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India.com
13-07-2025
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- India.com
Meet Vinod Khanna's heroine, who did lots of intimate scenes with Rishi Kapoor in…, had fallen in love with Dharmendra's son, got married to…, she is…
This actress stepped into the world of cinema like a spark, chosen by a legendary filmmaker, Raj Kapoor, known for crafting timeless love stories. With her first film, she not only stole hearts but also rewrote the definition of youthful charm in Indian cinema. Her debut alongside a young star from a celebrated film family became the talk of the town. The movie's massive success turned her into an overnight sensation, placing her among the finest actresses of her time. Who Is This Actress? The actress we are talking about is Dimple Kapadia, who became a household name with her debut in Raj Kapoor's 1973 film 'Bobby.' Portraying Bobby Braganza, a spirited teenager from Goa, she captivated audiences with her natural charm and vivacity. Her bold performance earned her the Filmfare Award for Best Actress, tying with Jaya Bachchan for 'Abhimaan.' Beyond acting, Dimple set fashion trends with her polka-dotted outfits and the iconic red bikini, leading to the popularization of the 'Bobby Print' for the first time in Indian fashion. After her debut film, the news of her affair with Rishi Kapoor became very common. She has also been in the news for her affair with Sunny Deol. How Was Dimple Kapadia's Filmy Career? Dimple has worked with every big star in her career, including Jackie Shroff, Dharmendra, Amitabh, Mithun Chakraborty and Vinod Khanna. Dimple Kapadia and Vinod Khanna have worked together in many films, but the pairing of these two was especially appreciated in some films like Bantwara, Khoon Ka Karz, Aakhri Adaalat and Insaaf. Which One Is The Most Talked Film Of Dimple Kapadia? Dimple's film Saagar released in 1985 is considered to be one of the boldest and most talked about films of Hindi cinema. While on one hand the strong acting and romantic story of this film won the hearts of the people, on the other hand there was a lot of controversy over some of the scenes filmed in it. The news of her affair with Rishi Kapoor was common, and along with that, Dimple had given a lot of intimate scenes with Rishi Kapoor in 'Saagar' released in 1985, which became a controversial front for her. More About Dimple Kapadia Dimple Kapadia's personal life has often been in the spotlight, notably her early marriage to superstar Rajesh Khanna. After a hiatus from acting, she made a successful comeback in the mid-1980s, taking on diverse roles that showcased her depth as an actress. Her alleged relationship with Dharmendra's son, Sunny Deol garnered media attention while doing three films, Narasimha, Gola, and Arjun. Although they have not publicly acknowledged their relationship, there have been reports and sightings of them together, including a viral video showing them holding hands in London.
India.com
13-07-2025
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- India.com
Dimple Kapadia's bold scene in THIS song created a sensation, sparked affair rumours with the hero after..,song was..,hero was...
Dimple Kapadia's bold scene in THIS song created a sensation, sparked affair rumours with the hero after..,song was..,hero was... In the glitzy and glamorous world of showbiz, many songs come and go, but there are a few rare gems that remain etched in the memories of the audience and strike a chord like no other. One such example of this was a song that created a national stir as soon as it was released. But it wasn't just the soulful music of the song that resonated with the audience, but it was also the sizzling on-screen chemistry of the lead actor that ignited a stir of off off-screen affair. Why did 'Jaane Do Na' become a sensation? The song that we are talking about is none other than 'Jaane Do Na' from the film Saagar. The song featured the electrifying chemistry of Rishi Kapoor and Dimple Kapadia. Dimple was seen in a drenched look in an intimidate proximity with Rishi Kapoor. From her sensual expression to this passionate portrayal of romance was rare at that time, hence, it sparked a series of discussions and took everyone by storm. Some people even regard it as cultural shock. What started the affair rumours between Rishi Kapoor and Dimple Kapadia? The film Sagaar turned out to be a blockbuster hit and was praised for its strong storyline and impeccable performances, but the buzz around this song became a phenomenon in itself. The sizzling chemistry between Rishi and Dimple led to speculations of their romantic links in real life. Some reports even hinted an affair between the duo. However, Rishi stayed silent and never made any statement about the same. Their proximity in the film added more fuel to their off-screen affair rumours. Even after several years of the 'Jaane Do Na' release, it is known for its boldness. What many people might know is that many organisations and social groups raised an eyebrow over the visuals in the song. Dimple Kapadia, who was considered a glamorous and courageous actor, further cemented her image as a bold actress of her time.
