Shammi Kapoor's life in pics
Veteran actor Shammi Kapoor died at 5:50 am this morning in Mumbai.
Suffering from renal failure, the actor had been hospitalised a month ago.
The funeral for the Bollywood legend will be held tomorrow (August 15) at 11 am at Ban Ganga crematorium, Mumbai.
Here's a look his remarkable journey so far...
He was born on October 21, 1931 in Mumbai as Shamsher Raj Kapoor to Prithvi Raj Kapoor and Ramsarni Mehra.
Front row (left to right)- Rishi Kapoor (second son of Raj Kapoor), Kanchan (Shammi Kapoor's daughter), Rima (Raj Kapoor's daughter), Rajiv Kapoor (youngest son of Raj Kapoor), Aditya Kapoor (Shammi Kapoor's son), Karan (Shashi Kapoor's son), Randhir Kapoor (Raj Kapoor's eldest son) and Kunal Kapoor (Shashi Kapoor's son)
Shammi spent his first few years with dad and legendary actor Prithviraj Kapoor who was deeply involved with the New Theatre Studios in Calcutta (now Kolkata). Shammi did his schooling in Calcutta and then Mumbai where they finally settled.
He did college for a while but soon left to join Prithvi Theatres. He started his career doing small roles in his father's films.
Shammi Kapoor married fellow actress Geeta Bali in 1955 and were blessed with two kids son Aditya Raj and daughter Kanchan.
Tragedy struck Shammi during the filming of his hit film Teesri Manzil when Geeta died of small pox leaving him with his two kids. This led to a brief romance with Mumtaaz but that didn't last long and finally in 1969 he married Neela Devi Gohil of the royal family of Bhavnagar.
Talking about his professional life. Shammi's first movie as lead actor was Jeevan Jyoti (1953). His early movies were Rail ka Dibba (1953), Laila Majnu (1953), Shama Parwana (1954), Miss Coca Cola (1955) andRangeen Raatein (1956).
Dil Dekhe Dekho got us the popular Shammi-Asha Parekh Jodi and it also cemented his casanova image.
Junglee in 1961 mad him a household name and his song Yahoo, chahe koi mujhe junglee kahe became a rage and is still one of the best songs ever.
Shammi quickly became every director's favourite romantic hero.
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