Person Details

Birthday: 1938-03-18 06:58:24

Death: 2017-12-04 06:58:24

Aliases: Sashi Kapoor , Sasi Kapoor , शशि कपूर

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Calcutta, West Bengal, India

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Movie Involvements: 120

TV Involvements: 2


Most Famous Work

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Shashi Kapoor (born Balbir Raj Prithviraj Kapoor on 18 March 1938 in Calcutta (now Kolkata), was an award-winning Indian film actor and film producer. He was also a film director and assistant director in Hindi Films. He was a member of the Kapoor family, a film dynasty in India's Bollywood cinema. He was the younger brother of Raj Kapoor and Shammi Kapoor, the son of Prithviraj Kapoor, the widower of Jennifer Kendal, and the father of Karan Kapoor, Kunal Kapoor, and Sanjana Kapoor. He is remembered for many hit Hindi films like Jab Jab Phool Khile, Kanyadaan, Pyar Ka Mausam, Ek Shriman Ek Shrimati , Haseena Maan Jayegi, Sharmeelee, Aa Gale Lag Jaa, Fakira, Phaansi, Chor Machaye Shor, Mukti, Satyam Shivam Sundaram, Heeralal Pannalal, Junoon, Swayamvar and many such films, including ones he starred in with Pran like Chori Mera Kaam, Phaansi, Shankar Dada, Chakkar Pe Chakkar and with Amitabh Bachchan, such as Deewar, Namak Halaal. He also played leading roles in a number of English-speaking Indian films, including the very first Merchant Ivory production The Householder followed by such as Shakespeare-Wallah, Bombay Talkie, Heat and Dust, etc. In 2011, he was honoured with the Padma Bhushan by the Government of India. Description above from the Wikipedia article Shashi Kapoor, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Most Famous Work

Gulliver's Travels
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7

Gulliver's Travels

(1996) Rajah of Laputa
Awaara
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7

Awaara

(1951) Young Raj (as Shashiraj)
Deewaar
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7

Deewaar

(1975) Ravi Verma
Heat and Dust
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6

Heat and Dust

(1983) The Nawab
Kaala Patthar
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7

Kaala Patthar

(1979) Ravi Malhotra, Engineer
Kabhi Kabhie
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6

Kabhi Kabhie

(1976) Vijay Khanna
Shaan
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7

Shaan

(1980) Ravi Kumar
Trishul
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6

Trishul

(1978) Shekhar Gupta

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
1998 Narrator
Vikram Raj
Guest appearances
Special Appearance
1996 Rajah of Laputa
1995 N/A
1994 Nur
N/A
1991 N/A
N/A
1990 Sanjay's father
1989 Motilal
Self - Presenter
N/A
N/A
Kapil Khanna
Inspector Vikram
Raja Vijay Singh
N/A
N/A
N/A
1988 Raja Chandra Singh
Kumar
1987 Rafi
N/A
Professor Vijay Choudhury
Dr. Rehman
Thakur
N/A
1986 Dr. Rajendra Prasad
IGP Ranjit Singh
Vikas Pande
Dhanraj
1985 Raja Bhavani Pratap
N/A
Inspector Ravi Malhotra
Inspector Ranjit Singh
Suraj Arora / Prakash Arora
1984 Samsthanak
Dr. Kailash
Kishore Ahuja
N/A
N/A
Interviewee
Prem
1983 N/A
N/A
The Nawab
Prem Kapoor
1982 Kumar - Kalpana's husband
N/A
N/A
Raja
Shekhar Kumar
N/A
1981 Anand
Sqdr. Leader Shekhar Malhotra
Karan Singh/Karna
Shakti
CBI Officer Kumar Sahni
Kishan / Prince Daulat Singh
Balraj Kohli
N/A
1980 Ravi Kumar
N/A
N/A
Laxman
N/A
Sunil / Laxman
Prem
Special Appearance
1979 Kishan Kapoor
Anil Sahni
Ravi Malhotra, Engineer
Karan Khanna
Inspector Gautam
1978 Javed Khan
Heeralaal
Chhota Kumar / Amar Singh
Ram Verma 'Raja'
Anand
Vinod Sinha
Raju / Vicky
Ravi Kapoor, C.B.I. officer
Ramu Dada
Shekhar Gupta
N/A
Ranjeev
Raju
1977 Shashi Sehgal
N/A
Kailash Sharma
Ravi Kumar
Shankar
Inspector Shankar Kumar / Bada Saheb
Mohan Kumar Saxena
1976 Ranjit
Vijay / Nawab Jhumritalaya / Fakira
Shankar
Karmu
Shekhar
Vijay Khanna
N/A
1975 Raju / Chander
Bholanath
S.P. Dheeraj Kumar
Raj
Ravi Verma
1974 Special Appearance
Ganga Singh / Jwala Singh
Dilip
Vijay Sharma
Mohan Babu
Arjun
Tilak
1973 Ramesh Saxena
Prem
Ravi
1972 Siddartha
N/A
Shekhar
1971 Shyam
Captain Ajit Kapoor
1970 Vikram
Shekhar
Sudhir
Sunil
Raj Kumar
1969 Sunder / Sunil / Pyarelal / Jhatpat Singh
Pritam
Rajoo
Vrajendra / Kalim
1968 Amar / Kumar
Guest appearances
Kamal / Rakesh
Rakesh
1967 Amaz
Dr. Prakash
Deepak Verma / Gopal Mittal
1966 Ashok Verma
Rajan
Anwar A. Farooqui
1965 Sanju
Munna / Vijay Kumar
Raja / Rajkumar
Vijay
1964 Anwar
1963 Prem Sagar
Raja
Qawwali Singer
Nath
1962 Deepak
Arun Kumar Mathur
1961 Sunil
Dilip Rai
1953 Lakshman (Shekhar's Servant)
1951 Young Raj (as Shashiraj)
1950 N/A
Young Kunwar
1948 Young Kewal Khanna
1945 N/A
Year Character Movie/Tv

Directing

Year Role Movie/Tv
1991 Director
Year Role Movie/Tv

Production

Year Role Movie/Tv
1991 Producer
1984 Producer
1982 Producer
1981 Producer
1978 Producer
Year Role Movie/Tv

Sound

Year Role Movie/Tv
1982 Playback Singer
1979 Playback Singer
Year Role Movie/Tv

Writing

Year Role Movie/Tv
1981 Writer
Year Role Movie/Tv

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