Kareena Kapoor on RK Studios sale: It is our family home, will be always close to heart

Kapoor family is selling the iconic RK Studios in Mumbai’s Chembur. Kareena Kapoor was all notalgic as she said that they have all grown up in its corridors.

Bollywood’s Kapoor family, perhaps the first family of the Hindi film industry, has decided to sell the iconic RK Studios. Kareena Kapoor Khan opened up about the sale of the sprawling landmark, calling it their family home which will always be close to the family’s heart. The studio was built by her grandfather Raj Kapoor.

Kareena Kapoor spoke about the sale of RK Studios on the sidelines of Lakme Fashion Week 2018. (IANS)

Kareena, who has been under the weather for the last few days, told Hindustan Times that she is not aware of the reasons of the sale and that the family elders are involved in the negotiations. “RK Studios will always be close to our heart. It is our family home. It is one of the glorious studios to have ever been made,” she said.

Talking to IANS, the actor who walked the ramp at Lakme Fashion Week, added, “I don’t know how far what is actually happening. In fact, I have been quite under the weather and I haven’t even met my father in the last four or five days... But of course, we have all grown up walking around in those corridors.”

“For a while, we did juggle with the idea of renovating the place with state-of-the-art technology. However, in reality it isn’t always possible for a phoenix to rise from the ashes. We Kapoors are very emotional lot but then… The investment in rebuilding the studio would just not have yielded sufficient revenue to keep it going,” Rishi had said.

Raj kapoor established the studio with his film Aag, followed by the superhit Barsaat. Its string of successes include Awaara (1951), Boot Polish (1954), Shri 420 (1955), Jaagte Raho (1956). Raj Kapoor’s last film before his death, Ram Teri Ganga Maili, was also produced under the same banner.