RIP Shashi Kapoor – “Mere Paas Ab Bhagwaan Hai” – A Legend’s Legacy: Some Lesser Known Facts That Will Take Your Adulation Notches Higher!

He was a truly international star

One of India’s best looking, most urbane stars; Shashi Kapoor continued to wow international audiences later on in life as well. He acted in the five Emmy Award winning 1996 mini-series Gulliver’s Travels, where he played the Raja of Laputa.

One of the few mainstream actors to do parallel cinema

He produced and played the rebel Javed Khan in the critically acclaimed Junoon (1978). He played Nihal in Vijeta (1983), the film starring Rekha, and his son Kunal Kapoor. He also produced Utsav (1984), where he played the crazed Samsthanak. He produced and acted as the beautifully restrained and understated Karan in the critically acclaimed Kalyug.

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