Neetu Kapoor’s childhood career was so busy that by 15 she was already having her own Mercedes! Speaking to Curly Tales, she reflected on her early years in cinema, the heavy workload that came with them and how she built her finances: “10 to 12 films I had done when I was a kid. I started when I was five, in ‘Suraj’, a film with Vyjayanthimala. Then ‘Do Kaliyaan’ was a very famous film of mine where I essayed a double role. Then there was a gap from 11 to 13, and at 14 I started again. Then, from 14 to 21, I did around 70 movies! I had bought four to five properties by the age of 15, and I had my own Mercedes! I was in 8th standard, and after that, offers started coming, and I never went back to school.”
Her screen career paused in 1980 when she married and her final film before that break was ‘Ganga Meri Maa’ in 1983. She came back a quarter of a century later in 2009, with a brief appearance in Imtiaz Ali’s romantic comedy-drama ‘Love Aaj Kal’, where she played the older incarnation of her husband’s love interest.
