Shashi Kapoor obituary - 1938 - 2017: Bollywood legend lived life in pictures

in #bollywood7 years ago

Shashi Kapoor :

He was Born in Calcutta into a Bollywood film dynasty, he was the youngest son of actor Prithviraj Kapoor and the brother of Raj Kapoor and who was often referred to as he asked that “the greatest showman of Indian cinema” and Shammi Kapoor, a prominent lead actor in Hindi cinema from the late 1950s until the early 1970s.
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He began acting at four in plays produced and directed by his father and starred in films as a child actor in the late 1940s before making his debut as a leading man in 1961 in Dharmputra.
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Two years later he appeared in the first of a series of movies The Householder by producer-director duo Ismail Merchant and James Ivory.
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But Shakespeare Wallah and the story of an English Shakespeare troupe performing its way across India, in which he played opposite Felicity Kendal, followed in 1965.