He and Sharmila Tagore too had a great on screen chemistry. Having started their screen pairing in Waqt (1965), the two also did Aamne Samne (1967), Suhana Safar (1970), Aa Gale Lag Jaa (1973), Paap Aur Punya (1974), Swati (1986), the critically acclaimed New Delhi Times (1985) (which fetched Kapoor a National Film Award for Best Actor in 1986), My Love (1970) and Anari (1975). Though not all their films were super successes, the two felt most comfortable doing films with each other.
While shooting together, they often complemented each other with both having done hardcore mainstream masala films and some critically acclaimed art house films. When Aa gale Lag Jaa released, it created a storm with a bold theme of a young medical student (Tagore) getting cosy with an unknown man (Kapoor) and becoming pregnant. While the purists shunned it, the masses loved it and the critics felt that it was the sophistication and class act by the both the stars that didn't reduce the scene to a cheap thrill act.
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