India.com
08-06-2025
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- India.com
Not Rajesh Khanna, Rishi Kapoor, Sunny Deol, This actor was madly in love with Dimple Kapadia, used to look at her from distance, later worked with her in…, his name is…
Dimple Kapadia is prominent figure in Bollywood, known for both her film career and her romantic relationships and audacity. During the 1970s, when makeup was all the rage, she popularized natural look with her minimal makeup choices. Dimple experienced young love with Rajesh Khanna, and her romantic connections have also been associated with Rishi Kapoor and Sunny Deol. However, are you aware that another iconic actor was also fond of her beauty, often gazing at her intently? Dimple Kapadia's Striking Debut Dimple Kapadia is today marking her 68th birthday celebration. Even at this age, she remains a formidable competitor among the top actresses in terms of talent and beauty. Despite facing challenges in her personal life, Dimple has never backed down. At just 15 years old, she made her entry into Hindi cinema with the movie Bobby . Dimple's striking beauty attracted numerous filmmakers from a young age. After turning down several film offers, she finally made her debut with a cinematic work by Bollywood director Raj Kapoor . The Love Life Of Dimple Kapadia While filming Bobby, Dimple Kapadia was just 14 years old, and Rishi Kapoor was 21. The two grew close during the shoot, and rumors of their romance made headlines, but their relationship ended when Rajesh Khanna entered the picture. Dimple fell for Rajesh Khanna and became the actor's better half before reaching adulthood. She stepped away from the film industry to focus on her marriage with Rajesh, who preferred she not work and devote her time to managing the household. After some years, they separated without officially divorcing and eventually returned to acting. Dimple made her film comeback after an 11-year hiatus filled with marriage and motherhood, starring in Saagar alongside her first film co-star Rishi Kapoor and Kamal Haasan . The Alleged Relationship With Sunny Deol After a while, Dimple collaborated with actor Sunny Deol on movies like Manzil-Manzil and Aitbaar . During this the two had developed a close bond. It is rumored that they were in a relationship for approximately 11 years, but when this romance began to affect Sunny's marriage, they ended their relationship. Publicly, they appeared to have parted ways, yet their connection persisted in private. Dimple Kapadia Was Idolized By… This secret actor is none other than Jackie Shroff . He shared an intriguing story about Dimple Kapadia in an interview and said, 'I watched Dimple Kapadia's movie Bobby on its opening day and couldn't stop staring at her. During a month-long acting course in Mumbai, I would see Dimple visiting same building in evenings to meet Sadhna ji, and I would watch her from afar, captivated by her presence.' He went on to say, 'When I found out that I would be collaborating with her on Allah Rakha , I couldn't help but gaze at her throughout the filming. She had a way of engaging with everyone on the set, whether it was a spotboy, a producer, or an assistant, making no distinctions in her treatment of them. After that, we ended up working together on 12 films .' He also mentioned that Dimple is very fond of her hair.
