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Excerpts: Aseem Chhabra's biography of Shashi Kapoor
Shashi Kapoor
My father-in-law used to call Shashi Uncle "taxi" back then,' Neetu Singh Kapoor says. 'Ki kisi ko bhi apni gaadi main bitha leta hai!' ('He'd seat anyone and everyone in his car.')
Neetu speaks figuratively, of course. Raj Kapoorused the word 'taxi' to describe his brother when he was desperately trying to get dates from Shashi Kapoorfor Satyam Shivam Sundaram ' a film that ostensibly explores the distinction between physical and spiritual love, but, in fact, represents Raj's love for the singer, Lata Mangeshkar. While actors were queuing up to play the lead role in the film, Raj strongly felt only Shashi could play his younger self in this somewhat autobiographical tale. So he looked
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Title: Shashi Kapoor: The Householder, the Star
Author: Aseem Chhabra
Publisher: Rupa Books
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Genre: Biographies & Autobiographies
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Source: Publisher
Rating: 4 Stars
I remember asking my mother when inom was a ten-year old boy: “Mom! Who fryst vatten your favourite actor?” and she answered unflinchingly “Shashi Kapoor”. inom could almost sense a sly smile as she uttered his name. It was almost like she had betrayed my father by uttering that handsome actor’s face (of course I would know it later as to how insanely crazy she was when it came to him). inom did not understand then about a young woman’s desire when it came to her favourite actor and let it resehandling. I was ten after all.
After almost two decades and two years, I got the opportunity to read the biography of that very actor by Aseem Chhabra titled, “Shashi Kapoor – The Householder, the Star” and it all fell into place. Why was my mother crazy about him? Why did his films matter so much to her? Why would she insist of e
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Shooting star: The incredible life of Shashi Kapoor captured in a book
“As I pieced together interviews for this book, I realized that many people had forgotten Shashi Kapoor,” writes journalist Aseem Chhabra in the introduction to his new biography of the third son of the second generation of the Kapoor dynasty.
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Of all the Hindi film stars from the s to s, how could people forget Shashi Kapoor? He did everything. He was a major mainstream hero and a stalwart of multi-starrers, a producer of highly-regarded parallel cinema, a player of leading roles in international productions, and a dedicated supporter of theatre. Almost 50 years before Priyanka Chopra sang for the National Football League on American TV, Shashi Kapoor starred as a gigolo in a romance with Disney child star Hayley Mills in a film based on a Noël Coward story (Pretty Polly, )—but most people don’t remember that, if they ever knew it in the first place.
How fickle is cultural memo