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  • Kabhi Kabhie
  • Kabhi Kabhie review by from Liverpool, UK
    Rated - 3 stars run of the mill 1 July 2005
    ...hero in a spineless character and pair him opposite Waheeda Rehman takes guts. Shashi Kapoor is bubbly. Raakhee must have been in her best, appearance wise. Rishi and Neetu...  
  • Kaala Patthar
  • Kaala Patthar review by from Liverpool, UK
    Rated - 3 stars Surprisingly not the routine Yash Chopra 8 March 2005
    ... Johar. The print was superb. Amitabh plays a coal miner and Rakhee a doctor, Shashi Kapoor plays an engineer and Parveen babi plays a journalist, Shatrughan Sinha plays a...  
  • Shakespeare Wallah
  • Shakespeare Wallah review by from Hants
    Rated - 4 stars Quiet and unassuming... and well worth it 25 May 2004
    ... The film feels like some less frenetic A Bout De Souffle set in India - with Shashi Kapoor using several cigarettes to do a passable Jean-Paul Belmondo - although its sen...  

Shashi Kapoor - filmography


  • Gulliver's Travels (1996)
    Starring: Ted Danson,  Mary Steenburgen,  James Fox
    Director: Charles Sturridge
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    This acclaimed made-for-television version of Swift's fantasy employs an all-star cast (led by Ted Danson) and superior special effects to portray all four books in the cycle. From Lilliput and Brobdingnag to Laputa and the lands of the Struldbruggs and Houyhnhnms, Gulliver's nine-year odyssey and ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 591 members
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  • Swati (1985)
    Starring: Meenakshi Shesshadri,  Sharmilla Tagore,  Madhuri Dixit
    Director: Kranthi Kumar
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    The story of Sharada who was abandoned by her lover after she found out that she was pregnant . Sharada struggles to raise her daughter, Swati, but is often pushed out by other members of society. When Swati grows up she aims to get her mother married in order to give her a happy life...
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 49 members
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  • Utsav on DVD (1984)
    Starring: Shashi Kapoor,  Rekha,  Shekhar Suman
    Director: Shashi Kapoor
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    UTSAV is classical tale of love and romance set against a background of passion, intrigue and political revolution. It is a story of a passionate love between Vasantsena (Rekha), a beautiful and renowned courtesan of Ujjain and Charudatt (Shekhar Suman) a handsome and impoverished Brahmin youth.
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 99 members
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  • Vijeta (1982)
    Starring: Rekha,  Shashi Kapoor,  Kunal Kapoor
    Director: Govind Nihalani
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Angad (Kunal Kapoor) comes from a Hindu family that had pledged their eldest son to be of the Sikh religion, and accordingly Angad had adapted to the turban. He is in training to be a pilot for the Indian Air Force, and he is afraid of flying. He is attracted to Anna Verghese (Supriya Pathak), who ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 55% from 19 members
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  • Krodhi on DVD (1981)
    Starring: Shashi Kapoor,  Zeenat Aman,  Hema Malini
    Director: Subhash Ghai
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A stylish action thriller from Subash Ghai. An ordinary, honest, non-violent man becomes a vigilante, pursued relentlessly by a police inspector. What crime or outrage could have turned this non-violent man into a killing machine?
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 57 members
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  • Shaan on DVD (1980)
    Starring: Shashi Kapoor,  Parveen Babi,  Amitabh Bachchan
    Director: Ramesh Sippy
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    DSP Shiv Kumar (Sunil Dutt) is a diligent and honest police officer in Bombay, India. He lives with his wife (Raakhee), a son, and two wayward brothers, Ravi (Shashi Kapoor), and Vijay (Amitabh Bachchan), who are con-men, and will do anything for a quick buck. But when Shiv Kumar is killed his two ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 63 members
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  • Suhaag (1979)
    Starring: Amitabh Bachchan,  Shashi Kapoor,  Jeevan
    Director: Manmohan Desai
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    A wayward husband (Amjad Khan) leaves his wife (Nirupa Roy) and their two sons. The boys are separated due to tragic circumstances and grow up in very different environments. One of them, Vijay, (Amitabh Bachchan) becomes a street-wise, small-time gangster, while the other, Ravi (Shashi Kapoor), ..read more »
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 40% from 5 members
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  • Satyam, Shivam, Sundaram on DVD (1978)
    Starring: Zeenat Aman,  Shashi Kapoor
    Director: Raj Kapoor
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Story about the life of Rupa, a village outcast who has burnt her face on one side thereby disfiguring her beauty. She is overheard by Rajeev singing in the temple. Seen only through her veil he falls in love with her and marries her. After they are married he realises the truth and leaves her. He ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 60% from 312 members
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  • Deewaar on DVD (1975)
    Starring: Amitabh Bachchan,  Shashi Kapoor,  Nirupa Roy
    Director: Yash Chopra
