2 hours agoAuthor: Virendra Mishra
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Famous villain of Indian cinema Ranjit is completely opposite in real life as he appears to be fierce in films. He neither drinks nor eats non-veg. During a recent conversation, Ranjit mentioned about the daily parties held at his house.
Ranjit said- Clubs were not fashionable in those days. After the shoot, when the pack up would happen, everyone would come to my house for a party. My parents used to live in Delhi. There were 5-6 servants in the house. At that time, the work was going very well. Bottles would be opened in the evening. Everyone would gather under one roof, I used to like it. Mousami Chatterjee would cook fish. Reena Roy would cook parathas and Parveen Bobby would make drinks.
Sanjeev Kumar, Shatrughan Sinha, Dharam ji, Rajesh Khanna, Amitabh Bachchan, Vinod Khanna, Feroz Khan, everyone used to sit there. Everyone had their own brand of alcohol. Amitabh also used to drink in those days. Everyone used to meet together, but everyone had their own ego. Some would talk about the box office collections of films, while others would talk about their girlfriends.
Once Vinod Khanna was completely drunk. I went to drop him home. When I was returning after dropping him home, Vinod said that how will you go alone now? I will drop you. At that time there was no issue of drink and drive. This continued throughout the night that I used to drop him home and he used to drop me back home. There were such relationships also.
Ranjit said- I am a villain in name only. I have never behaved like a villain. I have never drunk, I don't know the taste of non-veg till date. When I used to tell Sunil Dutt sahab that I am a vegetarian, he used to say that you are crazy, even goat is vegetarian. I had a very cordial relationship with Dutt sahab.
Let us tell you that Sunil Dutt gave Ranjit a big break in films in 'Reshma Aur Shera'. Ranjit has worked in 500 films in his career. He was last seen in Akshay Kumar's film 'Housefull 4'.