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Check out Rajendra Kumar with son Kumar Gaurav.
He may not have followed in his father’s footsteps to box office glory but Kumar Gaurav shared a close camaraderie with his dad, late Rajendra Kumar.

An actor who earned the moniker ‘Jubilee Kumar’, in the 1960s when six to seven of his films ran in their silver jubilee weeks simultaneously, Rajendra, tried his best to launch his son into stardom, and for a while, even succeeded.

He produced and starred in Gaurav’s debut vehicle, Love Story (1981), which proved to be a blockbuster, not to mention established the young actor as a chocolate hero of the 1980s. He continued to produce films for his son – Janam (1985) and Naam (1986), (the latter also starred Gaurav’s brother-in-law Sanjay Dutt in the lead).

Gaurav went on to win rave reviews for his performance in the Mahesh Bhatt-directed Janam (1985) but his subsequent films failed to make a mark at the box office. Forced to take a long hiatus from acting, the actor made a successful comeback of sorts with Sanjay Gupta’s Kaante (2002), where he shared screen space with the likes of Amitabh Bachchan, among others.

Though Gaurav has always maintained he does not miss anything about showbiz or Bollywood, he is often seen at the Dutt family affairs, steadfastly by the side of his wife Namrata and Sanjay

MUMBAI MIRROR 

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