A soul-stirring session with Rishi Kapoor - Sarita Tanwar

It’s been a year and we all miss the charismatic Rishi Kapoor a lot. As a remembrance, we reprint one of his most talked about interview to Stardust.

- Sumita Chakraborty

Here is what interests me about Rishi Kapoor. He wants to be famous. He wants people to talk about him. He wants people to notice him. He wants people to ask him for photographs and he wants people to invade his privacy. He is one man who really seems to be enjoying the flavour of fame. Of stardom. Of being a Kapoor. Look how merrily he floats in his Kapoordom; look how brightly he wallows in his Kapoorness. You can’t imagine him whining or complaining about any of it; you can’t imagine him wanting to be treated as a normal person. That’s the glory of being a Kapoor. That’s why you never see him behaving like other stars do. He has no pretensions. He does not make excuses for being arrogant. You don’t see him whining and complaining about it, you will never see him wanting to be treated as if he were a normal person; or trying to convince you that he isn’t any different from the other guy. Because he knows he is different. He knows he’s a star.