Veteran actor Anil Kapoor says actor Sanjeev Kumar’s creative partnership with noted filmmaker-songwriter Gulzar was like the iconic pairing of Hollywood legends Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro. Kumar’s real name was Haribhai Jariwala. He is considered one of the finest actors of Indian cinema.
He and Gulzar’s pair gave excellent films like ‘Mausam’, ‘Aandhi’, ‘Angoor’, ‘Koshish’ and ‘Parichay’. At the same time, the Scorsese and De Niro partnered for some of Hollywood’s best films, “Mean Streets”, “Taxi Driver”, “New York, New York” and “Raging Bull”. Kapoor said that he had seen Kumar’s 1968 film ‘Raja Aur Runk’ as a child and since then he was a big fan of his acting.
From ‘Dastak’ to ‘Koshish’, ‘Sholay’, ‘Anamika’ to ‘Manchali’, I have seen all his films and especially All the films that he did with Jaya Bachchan ji. Gulzar sahab had directed several films with Haribhai… It (the pair) was like Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro.’ The biography of late actor Sanjeev Kumar was released on his 84th birth anniversary on Saturday. The book has been written by Rita Ramamurthy Gupta and Kumar’s nephew Uday Jariwala.
Ranveer Singh bought four floors of the apartment
Actor Ranveer Singh has bought a spacious flat in the suburbs of Bandra for Rs 119 crore in one of the biggest residential apartment deals in the country. This new house of Ranveer has a view of the sea. The actor has bought 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th floors of ‘Sagar Resham’, a building in Bandstand which is between Shah Rukh Khan’s bungalow ‘Mannat’ and Salman Khan’s Galaxy Apartments.
As directors of Oh Five Oh Media Works LLP Company, Singh and his father Jugjit Bhavnani have bought an apartment in the building which is under reconstruction. Sources said that it has been agreed in the deal that the builder will build four storeys as per the choice of the actor. Queries sent to Singh’s representatives did not elicit any response.
Sources said stamp duty of over Rs 7 crore has been paid for the transaction, which includes purchase of 11,266 sq ft of space, a special 1,300 sq ft terrace and 19 parking lots. The cost per square foot is around Rs one lakh. There is a possibility that this quadruplex will be the main home of Singh and his actress wife Deepika Padukone. Sources said that they had been looking for an independent bungalow for three years in the Juhu and Bandra areas, where a lot of celebrities live.
Last year, the couple bought another house in Alibaug for Rs 22 crore. Sources said that at present, ‘Sagar Resham’ does not have such big names who will be neighbors of the star pair. When contacted, Ritesh Mehta, senior director and head (west) of residential services, real estate consultancy firm JLL India, said the amount the actor has paid is in line with the market trends. The price of a property at this location ranges from Rs 90,000 to Rs 1.10 lakh per sq ft.