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This biography of Shashi Kapoor sheds light on one of the country's most enigmatic personalities—an actor who straddled the worlds of commercial Hindi cinema, theatre and small-budget art movies; who has been, at once, an earnest householder and a committed star. In this one-of-a-kind book, we are offered glimpses of Shashi Kapoor the family man—son of Prithviraj Kapoor, husband of Jennifer Kendal, and father to Kunal, Karan and Sanjna. We are led through Shashi Kapoor's film career—his debut as a bright-eyed child actor in Awara\ his emergence, in the hectic 1970s, as India's busiest performer—with a slew of hits including Deewaar and Trishul; and his rise to international prominence with Merchant—Ivory's The Householder and a 'trilogy' of films on older men with fading pasts. Equally, we are provided with an astute analysis of Shashi Kapoor the businessman—the proprietor of FilmValas, the producer of Shyam Benegal films and the distributor of Bobby. With luminous and thus-far undisclosed stories by the actor's family (Neetu Singh, Rishi, Sanjna and Kunal Kapoor), co-stars (Shabana Azmi, Simi Garewal, Sharmila Tagore), colleagues (Shyam Benegal, Govind Nihalani, James Ivory, Hani

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Author

Aseem Chhabra

Publisher

Replika Press Pvt. Ltd., India

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9788129139702

Category

biography

Subjects

Sports, Literary Fiction, Fiction

Rating

3.57 / 5 (7 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14