Shammi Kapoor

Overview

Known for
Acting
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Birthday
Oct 21, 1931 (93 years old)
Death date
Aug 14, 2011

Shammi Kapoor

Known For

Sandwich
2h 32m
Movie 2006

Sandwich

Shekar has moved to Mumbai from his home in Punjab and has fallen in love with Nisha. However, he is called back to his home to hear that his disabled sister is to marry a young man named Harpreet, but on the condition that Shekar marry Harpreet's sister. Unable to refuse, Shekar must lead a double life until matters come to a head many years later.

Jaanam Samjha Karo
2h 36m
Movie 1999

Jaanam Samjha Karo

Love slowly develops between a spoiled young rich man and a nightclub dancer he tries to impress.

Swami Vivekananda
2h 46m
Movie 1998

Swami Vivekananda

The film is based on the life of Bengali, Hindu monk Narendra Nath Datta aka Vivekananda from his birth (1863) to his returned to India from the west (1887). It is spiritual take on Vivekananda life. Movie's focus is on Vivekananda's internal struggles and questions about the meaning and truth of life.

Namak
Movie 1996

Namak

Namak overview

Prem Granth
2h 36m
Movie 1996

Prem Granth

Somen, a rich boy, loves Kajri, a village belle. The lovers get separated and Somen tries to find his lost love.

Rock Dancer
2h 48m
Movie 1995

Rock Dancer

Jaya is a dancer who wants to build a charitable hospital for the poor, but when her show takes place, she is shot, making her unable to dance. The leader of her dance group decides to train Jaya's sister Ritu to fulfill Jaya's dream, but when Jaya is killed, Ritu's life is also under threat.

Prem Yog
2h 27m
Movie 1994

Prem Yog

Maharaj Chatrapal Singh and his wife the Maharani are delighted when they become proud parents of a son - the heir to the thrown of Ramgad. Their delight is short-lived when the Palace Astrologer predicts that Chatrapal will be the last of the Maharajas for Ramgad, and no throne is destined for his son, Raju.

Sukham Sukhakaram
2h 7m
Movie 1994

Sukham Sukhakaram

Lives of four siblings were going largely as determined by their grandfather. Things take a drastic turn when he ask the youngest of the four to choose priesthood.

Heer Ranjha
2h 39m
Movie 1992

Heer Ranjha

A newer version of the popular love story of Heer (Sridevi) and Deedho (Anil Kapoor), who calls himself Ranjha after leaving his house and living incognito in Heer's village as a labourer in her father's (Shammi Kapoor) house. Heer and Deedho were childhood sweethearts, separated because of family animosities, which have grown over the years and kept on the boil by Kaheda (Anupam Kher), whose leg was irreparably fractured by Deedho's family and friends.

Biography

Shammi Kapoor (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 is hailed as one of the most entertaining lead actors that Hindi cinema has ever produced. He was one of the leading stars of Hindi cinema during the late 1950s, the 1960s and early '70s. He made his Bollywood debut 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, 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.

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