Indian Express
08-06-2025
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- Indian Express
20 years after Bobby, ‘unlucky' Rudaali changed Dimple Kapadia's fortune; broke the idea of ‘glamorous' heroine and established her as an actor
Dimple Kapadia was only 14 when Raj Kapoor decided that she had every quality of becoming the next big star in Hindi movies. After the debacle of Mera Naam Joker, he needed a hit to get RK Films out of the massive debt. He needed a film that had the capacity of changing his fortune and so, he decided to launch his 21-year-old son Rishi Kapor and Dimple in Bobby. By the time the film released, Dimple was 16, and even before she could actually experience her success, she got married to the superstar of that time Rajesh Khanna. Reading this in 2025, one would wonder why her marriage was a hindrance to her enjoying her success, and the truth is as orthodox as it could be. Rajesh wanted his wife to be a mother to his children, while he went out and worked in the movies and still had the privilege of being called the father to his daughters – Twinkle and Rinke. 'I had no problems with my wife working. But when I married Dimple, I wanted a mother for my children. I didn't want them to be brought up by servants. And I had no idea of Dimple's talent; Bobby had still not released,' he told Movie magazine in 1980. His declaration resulted in Dimple giving up a highly promising career in the movies. Many years later, she made a comeback with Ramesh Sippy's 1985 film Saagar, after she moved out of Rajesh's house. Dimple continued to work through the 1980s as she was a single mother responsible for her two daughters. After films like Allah Rakha, Bees Saal Baad, Pati Parmeshwar and many similar titles which were equally forgettable, Dimple became popular but it was only after Kalpana Lajmi's 1993 film Rudaali that Dimple started her career as a celebrated actor. Rudaali fetched Dimple her only National Film Award for Best Actress. Rudaali was unlike many of her previous projects where makers often cast her to increase the glamour quotient of their film. Dimple knew what she wanted to be as an actor, and she was finally getting her due. 'I suppose I was always associated with glamour. I had taken that for granted so my entire energy went towards projecting myself as an actress, building up myself as an actress and I wanted to be recognised as an actress,' she said on The Pritish Nandy Show in the early 1990s. ALSO READ | Nargis' brother beat her up because of her relationship with Raj Kapoor; she lost money, opportunities while he set up his studio Rudaali had her playing the role of a rather unfortunate woman named Shanichari. She got her ominous name from those who lived around her because they believed that she was the carrier of bad luck. 'Apne baap ko kha gayi (She killed her own father),' they said and made her believe that a newborn was somehow responsible for her father's death. Her mother abandoned her as a baby, and since then, she grew up around men who were always ready to pounce on her. Dimple's Shanichari grew up defending herself from harassment and ended up in a village where an upper caste zamindar believed that he was doing her a favour by asking for consent, instead of assaulting her. She is bullied, manipulated by the so-called leaders of the society and when a local priest forces her to take on a massive debt that leaves her distraught, Shanichari has no choice but to work as a bonded labour. But despite all these troubles in her life, she never sheds a tear. Contrary to the title Rudaali, which is used for a professional mourner, Dimple's character has never cried. She is not even one of those who mulls over her troubles. It's almost like she has accepted this troubled life as her normal and does not even believe that things could ever get better. She plays Shanichari like a woman who can't afford to be fragile, vulnerable. She always has to keep her guard up for she can't depend on anyone. In moments where life shows her its darkest side, she is disappointed but she never breaks down. Dimple has a strange resolve on her face as she plays Shanichari. She can empathise with this woman's pain but completely understands that breaking down won't do her any good. Mahesh Bhatt, in a 1985 interview with India Today, implied that Dimple Kapadia had been through so much in her life that she did not need any training to be an actor. 