Uri: The Surgical Strike Actress Swaroop Sampat Talks About Sanjeev Kumar From His Early Days

Despite a relatively short life, thespian Sanjeev Kumar stood out for the range and diversity of his on-screen roles. In real life, too, he left an indelible imprint on the countless people he came across. Swaroop Sampat Rawal, who’s still remembered for her role in the sitcom “Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi”, is one of them.

“My father Bachu Sampat was a theatre veteran and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru had tasked him with starting INT (Indian National Theatre). Those days, Sanjeev Kumar had just started out in Gujarati cinema and he used to call my father ‘boss’,” the actress-turned-educator, who was most recently seen in “Uri: The Surgical Strike”, recalled.

Swaroop Sampat was speaking at the book reading session of Reeta Ramamurthy Gupta and Uday Jariwala’s “Sanjeev Kumar – The Actor We All Loved” at the University of Mumbai’s Department of Communications and Journalism here on Tuesday.