Shashi Kapoor<BR><BR><br><p class=clear>&nbsp;</p>We all know who Shashi Kapoor is. The youngest brother of Raj Kapoor created a niche for himself in films like Deewaar (1975), Suhaag (1979) and Satyam Shivam Sundaram (1978) to name a few. <BR><BR><br><p class=clear>&nbsp;</p>But not many might be aware that Shashi Kapoor has done a lot of films outside India. And many of them before he turned a commercial Hindi film star! His association abroad started with one of the earliest Ismail Merchant-James Ivory collaboration with The Householders (1963). He subsequently went onto work with the duo in films like Shakespeare-Wallah (1965), Bombay Talkie with his wife Jennifer (1970), Heat and Dust (1983) and In Custody (1993). Kapoor says that Merchant-Ivory films deserve to be seen more than once. And a complex film like Heat and Dust reveals more and more with each viewing. <BR><BR><br><p class=clear>&nbsp;</p>Shashi also did a few films outside the Ivory-Merchant camp like the UK film Pretty Polly (1967), the comedy flick Sammie and Rosie Get Laid (1987), the Indo-Brit adventure drama The Deceivers (1988) and the Hollywood film Side Streets (1998). All of these films had him in an important role rather than a small walk-on part. <BR><BR><br><p class=clear>&nbsp;</p>He also donned the role of the narrator in the Brit-Pak film Jinnah (1998). <BR><BR><br><p class=clear>&nbsp;</p>Trivia: <BR><br><p class=clear>&nbsp;</p>He made an appearance in the TV version of Gulliver’s Travels in 1996. <BR><BR><br><p class=clear>&nbsp;</p>His films Bombay Talkie and Heat and Dust have been released on DVD in the Criterion Collection. <br><p class=clear>&nbsp;</p>