Vijayta Pandit made her debut in Love Story (1981) with Kumar Gaurav. The two actors fell in love with one another, against his father’s wishes. In a recent chat, Vijayta revealed that the actor was ready to marry her despite being engaged to Raj Kapoor’s daughter. She said that when people do such films together, you feel the love and hence actors like Rishi Kapoor-Dimple Kapadia and Sunny Deol-Amrita Singh ‘fell in love in real life’.
She told Lehren Retro, “Bunty (Kumar Gaurav) was the first boy I hugged during the shoot for Love Story. Any love stories you look at, be it Rishi Kapoor-Dimple Kapadia’s Bobby, Sunny Deol-Amrita Singh’s Betaab, Sanjay Dutt and Tina Munim’s Rocky, all these actors fell in love in real life. With such films, you have to get into it, feel the romance…”
“That was the first time a boy was touching me, so we both fell in love… Bunty was very fond of me; he would keep following me, holding my hands and dancing… he used to be a very charming boy. But his father and the film’s producer Rajendra Kumar was very angry over our relationship. He would drink alcohol and tell Bunty, he was his prince, and that he should marry a princess. He said he will find his son a girl who belongs to a reputed family. When I used to hear all this, I used to be so scared, but Bunty would retaliate and tell his father that he loves me; they used to drink together and argue; I used to try and get away from this situation,” the former actress mentioned.
She added, “Rajendra Kumar saw his son getting head over heels in love with me, so him and Raj Kapoor decided to get Kumar Gaurav and Reema engaged. I even attended the ceremony, I saw the huge diamond ring (Reema) she made him wear. I told him it looked so beautiful, and then he got angry and said, ‘If you don’t like it, I will throw it away’… I ran away thinking he was going crazy… even after the engagement, Bunty would come to my house, I never went to his home.”
“My mother and father were so upset and scared. My father said he will ask Rajendra Kumar to ensure his son does not visit us now that he is engaged to be married. Bunty told my mother he would marry only me, despite his engagement. She told him this was impossible and then he swore that he would marry me. And then I don’t know what happened. I got to know that he was having an affair with Namrata Dutt. So he broke off his engagement with Reema, and I had absolutely no involvement with that,” she said.
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