Shashi Kapoor has been part of some hugely successful films, such as 'Roti Kapda Aur Makaan' (1974), 'Prem Kahani' (1975), 'Satyam Shivam Sundaram' (1978), 'Suhaag' (1979) and 'Namak Halaal' (1982). He made his debut as a lead actor in ‘Dharmputra’ (1961) which was not a commercial success. Ravi Tandon's Khuddar (1982), Amjad Khan's Chor Police (1983). Through the Seventies, 'Gabbar fever' was used to sell virtually everything from betel nuts to scooters and from billboards across the country Khan threateningly 'urged' consumers to spend their money or face Gabbar.Shashi Kapoor was an Indian actor and recipient of four National Film Awards. The same year saw him appear in other movies such as K.
The character hijacked the movie and spawned a 'Gabbar culture' with millions spouting his racy dialogue, duplicating the same crude and laconic tone and menacing manner. Gabbar ruthlessly loots villages before massacring their inhabitants, including women and children.
Imitating his old dhobi, or washerman, who belonged to the same part of India as Gabbar the legendary dacoit, Khan easily crossed the hurdle and was cast opposite two of India's best- known actors of the day. The film's script-writers, Khan's friends from Bombay's theatre world, persuaded the director to give their burly buddy a screen- test. In 1975, a well-established actor cast as the tobacco-chewing dacoit in Sholay was held up in Afghanistan. Khan's entree to cinema, however, was accidental. Only recently he acted, to much critical acclaim, in the Hindi adaptation of One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest. He got an MA in psychology at Bombay University in the Sixties but, having inherited early a love for acting from his father and older brother, he took successfully to Bombay's active theatre, which remained a lasting passion and one he always found time to indulge even at the height of stardom. The son of Zakira Khan, a Pathan from the North-West Frontier Province and popular Bollywood character actor of the Fifties and Sixties (screen name Jayant), Khan was born in Bombay in 1943.
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