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I was a reporter with the statesman through much of the seventies. No it was in khandala he said grinning mischievously. And out came the trademark line Haven’t we met before? I smile vaguely and tongue tied mumbled something about seeing him at various film festival. He was lunching with a common friend who introduced us. A few year later while lunching at Ginza a popular Chinese restaurant in New Delhi I spotted Shashi Kapoor at another table. The actor has a phenomenal memory rarely forgetting a face and the name that goes with it. Haven’t we met before? If sounds like a line but he actually means it when he say it. Shashi Kapoor has this habit of going up to people and saying I am shashi Kapoor. And then that face with its trademark smile one that his launched a million crushes disappeared into the night. Curious bemused smiling face of shashi Kapoor came into view. There was something familiar about his voice. In impeccable Pucca sahib English he obliged. I rolled down the car window a few inches to ask for directions not quite making the effort to look the stranger in the eye.
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The road was deserted and we were hopelessly lost until we saw a tall man walking down the road the mist playing hide and seek with this figure in a white Kurta pyjama. The road was deserted and we actor friend on a film shoot here. We wants to surprise an actor friend on a film shoot here. Three of us were driving down from Bombay on a winter day in 1969 to this charming hill station in the Western Ghats. The narrow road curved into oblivion the street lights slanting feebly on it. Madhu Jain lives in Delhi with her physicist husband Krishna Jain.ĭarkness had settled in on the way to Khandala. Hota Hai on kitsch and the contemporary imagination and the other on She has curated two art exhibitions-Kitsch Kitsch Several publications, including Outlook and the Hindu, on contemporary National daily, La Croix, for a decade before she joined India Today inġ986, where she remained until 2000. She was also the New Delhi correspondent with the French Worked as a reporter for the Statesman, moving towards the end of theĭecade to Sunday magazine to write on politics, foreign affairs andĬulture. Madhu Jain was educated at Connecticut College in the United States,įollowing which she did her masters in literature from Delhi UniversityĪnd studied French literature at the Sorbonne in Paris. The Kapoors resembles the films that the great showman Raj Kapoor made: grand and sweeping with moments of high drama and touching emotion. Based on extensive personal intervies conducted over seven years with family members and friends Madhu Jian goes behind the façade of each member of the Kapoor clan to reveal what makes them tick.
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS RAJ KAPOOR PROFESSIONAL
The Kapoor details the professional careers and personal lives of each generation box office successes and failures the ideologies that informed their work the larger than life Kapoor weddings and Holi celebration their extraordinary romantic liaisons and family relationship their love for food and their dark passages with alcohol. Never before have four generations of this family or five if you include Bashesharnath Kapoor, Prithviraj Kapoor’s father who played the judge in Awara been brought together in one book.
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From the 1920s to the present each decade in the history of Hindi film had had at least one kapoor if not more playing a large part in defining it. A family of professional actors and director they span almost eighty years of film making in India. There is no film family quite like the Kapoors.