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Two sons are brought up by their mother, when their father abandons them. One son becomes a successful underworld figure so he can provide his mother with the luxuries she never had while she raised them. But the other son decides to become a policeman splitting the family apart...
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 479 members
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  • Roti Kapada Aur Makaan on DVD (1972)
    Starring: Amitabh Bachchan,  Manoj Kumar,  Shashi Kapoor
    Director: Manoj Kumar
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    When his father retires, it is left up to Bharat to provide for the family. When he is unable to find himself a secure job, his girlfriend Sheetal accepts a marriage proposal elsewhere. With his life collapsing around him, will the lure of crime take hold of Bharat?
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 61% from 154 members
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  • Bombay Talkie on DVD (1970)
    Starring: Shashi Kapoor,  Jennifer Kendal,  Utpal Dutt
    Director: James Ivory
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    An early Merchant-Ivory film, BOMBAY TALKIE opens with a send-up of India's lavish musicals as dancers cavort on a giant typewriter in a hilarious production number. However, the film is mostly a sombre character study about best-selling English novelist Lucia Lane (Jennifer Kendal), who comes to ..read more »
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 41% from 163 members
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  • Ek Shriman Ek Shrimati on DVD (1969)
    Starring: Shashi Kapoor,  Babita,  Rajendernath
    Director: Bhappi Sonie
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Pritam (Shashi Kapoor), loving and adoring Deepali (Babita), beautiful and rich heirless; and Ajit (Prem Chopra), the slick and slimy playboy with an eye always on beautiful bodies and big bank rolls. Pritam Loves Deepali deep and true, but Deepali feels she is in love with Ajit. In a weak moment ..read more »
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 45% from 6 members
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  • Raja Saab (1969)
    Starring: Shashi Kapoor,  Nanda,  Rajindernath
    Director: Suraj Prakash
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Raju, an orphan, had a dream: he would become a Raja Saab (a rich man). Little did he know then that he would fall in love with a princess...
    Rate this: 1 star out of 5 10% from 1 member
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  • Waqt on DVD (1965)
    Starring: Sunil Dutt,  Shashi Kapoor
    Director: Yash Chopra
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Ishwar and Sumi both adore their only son, Aditya but with a difference. While Ishwar is totally blind to Adi's faults and indulges him, Sumi is well aware of his darling son's shortcomings and is always cautioning her husband not to spoil Adi so much. Adi on his part has only one obsession -- to ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 63% from 199 members
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  • Prem Patra on DVD (1962)
    Starring: Sadhana,  Shashi Kapoor,  Seema
    Director: Bimal Roy
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Arun, the handsome, young medico is denied his scholarship for higher studies in England because his co-student Kabita accuses him of misbehaviour. He however manages to arrange the funds for going to England and in the process is betrothed to Tara whom he has never even seen. A series of love-..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 10 members
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  • Mukti
    Starring: Shashi Kapoor,  Sanjeev Kumar,  Vidya Sinha
    Director: Raj Tilak
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Love has many faces.and its most beautiful is 'Mukti'. Happiness is the God given gift of a small family of three, Kailash, his wife Seema and their daughter Pinky. But one fine day misfortune strikes their little world of happiness when Kailash is separated from his family. Seema can never forget ..read more »
    Rate this: 1 star out of 5 20% from 1 member
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  • Ghar Bazar on DVD
    Starring: Gulshan Grover,  Hina Kaushar,  Sharmila Tagore
    Director: D. S. Azad
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Gul delivered baby before her marriage and entrusted to her driver Kishan. Gul met Amar, a film directed with Balam. As she wanted to become a heroin. Amar and Gul married. Balam did not like this idea. Gul left Amar and lived with Balam, who set her to sleep with the film financiers. Roopa & Ravi ..read more »
    Rate this: 1.5 stars out of 5 34% from 5 members
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  • Dharmputra on DVD
    Starring: Ashok Kumar,  Shashi Kapoor,  Mala Sinha
    Director: Yash Chopra
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    When Nawab Badruddin's dearest friend Gulshan Rai dies, it is but natural for him to take his son Amrit under his wing and for his daughter Husn Banu to consider Amrit her brother. Amrit grows up to become a doctor and is happily married to Savitri. One day the Nawab Sahib comes to Amrit for help. ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 55% from 6 members
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  • Atithee on DVD
    Starring: Deven Verma,  Shabana Azmi,  Shashi Kapoor
    Director: Arvind Sen
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    When Neela's elder brother Nabendu is implicated in a wagon-breaking charge by Avinash and banished, the burden of maintaining the family falls to her. Enter Anand, a close friend of Nabendu, who comes to stay and experiences the bliss of family life for the first time and falls in love with Neela. ..read more »
    Rate this: 1.5 stars out of 5 27% from 4 members
