A TRIBUTE TO SHASHI KAPOOR

A TRIBUTE TO SHASHI KAPOOR

You were really a Shashi sweetly shining and spellbinding

In the Hindi Film Industry’s broad and spacious firmament,

That kept, for an enviably stunning half a century, illumining,

For the rapt viewers’ utmost delight and lasting entertainment!

You were an absorbing bilingual actor par excellence

You were a director of acumen keen and immense

You were a producer of much common sense

You were a human being of far reaching eminence!

Padma Bhushan Award kissed your brow in two thousand eleven,

Dadasaheb Falke Award hugged you in two thousand fifteen,

Many other laurels are still dazzling in your blazing Feats’s Eden!

Who can forget the 70s’ and 80s’ “The Icon of the Romantic Screen?”

Yes, all mortals, one day, have to leave as Time snaps the mundane Leash.

May your Soul be blessed, in the Heavenly abode, to rest in eternal Peace!

About Shashi Kapoor: Shashi Kapoor PB (born as Balbir Prithviraj Kapoor; 18 March 1938 – 4 December 2017^[1]) was an Indian film actor and producer. He appeared in a large number of Hindi films as well in several English-language films notably the films produced by Merchant-Ivory. He was also a film director and assistant director in the Hindi film industry.^[2]

Shashi Kapoor was a member of the Kapoor family, a film dynasty in India's Bollywood cinema. Kapoor was born in Calcutta^[3] (now Kolkata) during the British Raj. He was the third and youngest son of Prithviraj Kapoor, the younger brother of Raj Kapoor and Shammi Kapoor, the widower of Jennifer Kendal (sister of actress Felicity Kendal), and the father of Karan Kapoor, Kunal Kapoor, and Sanjana Kapoor. In 2011, he was honoured with the Padma Bhushan by the Government of India for his contributions to Art-Cinema.^[4] In 2015, he was awarded the 2014 Dadasaheb Phalke Award, making him the third member of his family to receive the highest award in Indian Cinema after Prithviraj Kapoor and Raj Kapoor.^[5] He was admitted for a reported chest infection^[6] at Kokilaben Hospital, Mumbai on 3 December 2017^[7][8][9] and died on 4 December 2017 due to prolonged liver cirrhosis.^[10][9] Reference- Wikipedia

Glossary:

Shashi – in Sanskrit/Hindi Moon

Snaps – breaks/loosens

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