Shammi Kapoor and his first spouse Geeta Bali’s marriage ceremony was fairly filmy. In outdated interviews the ace actor himself opened about first falling in love with the actress, who was a lot like him, getting turned down when he initially proposed to her, after which suggesting marriage ceremony all of the sudden.
Geeta Bali acted in over 75 movies in a profession spanning over twenty years. Geeta Bali was the one Kapoor lady on the time, who continued working in movies after her marriage ceremony. It was famously stated that on the time Kapoor ladies didn’t work in cinema. Nevertheless it was tough for Shammi to persuade her to get married to him.
In an outdated video interview with Rajshri Unplugged, Shammi Kapoor as soon as shared how they’d so much in widespread. “I fell in love together with her and she or he fell in love with me. Once we got here again to Bombay, I proposed to her. That was in April of 1955 and she or he stated ‘no, I don’t assume I can marry you. I’ve so many duties and I’ve to fulfil them. However I like you.’ I stated ‘alright, we’ll hold it at that’.”
Shammi admitted that he stored on asking her every time, ‘let’s get married’, however she stated ‘let’s wait and see’.
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Recalling the D-day, Shammi Kapoor shared, “In August 1955 finally, there got here a second, and I don’t understand how she arrived at that, when she stated ‘sure okay, let’s get married.’ I requested her ‘shall I inform your mother and father and my mother and father?’ She stated, ‘no, let’s get married proper now, right now.’”
The couple went to fulfill comic Johnny Walker, who occurred to be an expensive pal of the couple and had gotten married only a week earlier. Johnny Walker advised that they get married in a temple and that’s what occurred.
The couple drove right down to a temple advanced close by at Banganga. As they arrived late at evening, the temple priest despatched them away saying that ‘the gods are asleep, come within the morning at 4 am’. Shammi and Geeta drove again to Matunga and waited for dawn. The couple have been again on the temple at 4 am, similar to the priest had requested of them, and have been married quickly after.
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Remembering his one-of-a-kind marriage ceremony, Shammi Kapoor shared as soon as, “The gods have been ready for us. The temple doorways have been open and the pujari stated ‘aayiye, hum aapki shaadi karva dete hain.’ Geeta did an exquisite factor, which I’ve by no means forgotten. She took out a lipstick from her purse, gave it to me and stated ‘yeh aap meri maang mein lipstick bhar do.’ Fantastic gesture, and that’s what I did. That’s how we received married.”
Shammi Kapoor and Geeta Bali received married on August 24, 1955.
Geeta Bali, who had began her profession as a toddler artist with The Cobbler (1942) and had her first success with Sohag Raat (1948). After working in Badi Bahen (1949), Bali went onto set up herself as a number one woman of the 50s with movies and did many hits like Bawre Nain (1950), Albela (1951), Baazi (1951), Jaal (1952), Anand Math (1952), Vachan (1955), Milap (1955), Faraar (1955), Jailor (1958) and Mr. India (1961).
Shammi Kapoor and Geeta Bali has two youngsters together with actor Aditya Raj Kapoor. Bali died in 1965 of small pox.
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