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Shammi Kapoor and his inimitable on-screen charm can never ever be forgotten. As it's the legend's 93rd birth anniversary, he continues to be remembered with a smile by most cinegoers. Shammi was best known for his movies like 'Junglee', 'Kashmir Ki Kali' among many others.
However, Kapoor wasn't just known for his flamboyance and charm on-screen, but he was also quite popular among women off-screen. He was linked to so many of his co-stars, some of rumours could even be true. Shammi had married his co-star Geeta Bali who passed away early on.
Later, he married Neila Devi. In an interview with ETimes, his second wife, Neila Devi had once spoken about Geeta Bali. She had revealed that Shammi told her about all his girlfriends before they got married.
He even told her everything about his first wife Geeta. Neila Devi told ETimes, "My husband had told me everything about her. Do you know they would race with each other in their cars?Geeta Bali's demise hit Shammi ji very hard.
He had started staying at Raj Kapoor ji and Krishna ji's house. He started drinking non-stop. Krishna ji played a big role in getting him back to what he was.
She even looked after Aditya and Kanchan, then. Aditya was studying in a boarding school then and Kanchan too had started staying with them." Aditya and Kanchan are Shammi Kapoor and Geeta Bali's children.
Talking further about Geeta and Shammi's relationshio, Neila Devi had said, "Geeta Bali gave Shammi ji the boost he needed. She had a terrific sense of humour. He asked her to accompany him on the shoot of 'Rangeen Raaten' and she wanted to be with him; so she even agreed to do a boy's role in that film, wherein the heroine was not Geeta Bali but Mala Sinha.
" She further revealed that Shammi was in a relationship with actress Nutan and fell in love with Bali, after that. "I think they fell in love on the rebound of Nutan (Nutan and Shammi Kapoor were in a relationship).Geeta Bali helped him to become Shammi Kapoor, The Rebel Star.
It was on the sets of 'Rangeen Raaten' that they fell in love with each other. And then, they too got married in Banganga in the middle of one night. She didn't say 'yes' to him immediately, though.
It is so sad that she died so soon," she said. Geeta Bali had passed away in 1965. Shammi married Neila Devi in 1969.
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