The late rishi kapoor was called the original chocolate boy of bollywood and there was a queue of actresses for him. However, rishi kapoor broke many hearts by marrying neetu singh in 1980. The couple had two children, a son, actor ranbir kapoor and a daughter, Riddhima Kapoor.
rishi kapoor shared the screen with many actresses. His pairings were hit with many actresses including Sridevi, madhuri Dixit, Juhi Chawla, divya bharti and Tina Munim. At the same time, there was also an actress from whom neetu singh felt 'threatened'. rishi kapoor made his bollywood debut as a hero with this actress, while when he signed a film with the actress again, neetu singh was very upset. rishi kapoor himself revealed this.
neetu singh was upset with Rishi-Dimple doing the film Sagar
Actually, when rishi kapoor worked again with his bobby co-actress dimple kapadia in the 1985 film Sagar, neetu singh felt that there was something between the two. Late actor rishi kapoor wrote in his autobiography Khullam Khulla, "But she need not have worried. Dimple was a friend, even if she was more than that during Bobby. Ten years had passed; she was married and had two children and I was well settled with two children. I never let Neetu down in my married life. I am a happy married man and my wife is also loving and supportive. Neetu is not just my wife, she is also my friend."
Let us tell you that dimple kapadia married superstar Rajesh Khanna. She quit acting in 1973 after her first film Bobby. However, this marriage did not last long and dimple kapadia made a comeback in films two years after separating from Rajesh Khanna. rishi kapoor had revealed in his book that by the time he worked on Saagar, he and dimple kapadia were in very different phases of life.
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