{"id":56679,"date":"2017-12-05T01:08:22","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T06:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=56679"},"modified":"2017-12-05T01:20:19","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T06:20:19","slug":"veteran-indian-actor-shashi-kapoor-hailing-from-the-famous-kapoor-clan-of-hindi-cinema-passes-away-at-the-age-of-79","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=56679","title":{"rendered":"Veteran Indian Actor Shashi Kapoor Hailing From the Famous Kapoor Clan of Hindi Cinema Passes Away at the Age of 79"},"content":{"rendered":"

By NEIL GENZLINGER<\/strong><\/p>\n

Shashi Kapoor, one of India\u2019s best-known actors, who appeared in more than 100 films in the 1970s and \u201980s alone, died on Monday in Mumbai. He was 79.<\/p>\n

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India\u2019s president, Ram Nath Kovind, announced the death on Twitter.<\/p>\n

Mr. Kapoor had been in poor health for years; a nephew, the actor Randhir Kapoor, told the news agency Press Trust of India that Mr. Kapoor had been on dialysis.<\/p>\n

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Via: @NFAIOfficial<\/p><\/div>\n

Mr. Kapoor was the romantic lead in numerous Bollywood movies during a period when the Hindi film industry was in overdrive. He was part of a family of actors, directors and producers that included his older brothers Raj, who died in 1988, and Shammi, who died in 2011.<\/p>\n

Mr. Kapoor appeared in British and American films as well as Hindi ones, including several by the Merchant Ivory production house. Among his better-known English-language films were \u201cThe Deceivers\u201d (1988), a thriller in which he acted alongside Pierce Brosnan, and \u201cSammy and Rosie Get Laid\u201d (1987), a comic drama directed by Stephen Frears whose cast included Claire Bloom.<\/p>\n

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Among his scores of film credits, Mr. Kapoor caused a particular stir with \u201cSatyam Shivam Sundaram: Love Sublime,\u201d a 1978 movie directed by his brother Raj in which he did something that had been banned in Hindi films for years: shared an onscreen kiss (several, actually) with his female co-star, Zeenat Aman.<\/p>\n

The country maintained tight restrictions on filmmakers during Indira Gandhi\u2019s first term as prime minister; when that ended in 1977, one result was a more relaxed film code.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hope the new rules will encourage directors to make more logical love stories,\u201d Mr. Kapoor told The New York Times for an article about the kiss. \u201cAlso, with realistic treatment of the romantic theme, perhaps we can get away from having so much violence in our films.\u201d<\/p>\n

Balbir Raj Kapoor was born on March 18, 1938, in what was then Calcutta (now Kolkata). He had no trouble breaking into the movie business: His father was Prithviraj Kapoor, a famous actor. His mother was the former Ramsarni Mehra.<\/p>\n

Shashi, as he became known, was still a child when he appeared in his first films, in the 1940s and \u201950s. By the 1960s, though, he was being cast in major roles in romantic dramas like \u201cChar Diwari\u201d and \u201cDharmputra\u201d (both 1961).<\/p>\n

In 1963 he played a teacher in the domestic comedy \u201cThe Householder,\u201d directed by James Ivory and produced by Ismail Merchant, the first of a series of films Mr. Kapoor made for that production team.<\/p>\n

Bosley Crowther, reviewing the movie in The Times, found it sluggish and called Mr. Kapoor \u201ccolorless and clumsy in what is really a disagreeable role.\u201d But Mr. Kapoor\u2019s notices got better. In \u201cShakespeare Wallah\u201d (1965), also directed by Mr. Ivory, he was half of the central couple, playing opposite Felicity Kendal. Mr. Crowther said the characters\u2019 romance was \u201cwarmly, vitally played.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cShakespeare Wallah,\u201d the story of an English Shakespeare troupe performing its way across India, contained an art-imitates-life element. Ms. Kendal was part of an English theatrical family in India. Mr. Kapoor had married her sister, the actress Jennifer Kendal, in 1958.<\/p>\n

In 1970 the real-life couple played the leads in another Merchant Ivory film, the musical romance \u201cBombay Talkie.\u201d Jennifer Kendal died at 50 in 1984.<\/p>\n

Mr. Kapoor was among the busiest actors anywhere in the 1970s and \u201980s, appearing in numerous movies as India\u2019s film industry fed a voracious public appetite. He was often shooting multiple movies at the same time, spending his days hopping between sets.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf course, a lot of these films look silly,\u201d he told The Times for an article about how movies had become a sort of balm for India\u2019s poor. \u201cBut this is exactly what people want, pure escapism. You have people who are uneducated, poor, hungry \u2014 they want to escape from all that, they want and need some unreality.\u201d<\/p>\n

He was one of India\u2019s biggest stars in those decades. His frequent pairings with another household name, the actor Amitabh Bachchan, in films like \u201cDeewaar\u201d (1975) and \u201cKabhie Kabhie\u201d (1976), only added to his drawing power.<\/p>\n

In the late 1970s Mr. Kapoor and his wife established the Prithvi Theater in Mumbai, which continues to present plays and other performances.<\/p>\n

His survivors include a daughter, Sanjana Kapoor; two sons, Kunal and Karan; and several grandchildren.<\/p>\n

In an interview with India Today in 1996, Mr. Kapoor was asked about his most striking childhood memories.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy happiest moment,\u201d he said, \u201cwas when my brother Raj Kapoor beat me up and then felt bad and took me to a Chinese restaurant for lunch.\u201d<\/p>\n

And the other extreme? \u201cMy unhappiest moments,\u201d he said, \u201cwere when I would not be allowed to see a movie.\u201d<\/p>\n

Courtesy:New York Times<\/em><\/p>\n

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