Shashi Kapoor

India's first biography of Shashi Kapoor shedsight on one of the country's most enigmatic personalities”an actor who straddles the worlds of commercial Hindi cinema, theatre and small-budget art movies; who is, at once, an earnest householder and a committed star. In this rare book, we are offered glimpses of Shashi Kapoor, the family man”son of Prithviraj Kapoor, husband of Jennifer Kendal, and father to Kunal, Karan and Sanjna. We areed through Shashi Kapoor's film career”his debut as a bright-eyed child-actor in Awara; his emergence, in the hectic 1970s, as India's busiest performer”with a slew of hits including Deewaar and Trishul; and his rise to international prominence with Merchant“Ivory's The Householder and a "trilogy' of films on older men with fading pasts. Equally, we are provided with an astute analysis of Shashi Kapoor, the businessman”the proprietor of Film-Valas; the producer of Shyam Benegal films; and the distributor of Bobby. Withuminous and thus-far undisclosed