Mithun Chakraborty and Shakti Kapoor are the two senior actors of the Indian film industry and they have worked together in many movies in their younger days. However not many know that Mithun Chakraborty was senior to Shakti Kapoor at Film and Television Institute, Pune (FTII) and after their first meeting, Mithun not only cut Shakti’s hair but also ragged him.
During a recent interview, Shakti Kapoor revealed, “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?’ 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)?”
Shakti Kapoor further said that Mithun was joined by other seniors such as Vijayendra Ghatge, there was darkness in the whole room but the spotlight was on Shakti Kapoor. He added, “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 all made fun of my hair and then they chopped them off). I felt bad, and I regretted doing what I did. I realised I was wrong.”
Mithun not only ragged Shakti but he also saved him once by locking him in his hostel room so that everyone thinks that he is not in the hostel otherwise he would have been paraded till morning.
