Ranbir Kapoor’s Diwali memory is not built around a starry party. It is built around a puja at R.K. Studio, the Chembur landmark that shaped a large part of Hindi cinema. Appearing on a festive episode of Kaun Banega Crorepati with Amitabh Bachchan, the actor described the festival as a childhood routine built on family, ritual and the studio his grandfather founded.
The ritual, step by step
Kapoor, who is preparing for the release of Ramayana, recalled that the family would first go to R.K. Studio for a Lakshmi puja. Then he would visit his grandmother, Krishna Kapoor. The actor said, “Diwali means happiness”, and added that she would give the children sweets and “a lot of money”.
After returning home, the family performed another Lakshmi puja. His father would step outside to light firecrackers, and the family would then eat together and go to sleep. Kapoor said the simplicity of that sequence made it “a perfect Diwali”.
The studio behind the memory
R.K. Studio was founded by Raj Kapoor in 1948 in Chembur. It housed the production of classics such as Awaara, Shree 420, Bobby and Satyam Shivam Sundaram. A fire on the sets of Super Dancer on September 16, 2017, damaged the property, and the Kapoor family later decided to sell. In May 2019, Godrej Properties acquired the 2.2-acre site for an undisclosed sum.
- The celebration began with a Lakshmi puja at R.K. Studio, founded in 1948.
- Krishna Kapoor gave the children sweets and money each Diwali.
- The studio site was sold to Godrej Properties in May 2019 after a 2017 fire.
Why the memory matters
For readers who follow the Kapoor family as closely as the films, the anecdote shows how fully the studio worked as a family home. Festivals were not separate from production; they unfolded on the same lot where Raj Kapoor built his screen worlds. As Ranbir Kapoor steps into Ramayana, a project that will invite comparison with the epics his family once produced, the memory traces a line from the old studio to the next spectacle.
Kaun Banega Crorepati airs on Sony Entertainment Television, and festive specials have long been a place where stars turn personal history into public archive. Kapoor’s account names the sequence, the grandmother, the crackers and the dinner, letting fans see R.K. Studio not as a defunct lot but as a family calendar.
The studio is gone in its physical form; the ritual Kapoor describes is not. That contrast gives the anecdote its pull. A film family that has spent decades turning private life into public myth is now recalling a festival that required almost no spectacle: a puja, some crackers and a shared meal.
Source: The Times of India
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