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Bollywood bids final goodbye to Shammi Kapoor

Comments  Comments [ 1 ]    By IANS | 15 August 2011 | 12:01pm

Mumbai, Aug 15 (IANS) With moist eyes and prayers, Shammi Kapoor's family members and friends bid goodbye to the veteran actor at his funeral at the Ban Ganga cremation ground here Monday morning.

The 79-year-old actor, who was admitted to Breach Candy Hospital, Aug 7, breathed his last Sunday morning after suffering kidney failure.

Shammi's body was brought to the cremation ground around 10.30 in the morning and the last rites were performed by his son, Aditya Raj Kapoor, who was wearing his father's beads around his neck. The late actor's brother, Shashi Kapoor, who is himself unwell, attended the cremation on a wheelchair.

His nephews Randhir and Rishi Kapoor and his grandnephew Ranbir were also present for the last rites.

Apart from the family, many Bollywood celebrities like Amitabh Bachchan, Aamir Khan, Ashutosh Gowarikar, Prakash Jha, Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Ketan Desai, Satish Kaushik, Subhash Ghai, Jug Mundhra, Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, Yash Chopra, Nikhil Advani and Sudhir Mishra also came to the cremation ground.

Danny Denzongpa, Ranjeet, Fardeen Khan, Vinod Khanna, Anil Kapoor, Sanjay Kapoor, Tom Alter, Shatrughan Sinha, Tinu Anand and Kabir Bedi were also there.

Among the actress who came for the funeral were Priyanka Chopra and Madhuri Dixit.

Stringent security measures were taken and the entire area was full of police personnel.

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