RAJESH KHANNA KISHORE KUMAR DRIVER
The 87-year-old also mentioned yet another instance where the singer-actor halted the recording of songs for the film titled Bharosa to demand tea. "Every time we tried coaxing Kishoreda, 'Let's go, Dada, let's get the recording done, Abdul - his driver who had gone out to fetch the tea - will be here soon', he would counter with, 'Let Abdul come. READ | Rajesh Khanna remembered on his 9th death anniversary by Sharmila Tagore in an audiobook If nothing else, this underscores the immense effort and planning required to live a life of absurdities," writes the veteran filmmaker. The film went on to bag several awards, including the Filmfare Award for Best Film the next year of its release. Kishoreda simply opened the cupboard, stepped in and disappeared! Leaving the producer waiting for him outside the open doors of the contraption.
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Thus, he "simply opened his cupboard, stepped in and disappeared!" "He used to have this astounding cupboard that hid a secret staircase within. Gulzar penned in the memoir that once a producer went to the Kishore Kumar's house to seek a meeting, but he was not in a mood to talk to him. In fact, one of Kishore Kumar's favourite things to do was "to land his producers in trouble." Nevertheless, I have never seen someone cutting off their nose to spite their face in such a manner. Not only directors, many producers were also at the receiving end of Kishore Kumar's mischief. Perhaps Kishoreda never wanted to play the character. The award-winning screenwriter who wrote the dialogues for the film recalled, "Consequently, Rajesh Khanna was finalized for the role in a very short time.
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Gulzar wrote, "We were all shocked! On top of that, Kishoreda went around the office dancing and singing, "What will you do now, Hrishi? (the film's director, Hrishikesh Mukherjee)." Gulzar says Kishore Kumar was initially set to feature in AnandĪccording to Gulzar, just a few days before the shoot of the film, the legendary singer Kishore Kumar, in a meeting to discuss his look in the film, shocked everyone by turning up completely bald. The iconic poet stated that 'mad genius' Kishore Kumar had a number of tricks up his sleeves- from turning 'completely bald', avoiding playing the titular role in the film to troubling producers by disappearing through a 'secret staircase' behind his cupboard. In his new memoir, Actually.I Met Them, director, poet, and lyricist Gulzar revealed that initially Kishore Kumar was set to feature in 1971's cult classic release Anand.