Veteran actor Shashi Kapoor, who starred in over 100 films, died in Mumbai on Monday. He was 79 and had been battling a kidney ailment.
Born on March 18, 1938 in Kolkata city in India’s eastern state of West Bengal, Kapoor made his debut in 1961, as the lead actor, in the Hindi film Dharamputra.
Prior to it, he began his acting career as a child artiste in the 1940s.
Reports said he acted in more than 175 films mainly in mainstream Bollywood and art films. Kapoor has worked in English films too.
The actor’s performance has been widely acknowledged and has been felicitated with several awards.
Kapoor’s death has been widely condoled in India.
A number of people took to social networking websites to express condolences and recalled their association with the deceased.
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