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Shashi Kapoor is a Actor, Director, Writer, Producer and Playback Singer Indian born on 18 march 1938 at Kolkata (Inde)

Shashi Kapoor

Shashi Kapoor
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Birth name Balbir Raj Prithviraj Kapoor
Nationality Inde
Birth 18 march 1938 at Kolkata (Inde)
Death 4 december 2017 (at 79 years)
Awards Padma Bhushan, National Film Award for Best Actor, Filmfare Awards

Shashi Kapoor, born as Balbir Raj Prithviraj Kapoor on 18 March 1938, is an Indian film actor and film producer. He has also been a film director and assistant director in the Hindi film industry.

Shashi Kapoor is a member of the Kapoor family, a film dynasty in India's Bollywood cinema. He has appeared in a large number of Hindi language films as well as in a few English-language films.

In 2011, he was honoured with the Padma Bhushan by the Government of India for his contributions to Art-Cinema.
In 2015, he was awarded the 2014 Dadasaheb Phalke Award, making him the third member of his family to receive the highest award in Indian Cinema after Prithviraj Kapoor and Raj Kapoor.

Biography

Kapoor attended Don Bosco High School in Matunga, Mumbai. He met English actress Jennifer Kendal in Calcutta in 1956 while both were working for their respective theatre groups. Kapoor was both assistant stage manager as well as an actor for his father’s theatre group, Prithvi Theatre. Geoffrey Kendal’s Shakespearean group was also present at the same time in Calcutta and Jennifer was Geoffrey’s daughter. After their subsequent meeting, the couple fell in love and after facing initial opposition from the Kendals and support from sister-in-law Geeta Bali, they got married in July 1958. They acted in a number of films together, most notably in Merchant Ivory productions. They had three children: Kunal Kapoor, Karan Kapoor and Sanjana Kapoor. Jennifer and Shashi established Prithvi Theatre on 5 November 1978 in Mumbai. Jennifer died of cancer in 1984 which shattered him. The English actress Felicity Kendal is his sister-in-law.

Shashi Kapoor’s children, for a short while, became Hindi film actors but their European looks and accented Hindi prevented them from having a successful career. His elder son Kunal is married to director Ramesh Sippy's daughter and Sanjana is married to wildlife conservationist Valmik Thapar. Kunal moved on to ad film direction and established his production house Adfilm-Valas which is today extremely successful. Karan became successful in modelling and later settled down in London. He is an accomplished photographer.

Usually with

Asha Bhosle
Asha Bhosle
(43 films)
Mohammed Rafi
Mohammed Rafi
(43 films)
Lata Mangeshkar
Lata Mangeshkar
(41 films)
Kishore Kumar
Kishore Kumar
(36 films)
Prayag Raj
Prayag Raj
(18 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Shashi Kapoor (133 films)

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Actor

Haseena Maan Jayegi
Haseena Maan Jayegi (1999)

Directed by Prakash Mehra
Actors Shashi Kapoor, Sanjay Dutt, Babita, Govinda, Karisma Kapoor, Johnny Walker
Rating67% 3.3735353.3735353.3735353.3735353.373535
Archana (Babita) moves to a new city along with her widowed father. In college, she meets Rakesh (Shashi Kapoor), son of her father's friend who always teases her. She wants to complain about him to the principal but by mistake she complains about Kamal (Shashi Kapoor) who looks exactly like Rakesh. Kamal was an orphan and is a very decent fellow. Later she realizes her mistake and Kamal and Archana grow close. But Rakesh wants to marry Archana and always tries to come between them. At last Archana takes her father's consent to marry Kamal.
Jinnah
Jinnah (1998)
, 1h50
Genres Drama, War, Biography, Historical
Actors Christopher Lee, Shashi Kapoor, James Fox, Maria Aitken, Richard Lintern, Indira Varma
Roles Narrator
Rating77% 3.89383.89383.89383.89383.8938
“ Few individuals significantly alter the course of history.
Swami Vivekananda
Swami Vivekananda (1998)

