Panaji: Legendary actor Shammi Kapoor will be honoured with a tribute at the South Asia Film Festival (SAFF), which opens in Goa on September 15, the organisers said on Thursday.
"As a tribute to the legendary actor Shammi Kapoor, a special screening of his film 'Brahmachari' would be showcased during the festival," Rahul Barua secretary general of the South Asia Foundation (SAF), which organises the festival in Goa annually told reporters here.
Apart from the 1968 film, Shammi Kapoor's 1964 film 'Kashmir Ki Kali', starring Sharmila Tagore, will also be screened at the festival, which will also have a special segment on films from Bhutan.
Shammi Kapoor (79) died Monday of kidney failure in Mumbai....
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02:33 AM, Aug 19, 2011
Mumbai: Veteran filmmaker Yash Chopra, who attended late actor Shammi Kapoor's funeral on Monday, said there will never be anyone who can come even close to the 79-year-old actor. "I am so sad that I don't even feel like talking right now. He was a great actor. His style and his way of acting is cult and it will remain forever. We will never have another Shammi Kapoor in our...
05:22 PM, Aug 15, 2011
New Delhi: His never-say-die attitude had begun to ebb, says megastar Amitabh Bachchan, whose wife Jaya had spoken to Shammi Kapoor a few days before he died. "He had got tired during the last two days. Never one to give up, he spoke, for the first time in a tone that conveyed that he had had enough, to Jaya a few days ago. 'I am tired, I can't take it...
04:53 PM, Aug 15, 2011
New Delhi: Bollywood star Hrithik Roshan, an ardent Shammi Kapoor fan, says he will introduce the magic of the late actor, who passed away on Sunday, to his two sons - Hrehaan, five, and Hridhaan, three. "Legends like Shammi Kapoor do not die...he lives, inside us, around us. A journey such as his should be rejoiced, not mourned. Of course, we'll miss his physical presence terribly, but his magic lives...
04:38 PM, Aug 15, 2011
Mumbai: Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan, who shared screen space with Shammi Kapoor in "Chamatkar" (1992), paid his homage to the late actor at his Malabar Hill home on Sunday evening. Shah Rukh, who came in a black BMW, did not stay inside the house for very long and also restrained from speaking to the media. Also present was actor Ranbir Kapoor, who is Shammi Kapoor's grandnephew. Shammi had recently...
12:01 PM, Aug 15, 2011
Mumbai: Maharashtra's political fraternity on Sunday condoled the death of veteran Bollywood actor Shammi Kapoor. The 79-year-old actor was on dialysis for the last few days and was admitted to the intensive care unit of the Breach Candy Hospital in Mumbai where he breathed his last at 5:15 a.m. Maharashtra Governor K. Sankaranarayanan expressed condolences on the actor's demise, saying that Shammi was an iconic figure and a rage for...
11:53 AM, Aug 15, 2011
Bangalore: Dancing King Shammi Kapoor's death early on Sunday morning has shocked many Kannada film personalities who were close to the flamboyant star who changed the course of film entertainment in his heyday. Director S.V.Rajendra Singh Babu, who helmed three Hindi films featuring Shammi Kapoor, was the first to express his shock about his favourite actor's death. "Yes, I know Shammi sahab was suffering from illness from a long time....
10:55 AM, Aug 15, 2011
Mumbai: Nephew Randhir Kapoor, grandnieces Karisma and Kareena, co-star Amitabh Bachchan, director Imtiaz Ali and many more visited the Blue Heaven Society on Malabar Hill to pay tribute to Shammi Kapoor, who breathed his last on Sunday morning at the Breach Candy Hospital. He was 79. He will be cremated Monday morning. Among the early birds from the film fraternity were Amitabh who came with wife Jaya, director Subhash Ghai,...
06:40 PM, Aug 14, 2011
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday condoled the death of veteran Bollywood actor Shammi Kapoor. "I am sad to learn of Shammi Kapoor's demise. He was an accomplished actor who entertained millions and millions of fans in India and abroad. I share his family's grief," Manmohan Singh was quoted in an official statement. The 79-year-old actor was the second of three sons born to the iconic Prithviraj Kapoor....
06:15 PM, Aug 14, 2011
Mumbai: Sharmila Tagore and Saira Banu who made their Bollywood debuts with Shammi Kapoor in "Kashmir Ki Kali" and "Junglee" respectively said they will miss the star who was "high spirited and so full of life". Sharmila Tagore, who made her foray into Hindi films with Shammi Kapoor in 1961 romantic movie "Kashmir Ki Kali" and later featured with him in the hit movie "An Evening In Paris", is very...
06:01 PM, Aug 14, 2011
New Delhi: Singing legend Lata Mangeshkar has remembered Shammi Kapoor as a big star and good human being and revealed that the late actor was a fabulous singer. "I am very upset after hearing the demise of Shammiji. He was one of the biggest stars of Bollywood, but before that he was an outstanding human being. He was very lively and he was a very strong person. He used to...
05:47 PM, Aug 14, 2011
Mumbai: Amitabh Bachchan feels that with the demise of Shammi Kapoor Bollywood's flamboyance and joi de verve has been lost, while Riteish Deshmukh described the "Junglee" star as the most stylish actor ever. Mourning the death of the legend, actors young and old on Sunday expressed sadness over the era that had ended with his death. "Shammi Kapoorji passed away this morning at 5:15 am. Rushing there now. The flamboyance...
01:06 PM, Aug 14, 2011
Mumbai: Aditya Raj Kapoor has described his father Shammi Kapoor, who died on Sunday morning, as a "happy and lively person" and has hoped his fans will pray his soul rests in peace. "He was a very happy and lively person. His life was going good. But he was on dialysis and he died of kidney failure," said Aditya who was at his father's side when he breathed his last....
12:57 PM, Aug 14, 2011
