Mithun Chakraborty dragged Shakti Kapoor to a room, shaved off his head: ‘I started crying’

In an interview with DD Urdu, the veteran actor said, “By the time we reached Pune, I had a beer in my hand and felt like a star. We reached the (FTII) 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 not allowed in the institute. He 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?”

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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 made fun of my hair and then cut it off with scissors). I felt bad, and I regretted doing what I did. I realised I was wrong.”

Shakti Kapoor was then asked to swim for 20 minutes on a cold night. Shakti now regretted what he did and asked his seniors to let him return home to Delhi. “I was looking like a monkey. I started crying, touched their feet,” Shakti recalled, “They took me to the swimming pool and told me to do 40 laps. I started crying and then they gave me a break.”

Mithun finally came to his rescue and told him to remember how to behave with seniors.