New Delhi: Raj Kapoor, who started his film career at the age of just 10, has carved a niche for himself in the cinema world with his films and his unique style and has forever become the Shau Man of Bollywood. Raj Kapoor not only worked as an actor in films but also directed and produced films. Raj Kapoor gave many stars a chance to work in his films, but do you know that Raj Kapoor wanted to take the first Prime Minister of India, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, for one of his films. . A part of this film related to him was about to be shot in Trimurti Bhavan.
Raj was a big fan of Pandit Nehru
Raj Kapoor’s film was ‘Ab Delhi Door Nahi’. Actually Raj Kapoor was a big fan of Pandit Nehru. Raj wanted to shoot a part of his film with her. This was disclosed in a report by India Today.
The story of Raj Kapoor’s film was such that a child somehow reaches Delhi to meet Chacha Nehru. After this the child wants to meet Pandit Nehru by any means to reduce his father’s prison sentence. Raj Kapoor wanted to shoot this scene of the meeting of the children and Chacha Nehru in Teen Murti Bhavan.
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Raj met Nehru
Raj Kapoor, Dev Anand and Dilip Kumar also met Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru regarding the casting in this film. Dev Anand himself had mentioned this in one of his interviews. He had told about this, the three of us had the last meeting with Pandit Nehru in Delhi. Dev Anand had told that we had spent two hours with him in that meeting. He was like a child and we were like his grandson. In that meeting, we were just like his fans and were just joking with each other.
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At the same time, after this meeting, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru was advised by the team not to appear in this film. After which Pandit Nehru refused Raj Kapoor to work in this film. In this way, the desire to cast Pandit Nehru in the film remained in my mind.
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