'Dimple Kapadia has gone through so much in her life that she need not read up the text books of method acting to play a real woman. She only has to be herself,' he said. In a significant scene in Rudaali, when Dimple's character befriends a woman from a neighbouring village, who forces her to cry just to let out her emotions, she detests the thought of expressing emotions in a public manner. This was strangely common between Dimple and Shanichari. Since her separation from her husband in the 1980s, Dimple fiercely guarded her personal life. There have been very few interactions where she candidly spoke about her family. A year before she signed Rudaali, Dimple gave a rare interview to Pritish Nandy where she spoke about her sister Reem's suicide in 1991, and her brother Suhail's drug problem. Talking about Reem's suicide, Dimple shared that she was yet to cope with it. 'With my brother's drug problem, yes, it was very difficult. It was the first time it happened in our family and he was destroying himself and my parents were completely destroyed. There was so much violence all around and today he is alright, he is back to normal. But those years were really bad,' she said. Dimple was dealing with a lot in her personal life when she decided to take up Rudaali and Shanichari almost became an outlet for her emotions. Dimple Kapadia wasn't always the wisest when it came to selecting her roles but things started to change when she appeared in films like Rudaali and Lekin. She limited her appearances and after 2001's Dil Chahta Hai, she became conscious about her choices. Luck By Chance, Finding Fanny, Being Cyrus have been some of her most applauded films in the last few years. Sampada Sharma has been the Copy Editor in the entertainment section at Indian Express Online since 2017. ... Read More
India Today
05-06-2025
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- India Today
Dimple Kapadia: The return of romance
(NOTE: This article was originally published in the India Today issue dated November 30, 1985)In 1973 she was the miniskirt-wearing Bobby-girl of everyone's dream and the silver screen's teeny-bopper goddess who came, conquered and went away. And then life imitated art through a dramatic marriage with superstar Rajesh Khanna—twice her age at that time, a total eclipse from films, the birth of two beautiful daughters, a traumatic separation, and her rising mermaid-like from the sea this year, in Kapadia is one of the most gorgeous women on screen today. But how has the Bobby girl grown into womanhood over the years? What strange imprints of experience her eventful life has left on her face that the film-goers now find so compelling? As a teenager, she was part nymph, part imp. At age 28, it is still Dimple all right, but blended totally anew. How did it happen?The change is of course something that the Dimple Kapadia of today would not readily like to admit. Because for the past three years since her return to movieland, directors obsessively thought of her—in the words of Saagar's maker Ramesh Sippy—"as Bobby grown over the years". No wonder the hemline was lower, but the neckline too was lower. But, alas, the real Dimple Kapadia is no grown-up clone of either Bobby, the fisherman's daughter in the screen Mills and Boon story of Raj Kapoor, or Mona, the "grown-over-the-years" Bobby-girl cast as an innkeeper's daughter this time round. Dimple has acquired a totally new persona in her second incarnation. It is more elusive than the old one, more complex, and perhaps more now, spread-eagled over a huge grey boulder after climbing 1,500 feet in one burst up a hill 80 km from Bangalore on the Bangalore-Pune highway, at the location of Feroz Khan's blockbuster-in-the-making, Janbaaz, Dimple surveys her face before a shot in a heart-shaped looking glass, and says: "I think all my life's story is condensed in my face. It is neither innocent nor coy. It speaks volumes." It does no sugar-candy actress in Bombay's film and today has got so much of tautness tied up with so much of beauty. Khan looks through his camera once for a close-up of her near the climax of the film, and mumbles almost to himself: "No other girl has so much of pent-up aggression."But it is not aggression alone that makes Dimple Kapadia unique, for there are far more intertwined shades of expression under the layers of Max Factor on her face. Says Mahesh Bhatt, the new and subversive messiah of serious cinema in Bombay's entertainment industry: "Dimple Kapadia has gone through so much in her life that she need not read up the text books of method acting to play a real woman. She only has to be herself." The valuable compliment could not have been timelier. Bhatt announced last fortnight that Dimple was the heroine of his next film, Kaash, with Naseeruddin can't believe it. It is perhaps the most serious artistic challenge I have ever faced in my career," cooed Dimple as the offer filtered in through long-distance telephone from Bombay to the lavishly appointed farmhouse of Khan on the outskirts of Bangalore, where the Janbaaz unit is putting up. She was feeling higher than the top of the cliffs where all the unreal movies had taken her for shooting dance sequences