Earlier than Hindi cinema began taking pictures in Switzerland for these dreamy love songs, Kashmir was the go-to location for taking pictures love tales. Many Hindi movies till the early Nineteen Eighties would typically shoot in opposition to the snow clad mountains in Kashmir and it all the time appeared serene on display screen. However, all of this modified within the Nineteen Eighties after the political scenario of the state modified and shortly, it grew to become reasonably harmful for movie models to spend limitless hours within the space. It was round this time that Rishi Kapoor, together with the unit of Yash Chopra’s Kabhi Kabhie, confronted an incident the place hundreds of individuals threw stones at their lodge. The scenario bought so out of hand that the navy needed to intervene to evacuate them.
In his memoir, Khullam Khulla: Rishi Kapoor Uncensored, Rishi recalled that once they have been taking pictures in Pahalgam, Yash Chopra had organised a celebration for him on his birthday. Rishi recalled that his spouse Neetu and his co-actor Naseem have been additionally current right here as on today, they’d simply wrapped up the shoot of a music. The celebration company have been making merry contained in the lodge and have been utterly oblivious to what had been taking place exterior. Rishi recalled that an argument between the horse homeowners and taxi drivers took an unpleasant flip after a driver bought drunk and picked a struggle. One among Yash Chopra’s assistants, Deepak Sareen, went to test on the scenario “however the scenario quickly spun uncontrolled. There was chaos with a thousand-strong mob flinging stones and fireballs on the lodge. The crowds have been baying for Deepak Sareen’s blood and mine too.”
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The episode was beginning to worsen so Rishi Kapoor and others have been despatched to their rooms and have been instructed to cover beneath their beds as nobody knew how this may play out. Their rooms have been locked from inside however the stones being thrown on the lodge smashed their home windows and Rishi described it because the “scariest second” of his life. “We have been all herded off to our rooms for security and requested to lie down beneath our beds. Our rooms have been locked from the skin and the curtains have been drawn. However the home windows have been quickly smashed to smithereens and the lodge was gutted,” he recalled. The actor stated that then then Chief Minister Sheikh Abdullah needed to become involved to evacuate them safely “with the assistance of the navy.” Rishi stated that barring this incident, he had nice recollections of taking pictures in Kashmir.
Rishi Kapoor handed away in 2020 after an extended battle with most cancers.
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