Rishi Kapoor's death anniversary: Read his 5 most honest confessions here!

Rajesh Khanna’s dream of being directed by Raj Kapoor never played out, and Rishi Kapoor thinks he may have influenced his father to not cast the popular actor who was one of the contenders for the role that eventually went to his uncle Shashi Kapoor.

Gulzar was a next-door neighbour but Rishi Kapoor never socially met him. That's not it. What's even worse, according to Kapoor, is that Gulzar hasn't ever "written a song, a dialogue or a single line" for any of his films.

Rishi Kapoor didn't appreciate the 'arrogance' of the writing duo Salim-Javed. One of the funniest anecdotes in the book is when Kapoor and his friends visit Akhtar's apartment in Bandstand to tease him over the failure of Imaan Dharam; or when a drunk Akhtar boasted to Kapoor that he'd quit writing if their next project didn't make more money than Bobby. Rishi Kapoor hasn't forgiven Akhtar entirely after the latter stated in a TV show that Raj Kapoor was to be blamed for lyricist Shailendra's untimely death.

Rishi Kapoor wrote that Bachchan has never given due credit to the actors who have worked with him for the success of his films even if they were playing secondary roles, he writes, naming Shashi Kapoor (Deewar), Vinod Khanna, Shatrughan Sinha, Dharmendra and his own (AAA and Coolie).

Rishi Kapoor wrote writers-directors were partial towards Amitabh Bachchan. His & Bachchan relationship didn't start off on the best of notes. They hardly spoke on the sets of Kabhi Kabhie. They became comfortable with each other's company during Amar Akbar Anthony.

Rishi Kapoor believed his wife Neetu Kapoor deserves a medal for sticking with him. He wrote "Incredibly, she has done it without nagging me to change, and patiently puts up with my whims and moods."