Shammi Kapoor Date of Birth

Bollywood legend Shammi Kapoor was born on 21 October 1931.

Shammi Kapoor Age

He was 79 years old when he died on 14 August 2011.

Shammi Kapoor Father

His parents gave him the name Shamsher Raj Kapoor at his birth in Bombay (now Mumbai) to film and theatre actor Prithviraj Kapoor and Ramsharni Kapoor (née Mehra).

He was the second of the three sons born to Prithviraj (the other two being Raj Kapoor and Shashi Kapoor, both successful Hindi Film actors).

Shammi Kapoor Biography

Though born in Mumbai, he spent a major portion of his childhood in Peshawar, Pakistan in the Kapoor Haveli and in Calcutta (now Kolkata), where his father was involved with New Theatres Studios, acting in films.

It was in Kolkata that he did his Montessori education and Kindergarten. After coming back to Bombay, he first went to St. Joseph’s Convent (Wadala) and then, to Don Bosco School. He finished his matric schooling from New Era School at Hughes Road.

Kapoor had a short stint at Ramnarain Ruia College after which he joined his father’s theatrical company Prithvi Theatres.

He entered the cinema world in 1948, as a junior artiste, at a salary of Rs. 50 per month, stayed with Prithvi Theatres for the next four years and collected his last pay check of Rs. 300, in 1952. He made his debut in Hindi Film Jeevan Jyoti in the year 1953.

Shammi Kapoor Wife

Later Kapoor met Geeta Bali in 1955, during the shooting of the film Rangeen Raaten, where he was the leading actor and she played a cameo. Four months later, they married at Banganga Temples, near Napean Sea Road of Mumbai.

Geeta Bali died from smallpox in 1965. Shammi Kapoor married Neila Devi, from the former royal family of Bhavnagar in Gujarat, on 27 January 1969

Shammi Kapoor Children

He has two children from his first marriage to Geeta bali. They had a son, Aditya Raj Kapoor, on 1 July 1956, at Shirodkar’s Hospital, Mumbai, a year after they were married. Five years later, in 1961, they had a daughter, Kanchan.

Shammi Kapoor Son

Aditya Raj Kapoor is an Indian film actor and filmmaker from the Kapoor family. Kapoor is best known for his work as an assistant director in several Hindi films and his English language directorial films like Shamaal.

Don’t Stop Dreaming (2007) and Sambar Salsa (2007). His company has developed amusement parks in Mumbai and Delhi.

Shammi Kapoor Daughter

Kanchan Kapoor is the daughter of Shammi Kapoor. She married businessman Ketan Desai, son of popular late producer-director Manmohan Desai. They have two daughters – Pooja and Raj Rajeshwari

Shammi Kapoor First Movie

Soon he made his debut in Hindi Films in the year 1953, with the movie Jeevan Jyoti. It was directed by Mahesh Kaul and Chand Usmani was Kapoor’s first heroine.

Shammi Kapoor Movies

Kapoor’s career started unsuccessfully in the early 1950s with him acting with established actresses playing second fiddle in woman-oriented movies: with Madhubala in films such as Rail Ka Dibba (1953) as well as in the tragic love story Mirza Sahiban (1957) opposite Shyama. From 1953 to 1957, none of his films made him popular.

Soon with Filmistan’s Nasir Hussain directed Tumsa Nahin Dekha (1957) opposite Ameeta and Dil Deke Dekho (1959) with Asha Parekh, he attained the image of a light-hearted, and stylish playboy.

With Junglee (1961) his new image was cemented and his subsequent films were all in this genre viz.Romcoms.

In 1968, he received the first Filmfare Best Actor Award of his career for Bramhachari. He used to compose dancing steps in the songs starring him and reportedly never needed a choreographer. This earned him the name of Elvis Presley of India.

Later in the 1980s and 1990s, he continued to play many supporting roles and won a Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award for his performance in Vidhaata (1982) where big giants as Dilip Kumar and Sanjeev Kumar played major roles.

Shammi Kapoor Last Movie

Shortly before his death, he made his last film appearance in Imtiaz Ali’s 2011 directorial venture Rockstar co-starring his grand-nephew Ranbir Kapoor, the grandson of his brother Raj Kapoor.

Shammi Kapoor Best Movies

In 1968, he received the first Filmfare Best Actor Award of his career for Bramhachari. He made a unique place for himself in the industry as he was the only dancing hero in Hindi films from the late 1950s till the early 1970s.

Shammi Kapoor Cause of Death

His family admitted Kapoor to Breach Candy Hospital, Mumbai on 7 August 2011 suffering from chronic renal failure. His condition remained serious for next few days and doctor kept him on ventilator support.

He died on 14 August 2011, 05:15 am IST, of chronic renal failure, aged 79. Funeral was held on Monday, 15 August at Banganga cremation ground, Malabar Hill, Mumbai. His son, Aditya, performed the last rites at the cremation.

The entire Kapoor family were present to pay their last respects.