Shashi Kapoor

Shashi Kapoor Shashi Kapoor is one of the leading actors of Indian cinema having appeared in 160 movies - 12 in English and 148 in Hindi. He has appeared in 148 Hindi films - of them played the solo lead hero in 61 films, was lead hero in 53 released multi star cast Hindi films, 2 unreleased multi star film and 21 Hindi films had him in supporting role, worked in 4 films as a child artist and made 7 guest appearances.

Indian actor of Bollywood, Parallel Cinema, and International productions; Shashi Kapoor is the youngest son of theater and film actor prithiviraj kapoor and his wife Ramsarni "Rama" Mehra Kapoor. Shashi grew up traveling around the country with his father's acting trope "Prithvi Theatres." from 1940-59. He began appearing on stage from the age of four. He also began working in films in the early 1940s. As a child, he appeared in 4 films from 1948-53 which includes 2 films of his eldest brother raj kapoor as the hero and Sangram, where Shashi played Ashok Kumar.

DEATH Kapoor was admitted at the kokilaben hospital versova  on December 4, 2017, for a chest infection where he reportedly died due to liver cirrosis lat the age of 79 at 5.20 pm, according to the Kokilaben Hospital as confirmed to  The PTI quotes his nephew randir 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 cinema

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