‘Take Bus 93 to Chembur’: When Raj Kapoor kicked son Rajiv out of his car, told Rishi he lacked the ‘stature’ to sit with him | Bollywood News
Veteran music director Amar Haldipur, who has worked closely with legends like Laxmikant Pyarelal, Khayyam, Rajesh Roshan and Shankar Jaikishan, recently revisited memories from Hindi cinema’s golden era, sharing anecdotes about icons like Raj Kapoor, K Asif and Dilip Kumar. Haldipur recalled an incident from the time Satyam Shivam Sundaram was being worked on. “The background music of Satyam Shivam Sundaram was being recorded. Raj Kapoor saab’s younger son, Rajiv Kapoor, got into his Ambassador car. I had just taken my payment and was leaving when I saw this. Raj Kapoor came out, opened the car door and saw his son sitting inside. He asked him, ‘Why are you sitting in this car?’ Rajiv said, ‘We are going home, right?’” What followed, he says, was a moment of firm parenting. “Raj Kapoor told him, ‘This is Raj Kapoor’s car. The day you become Raj Kapoor, you can sit in it.’ He made him get down and said, ‘Bus number 93 goes to Chembur, take that and go home.’ And he actually had to get down.” …
