I
don’t know what isit about birthdays because memories just flood your mind. The
first time I met Dimple Kapadia nee Khanna was at the funeral of Baldev Pathak,
Dina Pathak’s husband. Baldev and Rajesh Khanna were close friends and few
people know that Baldev was the man behind Rajesh Khanna’s famous Gurushirts.
Clad in a milk white sari Dimple sat with the family till late evening. I
remember traveling back home with Dimple and Shabana Azmi and I’m not sure if
she knew I was a journalist at that time but Dimple was at her candid best.
Over
the decades I did a number of interviews with the actor spanning her long
career in films. We chatted at her parents home in Juhu, on her sets, traveled
with her on location shooting, went shopping for Rajkumar Santoshi’s wedding
gift together in the busy streets of Delhi and always Dimple was herself,
speaking from the heart without a care for the world.
It
was impossible not to like Dimple. She was beautful, accessible, engaging,
sensitive, untraditional and unpredictible. The only time I think she was not
herself and tried to confine to a role was when she lived as Mrs Rajesh Khanna
at Aashirwad. When she left Aashirwad, she found her old self in her patent’s
home this time with her two daughters, Twinkle and Rinki Khanna. Later when she
turned a successful star and mustered confidence she moved out to live on her
own at Vastu a few blocks away from her parent’s home.
Her
home at Vastu is filled with candles and paintings all created by Dimple. In
the olden days, Dimple and her sister Simple with their children dropped by at
her mother Betty’s home and she fussed over the girls and all the grand
children. Today, Dimple and Simple’s children and grand children drop by at her
home and Dimple a la Betty fusses over all her child ren and grand children.
It
is true life comes in circles.
@bhawanasomaaya
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