[SALMAN]

TNN | Aug 15, 2011, 03.32AM IST

MUMBAI: Shammi Kapoor, who changed the template of the Hindi film hero, passed away at Mumbai's Breach Candy hospital on Sunday. He was 79 and ailing for some time.
" Yahoo," the primate-like scream emitted exactly 50 years ago in Junglee (1961), created a new modern hero; someone free from the hangover of a colonial past and without any trace of Nehruvian socialism. This hero was zestful and angst-free, more at home crooning in nightclubs than tilling paddy fields. He was the stylish club singer in Dil Deke Dekho, the drummer in Teesri Manzil and he was unapologetically well-heeled (Junglee, Jaanwar, Kashmir Ki Kali). His dancing had the body-jerking shake-and-rattle of Elvis. But to that, Kapoor brought an abandon, a wild pleasure that was purely his own.
Courtesy TOI NEWS http://bit.ly/narVy2
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Shammi Kapoor
(born Shamsher Raj Kapoor; 21 October 1931 – 14 August 2011)
was an Indian film actor and director. He was a prominent lead actor in Hindi cinema from the late 1950s until the early 1970s.

Shammi Kapoor was hailed as one of the finest actors that Hindi cinema had ever produced. Extremely versatile as an actor, he was the leading star of Hindi cinema during the late 1950s as well as the 1960s. He debuted in Bollywood in 1953 with the film Jeevan Jyoti, and went on to deliver hits like Tumsa Nahin Dekha, Dil Deke Dekho, Junglee, Dil Tera Diwana, Professor, China Town, Rajkumar, Kashmir Ki Kali, Janwar, Teesri Manzil, An Evening in Paris, Bramhachari, and Andaz and Vidhaata. He received the Filmfare Best Actor Award in 1968 for his performance in Brahmachari and Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor for Vidhaata in 1982.

He was given the name Shamsher Raj Kapoor at his birth in Mumbai to film and theatre actor Prithviraj Kapoor, Shammi was the second of the three sons born to Prithviraj (the other two being Raj Kapoor and Shashi Kapoor), both of whom were, like their father, successful Bollywood actors. Though born in Mumbai, he spent a major portion of his childhood in Kolkata, where his father was involved with New Theatres Studios, acting in films. It was in Kolkata that he did his Montessory and Kindergarten. After coming back to Mumbai, he first went to St. Joseph's Convent (Wadala) and then, to Don Bosco School. Shammi Kapoor finished his schooling from New Era School, at Hughes Road.

Shammi Kapoor had a short stint at Ruia College, in Matunga, Mumbai, after which he joined his father’s theatrical company "Prithvi Theatres". He entered the cinema world in 1948, as a junior artiste, at a salary of Rs. 1500 per month, stayed with Prithvi Theatres for the next four years and collected his last paycheck, Rs. 3000, in 1952. He made his debut in Bollywood in the year 1953, when the film Jeevan Jyoti was released. It was directed by Mr. Mahesh Kaul and Chand Usmani was Kapoor’s first heroine.
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Celebrating the Live of Shammi Kapoor
(Ravi Iyer in Conversation with Rohit Jayakaran on City 1016)
Watch: http://soundcloud.com/city1016/celeb...live-of-shammi

 

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Last edited by SALMAN; 08-15-2011 at 12:54 PM..

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hmmmmmm RIP

 

[safa]

 

[DeV!L]

ummmm..

 

[safa]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JO3hE467U2s

Ye inka sada bahaar song hai...actually isi song se wo hit huwe hain.......songs ki adakari ko naya roop diya hai inhone.......ab dheere dheere kapoor brothers ka daur khatam hogaya...!

Bollywood main numayan khidmat ki hai......inka fun aur inki adakari yaad rakhi jayigi.

 

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Last edited by safa; 08-15-2011 at 09:18 PM..

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thanks for sharing with us this song safa

 

[!~*AdOrAbLe*~!]

t4s

 

[jinaka]

nice sharing dear like this...

 

[*NRB*]

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