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he was a legend.Rememberd and respected by pashtuns for his links with pekhawar.
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shammi kapoor is one of my most favorite old actor of india and i am very happy by listening this that he spend his childhood in Peshawar so it is the proud news for all the Pakistanis but the man will live in our heart and we will remember him in our special prayers and thanks you share this sad news with us
Shammi Kapoor’s death saddens his childhood friends in Peshawar
Peshawar—Death of Indian film industry legend, the versatile Shammi Kapoor has not only upset his fans but also his childhood friends, the residents of Dhaki Munawwar Shah in Peshawar city, birth place of Kapoor family which has produced great actors in Bollywood after migration to India.
The elders of Dhaki Munawar Shah still reminisce the good days they spent with Raj Kapoor, Shammi Kapoor and Shashi Kapoor.
The house of the legendary Kapoors at Dhaki Munawar Shah, in the heart of the Peshawar City, is still known as “Kapoor’s house” and the dwellers recall that before partition, Prithvi Raj, father of Raj Kapoor, Shammi Kapoor and Shashi Kapoor, used to live in this house along with other family members.
In late 1930, Prithvi Raj went to Bombay and started his acting career. He was followed by his son Raj Kapoor.
“I used to play with Raj Kapoor and Shammi Kapoor and had friendly association with them,” recalls Muhammad Yousaf, an octogenarian who resides in neighborhood of Kapoor’s house. Shashi Kapoor was much junior at that time and therefore I did’nt have association with him, he added.
Yousaf said though he had no contact with Kapoors after migration to India, but the death of Shammi Kapoor has saddened him. “In fact he was my childhood friend,” he murmured.
During our childhood there was no concept of Hindu-Muslim and we used to play together in streets and even eat meal at each other houses.
There was no restriction in visiting each other houses and people of that time were very loving and relations between neighbors were very cordial. Another man Yaqoob Khan who was a schoolfellow of Raj Kapoor and an erstwhile milk-seller said he had studied with Raj Kapoor in a primary school and later both got admission to Khalsa Dharam School at Khyber Bazar, Peshawar to seek education in higher grade.
Fawad Ismail, a city dweller, informed APP that his father Muhammad Ismail who died recently, was not only a class fellow of Shammi Kapoor, but also his desk fellow in a primary school at Dhaki. “My father told me that he and Shammi Kapoor studied together in primary school of Headmaster Devan Dena Naath. The school building was later acquired by Muhammad Aashiq who made it his residence”, Fawad Ismai added.
Fawad said death of Shammi also saddened him because he regarded him as friend of his father. In early sixties, my father (Ismail) along with some other friends, including trader’s leader Haji Haleem Jan, Gama Pehalwan (paternal uncle of Indian superstar Shah Rukh Khan) and Abdul Manan went to India and met the Kapoors who welcomed their Peshawari friends with open arms and played host to them, Fawad said. “My late father was very happy that Kapoors had not forgotten their childhood friends, and that their love for their native city-Peshawar-and its people was intact,” Fawad said with sense of pride.
“Being a human being, Shammi departs, but his memories will remain alive in the minds of his fans and people of his birthplace,” commented Yaqoob.—APP
he was too energetic and his head movements used to make me dizzy so i haven't watch a lot by him but from what i had seen of him, he was a legend non the less. i see lots of people dying and living but not too many celebrating life the way he did and for that i admire him.
I am no bird, and no nest ensnares me.
non commercial would cost less if he was in charge himself which he plans on doing. right now it's n herat but soon it will be in qanadahar.
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