Shakti kapoor is Bollywood famous villain and comic actor .He is from delhi and but had his film course in FTII Pune .He has done number of films in Bollywood but do you know how Shakti Kapoor got his first movie in Bollywood .
Here is an interesting story
Shakti Kapoor has started off in doing modelling for commercial since he was not getting g film roles .Shakti purchased an old Fiat car from modelling money .
One day Shakti was driving on Linking Road .Bollywood actor and director Feroz Khan was also on the same road .Shakti was driving his old 1961 Fiat, bought from the modelling money. Feroz Khan was driving his brand new Mercedes. They had an accident on Linking Road in Bandra (north-west Mumbai).
Shakti immediately got down to fight.Feroz Khans got out of the car. When Shakti saw Feroz he forgot about the accident and told him, ‘Sir, I have come from FTII and my name is Shakti Kapoor and I want to work with you. Can you please give me a role in your film? ‘
Feroz Khan did not say anything. He left in his car as a crowd had accumulated.
In those days, he was writing Qurbani with his writer K K Shukla.
After reaching his office, he called K K Shukla and told him about his accident meeting, and how Shakti Kapoor looked dangerous because of my eyes.He wanted to cast Shakti Kapoor as the film’s villain. But Shukla saab did not know who had had an accident with Feroz Khan. Shakti had met Shukla Saab’s wife (actress) Daisy Irani at a party, and they had liked Shakti. Whenever Shakti was hungry, he would go to her house, and she would feed Shakti. So that evening Shakti went to Daisy Irani’s house.Shukla saab told Shakti, ‘You have bad luck.’Shakti asked him what happened.He told Shakti he had recommended his name for a role in Qurbani, but it was rejected because some idiot banged his car against Feroz Khan’s car and he wanted that boy.Shakti told him that it was him, and he immediately called Feroz Khan to tell he had found the boy. That’s how Shakti landed the role.
Upon release Qurbani was declared hit and Shakti kapoor ’s role was well received by the audience .Thereafter Shakti did numerous role in Bollywood and was loved by the audience .
