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	Shashi Kapoor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Shashi Kapoor (born Balbirraj Kapoor March 18, 1938) belongs to the Kapoors.
		He is the brother of Raj Kapoor and the son of Prithviraj Kapoor, a actor of Indian cinema.
		Shashi Kapoor was an extremely popular actor during the 1970s and the 1980s.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shashi_Kapoor (207 words)

	The Hindu : Other States / Rajasthan News : A new role for Shashi Kapoor
		Of course there are other reasons also for Shashi Kapoor, the popular film actor of yesteryears, to visit the State, like the wild tigers of Ranthambhore and the nostalgia of the ancient movie houses in the Pink City and Bikaner where the Prithvi theatre under his legendary father Prithviraj Kapoor had staged plays...
		Shashi Kapoor, who has taken upon himself the responsibility of carrying forward the legacy of the Prithviraj Kapoor clan in theatre, is excited about "The Prithviwallahs'', the new book about the Prithvi Theatre.
		Shashi Kapoor who called on the Rajasthan Chief Minister, Vasundhara Raje, to gift her a copy of "The Prithviwallahs'' was asked by the latter to do "something'' for the revival of the theatre in Jaipur, which he agreed.
	www.hindu.com /2004/12/11/stories/2004121105730500.htm (552 words)

	Shashi Kapoor: My tribute to Dad
		For film actor and director Shashi Kapoor, a tribute to a legendary father, theatre personality and film actor Prithviraj Kapoor, has to be an ongoing process.
		Prithviraj Kapoor passed away in 1972, and Shashi Kapoor felt there had to be some memorial in his name, to remember his love and work towards theatre.
		Shashi Kapoor remembers his father was adamant the company's plays should deal with current issues that concern the common man. "My father's basic request or dictum to the writers was to write plays that dealt with contemporary problems.
	www.rediff.com /movies/2003/dec/08shashi.htm (1135 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : At Leisure (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Shashi Kapoor chronicles the birth and life of Prithvi Theatre in a tribute.
		But then, Shashi Kapoor was the son of Prithviraj Kapoor, who junked a law degree and travelled for two days to take up a profession not considered the best in his time.
		Shashi Kapoor’s daughter Sanjana, who was associated with the theatre right from its second coming, is at the helm of things now.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1041130/asp/atleisure/story_4063791.asp (869 words)

	rediff.com, Movies: Profiling Shashi Kapoor: the icon of suave
		This actor who became the 1960s-1970s icon of suave was born in 1938 as Balbirraj Kapoor, the youngest of Prithviraj Kapoor's brood of three sons and a daughter.
		Young Shashi imbibed the art of performance at an early age as he toured the country along with his thespian father Prithviraj Kapoor and his famous stage company Prithvi Theatre.
		Today, Shashi Kapoor is a grandfather immensely content to rest on his laurels, having long since waved the white flag and surrendered totally to the Kapoor tendency to put on weight.
	www.rediff.com /entertai/2002/may/13dinesh.htm (814 words)

	Shashi Kapoor portrait - Bollywood501
		On the face side Shashi Kapoor is the romantic lead of countless Bollywood fluff entertainers of the 60s and 70s where he often played the flippant and carefree playboy after all the girls.
		Rooted and trained as a stage actor in his father Prithviraj Kapoor's, Prithi Theater, Shashi saw film acting as a means to support himself financially and back his endeavors toward first love the (less lucrative) theater.
		Shashi was despite his famous last name, a struggling actor at the beginning of his career in Bollywood.
	www.bollywood501.com /classic_m/shashi_kapoor (335 words)

	Shashi Kapoor - Psychology Central (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Shashi Kapoor (born Balbirraj Kapoor March 18, 1938) belongs to a very prolific acting family of India, the Kapoors.
		He is the brother of Raj Kapoor and the son of Prithviraj Kapoor, a pioneer in Indian cinema.
		Kapoor is also known internationally for his appearances in Merchant Ivory productions such as Shakespeare Wallah (1965), Heat and Dust (1982), and In Custody (1993).
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Shashi_Kapoor (249 words)

