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India's first biography of Shashi Kapoor sheds light on one of the country's most enigmatic personalities - an actor who straddles the worlds of commercial Hindi cinema, theater and small-budget art work movies; who's, simultaneously, an earnest householder and a dedicated star. On this rare e book, we are offered glimpses of Shashi Kapoor, the family man - son of Prithviraj Kapoor, partner of Jennifer Kendal, and father to Kunal, Karan and Sanjna. We could led through Shashi Kapoor's film job - his debut as a bright-eyed child-actor in Awara; his emergence, in the chaotic 1970s, as India's busiest performer - with a slew of hits including Deewaar and Trishul; and his go up to international prominence with Merchant-Ivory's The Householder and a 'trilogy' of motion pictures on old men with fading pasts. Evenly, we are provided with an astute analysis of Shashi Kapoor, the businessman - the proprietor of Film-Valas; the designer of Shyam Benegal motion pictures; and the distributor of Bobby. With luminous and thus-far undisclosed experiences by the actor's family (Neetu Singh, Rishi, Sanjna and Kunal Kapoor), co-stars (Shabana Azmi, Simi Garewal, Sharmila Tagore), fellow workers (Shyam Benegal, Govind Nihalani, Adam Ivory, Hanif Kureishi, Aparna Sen), and friends; Shashi Kapoor, the biography - by one of India's best-known film journalists - is as fascinating as Shashi Kapoor, the star.
