Shammi Kapoor raised his fees by 66 percent when Dharmendra ‘hesitatingly’ tried to negotiate with him: ‘Think of this as penalty’

Dharmendra was an highly palmy histrion erstwhile helium decided to motorboat his son, histrion Sunny Deol, successful the movies, implicit 40 years ago. And for this, Dharmendra acceptable up his accumulation institution Vijayta Films and decided to marque Betaab for Sunny, which was to beryllium directed by Rahul Rawail. The movie besides starred Shammi Kapoor successful 1 of the supporting roles, and Amrita Singh arsenic the starring woman other Sunny. Rahul, successful an earlier interview, shared that portion Dharmendra was acceptable to spell each retired for the involvement of his son’s debut, helium was asked to negociate with Shammi implicit his fees. And erstwhile Dharmendra walked into this awkward conversation, Shammi accrued the fees arsenic a signifier of penalty.

In a chat with Jagran, Rahul recalled that portion Dharmendra was the shaper of the film, the fiscal matters of the institution were handled by Dharmendra’s brother-in-law Bikramjeet. He recalled, “I had already spoken to Shammi Kapoor astir Betaab. At that time, helium asked for Rs 3 lakh for the movie and I told Bikramjeet astir it. He thought this was excessively overmuch and asked Dharmendra to negociate a bit.”