Shammi Kapoor Passes Away

Legendary actor Shammi Kapoor, whose last rites were performed on Monday, loved to reminisce on his era, his times. A Q&A session with him was always fun. His answers were razor-sharp and witty. “I’ll tell you a story,” would be his opening line. And then the superstar would gift you with precious nuggets and anecdotes. “Tali ho” would be his parting shot.
For instance, Tumsa Nahin Dekha (1957), a Nasir Hussain flick, was not meant for Kapoor. “Devsaab was to do Tumsa…. However, he wriggled out of the project as he was paired opposite a lesserknown actress. So, producer S Mukherjee asked Hussain to audition me,” he once told this correspondent. And the rest is history. Tumsa… catapulted Kapoor to stardom. Professor and Ujala confirmed his credentials as a successful actor while Junglee turned him into a youth icon. ‘Yaahoo’ resonated the angst and abandon of the Ovaltine generation of the 1950s. Source
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