{"id":109902,"date":"2025-10-31T02:31:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T02:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/109902\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T02:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T02:31:09","slug":"sanjeev-kumar-gave-rs-1-25-lakhs-to-boney-kapoor-to-buy-the-rights-of-anil-kapoors-woh-7-din-and-he-was-infamously-termed-kanjoos-hindi-movie-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/109902\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanjeev Kumar gave Rs 1.25 lakhs to Boney Kapoor to buy the rights of Anil Kapoor’s ‘Woh 7 din’: ‘And he was infamously termed kanjoos’ | Hindi Movie News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Sanjeev Anil Kapoor<\/a> made his Bollywood debut with \u2018Woh 7 Din\u2019, a film produced by his brother Boney Kapoor<\/a>. At that time, both brothers were just starting out in their careers \u2014 Anil as an actor and Boney as a producer. Before \u2018Woh Saat Din\u2019, Boney had produced only one film, \u2018Hum Paanch\u2019. In an old interview with Komal Nahta, Boney shared how he faced several hurdles while trying to buy the remake rights for \u2018Woh Saat Din\u2019, and how two legendary actors, Sanjeev Kumar<\/a> and Shabana Azmi, came forward to help him.Boney recalled, \u201c\u2018Woh Saat Din\u2019 was a remake of a Tamil film called \u2018Andha 7 Naatkal\u2019. And Bapu (who directed \u2018Hum Paanch\u2019) was remaking it in Telugu as \u2018Radha Kalyanam\u2019. So when Bapu went to see this film before remaking it in Telugu, I happened to be there and I saw the film. It was an incomplete film, only 80% of it was there, and I reacted very positively to the characterisation of Bhagyaraj. I got too excited that I decided I want to remake this film and I must buy the rights. Anil also got excited to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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He then spoke about the tough competition he faced while trying to acquire the rights. \u201cSo I flew to Chennai. And every major actor and producer had their eyes on the film as Bhagyaraj was the biggest actor-director-producer of that time. There was a mad rush to acquire the rights of the film. So I was there for a month, and just 2\u20133 days before the release of \u2018Andha 7 Naatkal\u2019, the producer was short of a little money to repay the financier. Somebody convinced the producer that he would pay the buffer amount to the financier but they should give the remake rights to me. And that buffer was Rs 1,25,000. And that was a huge amount, and they needed it the next day. I didn\u2019t have that much money, nor did I imagine it would be this costly.\u201dDisappointed, Boney returned to Mumbai, where an unexpected twist awaited him. On a film set, two of his colleagues noticed his distress. \u201cSo Shabana asked me what happened. I said the rights I was waiting all along for will not be mine as he is asking Rs 1,25,000. So she told me, \u2018Boney, I have Rs 25,000, you take it and see if it can be of any help.\u2019\u201dNot long after, Sanjeev Kumar also sensed something was wrong. \u201cAfter pack-up, he came to me and asked why I was so dejected. I told him that this all has happened and I don\u2019t think I\u2019ll be able to get the rights. So he asked me to come to his room the next morning.\u201dWhat happened next left Boney deeply moved. \u201cI was there in his room. He asked me to remove a pillow lying somewhere, and behind it there was some money lying. He told me, \u2018This is Rs 1,25,000, take it and buy the rights immediately.\u2019 This was that Sanjeev Kumar who was infamously termed as kanjoos (stingy). I told him that I will take time to return it and will only be able to return it in instalments, but he was like, \u2018You first buy the rights, then we will see everything.\u2019 So I used that money to buy the rights and returned the money that Shabana had given me.\u201dThe rest, as they say, is history. \u2018Woh Saat Din\u2019 went on to mark Anil Kapoor\u2019s memorable entry into Bollywood. The film also featured Padmini Kolhapure, Naseeruddin Shah, and Satish Kaushik in important roles, with music composed by the legendary duo Laxmikant\u2013Pyarelal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anil Kapoor made his Bollywood debut with \u2018Woh 7 Din\u2019, a film produced by his brother Boney Kapoor.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[10153,10152,156,409,74343,111,139,69,78844,63237,66025,78845],"class_list":{"0":"post-109902","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-anil-kapoor","9":"tag-boney-kapoor","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-movies","12":"tag-naseeruddin-shah","13":"tag-new-zealand","14":"tag-newzealand","15":"tag-nz","16":"tag-padmini-kolhapuri","17":"tag-sanjeev-kumar","18":"tag-shabana-azmi","19":"tag-woh-7-din"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}