	Shashi Kapoor to author Prithvi memoirs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Kapoor talks of how the company later crossed paths with Geoffrey and Laura Kendal's English theatre Shakespearana to marry two distinct traditions of theatre and give birth to today's Prithvi Theatre.
		As Prithviraj's youngest son, who worked as an actor in the theatre group and later married Jennifer, daughter of the Kendals' and lead actress of Shakespearana, Shashi Kapoor tells the story of their shared passion and respect for his father's dream for an Indian theatre.
		Born out of the love for theatre in 1978 and Shashi and Jennifer's dedication for realising Prithviraj's dream, the group is now a focal point of thousands of theatre lovers.
	movies.indiainfo.com /newsbytes/prithvi_0701.html (359 words)

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		Both Shashi and Jennifer were theatre people and it was their love for theatre that brought them together.
		The youngest son of Prithviraj Kapoor and younger brother of Raj and Shammi Kapoor, was then 18 and doing the dual roles of actor and assistant stage manager at Prithvi Theatre.
		Shashi was too young and too inexperienced, and Jennifer too shy, suffering from the usual constraints a girl faces in such a situation.
	www.junglee.org.in /shamsher/jennifer.html (1163 words)

	Prithvi Theatre : The Birth of a theatre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Prithviraj Kapoor's youngest son Shashi Kapoor, who had worked as an actor in the Prithvi Theatres, married Jennifer Kendal, daughter of Laura and Geoffrey Kendal, and the leading actress of Shakespeareana.
		A few years after Prithviraj Kapoor's demise, they decided to set up a trust in his memory and buy land with the intention of building a theatre to promote the performing arts, thus the Shri Prithviraj Kapoor Memorial Trust was formed.
		Shashi and Jennifer worked dedicatedly towards realising Prithviraj's dream, and on the 5th of November '78 the Prithvi Theatre was inaugurated.
	www.prithvitheatre.org /birth.htm (479 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Metro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Prithviraj Kapoor didn’t survive to see his last wish take off, but his youngest son has taken up pen and paper to chronicle the urge that burnt within him to see a thriving theatre podium, 25 years after its inception.
		Strolling down memory lane, Shashi is digging out 60 years of history — from 1944 when Prithvi Theatres was born, to 1978 when he and Jennifer built the auditorium, and its 25-year run changing various hands.
		Set up by Kapoor Sr, Prithvi Theatres was a company that travelled through the country and performed plays with a group of 150 actors, stagehands, cooks, writers and technicians.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1040801/asp/calcutta/story_3569529.asp (999 words)

	The Sunday Tribune - Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This fourth century aphorism was aptly reflected in the relationships that Prithviraj Kapoor had with his actors, technicians, backstage workers, script writers and umpteen family members who were not only part of his itinerant repertory but also became members of his continuously growing family.
		Act II is a flash-forward to Prithvi Theatre in its present avatar, resurrected by his daughter-in-law Jennifer Kapoor and son Shashi Kapoor on a plot of land in Juhu.
		In the face of all this, Sanjana Kapoor (daughter of Jennifer and Shashi), the artistic director of the theatre and her band of loyalists are like an oasis in the desert of pusillanimity.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2005/20050102/spectrum/book1.htm (1189 words)

	Shashi Kapoor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Kapoor was later seen in Stephen Frears' "Sammy and Rosie Get Laid" (1987).
		He is the son of actor-director-film statesman Prithviraj Kapoor (1906-1972) and the brother of Raj Kapoor (1924-1988), a director and popular, Chaplinesque actor.
		Kapoor was married to actress Jennifer Kendal, who died in 1985; he had met her when, during his early career as a stage actor, he performed with her "Shakespeariana" troupe....
	www.hollywood.com /celebs/detail/celeb/195051 (298 words)

	The Hindu : Metro Plus Chennai : Total Recall
		But young Shashi went ahead with first film "Char Diwari", his father's advice ringing in his ear, "An actor must try all kinds of roles." Anyway he was desperate to get work.
		In Chennai to promote the Prithvi-Magic Lantern hosted Footsbarn from France, Kapoor is happy to recall the past with enquiries about director Sridhar (I hear he is not well), and tributes to Sando Chinnappa Devar (did some good films with him).
		He took out huge chunks and Shashi was left to struggle with 18 hours a day on three different schedules.
	www.hindu.com /mp/2005/02/24/stories/2005022400300100.htm (1055 words)

	Zee News - Shashi Kapoor refuses to go back to film production (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Jaipur, Mar 11: With six critically acclaimed but commercially flop films to his credit as a producer, yesteryear heart-throb Shashi Kapoor has said he will not produce any more films as he is a "misfit" as an entrepreneur.
		Kapoor has joined the movement to save rare birds at the Ghana Bird Sanctuary in Kaladeo Park.
		Recalling picturisation of climax scenes of his film "Utsav" in Keoladeo Park, Kapoor said his entire unit took pains not to disturb the birds.
	www.zeenews.com /znnew/articles.asp?aid=206323&sid=ENT&ssid=1 (288 words)

