Bollywood actor Ranbir Kapoor has expressed a wish that he was ‘friendlier’ with his father Rishi Kapoor while he was growing up.
While reflecting on the ‘formal’ relationship the actor shared with his father and how he was closer to his mother Neetu Kapoor, the Rockstar actor described his bond with Rishi Kapoor as “one of complete reverence”.
Ranbir wrote, “I am closer to my mother. I feel that Dad modelled his relationship with me on the one he shared with his own father. And it is true that I have never crossed a certain line with him. But there is no sense of loss or vacuum here. I do wish sometimes that I could be friendlier with him or even spend more time with him.”
For Ranbir, the most precious thing his father gave him was the unconditional love for their mother Neetu. “He showed us by example that she was at the centre of all our lives and our home. With her as our bedrock, none of the ups and downs in our lives could really touch us,” remembered Ranbir.
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Ranbir also revealed that just like others, he is also a fan of his father’s actions. He found him to be a ‘spontaneous’ and a ‘natural’ actor. Praising his father, he wrote, “I do not see anyone on the same level as Rishi Kapoor. There is a certain naturalness about him, a certain spontaneity. And he was like this way before anyone else. Most actors of the earlier generation had a distinct style to their acting, but my father was very natural and effortless.”
Ranbir believes his father never let his physique get in the way of his performance, “See Chandni, Deewana or Bol Radha Bol, or for that matter any of his work in the 1980s and ’90s, and you will see that, despite his weight, his charm remained infectious. Rishi Kapoor passed away on 30th April 2020, after a two-year-long battle with cancer.
