In the 1950 film Sangram, Shashi Kapoor played the street-smart kid Kunwar. The film was a hit and one very much ahead of its times; with the protagonist Ashok Kumar playing a negative character.
He crossed over when no one else had. He did his first English film in 1963 – The Householder. He also starred in the Shakespeare-Walla and the award-winning film, Heat and Dust; creating a unique and enduring association with the eclectic Merchant-Ivory team of Indian Ismail Merchant, American director James Ivory and holocaust survivor Ruth Prawer Jhabwala (the only person to have won a Booker Prize and an Oscar).
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