Lifetime achievement award for Shashi Kapoor

In Awards and Honours
September 29, 2015

Veteran actor Shashi Kapoor will be honoured with lifetime achievement award at the 6th Jagran Film Festival. Kapoor, 77, has worked in movies like Deewaar, Namak Halaal, Satyam Shivam Sundaram, Suhaag apart from doing English film projects including, The Householder, Shakespeare Wallah and Muhafiz. The 6th edition of Jagran Film Festival is scheduled from September 28 to October 4 at Fun Cinemas, Andheri.

Shashi Kapoor

Shashi Kapoor was born as Balbir Raj Prithviraj Kapoor on 18 March 1938.
Shashi Kapoor is a member of the Kapoor family, a film dynasty in India’s Bollywood cinema.
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 Dadasaheb Phalke Award, making him the third member of his family to receive the highest award in Indian Cinema after Prithviraj Kapoor and Raj Kapoor.
He was honoured by Walk of the Stars as his hand print was preserved for posterity at Bandra Bandstand in Mumbai in November 2013.