Rishi Kapoor refused to star in Hum Tum, said ‘bakwas hai’, recalls Kunal Kohli: ‘It’s a guest appearance, you have given me 7 scenes’

Rishi Kapoor worked successful the movies each his beingness without ever taking a sabbatical but his quality successful Kunal Kohli’s Hum Tum marked the opening of his 2nd innings which saw instrumentality up meaningful quality roles, adjacent if they had smaller surface time. In Hum Tum, Rishi played the relation of Saif Ali Khan’s begetter who is inactive nursing his breached bosom adjacent though helium separated from his woman decades ago. In a caller interview, manager Kunal Kohli recalled his clip with Rishi Kapoor connected the movie and shared that the histrion refused to prima successful the movie astatine archetypal due to the fact that it was conscionable a impermanent appearance.

He recalled, “When I narrated the relation to Rishi Kapoor, helium said ‘I americium not doing this’. When I asked why, helium said ‘Guest quality hai, mujhe nahi karna, kya hai? Bakwas hai. Saat toh country diye tune mereko, nahi karna mujhe’. (It’s conscionable a impermanent appearance. I don’t privation to bash this. Nonsense. You gave maine conscionable 7 scenes, I don’t privation to.)” Kunal past convinced Rishi to perceive his scenes and the histrion agreed. “Then helium went ‘this is nice, this is besides nice’. He said ‘give maine immoderate much scenes. Why should I bash a impermanent appearance?’ I said ‘sir, I tin person you successful much scenes, you volition conscionable beryllium hanging around. Here, each clip you come, determination is an impact’. I said ‘every country of yours… determination is an impact, each dialog has an impact. I said I tin adhd 10 much scenes but they won’t person an impact. Then helium said ‘Haan theek hai chalo karte hain (Let’s bash it).'”