Shashi Kapoor
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Shashi Kapoor (born Balbir Raj Prithviraj Kapoor on 18 March 1938 in Calcutta (now Kolkata), was an award-winning Indian film actor and film producer. He was also a film director and assistant director in Hindi Films. He was a member of the Kapoor family, a film dynasty in India's Bollywood cinema. He was the younger brother of Raj Kapoor and Shammi Kapoor, the son of Prithviraj Kapoor, the widower of Jennifer Kendal, and the father of Karan Kapoor, Kunal Kapoor, and Sanjana Kapoor. He is remembered for many hit Hindi films like Jab Jab Phool Khile, Kanyadaan, Pyar Ka Mausam, Ek Shriman Ek Shrimati , Haseena Maan Jayegi, Sharmeelee, Aa Gale Lag Jaa, Fakira, Phaansi, Chor Machaye Shor, Mukti, Satyam Shivam Sundaram, Heeralal Pannalal, Junoon, Swayamvar and many such films, including ones he starred in with Pran like Chori Mera Kaam, Phaansi, Shankar Dada, Chakkar Pe Chakkar and with Amitabh Bachchan, such as Deewar, Namak Halaal. He also played leading roles in a number of English-speaking Indian films, including the very first Merchant Ivory production The Householder followed by such as Shakespeare-Wallah, Bombay Talkie, Heat and Dust, etc. In 2011, he was honoured with the Padma Bhushan by the Government of India. Description above from the Wikipedia article Shashi Kapoor, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
- Tittel: Shashi Kapoor
- Popularitet: 12.966
- Kjent for: Acting
- Fødselsdag: 1938-03-18
- Fødselssted: Calcutta, West Bengal, India
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- Også kjent som: Sashi Kapoor, Sasi Kapoor, शशि कपूर, Шаши Капур
