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There was a special relationship between Nargis and Raj Kapoor, but the family stopped working in Awara. Shammi Kapoor told that Nargis had promised, later gave a gift.
Raj Kapoor with Nargis and Madhubala’s film scene with Shammi Kapoor
Highlights
- Shammi Kapoor sought gramophone from Nargis.
- Nargis promised to work in Awara.
- Raj Kapoor and Nargis gave many blockbuster films.
Nargis did a lot of work with the Kapoor family. His special relationship was with Raj Kapoor. It was said that Nargis was the special heroine of his films. Along with the work, there was also talk of both personal relationships of both. Once, after getting fed up with everyday things related to her husband, Raj Kapoor’s wife left home and went to the hotel. It was clearly said that if they continue to do this with the heroines, then she will not come back. Then in an interview, Raj Kapoor also confessed to Nargis without naming. But it was also said that if the actress is in her place, then wife is in her place. She could never become the mother of her children.
Raj Kapoor and Nargis together gave several blockbuster films, including Barsaat (1949), Ah (1953), Sri 420 (1955), and Chori Chori (1956). But do you know that his family prevented him from working with Raj Kapoor in Awara (1951)? Shammi Kapoor revealed in an old interview. She had expressed the fact that Nargis was very excited to work with Raj Kapoor in Awara, she promised Shammi that if everything goes well, she would give them one kiss. Yes, Shammi Kapoor himself told this in an interview. In an interview to ‘Quint’, Shammi Kapoor said;
This is about the time when I was in school and met Nargis ji. She was shooting for my brother Raj’s film ‘Barsaat’. One day I saw him sad because she wanted to work in Raj Kapoor’s film ‘Awara’, but her family did not want her to work in this film. There were some rumors about him. I assured them to trust yourself and God, their family will definitely give a chance because she was on the path of becoming a big star. Then Nargis ji said to me, ‘If the housemates agreed then I will give you one kiss’
Then later the same thing happened, Nargis got a place in Raj Kapoor’s Awara. The film was also a superhit. But Nargis did not fulfill her promise. He felt that Shammi had grown up now and he had asked him to give him a gift instead of whom.
Then who did not ask for this gift
Shammi Kapoor, while talking about the KISS stories, further said, ‘You know, the rain became a big hit and Raj Kapoor started the lamp in which Nargis was a heroine. By then I had finished school, enrolled in college and then left. I started working in my father Prithviraj Kapoor’s drama theater and started roaming all over the country. I again met Nargis ji at RK Studio. He looked at me and said, ‘I remember my promise, but now you have grown up, ask for something else.’ I said, ‘Gramophone.’
About the stray movie
Talk about Awara, it was released in the year 1951 and became one of the biggest hit films. Beyond which there was a superhit. I am a tramp, we came home from you, I came home and I was an evergreen song like Pardesi. In the film, Raj Kapoor’s name is Raj Raghunath and Nargis’s Rita.