Jan 23, 2006 08:23 AM
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(Updated Jan 23, 2006 08:26 AM)
The current teenagers might not know about the heart throb of the 70s and 80s. He emerged on the screen with a bang and then won the hearts of the millions. With his debut movie ''Bobby'' made by the showman Raj Kapoor, he took the tinsel town by a storm.
He was then casted in number of movies with Neetu Singh, who eventually became his life partner. I think Neetu Singh is much better looking today then what she used to be in 70s.
His earlier good movies were famous due to the great music by RD Burman and were mostly made by Nasir Hussain, who is Amir khan's uncle. Movies such as Hum Kissey sey Kum Nahin still remains in my memory as my childhood great movie. The famous 15 minute song competition is still one of my all time favorite.
After that he participated in number of Manmohan Desai movies with Big B, such as Amar Akbar Anthony and Naseeb which were big hits.
He remained as a viable and saleable star during Big B's total dominence. He starred in my one of the all time's favorite movie ''Prem Rog''. This probably was the best movie made by Raj Kapoor and his acting was flawless in it.
My other favorites during that time was Tawaif, Sargam, Laila Majnu,Doosra Admi and Eik Chaddar meli se.
He fizzled out for a few months and then made a strong come back with Nagina and Chandni. After chandni, he gave a few memorable movies such as Dewana, Damini and a few more by David Dhawan. But by this time the famous kapoor male obesity caught up with him and he lost it. He just gorged food and did not care about his physique and just became heftier and gigantic.
Now he is playing some old character roles and this is what the teenager from today would recognize him as and they mostly dont know that this was once a great star whose career span as a romantic hero lasted about 25 years and who starred with most amount of new heroines and was once someone who withstood the fire and total dominance of Big B's angry young hero status of the 70s and 80s. He still should be remembered as some one whose acting and dancing skills were second to none and whose movies mostly had the most memorable music by RD burman .One example of such is Saagar which I failed to mention.