through heavy filters. "I feel like doing a step right now, yeah, great heady feeling to know that I can play a real character at last, I mean someone who exists in flesh and blood, may be in the next house down the lane."In Dimple, the yearning to play the "real character at last" is perhaps the natural backlash to the event-filled, high-voltage life she has all along led. The first taste of its unreality comes off as soon as one steps into the overpoweringly decadent home of the Kapadias at Juhu in are no familiar stacks of doubtful trophies in the living-room: only rows upon rows of cutglasses, Belgian and not-so-Belgian, punctuated by peeled off plaster on which apathy and sea-wind have wrought strange cobweb patterns. It could indeed be the ideal set for The Cherry Orchard; one only has to imagine the sound of the falling axe. And the male members of the family, father Chunibhai and brother Suhail, are almost never to be vague reply is: they have gone abroad for treatment. The ailment is deliberately left unspecified. What is more important is the tomblike silence that surrounds the inmates of the house—mother Betty, who is perennially cagey, and her two sisters Simple and Reem, who would shy away from any conversation on their illustrious didi on the ground that she is "her own spokesperson.""The life and happiness in our house came to an end the day I and Rajesh got married," Dimple now reminisces almost clinically. And it was really a marriage on which some of the weirdest film scripts could have been written. Rajesh Khanna was 32 at that time, flush from the success of a string of chart busters, and Dimple, at 16 and preening her feathers after Bobby, was just waiting to be swept off her feet in a whirlwind came to know him well precisely seven days before the marriage. We were going together to Ahmedabad for some kind of a show on a chartered flight. He sat next to me all along but did not utter a word. Just as the flight was about to land, he turned towards me, looked hard into my eyes, and said he wanted me to marry him."There were very few young women then who could say no to the superstar's offer, for Rajesh was indeed at the zenith of his popularity. "What was I compared to him then? A one-trick pony!" But there were other reasons too for Dimple to be overawed by Khanna. Till end-1970, weeks before Raj Kapoor selected her for the role in Bobby, she had suppurating warts on her fingers which everybody took for fact family friend Raj Kapoor had one day come to their house to see her on hearing the rumour, and, according to Dimple, was so pleased to find that her affliction was indeed not leprosy that he at once decided to cast her as Bobby. "I really swung between the extremes. From the danger of being ostracised by the society, I almost overnight found myself as virtually the darling of the millions. I was thankful to my fate. So thankful that I could have accepted the hand of anybody at that moment."advertisementBut there was something oddly rebellious about Chunibhai himself, the scion of the family that owned the Killicks Nixon group of industries, who was driven out of the pack for his love of the horseflesh. But being a punter and a bookmaker was not what broke the camel's back. The wealthy Khoja family, which embraced Hinduism only with Chunibhai's father, Laljibhai, and which accepts the Agha Khan as its religious mentor even now, disowned Dimple's father the day he agreed to Raj Kapoor's proposal to let her sign for Bobby."When I was a child, my parents took me to Agha Khan, and he named me Ameena. Beautiful name, it means the dignified one". The marriage with Rajesh Khanna was hopelessly one-sided and almost totally lacking in dignity. Khanna put a ban on her acting career promptly after the marriage. But that was the time when, in the wake of Bobby's success, incredibly lucrative offers were coming her way, one of them being to play the leading role for the movie great Manmohan Desai."They were offering me Rs 5 lakh for a film in those days," she says. If true, it was decidedly the highest rate in the industry at that time paid to women artistes and only marginally less than the fees Dimple reportedly commands now—Rs 6 lakh."I was too young to realise the importance of Bobby for my career, but from the day I entered Rajesh's house, Ashirwad, I somehow knew that the marriage wouldn't work." Life at the oddly spacious Bandra bungalow, overlooking the sea, was full of experiences that seem like harrowing nightmares to Dimple now. Most notable of them was the arrival of "my first rival"—a glamorous star of the times—on the third month of the marriage."I was not in the least bothered by the procession of women who walked into Rajesh's life thereafter, but the marriage was certainly not based on any equality. It was a farce, but it took me