Bollywood Actor Sashi Kapoor honoured

 

77 year old Bollywood actor Sashi Kapoor was conferred with the Dadasaheb Phalke award, with 8 of his former actresses at Mumbai’s Prithvi Theatre. 

Shashi Kapoor, born as Balbir Raj Prithviraj Kapoor on 18 March 1938, ,an Indian Bollywood film actor and film producer, film director and assistant director in the Hindi film industry.

A member of the famous Kapoor family, part of a film dynasty in India’s Bollywood cinema. He has appeared in a large number of Hindi language films as well as in a few English-language films.

In 2011, he was honoured with the Padma Bhushan by the Government of India for his contributions to Art-Cinema. In 2015, he was awarded the 2014 Dadsaheb Phalke Award, making him the third member of his family to receive the highest award in Indian Cinema after his dad Pritviraj Kapoor  and brother Raj Kapoor. Cheering him were several of his former co-stars, including Amitabh Bachchan, Rekha, Waheeda Rehman, Hema Malini, Sabana Azmi and Asha Parekh.