	A book on Prithviraj Kapoor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Just after the re-release of Mughal-e-Azam, the legend of Prithviraj Kapoor who played the title role in the film will be resurrected in the form of a book on the luminary.
		Veteran actor Shashi Kapoor will release a richly illustrated book ‘The Prithiwallahs’ on the life and times of his father and great-performer Prithiviraj Kapoor.
		Prithviraj Kapoor's company 'Prithvi Theatres' was India's first professionally operated troupe that staged shows throughout the country.
	movies.indiainfo.com /newsbytes/prithviraj_112604.html (96 words)

	The Prithviwallahs
		It remained for Shashi, his wife Jennifer and their children, Kunal and Sanjna, to fulfil Prithviraj's last dream and give Prithvi Theatres a home of its own.
		In 1960, Shashi Kapoor started his film career with Char Diwari, and has appeared in more than 250 films since then, including such memorable ones as The Householder (1962), The Sakespearewallahs (1965), Jab Jab Phool Khile (1965), Siddhartha (1972) and Heat and Dust (1982).
		Shashi Kapoor also won the Filmfare Best Producer Award for each of these there films.
	www.exoticindiaart.com /book/details/IDE263 (530 words)

	Bridging Borders - HindustanTimes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Bollywood's legendary Kapoor family is still remembered by the people of Peshawar, the place of their origin.
		Yaqoob said the Kapoor's love for Peshawar and the Hindko language could be seen from the fact that Shammi Kapoor and Dilip Kumar, another Peshawar resident, co-starred in a film and spoke Hindko in a Hindi film.
		Shashi Kapoor, Raj's brother and sons Randhir and Rishi Kapoor visited their house in Dhaki Munawar Shah in the 1990s.
	www.hindustantimes.com /2005/Jul/28/6809_515668,001600430001.htm (699 words)

	The Prithvi legacy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Young Shashi Kapoor as the villain Gayadin in Kisan
		Shashi Kapoor with Deepa Gahlot with whom he has penned the book The Prithviwallahs
		Papaji (Prithviraj Kapoor) lived in a small bungalow here — Prithvi jhopda — in the last 10 years of his life.
	web.mid-day.com /smd/play/2005/january/102100.htm (682 words)

	My Passage From India
		But for three men - Ismail Merchant, James Ivory and Shashi Kapoor - this house is not just about celluloid history: it is about a partner ship which was forged on February 24, 1962 - a partnership which has stood the test of time.
		For this huge house is where Merchant, Ivory and Kapoor canned the first shot of The Householder - the movie which brought them together for the first time.
		"I recall how we were doing an all-night shoot and Shashi was so tired that he slept in the floor, using a brick for a pillow," reminisces Ivory.
	www.merchantivory.com /passage/news-wherebegan.html (454 words)

	ASIANaffairs
		Sanjna Kapoor, granddaughter of legendary stage and screen actors Prithviraj Kapoor and Geoffrey Kendal, daughter of Jennifer Kendal-Kapoor and the once-upon-a time matinee idol Shashi Kapoor, has proved once and for all that theatre can be a successful venture - if skilfully marketed.
		The Prithvi Theatre Festival 2004 held in three cities- Mumbai, Bangalore and Delhi at several venues and multiple shows of which 14 were premieres, was not merely an unprecedented accomplishment in terms of the quality of drama but also audience response.
		Shashi Kapoor fell in love with and married the leading lady Jennifer Kendal.
	asianaffairs.com /jan2005/art.htm (974 words)

	Shakespeare Wallah - Shashi Kapoor, Felicity Kendal, Madhur Jaffrey, James Ivory - 1965
		Starring a young Felicity Kendal, Shashi Kapoor and Madhur Jaffrey, the film's inspiration lies behind the real-life adventures of Felicity Kendal's family as a travelling theatre troupe in India during the twilight days of English colonial rule.
		Essentially a culture-clash romance which blends Shakepeare and British tradition with the emerging Indian pop culture, the film traces the developing relationship between Lizzie (Kendal), one of the members of the acting troupe, with Sanju (Kapoor), a wealthy Indian playboy.
		But their romance is beset by hindrances, not the least being the machinations of Manjula (Jaffrey), a fiery Indian cinema star, who is also in love with Sanju.
	www.learmedia.ca /product_info.php/products_id/886 (250 words)

