Veteran bollywood actor Shashi Kapoor dies at 79, funeral service in Mumbai today

Celebrated for his enchanting grin, the quintessential romantic legend of Bollywood between the 60s and the 80s, Shashi Kapoor, passed away on Monday evening. Kapoor was unwell for as far back as few days and was experiencing treatment at Mumbai's Kokilaben Hospital, where he was admitted on Sunday night, supposedly because of chest infection.

For as long as couple of years, the veteran performing artist had been in and out of the healing center for treatment of a chronic kidney disease and was on dialysis. He underwent a bypass surgery in 2014.

Kapoor was born on March 18, 1938 in Kolkata ( Calcutta), and his acting vocation started in the 1940s, where he initially showed up on screen as a youngster on-screen character. As a kid performing artist, Kapoor acted in Aag (1948) and Awaara (1951), where he played the more youthful rendition of the character played by his senior sibling, the late Raj Kapoor. He likewise acted as a assistant executive in the 50s.

The third and most youngest child of Prithviraj Kapoor, Shashi influenced his Bollywood to make a big appearance as the lead performer in the 1961 hit, Dharmputra. He at that point went ahead to act in more than 150 movies, including twelve English dialect motion pictures. Other than his Bollywood passage, he was similarly required with arthouse silver screen with films, for example, New Delhi Times, Utsav, Junoon, Kalyug and 36 Chowringhee Lane. He additionally teamed up with Merchant Ivory Productions for movies, for example, Shakespeare-Wallah, The Householder and Heat And Dust.

In 2011, Kapoor was presented with Padma Bhushan and with the renowned Dada Saheb Phalke award in 2015. In the 80s, he acted in hits in particular Sharmilee, Aa Gale Lag Ja, Chor Machaye Shor, Jab Phool Khile, Deewar, Namak Halal, Kaala Pathar and Kabhie among others. Shashi and his significant other Jennifer Kendal set up the Prithvi Theater in 1978 in Mumbai's Juhu area. Jennifer passed on of cancer in 1984.

Kapoor is made due by little girl Sanjana Kapoor and his two children, Kunal Kapoor and Karan Kapoor.

Shashi Kapoor, one of the veteran on-screen characters of Indian film, isn't with us any longer. Pay your sincere tribute to the genius in the comment segment underneath.