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  • Trishna on DVD
    Starring: Bindu,  Dinesh Hingoo,  Preeti Ganguly
    Director: Anil Ganguly
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Dr. Sunil Gupta lives a wealthy lifestyle with his wife, Aarti. Although they have been married for several years, they do not have any children. Aarti did get pregnant once, but failed to conceive. Aarti decides to travel to take a break in their Khandala bungalow, which is also in the ..read more »
    Rate this: 1.5 stars out of 5 26% from 5 members
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  • Junoon on DVD
    Starring: Shashi Kapoor,  Jennifer Kendal,  Shabana Azmi
    Director: Shyam Benegal
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    1857: the first shot is fired in the Indian mutiny against British colonisation. The bloody events which follow provide the dramatically atmospheric for this star-crossed lovers story in which Muslim rebel Javed Khan (Shashi Kapoor) develops a passionate, almost obsessive, love for Ruth (Nafisa Ali)..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 59% from 56 members
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  • Chori Mera Kaam on DVD
    Starring: Anoop Kumar,  Ashok Kumar,  Deven Verma
    Director: Brij
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Inspector Kumar (Ashok Kumar) is a high-ranking officer in the Crime Branch. One day his elder son is kidnapped. In lieu of ransom, the kidnappers demand that Inspector Kumar withhold substantial evidence against the kidnappers. But Kumar does not comply and sacrifices his son for the sake of Law.
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 3 members
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  • Siddhartha on DVD
    Starring: Shashi Kapoor,  Simi Garewal,  Romesh Sharma
    Director: Conrad Rooks
    Certificate: Certificate: Ex
    The timeless, universal story of self-discovery, Herman Hesse's SIDDHARTHA follows the young Hindu of the title as leaves behind his family and home on a spiritual journey, in search of answers. Narrated by Harish Bhimani with on-screen illustrations.
    Rate this: 1 star out of 5 23% from 8 members
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  • Fakira on DVD
    Starring: Achala Sachdev,  Aruna Irani,  Asit Sen
    Director: C. P. Dixit
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Vijay and Ajay watch helplessly as their house burns down killing their parents. They are subsequently separated, and Vijay becomes Fakira, a criminal. However, he robs the rich to provide for the poor. Chimanbhai, a criminal don, perturbed by Fakira’s thefts, recruits Toofan, a hitman to kill him. ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 9 members
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  • Jaaydaad on DVD
    Starring: Anupam Kher,  Aruna Irani,  Raj Babbar
    Director: Dilip Naik
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Advocate Anjali had been betrayed in love, and as a result has become an embittered woman, hating all men. She is assigned as a public prosecutor to ensure that accused, Rajesh Srivastav, gets hanged for homicide. She succeeds, but in order to teach Rajesh a lesson. She decides to give him a sum of ..read more »
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  • Pyar Ka Mausam on DVD
    Starring: Asha Parekh,  Asit Sen,  Bharat Bhushan
    Director: Nasir Hussain
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Shashi Kapoor woos Asha Parekh under false pretensions and the two fall in love. When Asha finds out that Shashi had been going under a false name she leaves for her home in a huff. Meanwhile Shashi finds out about his real parents - Bharat Bhushan and Nirupa Roy. His parents had been separated ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 46% from 5 members
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  • Kranti
    Starring: Dilip Kumar,  Manjo Kumar,  Shashi Kapoor
    Director: Manoj Kumar
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    The British did not give India its independence on a silver platter. Independence was the result of a long and bloody battle. Kranti is the story of how two men became soliders in that battle...
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 83 members
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  • Prem Kahani on DVD
    Starring: Rajesh Khanna,  Rajesh khanna,  Shashi Kapoor
    Director: Raj Khosla
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Rajesh, one of three, has to make a choice between his heart's yearnings and his culturally imbided human values. Dheeraj, the second of the three, has to make a choice between his duties and frienship. And last but not least, Parthan Sher Khan has to make a choice to show the world that he can ..read more »
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Shashi Kapoor facts

5 most recent films

Kaala Patthar - 3.5 stars
Jinnah - 3.5 stars
Gulliver's Travels - 3.5 stars
In Custody - 3.0 stars
Ajooba - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Shaan - 3.5 stars
Deewaar - 3.5 stars
Trishul - 3.5 stars
Kabhi Kabhie - 3.5 stars
Gulliver's Travels - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Raja Saab - 1.0 stars
Siddhartha - 1.0 stars
Mukti - 1.0 stars
Trishna - 1.5 stars
Atithee - 1.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Amitabh Bachchan - 10 times - show films
Sanjeev Kumar - 6 times - show films
Prem Chopra - 5 times - show films
Rekha - 5 times - show films
Zeenat Aman - 4 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Yash Chopra - 6 times - show films
James Ivory - 4 times - show films
Suraj Prakash - 3 times - show films
Manoj Kumar - 2 times - show films
Prakash Mehra - 2 times - show films


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