Rajiv Kapoor, the youngest of the late Raj Kapoor’s actor-sons who passed away after a massive cardiac arrest in Mumbai at 58, had shown immense promise at the outset of his career, but he failed to live up to the hype and huge expatiations that the audiences and the media had from the son of the greatest showman of the film industry. His career also failed to take off because of his blunder to ape his inimitable uncle Shammi Kapoor onscreen in his very first film.