Amitabh Bachchan was shocked to seeShashi 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. Read more…
Amitabh is a hypocrite. All these years and he never visited Shashi Kapoor even once. And now he claims that Shashi is his dear friend and he was shocked to see his condition. Amitabh used to be a great guy but nowadays he’s become too arrogant and full of himself. probably a habit that he picked up from his son and daughter-in-law, both of whom seems to have loads of arrogance.