{"id":448673,"date":"2025-12-15T13:03:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T13:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/448673\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T13:03:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T13:03:11","slug":"when-dimple-kapadia-almost-said-no-to-dil-chahta-hai-the-actress-revealed-how-a-phone-call-from-akshaye-khanna-persuaded-her-to-join","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/448673\/","title":{"rendered":"When Dimple Kapadia almost said NO to ‘Dil Chahta Hai’; the actress revealed how a phone call from Akshaye Khanna persuaded her to join |"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"WhenBefore accepting her role in the iconic film ‘Dil Chahta Hai’, Dimple Kapadia had second thoughts, but the heartfelt encouragement from co-star Akshaye Khanna changed her mind. This film not only became a cult classic but also marked a pivotal moment of collaboration with the fresh vision of filmmakers like Zoya Akhtar. Dimple Kapadia<\/a> has often been celebrated for reinventing herself across decades of Hindi cinema, but one of her most unexpected turns came with her role in Farhan Akhtar<\/a>\u2019s cult classic \u2018Dil Chahta Hai.\u2019 Looking back, the veteran star revealed that she almost turned the film down and said yes only because of co-star Akshaye Khanna<\/a>\u2019s heartfelt request.<\/p>\n

How Akshaye Khanna persuaded her to say yes<\/p>\n

Kapadia, who first appeared on screen in 1973 and later delivered memorable performances in several films, admitted that she usually finds enough excuses to not do a film. When \u2018Dil Chahta Hai\u2019 was first offered to her, she initially refused. The role of the elegant, complex older woman who shares a deep bond with Akshaye Khanna\u2019s character was considered unusual at the time. <\/p>\n

Did you know Dimple Kapadia once expressed regret for rejecting Amitabh Bachchan’s ‘Mard’ and called herself ‘stupid’ for doing so?<\/p>\n

In an interview with Vogue, Kapadia recalled the phone call that changed her mind. \u201cAkshaye Khanna called me up. He was such a sweetheart. He said, \u2018Please, please, do it for me.\u2019 And yeah, I said, of course,\u201d she shared. She added that she is grateful she agreed, saying, \u201cThank God I did it because working with Zoya (Akhtar) and working with that team was completely\u2026 I think by this time, it was a different kind of generation I was working with. So it was very, very rewarding. And it helped me a lot there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Building lasting ties with a new generation<\/p>\n

Farhan Akhtar\u2019s sister, Zoya Akhtar, worked as an assistant director on \u2018Dil Chahta Hai.\u2019 Several years later she cast Kapadia in \u2018Luck By Chance,\u2019 where the actress played a former star grooming her daughter, played by Isha Sharvani, for a film career. \u2018Dil Chahta Hai,\u2019 produced by Excel Entertainment under Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani, also featured Aamir Khan, Saif Ali Khan, Preity Zinta, and Sonali Kulkarni, among others, and went on to redefine urban Hindi storytelling.Kapadia has continued to explore interesting projects. She recently earned praise for \u2018Go Noni Go,\u2019 based on Twinkle Khanna\u2019s short stories, and earlier appeared in \u2018Teri Baaton Mein Aisa Uljha Jiya.\u2019 Her journey began with \u2018Bobby,\u2019 released when she was just 16. That same year she married superstar Rajesh Khanna, with whom she had two daughters, Twinkle Khanna and Rinke Khanna, before the relationship eventually ended. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Before accepting her role in the iconic film ‘Dil Chahta Hai’, Dimple Kapadia had second thoughts, but the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":448674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[198658,185,206338,170544,171,44768,206340,206339,170545,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-448673","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-akshaye-khanna","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-dil-chahta-hai","11":"tag-dimple-kapadia","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-farhan-akhtar","14":"tag-go-noni-go","15":"tag-luck-by-chance","16":"tag-rajesh-khanna","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115723726408911092","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}