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WHO SAYS THAT JUBILEE KUMAR RAJINDER WAS A KANJOOS? I BEG TO DIFFER

- JYOTHI VENKATESH

At the age of just 69 on July 12, 1999, when he was just 69 years old, I remember fondly how though Rajinder Kumar was known as a Kanjoos Makkichoos among the industry folks, because, as a matter of fact, he did not like spending money on booze parties for friends from the film industry, I was lucky to strike a very good friendship with Rajinder Kumar, also known as the Jubilee Kumar, when I wrote about him in the then popular evening paper of the 70's -Evening News Of India that Rajinder Kumar had staged a comeback with a particular film one Friday in my popular weekly film column.

I remember the Jubilee star had literally accosted me at the Jubilee Room of the then only popular five-star hotel in Mumbai then Bombay- Sun N Sand way back in 1975, only to reprimand me for my statement. "Am I a local train that I should stage my comeback in films? For your information, I had never retired from acting in films. My films may click at the box office or flop, but I have never announced my decision to quit acting in films. How can you write that I have staged a comeback in films in acting just because I did not act in a few films for a few Years"? He rightly thundered at me.