Shashi Kapoor

Indian actor and producer (1938-2017)

Third son of Prithviraj Kapoor and younger brother of Raj and Shammi, Shashi Kapoor spent four decades as a leading man in Hindi cinema while doing something none of his contemporaries attempted: he worked simultaneously in mainstream Bombay films and in English-language art cinema, appearing in Merchant Ivory's The Householder (1963), Shakespeare Wallah (1965) and Bombay Talkie (1970). To a generation he is the brother in Deewaar (1975) answering a fortune with one line about having his mother. He later spent his own money producing the films he believed in - Junoon, Kalyug, 36 Chowringhee Lane - and rebuilt Prithvi Theatre in his father's memory. Dadasaheb Phalke Award, 2014.

He won the National Film Award for Best Actor for New Delhi Times (1986), but the achievement he is most respected for cost him money rather than earning it: he spent his commercial fees producing films that would not pay him back - Junoon, Kalyug, 36 Chowringhee Lane, Utsav - and rebuilt Prithvi Theatre in Bombay in 1978 as a working playhouse in his father's name. The Dadasaheb Phalke Award followed in 2014. His trick as an actor was lightness: he could carry a scene on charm alone and knew exactly when not to.

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