such a hell of a long time to realise that!" Ironically, the slide-back in Rajesh's career also began with the the resounding success of Aradhana, Anand, Aap Ki Kasam, all released between 1969 and 1973, his career graph began finally dipping with Namak Haram, where Amitabh Bachchan, the man who would finally take over the mantle from him, was aided by the script to outshine him Daulat Duniya, Prem Kahani, Mahachor, Bundlebaaz—the bombs piled upon each other. "It was my first encounter in life with failure," Dimple says. "When a successful man goes to pieces, his frustration engulfs the entire surroundings. It was a pathetic sight when Rajesh waited at the end of the week for collection figures but the people didn't have the guts to come and tell him."There was an upheaval in the house every day, and almost every night battle scenes were being enacted. After their separation, the film press in Bombay even reported acts of gross sadism, such as Dimple being subjected to cigarette burns and whipping. No one denied the reports."I left the house thrice earlier, but every time I went back home I felt sorry about the whole thing and came back. Both Rajesh and I were unable to accept the failure of our marriage. But I realised I wouldn't survive as a human being if I lived there any longer. I got totally neurotic because I was prepared to do go to any extreme ...only in order to extract a smile from him."The most widely publicised marriage of the early '70s between Rajesh Khanna and Dimple Kapadia thus virtually came to an end when, one day in April 1982, Dimple, accompanied by her two daughters, Twinkle and Pinkie, then aged eight years and five years respectively, arrived in her parents' home, determined not to go back this time. Dimple was at last prepared to put up a fight. She had already negotiated with Sippy for the role in Saagar, paving the way for her Rajesh and Dimple are still fighting in court over virtually every issue: the custody of the children, alimony, share of property, share of investments, "for a share of even the most insignificant thing that we ever possessed between ourselves."Dimple admits of having an involvement with another person during the period that her marriage with Rajesh had lasted. "It was a selfish involvement. I was experimenting with myself. I had to. I wanted to find out what was wrong with me as a woman." She puts up a brave front, but the separation must have left her a very insecure person. And she never got over her sense of guilt for having been the cause for her family's being cast off by her grandfather, and then the humiliating raids complete with metal detectors and sniffer dogs. Chunibhai reportedly became a changed man afterwards, withdrawn into a shell, and shy of company. "I was the favourite child," Dimple chokingly says, "and everything went wrong in my life."Saagar, Lava, Patal Bhairvai, Arjun, Manzil—Dimple has been deluged with work ever since her return to films. And, in the three years, she and Rajesh have done their best to make sure that they don't have to run into each other. It is only early this year, during the dubbing of Lava, that they met on the staircase of the dubbing studio. "He looked pale and thin. I invited him for a cup of tea and he said he'd come. But 15 minutes later, when I enquired, I was told that he was gone."However, Dimple is not nostalgic but regretful for having taken so much in her stride, "having suffered at the hand of blind emotion, and inertia". But the gap of 10 long years has landed her up in the new realities of the film industry which has only lately emerged out of a long period of absolute male domination and is again on the lookout for faces, lovely feminine faces, well-scrubbed and glamorous, which can set the wheels of moviedom in motion all over Kapoor, Dimple's co-actor in Janbaaz, reveried: "She is the most beautiful woman on screen since Madhubala." That may or may not be true, with a close contender like Rekha still being around. But it was left to Perez Khan, whose Qurbani hooked the nation on to disco fever and the pretty face of Zeenat Aman a few years ago, to give vent to the most accurate assessment of Dimple: "You look at her on a long shot. You see a good body, but there are many such that you're sure to find all around. Move the camera closer. Well, a remarkable face, something that always seems freshly washed, but made somewhat alien-looking with that longish nose of hers and the watery eyes. But now look at her big close-up. It is not at all the face of a woman who is acting her part: she is a woman who is just dying to be herself on screen."In an industry dominated by its cerebral Shabana Azmis and highly paid mannequins like Jaya Prada and Sridevi, Dimple Kapadia is the unabashed announcement of a return of to India Today MagazineTrending Reel
