Rishi Kapoor and Neetu Kapoor first met on the units of Zahreela Insaan (1974). Their pairing was well-liked and so they additionally starred in movies like Kabhi Kabhi (1976) and Doosra Aadmi (1976). They dated for some time earlier than marrying on January 22, 1980. The late veteran actor in his 2017 autobiography shared an anecdote on his elder sister Ritu Nanda was the one who introduced Neetu into the household and received them engaged. Rishi revealed in his ebook that he was fairly frightened of letting his dad and mom, filmmaker Raj Kapoor and his spouse Krishna Raj, know that he was even courting somebody. Also learn: Neetu Kapoor remembers Rishi Kapoor in emotional submit
But due to his sister, he did not must. She organized issues in such a method that Rishi Kapoor ended up being shocked at his personal engagement. In his autobiography, Rishi shared that he was not capable of inform his dad and mom that he wished to marry Neetu. He wrote, “Looking back, I wonder if I should have turned to a psychiatrist for help to work out my feelings. I often think I may never have married Neetu, or we may have got married much later than we did, if it weren’t for my sister Ritu. Left to myself, I may never have taken our relationship to the next level.”
Sharing the day of his engagement, the actor had revealed he went to Delhi to attend an occasion for his sister’s household and got here again engaged himself. He recalled within the ebook Khullam Khulla: Rishi Kapoor Uncensored, “I hadn’t a clue that Ritu had been plotting and planning along with my friends Gogi (filmmaker Ramesh Behl) and Ravi Malhotra (father of Karan Malhotra, the young director of Karan Johar’s 2012 film Agneepath). At the airport in Mumbai, as I waited to board the flight, I met Saira Banu and Dilip Kumar, who asked me where I was going. When I told him I was headed for Delhi to attend an engagement, Dilip sa’ab joked, ‘Don’t pull a fast on me. Aren’t you going there to get engaged yourself?’ How prophetic Dilip saab’s words turned out to be.”
It turned out that Ritu had additionally invited Neetu and her mom to an engagement. Rishi’s household took issues into their very own palms as they received him and Neetu to the mandap and received them to alternate rings. But since all the things was so final minute, the ring Rishi had on his finger, with an ‘R’ on it, belonged really to Ravi. Furthermore, he did not have to fret as his father welcomed Neetu into the household that day itself.
The couple had two kids, daughter Riddhima Kapoor Sahni and son Ranbir Kapoor, who went into performing like his dad and mom. Rishi was identified with leukemia in 2018 and later went to New York City for his remedy. He died on April 30 2020. Neetu made a comeback to movies after his loss of life with JugJugg Jeeyo (2022).