Dilip Kumar, Raj Kapoor, and Dev Anand once teased PM Jawaharlal Nehru with Lady Mountbatten, who was impressed by…

In the Fifties, Dilip Kumar, Raj Kapoor, and Dev Anand had been regarded as to be the three most important faces of the Hindi film trade. They had been the largest film stars of their time and shared a super bond. The trio used to be always joking around, and as soon as they had been in a sportive mood, they did now not hesitate to prank the then Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru. Once, the trio teased Nehru about his closeness with Lady Edwina Mountbatten.

In the ebook titled Raj Kapoor: The One and Simplest Showman, Raj Kapoor’s daughter Ritu Nanda has mentioned this. Quoting Raj, Ritu Nanda wrote, “Once Dilip Kumar, Dev Anand and I had been known as to fulfill Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru at his Teen Murti region.” Raj acknowledged that for the time being, Nehru “had correct recovered from a stroke and regarded unruffled and rather tired.” But as quickly as he hugged the “Big Three”, his mood became good.

Dilip Kumar, Raj Kapoor, and  Dev Anand had been impressed by Jawaharlal Nehru’s tales of his experiences all the draw in which by the world. “We all spread out as if we had discovered a lost pal,” Raj Kapoor acknowledged, “and he too spoke back within the identical draw, with a childlike pleasure. Most definitely he wished a brief respite from his dull and politically charged existence.” Now that the conversation used to be flowing love between dilapidated chums, the celebs dared to demand him about his personal existence.

Raj acknowledged, “We asked him, ‘I heard that wherever you went, females had been drawn to you, Panditji!’ He in an instant spoke back with a smile, ‘I am now not as fashioned as you is seemingly to be!'” Then he asked the quiz that remained a rumour for years. “We asked, ‘Your killer smile stole Lady Mountbatten’s coronary heart… is it correct, Sir?’ He blushed, enjoyed the quiz and laughed, and acknowledged, ‘I love all these tales!'”

Since Nehru had answered the main quiz honestly, Dilip Kumar asked but any other quiz. Raj recalled, “‘But all people says she admitted that she used to be in love with you!’ Dilip Kumar acknowledged, laughing. Nehru laughed over again and acknowledged, ‘Of us made me assume these tales.'” Earlier than India’s independence in 1947, there had been many rumours of closeness between PM Nehru and Lady Mountbatten. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru died in 1964 at the age of 74.