e rom the son of the iconic Nargis. During his last interview with cemented his image as a romantic hero, Raj Kapoor to the romantic IANS, asked if he remembered the shoot, with superhit songs like Dard-e-dil and “The power of hero of the Seventies to the Rishi replied: “Nah! I hold hand with Om Shanti Om. In September father of new-age star Ranbir other two boys and walked. Baaki kahan imagination makes Kapoor, Rishi Kapoor was yaad rahega, bohat chhota tha main.” 1983 Fa magnetic personality. He lived a life He appears in Coolie alongside us infinite.” in a way that lives up to the title of his 1970 Amitabh Bachchan after earlier — John Muir autobiography, Khullam Khulla. Mera Naam Joker marks his debut as collaborations such as Kabhie Kabhie, a young boy, as the younger version of Amar Akbar Anthony. Here we take a look at the journey of the protagonist clown Raju, essayed by the legendary actor through the years: his father Raj Kapoor. He bagged the 1988 National Award as Best Child Artist. Bollywood loses its ultimate 1952 showman Raj Kapoor. Rishi lost more Rishi, the second child of actor- 1973 than his father — he lost his mentor filmmaker Raj Kapoor and Krishna Raj, He makes his debut as a Bollywood and his favourite film director. Rishi Community Editor is born on September 4. hero in Bobby, a teenage love story was starring in Kapoor’s senior final Kamran Rehmat that also featured Dimple. The film is a film Henna back then. The film would 1955 superhit. be completed by Rishi’s older brother e-mail: [email protected] Little Rishi, lovingly called as Chintu Randhir Kapoor in 1991. Telephone: 44466405 was just three when he faced the camera 1980 Fax: 44350474 for the first time, in the iconic rain song Rishi marries Neetu Singh, his co- 1999 Pyar hua iqrar hua of the filmShree 420, star of many a hit. Also, this is the year Rishi Kapoor turns director for the featuring his father Raj Kapoor with of Karz, a milestone in his career that first and last time with Aa Ab Laut Friday, May 1, 2020 GULF TIMES 3 COVER STORY COMMUNITY BLAST FROM THE PAST: Rishi Kapoor with his filmstar wife Neetu in their younger days. VERSATILE: A collage of Rish Kapoor in the various memorable roles he played during his career. Chalen, starring Rajesh Khanna, grandpa obsessed with Mandakini 2019 Here is some trivia from the l There are several reports Aishwarya Rai, Akshaye Khanna of Ram Teri Ganga Maili in the film The actor’s last release, The multifaceted life that he led. suggesting that he used sweaters to and Suman Ranganathan. The film Kapoor & Sons was a comic delight Body, opens on November 13. The look hot. fails to create fireworks at the box across generations. film co-starring Emraan Hashmi l Rishi Kapoor’s love for food, l He did two international office. and Sobhita Dhulipala fares below especially non-vegetarian food, movies — Don’t Stop Dreaming in 2017 expectations. is not something that the world 2007 and Sambar Salsa in 2008. 2010 Rishi pens his autobiography doesn’t know about. But there was l He struggled with depression Rishi Kapoor joins Twitter in Khullam Khulla: Rishi Kapoor 2020 a place he had to turn vegetarian, at one point of his career due to January, and is an instant cyber Uncensored. True to his nature, the Rishi Kapoor breathes his last at and that was when he visited back to back failures. sensation. Over the past decade writer Rishi unveils unadulterated 8.45am on April 30. He is 67. Chennai because he was coming l His songs are evergreen, and he had been, by turns, regaling, emotions and pours his heart out in after a darshan at Tirupati. still loved by one and all. But Rishi informing, and triggering off the book. l Rishi Kapoor had a thing for personally never liked many of his debates routinely with his blunt The Rishi Kapoor you didn’t agarbati (incense stick), and used songs. statements on social media. 2018 know to carry packs wherever he went. l He admitted that there He is diagnosed with bone marrow His favourite fragrance was Nag was a time when he was a male 2012 cancer and he flies off to New York Open, frank and unfiltered are Champa. chauvinist. The actor, mostly known for his for a year’s treatment. Incidentally some of the words used describe l The world lovingly calls him l He always admitted to his loverboy roles in his heydays, turns on October 1, 2018, Rishi’s mother, Rishi Kapoor’s life, but there are Chintu ji, and in 2009 he even flaws. The actor once confessed villain as Rauf Lala in Agneepath. Krishna Raj passes away. For fans, the some aspects of his life which might starred in a film by that name. buying a film award. The performance remains one of year is special because Rishi Kapoor have evaded public eye. But he hated his nickname, and l In his book Khullam Khulla: his best till date. He repeats villainy united with Amitabh Bachchan for A day after he was hospitalised in once took to Twitter to share Rishi Kapoor Uncensored, he again the next year in D-Day. what would be their last time in 102 Mumbai, Rishi Kapoor is no more. his old picture and expressed claimed his father Raj Kapoor was Not Out. In the comedy drama, Rishi He passed away yesterday after a his views on nicknames, saying involved with other women even 2016 played the 75-year-old son of a man two-year battle with leukaemia. He “parents must never nickname while he was married to Krishna Raj His role of a merry-spirited who is 102. was 67. a child”. Kapoor. — IANS Aa Ab Laut Chalen: the only film Rishi ever directed He was the affable lover boy hero and am enjoying working with so many lovely menacing villain on screen, a cyber people. I am very happy acting,” he had sensation on Twitter, and a man who lived said at the trailer launch of his film Patel Ki life to the fullest. Very few might recall Punjabi Shaadi. Rishi Kapoor as someone who called the Last year, Rishi, when he was undergoing shots, too. It did happen in 1999, when cancer treatment in New York, tweeted Kapoor made his only film as a director. a behind-the-scene photograph of his The film was Aa Ab Laut Chalen and directorial film, sharing that he really it starred Aishwarya Rai with Akshaye misses his home and wants to return to Khanna, and also featured yesteryears’ India. superstar, the late Rajesh Khanna, besides “Filming in New York, 1998 — Aa Ab Laut Suman Ranganathan, in pivotal roles. Chalen — title so symbolic today,” he Incidentally, that was the last production wrote on the post, which was originally of the prestigious family banner, RK Films. shared by his fan on Twitter. The film was a romantic drama that Rishi Kapoor breathed his last on Thursday addressed young India’s fetish for settling morning after a long battle with cancer. “Our abroad, particularly the United States. dear Rishi Kapoor passed away peacefully The film failed to create much of an at 8:45am IST in hospital today after a two- impact at the box office, and in 2017, the year battle with leukaemia. The doctors and actor said he was happy in his acting medical staff at the hospital said he kept space and had no plans to go back to them entertained to the last,” confirmed his direction anytime soon. family in a statement. “I am an actor and my time is devoted His wife Neetu Kapoor was by his side to my first passion of my life — acting. I when he breathed his last in the morning. did not get time and also I did not come Rishi Kapoor is survived by wife, actress across a good subject. I have been busy Neetu Kapoor, daughter Riddhima and as a character actor since 17 years and I son Ranbir. — IANS MAIDEN VENTURE: Rishi Kapoor directing the film in New York in 1998. 4 GULF TIMES Friday, May 1, 2020 COMMUNITY BODY & MIND How your responses can help children navigate this crisis Helping children express, understand and grow from their emotions during Covid-19 is a skill that will last into their adult lives, writes Lea Waters ost families are going on – respond to their questions through the full and fears.
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