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Dimple Kapadia was just a teenager when she was cast in the lead role of Bobby for director Raj Kapoor’s film. Dimple, in an earlier chat, spoke about how she landed the role and called this era of her life “magical” where she got everything that she could have ever wished for. She also recalled how just before this phase, she was suffering from leprosy and a family friend had threatened to get her “ostracised” from her school. Dimple was only 12 at the time.
Talking to FICCI Flo Jaipur Chapter, Dimple said that her father Chunnibhai Kapadia knew a lot of influential people in the film industry and a “famous director”, who was “like a family friend” had actually said something horribly unkind to Dimple. “I was suffering from leprosy at that time. I was about 12 years old. I had it on my elbow. So this man, turned around and said, ‘I’ll see that you get ostracised from school’. That was the first time I heard that word. I didn’t even know what that meant,” she recalled.
Dimple said that it was her medical condition that led her to meeting Raj Kapoor. “Raj Kapoor wanted to meet this girl. He was told there is this beautiful girl and she is suffering from leprosy. Out of this kind of a setback, there was a lot to gain and that’s how I got Bobby,” she said and added, “It was the most fabulous time of my life. Anything that I said or wanted or desired, just happened. It was magical. Absolutely magical.”
She then recalled how she first heard about the auditions for Bobby and said that Raj Kapoor first rejected her for the role. “I remember reading a newspaper in school which said that Raj Kapoor is looking for a girl for Bobby. I said to my friends that ‘I am Bobby’. Then I went for the test and I got rejected because he said ‘you look much older than Chintu (Rishi Kapoor). Unn dino main kitab mein likti thi (Those days I would write in a notebook). I used to fill up my notebooks with Ram Ram Ram Ram. I thought aise kaise ho gaya yeh (How did this happen)?” she recalled. Dimple said that she was called again by Raj Kapoor and things went smooth from then on. “He called me back again and it was all right from there on,” she said.
Bobby, released in 1973, starred Dimple Kapadia and Rishi Kapoor in their debut lead roles.
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