Anil
Kapoor and I have known each other much before he became a film star and I
became a film journalist. I have watched his struggle in the 70s and his rise
to stardom in the 80s. I remember his impromptu marriage, his buying a new home
and him becoming a father. In the winter of the year 1990 I was the editor of
the newly found g magazine and requested
Anil to do a special photo feature with his wife Sunita and daughters Sonam and Rhea Kapoor (Harshvardhan
was not born as yet).
As
expected Sunita declined the offer but Anil agreed to shoot with his two girls.
Sunita designed identical clothes for all three of them and we shot in their
tastefully done up bungalow. My photographer Jayesh Seth seated the girls on
the ornate chair while daddy Anil stood behind them, his arms holding both
protectively.
It
was evident on this day that Sonam at that time just five years old enjoyed
every moment of the camera and the spotlight while little Rhea was
claustrophobic and cried through the photo session.
Sunita
Kapoor hovering in the backgground noticed Sonam and Rhea’s contradictory
behaviors inspotlight and said to her husband, “Seems like our girls have made
up their minds about the future, Sonam will follow in your footsteps and Rhea
will take after me.”
Sunita
was right. Sonam becamae an actor and Rhea chose to become a stylist.
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