	The Play Must Go On
		This book, written by his son Shashi Kapoor in collaboration with journalist Deepa Gahlot, outlines the life and creation of an extraordinary man and is written in three acts, like a play, spanning three generations.
		From the birth of Prithviraj Kapoor’s dream, the theatre’s trials and tribulations and the constant struggle that plagued its founder; to the second act where Shashi and Jennifer Kapoor enter the story and the theatre acquires a physical presence in building form in Mumbai, to the third, featuring Shashi Kapoor’s children.
		Steered by Sanjana and Kunal Kapoor, it now hosts international theatre festivals and plans for further extensions are on the anvil.
	www.sawf.org /newedit/edit01242005/bookreview.asp (734 words)

	I had a crush on Shashi Kapoor: Shabana- The Times of India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		I had a crush on Shashi Kapoor: Shabana
		I had a crush on Shashi Kapoor: Shashi and Jennifer were family friends.
		Prithviraj Kapoor lived next door to my parents' house and, every Sunday, when Shashi visited his father, I would buy a Re-1 photo of Shashi and get him to sign it.
	timesofindia.indiatimes.com /cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow/415996.cms (1257 words)

	Shakespeare Wallah DVD \| dir.: James Ivory \| cast: Shashi Kapoor, Felicity Kendal, Madhur Jaffrey, Geoffrey Kendal, ...
		Starring a young Felicity Kendal, Shashi Kapoor, and Madhur Jaffrey, the film's inspiration lies behind the real-life adventures of Felicity Kendal's family as a travelling theatre troupe in India during the final days of English colonial rule.
		But their romance is beset by hindrances, not the least being the machinations of Manjula (Jaffrey), a fiery Indian film star who is also in love with Sanju.
		Shashi Kapoor, Felicity Kendal, Madhur Jaffrey, Geoffrey Kendal, Laura Liddell.
	www.hkflix.com /xq/asp/filmID.528974/qx/details.htm (380 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In both, Raj Kapoor’s younger brother Shashi Kapoor (born in 1940) played the role of Raj as a little child.
		In other words, the voice of Raj Kapoor had always been Mukesh like the following which is a song by Mukesh picturised on Raj Kapoor in ‘Shree 420’, Mera joota hai Japani, yeh patloon Englistani (English), sar pe lal topi Roosi (Russian), phir bhi dil hai Hindustani.
		And finally, Raj Kapoor’s three sons Randhir, Rajiv and Rishi (hero of Hum Kisi Se Kum Nahin) appear in the rain sequence in ‘Shree 420’ walking on the sidewalk protecting themselves by only one umbrella.
	www.arabtimesonline.com /arabtimes/letters/view.asp?msgID=227 (437 words)

	Shashi Kapoor admitted to hospital : Happenings News : ApunKaChoice.Com
		Bollywood yesteryear actor Shashi Kapoor has been admitted to Breach Candy Hospital in South Mumbai and is undergoing treatment for high blood pressure, hospital sources said on Friday.
		The 67-year-old Kapoor was admitted couple of days back as he was suffering from hypertension, family sources said.
		In his heydays, Shashi Kapoor has acted in films like Kabhie Kabhie and Deewar.
	www.apunkachoice.com /happenings/20060204-0.html (193 words)

	Shashi Kapoor (I) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Son of Prithviraj Kapoor, brother of Raj Kapoor and Shammi Kapoor.
		Dulha Dulhan (1964) (chief assistant director) (as Shashi Raj)
		Shriman Satyawadi (1960) (assistant director) (as Shashi Raj)
	www.imdb.com /name/nm0004434 (189 words)

	Shashi Kapoor News
		Mumbai, Feb 3 Yesteryears Bollywood hero Shashi Kapoor has been admitted to a city hospital for treatment of high blood pressure.
		Many of you would remember the controversy the movie generated in Pakistan a few years back when the film-makers chose Christopher Lee, who is chiefly known for his...
		Starring: Shashi Kapoor, Om Puri, Shabana Azmi, Sushma Seth, Neena Gupta, Tinnu Anand, Prayag Raj and Ajay Sahni The central themes are first the threatened extinction of the Urdu language - much prized for its...
	rss.topix.net /who/shashi-kapoor (398 words)

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