This actor started practicing autographs since 9th grade, by 21 he became…, his father called him a…, he is…

Veteran actor Rishi Kapoor, who comes from a film background, started working in films since childhood. But do you know that his father, Raj Kapoor had to take permission from his wife to work in his father’s first film. Only then did he appear as a child artist in Raj Kapoor’s film Mera Naam Joker.

Although Rishi Kapoor started his career as a lead in his father Raj Kapoor’s film Bobby with Dimple Kapadia. But Rishi Kapoor, who has given many hits, had earlier worked in his father’s film Mera Naam Joker. In this film, he played the role of his father’s childhood i.e. Chhote Raj Kapoor. The actor had told that when he came to know that he was going to work in the film, he started practicing autographs at that very moment.

People used to call Rishi Kapoor Chintu at home. A video of late actor Rishi Kapoor is going viral at the moment. In this interview, while telling about his first autograph, he says, “I also worked in the film Mera Naam Joker. But for this film, a person was being searched to play the role of junior Joker. I was studying in school at that time. I must have been around 16 years old. I was in the 9th or 10th class. Once my father asked my mother if Chintu should be cast for this role, she said, ‘If there is no problem in his studies, then I also have no issue.’

Indian broadcaster Prasar Bharati has shared a video of Rishi Kapoor, in which Rishi tells about the incident, that time when his father wanted him to do this role but when he heard this, Rishi was listening to everything very calmly and quietly went to his room, opened a drawer from the desk and took out a pen and a piece of paper. And then Rishi Kapoor started practicing autographs right then. ‘I didn’t even work, I started practicing autographs straight away,’ said the actor,

Let us tell you that Rishi Kapoor started his career as a child artist with his father’s film Mera Naam Joker. But as a lead hero, he started his career with the film Bobby in the year 1973. This film directed by Raj Kapoor created a stir as soon as it was released. Dimple Kapadia was seen as the lead heroine opposite Rishi Kapoor in the film. Rishi Kapoor became a superstar overnight with this film. Not only this, his father Raj Kapoor was also called a guarantee of a hit in the industry.

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