Late actor Sanjeev Kumar was famous for his acting but loved food off-screen. In a recent interview, actor Sachin Pilgaonkar said Kumar rented another place just to eat non-vegetarian food since his home was vegetarian. While talking with Kunal Vijayakar on his YouTube channel Khaane Mein Kya Hai, Sachin shared that the actor had another house to eat non-veg food.
Sachin recalled how Sanjeev Kumar had rented another house to eat. He said that Kumar took up a 1-BHK flat in Pali Hill just for non-vegetarian food because it wasn’t allowed in his home. “He had taken this house only for eating non vegetarian because non vegetarian food wasn’t allowed in his house. So he would order paya, nihari. Sanjeev Kumar, Shammi kapoor, Shatrughan Sinha, Randhir Kapoor and me, we would all eat together there. The paya had to reheated 4-5 times because we would continue drinking till 5 am and then we would eat the paya. We would eat it with those bakery naans and enjoy,” he remembered.
In an earlier conversation with Filmfare, actor Anju Mahendroo remembered Sanjeev Kumar’s love for non-vegetarian food. She had said that he was a foodie and even though he was a Gujarati Brahmin, he loved non-vegetarian dishes. “Hari (Sanjeev Kumar) was a foodie. For him everything was about food. Despite being a Gujarati Brahmin, he loved non-vegetarian food. And unless it was at someone’s home, he wasn’t comfortable eating it. So he’d come home and we’d have dishes made for him,” she had shared.
Actor Moushumi Chatterjee also talked about Sanjeev’s food preferences in a 2019 interview at FTII. She said that Haribhai (as he was fondly known) loved non-vegetarian food but couldn’t eat it at home. “He used to come anytime to my house and even if my husband and I were leaving for a party, he would come and say, ‘I’ve brought films, if you don’t mind, fridge mein non-veg hai kya?’” she had said.
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