Rishi Kapoor-Dimple Kapadia’s Bobby: The movie that saved RK Studios, heralded the beginning of teenage love tales in India

The 1973 movie Bobby grew to become the crowning jewel of RK Studios because it was this movie that introduced the studio again to life. “Bobby was made as a result of Raj Kapoor needed to be bailed out. He had this studio mortgage. Bobby was made at a time when Raj Kapoor wanted a profitable movie,” Rishi as soon as advised Bollywood Hungama. RK Studios was in extreme losses after the field workplace failure of Mera Naam Joker, and Bobby was the movie that introduced them their fame and glory again.

On the time, Bobby was seen as a movie that redefined romance for the youthful era. Starring Rishi and Dimple, who have been each pretty younger, the movie represented rebellious teenage love that doesn’t maintain dad and mom’ phrases as sacred. Not like the romantic movies of the period, the place dad and mom’ approval was usually seen as the large battle in a love story, Bobby noticed the lead couple eloping, and even making an attempt to kill themselves. There are components right here that appear too far-fetched once you watch it in 2022, however one can’t overlook that for a society like ours, the place the idea of affection has been taboo for many years, Bobby appeared like a rule-breaker that spoke to the youthful era, and naturally, good music made the deal even sweeter.

Bobby was Rishi Kapoor’s first position as a grown up.

For the unversed, Bobby follows Rishi’s Raj and Dimple’s Bobby who fall head over heels for one another, solely after a couple of brief exchanges. What follows is the category divide between their households that don’t approve of this union. Raja, 18, and Bobby, 16, need to get married to one another, however since that isn’t an choice legally, they resolve to run away to be collectively, even when it means they should embrace demise. As you watch the movie right this moment, it’s evident that the 2 characters listed here are primarily children, who’ve thrown themselves into maturity of their very own will. Their actions are fairly becoming for his or her age, they’re infantile as a result of that’s what they’re purported to be. However it is usually very apparent that these two people come from a world the place women and men of a sure age don’t essentially mingle with one another so an harmless crush will be overestimated into love fairly rapidly.

Rishi’s Raja is a boy who was despatched to boarding college as punishment however as he as returned as a grown man, he nonetheless needs to be coddled. Within the absence of any love and heat from his dad and mom, he finds love in Bobby who sees him as nobody has ever seen him earlier than. From being a meek man, Raj turns right into a assured younger man who carries himself with a touch of favor, and is extra assertive together with his selections because the plot strikes on.

Rishi Kapoor and Dimple Kapadia in Bobby.

Rishi Kapoor, who received the Filmfare Greatest Actor award for his efficiency within the movie, admitted years later that he had, in reality, purchased the award for Rs 30,000. In his memoir Khullam Khulla, Rishi wrote, “I feel that Amitabh was sulking as a result of I had received the most effective actor award for Bobby. I’m certain he felt the award was rightfully his for Zanjeer, which launched the identical yr. I’m ashamed to say it, however I really ‘purchased’ that award. I used to be so naïve. There was this PRO, Taraknath Gandhi, who mentioned to me, ‘Sir, tees hazaar de do, toh aap ko principal award dila doonga.’ I’m not the manipulative kind however I admit that I gave him the cash with out considering.”

Rishi might need purchased the most well-liked award of the time however staying recent within the viewers’s thoughts even 49 years later will not be one thing anybody should buy. Bobby definitely wasn’t the most effective efficiency of Rishi Kapoor’s profession but it surely gave him the best platform to fulfill his viewers, who lately obtained their final glimpse of the actor in Sharmaji Namkeen.