I’m a winner in the end: Rishi Kapoor

He doesn’t really like giving interviews and that explains why we see so little of Rishi Kapoor these days. “Ah! I don’t like it really. And sometimes I don’t have an answer. I am supposed to feel good when a film does well and bad when a film doesn’t. So what’s there to say?” asks the former torchbearer of the Kapoor khandaan, who has recently passed the baton on to his son Ranbir.

It’s been exactly 10 years since Rishi decided to move on to things other than being a hero. Tell him that and he says that it’s been an effortless journey. “It was a conscious shift that I made and today I guess I play my age and the characters that suit me. But that doesn’t mean that I have got stereotyped into something. It’s good to move on and I am still moving on,” he says with a smirk.

Though he has had one of the most successful career graphs among his peers, Rishi says that playing a loser sometimes has its own advantages.

“See Luck By Chance and then Delhi 6 and you will see exactly that in both the cases. In Luck By Chance, the guy turns out to be a winner in the end. In Delhi 6, I am playing a middle-aged man who was in love with Abhishek’s mom but lost her to another man.

He is an absolute loser but he knows how to be a winner. I guess there are a lot of people out there who have learnt from their mistakes in the past but life didn’t give them a second chance,” he says.

We quiz him about his next directorial venture since it’s over a decade since his last one. “Yes, things will happen. But now is not the time. I will let you know when I zoom into it,” he signs off.