2 hours agoAuthor: Akash Khare
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Year: 1952 Place: Punjab
The 5-year-old daughter of Indian Army Brigadier J.S.Garewal, who lives in Ludhiana, watched superstar Raj Kapoor's film 'Awara'. After watching this film she made up her mind that she would go into films.
The father felt that this was the daughter's foolishness and she would forget it with time. Time passed, but the stubbornness did not change. At the age of 15, the daughter again expressed her desire to become an actress to her father.
When the father refused, the daughter went on a hunger strike. Ultimately the parents had to bow down to their stubbornness, but they set a condition that he should make a name for himself within a year.
This girl, who despite the insistence of her parents, reached Mumbai alone at the age of 15 to become an actress was none other than Simi Garewal, the most bold and beautiful actress of her time.
Today's young generation recognizes Simi for her superhit celebrity chat show 'Rondevoo with Simi Garewal'.
On this show, Simi revealed secrets related to the personal lives of celebrities of every decade, from Dev Anand to Deepika Padukone, but Simi herself always remained a secret.
Today, on Simi's 77th birthday, know some special things related to her personal life and film journey…
Simi with her parents in her childhood picture.
Reached Mumbai alone at the age of 15 Born in Punjab in 1947, Simi shifted to London with her family at the age of six. He completed his schooling there along with his sister Amrita. At that time Simi considered Queen Elizabeth as her icon.
After this, at the age of 15, Simi returned to India to become an actress and started looking for work in films.
Love making scene with Firoz Khan, 8 years older than me Simi had told in an interview, 'As far as I remember, I started my career with the film 'Tarzan Goes to India'. In this English film, I was cast opposite the dashing and handsome Firoz Khan.
I had many love scenes with him. At the age of 15, I had no experience of working in front of the camera. My accent was also not suitable for Hindi films made in the 60s.
I had to work hard and wait a long time to prove my talent.
Simi Garewal with Hollywood actor Jock Mahoney in a scene from the debut film 'Tarzan Goes to India'.
Simi was cast opposite Firoz Khan (centre) in the film.
Came into limelight with the bold scene of 'Mera Naam Joker' Simi worked opposite Dev Anand in 'Teen Deviyan' released in 1965 and opposite Manoj Kumar in 'Do Badan' released in 1966, but she did not get much notice.
After doing 9 films in 4 years, Simi got recognition from Raj Kapoor's film 'Mera Naam Joker' released in 1970.
Simi played the role of Miss Mary in the film and she had a bold scene in it due to which she came into limelight.
Most of Simi's scenes in the film 'Mera Naam Joker' were with Raj Kapoor's son Rishi Kapoor. This was Rishi's debut film as a child artist.
Shashi Kapoor was standing in front of nude Simi Simi's film 'Siddharth', released in 1972, was one of her most controversial films. In this film, Simi created a sensation by doing a nude scene with Shashi Kapoor.
This was the first nude scene of Bollywood. When some pictures of the film were published on the cover of an English magazine, there was a huge uproar. The matter went to court and the film was not allowed to be released in India.
Simi with Shashi Kapoor in a scene from the film 'Siddharth'.
The film 'Siddharth' was premiered at the Venice Film Festival. Here it won the Silver Lion Award. Simi with French fashion designer Pierre Cardin during the premiere.
Also worked in art films Despite doing many bold films, Simi was never given the tag of sex symbol. The reason for this was that along with commercial films, she was also doing off-beat films.
He also worked in famous art film director Satyajit Ray's film 'Aranyer Din Ratri' and Mrinal Sen's film 'Padatik'.
Simi Garewal in a scene from Satyajit Ray's film 'Aranyer Din Ratri'.
The actress worked in about 35 films in her career. The most popular role among these was that of Kamini Verma in Rishi Kapoor's 'Karz', released in 1980. This was his lead negative role.
Secrets from Bachchan to Kapoor family revealed Apart from films, Simi created her own identity in 1997 with her chat show 'Rondevoo with Simi Garewal'. On this show, Simi interviewed famous celebs of every decade from Dev Anand to Vijay Mallya and from Rekha to Deepika Padukone.
Many big celebs even gave big controversial statements here. When Simi herself questioned actress Rani Mukherjee on her show about the relationship between her and Aditya Chopra, she had a dispute with Rani.
For the first time, Amitabh gave an interview with his children Abhishek and Shweta on Simi's chat show. Simi had interviewed about 146 celebs on her chat show which ran for 7 years.
In the year 2023, Simi was seen in the reality TV show 'Bigg Boss'. Here she hosted 'Rondevoo with Simi Garewal' along with Salman Khan and other contestants of the show.
Simi's show was replaced by 'Coffee with Karan' After 7 years, the channel replaced Simi's show with Karan Johar's show 'Koffee with Karan'. This show was telecasted at the same time when SIMI's show was telecasted on the channel.
Taunted Karan Johar while supporting Kangana In 2020, Simi had praised Kangana Ranaut, who was continuously raising her voice against nepotism and favoritism after Sushant's death.
She wrote, 'I admire Kangana Ranaut, who is brave and bold. Only I know how a powerful man ruthlessly tried to ruin my career.
I remained silent because I was not as brave as Kangana.
Simi had supported Kangana through this tweet.
Through this tweet, Simi had accused Karan Johar of replacing her.
Apart from this chat show, Simi also made documentary films on Raj Kapoor and Rajiv Gandhi.
Now read some stories related to personal life…
Name associated with 23 years elder Raj Kapoor Simi had worked with big directors like Raj Kapoor and Manmohan Desai in her career. The actress's name was linked with both of them.
During that period, many film magazines had published stories of her affair with Raj Kapoor, 23 years her elder. However, Simi never gave any statement regarding this.
There were a lot of rumors about Simi's affair with filmmaker Raj Kapoor.
Fell in love for the first time at the age of 17 The person whom Simi fell in love with for the first time in her life was her neighbor in London and Maharaja Shatrushalya Singh of Jamnagar. This relationship, formed at the age of 17, lasted for 3 years.
Then former Indian cricket team captain Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi entered Simi's life. Pataudi was very serious about this relationship and had also made up his mind to introduce Simi to his family, but then Sharmila Tagore entered his life and he separated from Simi.
The first serious relationship of Simi's life was with Maharaja Shatrushaly Singh of Jamnagar.
Married in 1970 which lasted only 3 years In 1970, Simi married businessman Ravi Mohan, which lasted only for 3 years. However, both of them divorced after 9 years after which Simi did not remarry.
Simi had told in an interview that Ravi Mohan was a good person, we both were loyal to each other, but God had not created us for each other. We separated, but I am still close to his family.
Simi and Ravi's wedding photo.
Also dated Ratan Tata for some time At one time, Simi Garewal's name was also associated with famous business tycoon Ratan Tata. Simi herself had revealed this in an interview given in 2011.
He told that he and Tata were in a relationship for some time. Later both of them decided to separate and always remained good friends of each other.
In this interview, while praising Tata, Simi had described him as a perfectionist and a gentleman. His sense of humor was also praised.
Recently, on the demise of Ratan Tata, Simi had also tweeted related to him.
Regret of not being able to become a mother, attempts to adopt a daughter failed In an interview given to Filmfare in 2013, Simi had said – 'The biggest regret of my life is that I do not have a child. I was about to adopt a daughter, everything was in place.
I went to an orphanage where I met a girl named Vijaya. His family had left him at the railway station. According to the rules, before adopting him, I had to get his photo published in the newspaper.
No one took care of the child for 3 months, but as soon as I was about to get her custody, the child's parents came forward… I was heartbroken that day.
Graphics: Anklesh Vishwakarma
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