Jeetendra

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Jeetendra
Jeetendra 2012 ekta birthday.jpg
Jeetendra in 2012
Born
Ravi Kapoor

(1942-04-07) 7 April 1942 (age 81)
Amritsar, Punjab, British India
OccupationActor
Years active1959–2022
Spouse(s)
(
m. 1974)
Children
RelativesAbhishek Kapoor (nephew)

Jeetendra (born Ravi Kapoor /rævi/ RAV-ee; 7 April 1942) is a former Indian actor who is known for his work in Hindi cinema. He also serves as the chairman of the Balaji Telefilms and Balaji Motion Pictures.

Early life[edit]

Jeetendra was born in a Punjabi Khatri family as Ravi Kapoor in Amritsar, Punjab, to Amarnath and Krishna Kapoor, whose business dealt with imitation jewellery, supplied to film industry. He attended St. Sebastian's Delhi Public School in New Delhi, Mumbai[1] with his friend Rajesh Khanna and then studied at Siddharth College in Mumbai. While supplying jewellery to V. Shantaram, he was cast as Sandhya's character's double in the 1959 movie Navrang after which his career never turned back.[2]

Career[edit]

Jeetendra's active acting career spanned the 1960s to the 1990s. Jeetendra got his first major breaks with V. Shantaram's Geet Gaya Patharon Ne (1964) and Boond Jo Ban Gayee Moti (1967). However, it was the film Farz (1967) that served as his stepping stone to success. The tee shirt and white shoes he picked up from a retail store for the Mast Baharon Ka Main Aashiq number in Farz, became his trademark. Farz was followed by films such as Caravan and Humjoli, in which Jeetendra had more dance numbers. His vigorous dancing in the films won him the epithet; "Jumping Jack of Bollywood".[3][4]

He has acted in nearly 200 films as the main lead, a feat matched by just a handful of his peers since the inception of Hindi cinema. Jeetendra was frequently paired with Jaya Prada or Sridevi for remakes of Telugu films by T. Rama Rao, K. Bapayya, K. Raghavendra Rao and Dasari Narayana Rao; these included Sanjog, Aulad, Majaal, Justice Chaudhury, Mawaali (1983), Himmatwala (1983) and Tohfa (1984). He also acted in many remakes in Hindi of Krishna's Telugu movies and had very close association with him. Besides these south Indian remakes, there was a subdued side of Jeetendra whenever he'd worked with the writer/lyricist Gulzar in films such as Parichay, Kinara and Khushboo that had several beautifully penned songs such as "O Majhi Re", "Musafir Hoon Yaaron" and "Naam Gum Jaayega", composed by Rahul Dev Burman and sung by Kishore Kumar.

Personal life[edit]

Jeetendra (right) with daughter Ekta (center) and son Tusshar (left) in 2016

Jeetendra had met his wife, Shobha, when she was only 14. She completed school, went to college, and was employed as an Air Hostess with British Airways. When Jeetendra was struggling between 1960–66 to establish himself as an actor, he was in a relationship with Shobha and she was his girlfriend until 1972. It was not until the release of Bidaai on 18 October 1974, that Jeetendra and Shobha decided to get married, which they did in a simple ceremony at Janki Kutir with only a few family members and friends present.[5] In her authorized biography, Hema Malini claimed that they almost got married, but she backed out.[6]

Jeetendra and Shobha have two children from their marriage. Elder of them, daughter Ekta Kapoor, runs Balaji Telefilms while their son Tusshar Kapoor is also an actor.[7] Jeetendra made a brief appearance in one of his daughter's produced films Kucch To Hai, a thriller movie released in 2003, where he appeared alongside his son Tusshar.

During the 6th November, 2021 episode of The Kapil Sharma Show, when Jeetendra and Ekta Kapoor were the guests, he related an incident from 1976. He was supposed to go to Madras (now Chennai) by flight on Karva Chauth. His flight got delayed and he went back home so that Shobha could perform the necessary rituals like viewing the moon and break her fast. Shobha refused to let him go back to the airport. So Jeetendra called his make-up man and told him to come back home, and that they would leave the next day. Around 10:30 or 11:00 PM, he looked outside from his flat (on a high-rise in Pali Hill, Bandra) and saw a fireball hurtling toward the airport. Later, after a couple of hours, his phone rang incessantly with people calling to find out what happened. The flight that he was supposed to have taken had crashed. Shobha's prescient insistence that he should not go turned out to be a blessing. That flight was Indian Airlines Flight 171.[8]

Filmography[edit]

Main article: Jeetendra filmography

Awards and honours[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ "Jeetendra Biography, Jeetendra Bio data, Profile, Videos, Photos". in.com. Archived from the original on 15 April 2016. Retrieved 7 April 2016.
  2. ↑ "Jeetendra". IMDb. Archived from the original on 25 January 2017. Retrieved 7 April 2016.
  3. ↑ "Jeetendra Biography – Jeetendra Childhood, Film Actor Jeetendar Profile". lifestyle.iloveindia.com. Archived from the original on 7 October 2017. Retrieved 7 April 2016.
  4. ↑ "Jeetendra Biography, Jeetendra Bio data, Profile, Videos, Photos". in.com. Archived from the original on 15 April 2016. Retrieved 7 April 2016.
  5. ↑ "Jeetendra". IMDb. Archived from the original on 25 January 2017. Retrieved 7 April 2016.
  6. ↑ "Biography reveals dream girl's love affairs". Paktribune.com. Archived from the original on 24 February 2012. Retrieved 9 May 2010.
  7. ↑ "Jeetendras hand imprint tile unveiled". IBNlive. Archived from the original on 1 November 2014. Retrieved 12 January 2014.
  8. ↑ "Jeetendra reveals how Karwa Chauth ritual saved him from plane crash, says he lost co-star in tragedy". 7 November 2021.
  9. ↑ "Cinema Express awards presented". Indianexpress.com. 24 August 1998. Archived from the original on 21 February 2019. Retrieved 21 February 2019.
  10. ↑ "Bollywood News: Bollywood Movies Reviews, Hindi Movies in India, Music & Gossip". Rediff.com. Archived from the original on 21 February 2019. Retrieved 21 February 2019.
  11. ↑ [1] Archived 8 May 2006 at the Wayback Machine
  12. ↑ "Winners of Sansui Awards 2008 – RS Bollywood Online". Radiosargam.com. 30 March 2008. Archived from the original on 19 July 2011. Retrieved 9 May 2010.
  13. ↑ "19th Lions Gold Awards 2013 Winners". Pinkvilla. 17 January 2013. Archived from the original on 21 January 2013. Retrieved 18 January 2013.

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