Neetu says Rishi was a real brat
VETERAN actors Neetu and Rishi Kapoor might inspire “couple goals” to many, but their first meeting years ago was a “horrible” one.
“I had a horrible first meeting with Rishi Kapoor. He had a habit of bullying, so he would comment on my make-up and clothes, and I’d feel so angry. He was actually a brat who would bully everyone and I was very young at that time. I used to be furious with him,” Neetu said.
“After Bobby became a super hit, Dimple got married and Rishi was left with no other heroine because everyone used to look older than him. I was the only young actress around and by default, after Rickshawala, all his movies started coming to me,” she shared.
Neetu shared the nostalgic chunks while chatting with actor Annu Kapoor on his radio show, Suhaana Safar with Annu Kapoor.
When Annu asked about the moment she decided to spend her life with Rishi, she said: “I don’t remember the exact moment.
“My mother was very protective of me and used to send my cousin, Lovely, on my dinner dates with Rishi.
“This went on for three years. Then Rishiji asked, ‘You are signing so many movies, don’t you want to get married?’ He was thinking about it, I had no idea. He had never said he wanted to get married. So I said, ‘There has to be a boy to get married to’. “Rishiji said, ‘So who am I?’” When she told her mother about her marriage plans, the latter was happy about it.
“I returned the signing amounts of all the movies I had signed, and then gave notice to everyone, asking them to finish all pending movies.
“And then my husband told me to finish everything, so we could eventually start a family,” said the actress, who celebrated her birthday last week.