Shashi Kapoor
Shashi Kapoor ( Hindi शशी कपूर , Śaśī Kapūr ; born March 18, 1938 in Kolkata , British India ; † December 4, 2017 in Mumbai , India ; real name: Balbir Raj Kapoor ) was an Indian actor .
Life
At the age of 6 he played in his father Prithviraj Kapoor's Prithvi Theater , where he performed until 1957. Shortly thereafter, he also took on roles in films directed by his older brother Raj Kapoor ( Awaara , 1951). After 1957 he toured with a British theater company and starred in Shakespeare dramas in the English language. There he met his future wife, actress Jennifer Kendal , who died of cancer in 1984 .
In the 1960s, Shashi Kapoor turned back to film work and was a busy performer until the 1980s. In 1961 he had his breakthrough with Yash Chopra's Dharmputra and the following year he starred in Prem Patra under the successful director Bimal Roy . After that he had joint film appearances with almost all the stars of the Bollywood film industry of his time.
He played the title role in the US film adaptation of Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha (1972). 1975 won Shashi Kapoor for his supporting role in Deewaar alongside Amitabh Bachchan the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor. His appearance in Shyam Benegals Junoon (1979) was also convincing . In 1982 he played a leading role in James Ivory's India epic Heat and Dust, based on the novel of the same name by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala . In 1986 he received a National Film Award for Best Actor for the New Delhi Times . As an aging Urdu poet, he appeared in In Custody for the second time in a film by Ismail Merchant in 1993 , and in 1963 Kapoor starred in his film Householder .
The sentence Mere paas maa hai (“Mother is on my side”) from the film Deewar is one of the most famous Bollywood quotes.
His only directorial work was the Indo-Soviet production Ajooba (1991). He starred in over 150 films. In 1978 he founded the Prithvi Theater, which his father had closed 18 years earlier, in memory of it again in Bombay .
Shashi Kapoor belonged to the Kapoor actor dynasty, which, in addition to his father and older brother Raj and his granddaughters Karisma and Kareena Kapoor, also includes his brother Shammi and his nephew Ranbir . He was awarded the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for 2014.
Web links
- Shashi Kapoor in theInternet Movie Database(English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Veteran actor Shashi Kapoor passes away at 79. timesofindia.com, December 4, 2017
- ↑ Shashi Kapoor to get Dada Saheb Phalke award
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kapoor, Shashi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kapoor, Balbir Raj |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Indian actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 18, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kolkata |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th December 2017 |
| Place of death | Mumbai |