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| Veteran film actor Shammi Kapoor passes away today morning.He was of age 79. Shammi Kapoor was in Breach Candy hospital, Mumbai last week and was on ventilator support. |
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| The Bollywood legend was on ventilator for over a week after he suffered from a chronic renal failure. |
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| He is expected to be cremated by 11 am tomorrow. |
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| Hailing from the famous 'Kapoor family', Shammi Kapoor starred in films like 'Junglee', 'Tumsa Nahin Dekha' and 'An Evening in Paris'. |
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| Shammi Kapoor, a prominent lead actor in Hindi cinema during the late 1950s and 1960s, won the Filmfare Best Actor Award in 1968 for his performance in 'Brahmachari'. |
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| He was given the name Shamsher Raj Kapoor at his birth in Mumbai to film and theatre actor Prithviraj Kapoor, Shammi was the second of the three sons born to Prithviraj (the other two being Raj Kapoor and Shashi Kapoor), both of whom were, like their father, successful Bollywood actors |
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| He was also the prominent lead actor in Hindi cinema during the late 1950s and 1960s. |
