Shakti Kapoor Recalls How Mithun Chakraborty "Dragged" And "Threw" Him During FTII Days
Actor Shakti Kapoor revealed that fellow actor Mithun Chakraborty locked him up in a room at FTII.
Actor Shakti Kapoor has opened up on the ragging he faced at the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) in Pune, and he revealed that fellow actor Mithun Chakraborty locked him up in a room after hours of ragging him. In an interview with DD Urdu, Shakti Kapoor also recalled that Mithun Chakraborty was a senior at the institute and one of the first ones who ragged him there.
“By the time we reached Pune, I had a beer in my hand and felt like a star. We reached the hostel, Rakesh Roshan was there to see me off. I saw that there was a guy standing at the gate, he was wearing a dhoti and had a rippling muscular body. His dhoti had so many holes you could not even count. He was dusky. He saw Rakesh Roshan and touched his feet. I had a beer in my hand and I asked him, ‘You wanna have some beer," Shakti Kapoor told DD Urdu.
"He refused and said it is anyway not allowed in the institute and then introduced himself – he was Mithun Chakraborty... Cut to, they (Rakesh and other) left and a hand held me by my leg. He dragged me to a room, threw me on the floor and questioned ‘You asked a senior – you wanna have some beer?’ (How dare you)," he added.
Speaking further about it, Shakti Kapoor said: "These are all my seniors, and there I am sitting on the floor. Mithun then told his friends about me and then they joked about my hair – tere zulf jo hai, raat ka andhera, tu jo sir mudwae savera ho jae. Unhone kainchi nikali aur savera kar diya (They made fun of my hair and then cut it off with scissors). I felt bad, and I regretted doing what I did. I realised I was wrong."
For the unversed, Shakti Kapoor and Mithun Chakraborty have done several movies with each other such as 'Gunda', 'Guru', 'Kranti Kshetra', 'Baadal', and 'Dalaal'.
Shakti Kapoor had started his Bollywood journey in 1977, and he bagged his famous roles in Sanjay Dutt's 'Rocky' and Feroz Khan's 'Qurbaani'.
He then created an image for himself and he mostly used to do comic or villainous roles during the 80s and 90s.
Shakti Kapoor was last seen in Prime Video's 'Guilty Minds' and he will now be seen in Ranbir Kapoor's 'Animal' which is being directed by Sandeep Reddy Vanga.
