oooh, shiny
It's as though he wants me not to like him.
This is horrible, actually, but it was too too funny not to post.
the Kapoor family tree
For all your Kapoor Khazana reference needs (and beyond), here is a Kapoor family tree. This image is courtesy of Madhu Jain's book The Kapoors: The First Family of Indian Cinema(Penguin Books India, 2005). Click the picture to enlarge to legible size.
The dates and underlining are my own. My notations indicate who is of what generation: double underlines are for Prithviraj's children; single underlines are for their children; dashed lines for their children; etc.
If you'd rather read, the family tree goes like this, color-coded by major branch and with the names you probably recognize in bold:
first and second generations: Prithviraj Kapoor (born 1906) is the father of Raj (Ranbir Raj, born 1924), Shammi (Shamsher Raj, 1931), and Shashi (Balbir Raj, 1938). Prithviraj and his wife Ramsarni (Rama) also had a daughter, Urmi (between Shammi and Shashi), and two children who died, Ravinder and Devinder.Prithviraj has a brother named Trilok Kapoor, who is a film actor too. H…
The dates and underlining are my own. My notations indicate who is of what generation: double underlines are for Prithviraj's children; single underlines are for their children; dashed lines for their children; etc.
If you'd rather read, the family tree goes like this, color-coded by major branch and with the names you probably recognize in bold:
first and second generations: Prithviraj Kapoor (born 1906) is the father of Raj (Ranbir Raj, born 1924), Shammi (Shamsher Raj, 1931), and Shashi (Balbir Raj, 1938). Prithviraj and his wife Ramsarni (Rama) also had a daughter, Urmi (between Shammi and Shashi), and two children who died, Ravinder and Devinder.Prithviraj has a brother named Trilok Kapoor, who is a film actor too. H…
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Anyway, I saw the title of this post and I just wanted to say that whenever I see something shiny, I always go "oooh, shiny!" too. Except with this picture, I just laughed.
akshaye baby, kya kare tum?
On my trip this summer, I was struck by the resemblance of one the staff of the Fulbright office in Delhi to what I imagine Akshaye will look like when he's 40. Or at least what he would look like if he quit the film industry, got a PhD, and started working for an educational foundation in Delhi. It was that little lurking smile under an otherwise unamused facial expression that made me realize it. I loved seeing that expression, and I could always tell when this guy thought something was ridiculous because you'd see the tiny smile creep in when he was trying to be polite.
(I will be totally amused if anyone from the Delhi Fulbright office knows what I'm talking about. I think at least one of them reads this. I don't want to name names, in case anyone takes offense; of course, no offense is meant by a comparison, by me, to Akshaye Khanna.)
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