‘Raj Kapoor tailored my look for Bobby,’ Dimple Kapadia recalls how she went through the ‘painful’ process of getting into the look

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Dimple often shares fond memories of being formed successful her debut role. Previously, talking to FICCI Flo Jaipur Chapter, Dimple recalled however a setback really acceptable her up for Bobby. She said, “I was suffering from leprosy astatine that time. I was astir 12 years old. I had it connected my elbow. So this antheral (a household friend), turned astir and said, ‘I’ll spot that you get ostracised from school’. That was the archetypal clip I heard that word. I didn’t adjacent cognize what that meant.” She added, “Raj Kapoor wanted to conscionable this girl. He was told determination is this beauteous miss and she is suffering from leprosy. Out of this benignant of a setback, determination was a batch to summation and that’s however I got Bobby.”

The histrion past elaborate her travel to bagging the role. She said, “I retrieve speechmaking a paper successful schoolhouse which said that Raj Kapoor is looking for a miss for Bobby. I said to my friends that ‘I americium Bobby’. Then I went for the trial and I got rejected due to the fact that helium said ‘you look overmuch older than Chintu (Rishi Kapoor). Unn dino main kitab mein likti thi (Those days I would constitute successful a notebook). I utilized to capable up my notebooks with Ram Ram Ram Ram. I thought aise kaise ho gaya yeh (How did this happen).”

Bobby, released successful 1973, besides marked the debut of Rishi Kapoor. Bobby was Dimple Kapadia’s lone movie successful the 1970s arsenic she near acting aft her matrimony with Rajesh Khanna. She made a comeback successful the 1980s with Ramesh Sippy’s Saagar.