![]() When I was driving down to the cremation ground with his body, people on the way had put his songs on loudspeakers. Even while I was away from home, people on the roads, wherever I was, would sing his songs for me. Looking at that photograph, I remembered how much fun I had going for the shoots with him. ![]() We moved in when I was 3-years-old after his first flush of success with the release of Tumsa Nahin Dekha. It was the first picture of my dad, taken when we moved into the house where I now live. “There’s a black-and-white photograph we put up for the Chautha. And the whole Kapoor clan coming together as one family.Who but Shammi Kapoor could’ve managed this feat! I wanted my father to be cremated at Ban Ganga because my mother (Geeta Bali) was cremated there. God bless the administration for a supreme bandobast in spite of it being 15th of August. “You’ve no idea what happened when we took my father’s body to the cremation ground. Today my parents are united,” sighed the bereaved son Aditya Raj Kapoor.Ī day after the last rites were performed at the Banganga, Aditya realised what being Shammi Kapoor’s son really meant. My first mother grew up in penury and died before she could enjoy a good life. Besides that I want to build a memorial for my parents. ![]() ![]() Now, I can only try to be a good human being. But for my acting I want to be compared to my mother. I recently told my Dad I look, walk and talk like him. ![]()
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