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Amitabh Bachchan was shocked to see Shashi Kapoor, his co-star of Trishul, Deewar and so many other hits, confined to a wheelchair at the Filmfare awards last week.

 

Amitabh was supposed to present the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award to the 71-year-old actor, but could not attend.

However, Amitabh saw pictures of the event later and was shocked -- just like so many of his other fans.

 

"...the affable (Filmfare) editor Jitesh Pillai had asked me if I would give the Lifetime achievement Award to Shashi Kapoor and I had agreed. With great pleasure. I missed that more than thee expectation of winning the best actor award. Seeing him confined to a wheel chair, was something I could never associate with Shashi ji," the 67-year-old posted on his blog bigb.bigadda.com.

 

"Shashi Kapoor, that handsome gentle man. A smile on his face forever. A considerate calling on each meeting, now in this condition? Never," he added.

They were seen together in hits like Deewar, Trishul, Namak Halal and Silsila.

Remembering the times they spent together, Amitabh wrote: "Film after film we did together, Shashiji and I, shared some of my most memorable times together in the Industry. He is now my relative. His elder brother, the great Raj Kapoor's daughter Ritu's son Nikhil is married to (my daughter) Shweta.

 

"I spoke to him on his birthday some days ago and then again when I wanted to invite him to the premier of Paa. He had sounded weak in voice and expressed his inability to come. "I am not well', he had whispered faintly and I told him I would arrange a special screening for him. But I had never expected him to be the way I saw him at the award function in the pictures a few days back," said Amitabh.

 

The lifetime achievement award to Shashi was finally given by Shabana Azmi.

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Sharmila Tagore was born in a Bengali family in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India on 8 December 1946. Sharmila Tagore was married to Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, Nawab of Pataudi and has three children Saba Ali Khan, the very famous Bollywood star Saif Ali Khan and Soha Ali Khan.




Sharmila Tagore has lead the Indian Film Censor Board and in December 2005 the charming lady was chosen as an UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador too. Sharmila Tagore began her career as an actress in 1959 with Satyajit Ray film Apur Sansar (The World of Apu). Sharmila Tagore appeared in a number of Ray films, often co-starring with Soumitra Chatterjee.

The actress established herself as a popular Hindi film actress with Shakti Samanta's Kashmir Ki Kali in 1964. Since then she was casted in many more hits of Shakti Samanta such as An Evening in Paris (1967), Aradhana (1969) and Amar Prem (1972).

Other directors paired Rajesh Khanna and Sharmila Tagore together in Daag (1973), Maalik (1972) and Safar (1970). Sharmila even starred in Gulzar's 1975 film, Mausam, and played a supporting role in Mira Nair's 1991 film Mississippi Masala. In 2007 Sharmila Tagore was honoured with thw Lifetime Achievement National Award.

She also acted in Amol Palekar's Marathi flick Samaantar. She was also seen in Vidhu Vinod Chopra film, Eklavya: The Royal Guard. Sharmila Tagore has won several National Film Awards and Filmfare Awards for her performances. Just to brief out have a look at the list-

In 1969 - Filmfare Best Actress Award - Aradhana
In 1976 - National Film Award for Best Actress - Mausam
In 1997 - Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award
In 2002 - Star Screen Lifetime Achievement Award
In 2004 - National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress - Abar Aranye
In 2004 - Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters of France
In 2006 - Nominated, Filmfare Best Actress Award - Viruddh.. Family Comes First

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