Chocolate heroes do not grow up to be so chocolatey after all. Rishi Kapoor, who in his heydays was quite a loveable and pleasant fellow, seems to need anger management lessons given his frequent outbursts on social media and counters to trolls in equally abusive language on DMs. This time it was a Twitter user’s criticism of the new trailer of Sanju (the film stars his son Ranbir) as an attempt to repair actor Sanjay Dutt’s “criminal” image. Our angry Chintuji told him he needed cinema lessons, layered with his brand of sarcasm and jibe words (must credit him with vocabulary skills). In the past, he fumed over a cartoon which in his opinion made fun of Raj Kapoor.
It is okay to be protective about his family but then would he drop his habit of posting poor jokes or criticising somebody else, realising they were no less hurtfulIJ Or else, as comedienne Aditi Mittal rightly put it, is he using his Bollywood royalty as a privileged calling card, one that would preclude others from asking questions of him while allowing him to have a general opinion on every subjectIJ Surely nobody can tarnish Raj Kapoor and his son Ranbir is a far cooler customer, taking every question in his effortless stride and charming his way into people’s hearts with his straightforward honesty. He’s defended his “smoking” friendship with Mahira and owned up to a “cooking” relationship with Alia Bhatt in public. And he can sure laugh at himself. Maybe the junior should give the senior some lessons.
