The left superstar---- SHASHI KAPOOR.

SHASHI KAPOOR

 

 Who was he?

Shashi kapoor was a truly great film actor and producer.

 He appeared in 168 films which includes large number of Hindi films as well as in various English-language films, notably the films produced by Merchant-Ivory. He was also a film director and assistant director in the Hindi film industry.

Shashi kapoor childhood click.

Early life

Shashi Kapoor was a member of the Kapoor family, a film dynasty in India's Bollywood cinema. Kapoor was born in Calcutta (now Kolkata) during the British Raj. He was the third and youngest son of Prithviraj Kapoor, the younger brother of Raj Kapoor and Shammi Kapoor.
Shashi Kapoor acted in plays, directed and produced by his father Prithviraj Kapoor, while traveling with Prithvi Theatres. He started acting in films as a child in the late 1940s under the name of Shashiraj as there was another actor by the same name who used to act in mythological films as a child artiste. His best-known performances as a child actor were in Aag (1948) and Awaara (1951),
Kapoor attended Don Bosco High School in Matunga, Mumbai.

He starts here

Kapoor got an opportunity to work as an assistant director in the film Post Box 999, the debut film of Sunil Dutt, and worked as an assistant director to Ravindra Dave in Guest House (1959), which was followed by movies such as Dulha Dulhan and Shriman Satyawadi, where Raj Kapoor was the lead hero.
Shashi Kapoor made his debut as a leading man in the 1961 film Dharmputra and went on to appear in 116 Hindi films. He was a very popular actor in Bollywood during the 60s, 70s and until the mid-80s.

The fruit of the hardwork

In 2011, he got a gigantic gift of the Padma Bhushan by the Government of India for his contributions to Art-Cinema. The next gift in this industry was the 2015 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.
Along with this he had these other achievements too.

Winner

• 1994 – National Film Award – Special Jury Award / Special Mention (Feature Film) for Muhafiz (1993)
• 1986 – National Film Award for Best Actor for New Delhi Times (1986)
• 1979 – National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi (as Producer) for Junoon (1978)

Filmfare Awards

• 1976 – Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor for Deewaar (1975)
• 2010 – Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award

Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards

• BFJA Award for Best Actor
  1988 New Delhi Times – Vikas Pande
  1965 Jab Jab Phool Khile – Raja 

Other awards

• 2011 – Mohammed Rafi Award
• Lifetime Achievement Award

• 2009 – The 7th Pune International Film Festival (PIFF)
• 2009 – The 11th Mumbai Film Festival (MFF)

 He leaves us!😭😭

Kapoor was admitted at the Kokilaben Hospital, Versova, Mumbai, on December 4, 2017, for a chest infection where he reportedly died due to liver cirrhosis at the age of 79 at 5.20 pm, according to the Kokilaben Hospital as confirmed to the Press Trust of India (PTI).The PTI quotes his nephew Randhir Kapoor, who states that the actor was suffering from kidney failure. "Yes, he has passed away. He had kidney problem for several years. He was on dialysis for several years." Kapoor is survived by two sons, Kunal and Karan, and a daughter, Sanjana, who takes care of the Prithvi Theatre.

Without any doubt, he was a great actor but some or the other day everyone has to leave this world.

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