When tearful Boney Kapoor recalled how Sridevi stood by him when creditors came knocking on his door: ‘They’d left piles of money with me’

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He continued with tears in his eyes, “Earlier, I used to think that I would never run out of money. Financiers from all over the city would come to my office and leave large piles of money and go. They’d say, ‘You decide whatever interest’. Thank god I’ve now paid them all back. That was the kind of faith and confidence they had in me. God supported me, my family supported me, and Sri supported me in a very big way. She was like a rock. She understood me. She knew that I hadn’t used the money for the wrong reasons. It wasn’t like I lost money in gambling or anything. I didn’t do anything wrong. And the mistakes I made, I understand them. If you don’t have support from your wife, you’re…”

Boney Kapoor has said that he has gone through three cycles of lows. Curiously enough, Boney suffered huge losses after his film Roop Ki Rani Choron Ka Raja flopped. The film starred his brother Anil Kapoor and Sridevi. He was married to Mona Shourie at the time, and it was Mona who supported him at the time. “My wife was there. She walked to Siddhivinayak Temple barefoot. My brothers stood with me,” he told The New Indian in an old interview.