Shashi Kapoor! Yes...my favarote bollywood actor and will be forever as one of my all time favarote.I share the same name with his screen name.
Born as Balbir Raj Prithviraj Kapoor on 18 March 1938 in Kolkata).He has also been a film director and assistant director in the Hindi film industry. He is a member of the Kapoor family, a film dynasty in India's Bollywood cinema. Younger brother of Raj Kapoor and Shammi Kapoor, the son of Prithviraj Kapoor.
Married to Jennifer Kendal, and the father of Karan Kapoor, Kunal Kapoor, and Sanjana Kapoor.He has appeared in a large number of Hindi films as well as in a few English-language films. In 2011, he was honoured with the Padma Bhushan by the Government of India.
What else I got to say about this great actor.His acting Carrier started way back in 1944 - 1954 as a child artist.
Kapoor attended Don Bosco High School in Matunga, Mumbai. In July 1958, he married English actress Jennifer Kendal and they acted in a number of films together, most notably in Merchant Ivory productions.Shashi Kapoor and Jennifer Kendal met in Calcutta in 1956 while working for their respective theatre groups.Kapoor was both assistant stage manager as well as actor for his father’s theatre group, Prithvi. Geoffery Kendal’s Shakespearana group was also present at the same time in Calcutta and Jennifer was Kendal’s daughter.After their subsequent meeting, the couple fell in love and after facing initial opposition from Kendal and support from sister-in-law Geeta Bali, they got married.
They had three children: Karan Kapoor, Kunal Kapoor and Sanjana Kapoor. Jennifer and Shashi Kapoor established Prithvi theatre in 5 November 1978 in Mumbai.Kendal 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 film actors but their Caucasian looks and accented Hindi prevented them from having a successful career in Hindi films. His son Kunal is married to director Ramesh Sippy's daughter and Sanjana is married to wildlife conservationist Valmik Thapar.Kunal Kapoor moved onto ad film direction and established his production house Adfilm-Valas which is today extremely successful.Karan Kapoor became successful in modelling and later settled down in London and pursued a career in photography.
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