Randhir Kapoor revealed what he told Karisma Kapoor and Kareena Kapoor when they decided to enter Bollywood, ‘If it was a bad profession, we would not have entered the film industry’.
Veteran actor and father of Bollywood actress Karisma Kapoor and Kareena Kapoor, Randhir Kapoor, once opened up about how his daughters made it in Bollywood all by themselves, without his support. He also confessed that he has been a “very bad father” who did not support his children’s Bollywood aspirations and gave credit to his estranged wife, former actress Babita.
‘I am very proud of my two daughters. They had made it on their own streak. Yes, the driving force was Babita, I give full credit to their mother but they have worked very hard,” Randhir had told Radio channel 92.5 channel’s host, veteran journalist Bhawna Somaaiya a few years ago.
He then opened up how Babita was the driving force behind Karisma and Kareena’s acting careers as he never supported them. He said, “When they were very small I never imagined that they would turn out to be such big artistes. I had told them exactly what my father (Raj Kapoor) told me, that you want to do it, do it for sure, if it was a bad profession then we ourselves wouldn’t be in it. If we are doing this work, how can we tell you not to do it? But if you are doing it be the best at it. I am very proud to say that my two daughters have worked very hard to achieve the great success that they have without any support from me.”
Calling himself a “bad father” Randhir then said he’s been somewhat “bawla” (mad) and didn’t take his work too seriously, especially after he started aging. “That way I have been a very bad father but then main bawla hoon, everyone knows I am a bit mad. I don’t want to work very hard, I don’t want to work in many pictures, offers still come, I don’t (take them up). I have earned in my life, now my kids earn much more than me, so I am content, we have food and clothes and home, we have everything, so what more do I want, why should I run around morning to night at this age?,” he concluded.