Directed by Ganapathi Venkatrama Iyer
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Films about religion
Actors Mithun Chakraborty, Sarvadaman D. Banerjee, Pradeep Kumar, Shammi Kapoor, Shashi Kapoor, Mammootty
Roles Rajasthani Husband
Rating70% 3.524613.524613.524613.524613.52461
The film mainly captures the events of Vivekananda's life from his birth to 1897, when he returned to India from the West. The film begins with the birth of Narendranath Datta (pre-monastic name of Swami Vivekananda) and shows the neighbors and relatives of Datta family celebrating the event. It immediately moves to the scene where Narendranath sees his father Vishwanath Datta is donating money, clothes, food to poor and distressed people. Seeing this, young Narendranath asks his father to give him something too, and his father tells him to go and look at mirror and find what he had already given him. Following his father's suggestion, Narndranath goes to the room, sees his image in the mirror.
Ajooba
Ajooba (1991)
, 2h59
Directed by Shashi Kapoor
Genres Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Superhero films
Actors Amitabh Bachchan, Dimple Kapadia, Rishi Kapoor, Shammi Kapoor, Sonam, Saeed Jaffrey
Rating52% 2.605442.605442.605442.605442.60544
The Afghan kingdom of "Baharistan" is ruled by a just and kind Sultan Ali Rizwan Mohhamad Dokeer Khan (Shammi Kapoor). All is well in the land except that the Sultan seemingly can't have children. An evil devil-worshipping Vazir (Amrish Puri) seeks to usurp the throne, revive his "fauladi shaitan" (a huge demon-like figure made of stone), and take over the world. The Vazir instructs his maids to strangle every child born to the Sultan. Finally, however, a spark of divine intervention (presented literally as a spark which descends from the heavens and enters the womb) renders the next newborn son immune to the poisons and strangulations administered by the maids. This Shehezada (prince) eventually becomes Ajooba (miracle).
Akayla
Akayla (1991)
, 3h
Directed by Ramesh Sippy
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Actors Amitabh Bachchan, Amrita Singh, Jackie Shroff, Meenakshi Seshadri, Aditya Pancholi, Shashi Kapoor
Rating53% 2.6594052.6594052.6594052.6594052.659405
Inspector Vijay Verma (Amitabh Bachchan) is a very lonely cop whose only family is a younger brother Ajay Verma (Aditya Pancholi) who is studying abroad. He also has two good friends Shekhar (Jackie Shroff) and Seema (Meenakshi Seshadri). One day when he arrests the criminal mastermind Tony Briganza (Keith Stevenson), he is shocked when Tony is released from police custody because his corrupt lawyer shows the court a videotape showing him at a completely different place so therefore he couldn't have committed the crime. From this day on they become enemies and Vijay is hot on Tony's trail every time he commits a crime.
Ghair Khanooni
Ghair Khanooni (1989)
, 2h15
Directed by Prayag Raj
Actors Sridevi, Rajinikanth, Kimi Katkar, Govinda, Aruna Irani, Ranjeet

This movie begins in a hospital in India where Sridevi and Govinda are switched at birth. Kader Khan, Sridevi's dad, steals Govinda from the nursery after finding out that his wife gave birth to a girl. He leaves the girl in the arms of the bewildered mother who passes away from a heart attack after discovering that someone stole her baby. As the tragedy unfolds throughout the movie, Govinda and Sridevi eventually find who out their biological parents really are.
Meri Zabaan
Meri Zabaan (1989)
, 2h20
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Actors Mithun Chakraborty, Shashi Kapoor, Kimi Katkar, Tanuja, Vinod Mehra, Amjad Khan
Roles Raja Vijay Singh
Rating60% 3.014623.014623.014623.014623.01462
Meri Zubaan is an action thriller, featuring Mithun Chakraborty and Shashi Kapoor in lead roles, well supported by Farha, Kimi Katkar, Tanuja, Vinod Mehra and Amjad Khan.
Gair Kanooni
Gair Kanooni (1989)

Directed by Prayag Raj
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action
Actors Govinda, Sridevi, Rajinikanth, Kimi Katkar, Shashi Kapoor, Aruna Irani
Roles Kapil Khanna
Rating53% 2.6782152.6782152.6782152.6782152.678215
Officer Kapil Khanna was a strict enforcer of the law. In order to gain evidence against the local mafia Don D'Costa he seek a favour from his underworld friend Aazam Khan a man with a golden heart. Aazam Khan was successful in securing evidence against D'Costa but the mafia got wise to it and before Aazam Khan could reach the law, D'Costa with the help of his friend Dalpat Dalal liquidated him. The blame of Aazam Khan's death was owned by a petty driver Nathulal for a price paid by Dalpat Dala. Aazam Khan's little son Akbar swore vengeance against Police Officer Kapil Khanna as he felt him responsible. Kapil Khanna's wife delivered a baby boy in the hospital of D'Costa, so did Dalpat Dalal's wife to a baby girl. D'Costa returned Dalpat's favour by interchanging the two on Dalpat's insistence. Kapil Khanna was enraged at this and he took to a legal battle against the hospital authorities.