Kumar Gaurav turns 62 today.
Launched by his father Rajendra Kumar in 1981 in Love Story
He turned an overnight Super Star.From the very first film, Kumar achieved the level of success that actors have to wait for many years to get.
Infact the second star son launched in the same year Sanjay Dutt in Rocky also wasn't such a big hit.
(It was ironical that Kumar Gaurav subsequently married Sanjay Dutta sister and they became best friends).
Vijeta Pandit who played Gaurav’s leading lady in Love Story, recalled, "I’ve never seen such hysteria for any actor. Wherever we would go, Kumar Gaurav was mobbed by hundreds of fans".
After Love Story, Kumar Gaurav became the most talked about superstar of Bollywood. Producers were falling over each other to sign Gaurav. And he took on projects as though there was no tomorrow.
15 months after Love Story came Teri Kasam . It was a better film than Love Story specially in the music department .
He made a great pair with Poonam. But Teri Kasam wasn't a monster hit it almost bombed
The film’s failure shook Gaurav and his father, the latter was known as ‘Jubilee Kumar’ in his heydays for his uninterrupted string of hits in the 1960s. Rajendra Kumar left no stone unturned to sustain his son’s initial stardom. After Teri Kasam came Star, a full-on musical with music by Biddu and vocals by Nazia and Zoheb Haasan, the Disco Deewane musical sensations of the 1980s but
Star bombed and so did other big budgeted Gaurav vehicles like Lovers, Romance, Hum Hain Laajawab, All Rounder…and many more.
Finally in 1986 came Naam but Brother in Law Sanjay Dutt stole the show .
In 1993, Rajendra Kumar tried again to resurrect his son’s lost glory in Phool. Madhuri then a big star was roped in as the leading lady. Rajendra Kumar not only produced Phool, but also got his samdhi Sunil Dutt to also play a pivotal role.
Again Phool flopped. It was nearing the winter of Gaurav’s career. He retired from the rat race soon after Sanjay Gupta’s Kaante.
However he did do some good films like Janam, Aaj.
He is now a businessman and three years back his daughter Siya got married.(The news read Sanjay Dutt's niece getting married!!).
He had it all.
He Lost it all..
Life's like that .
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