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Shashi Kapoor cremated with state honour
Mumbai, Dec 5 (IBNS) : Veteran actor Shashi Kapoor, who died in Mumbai on Monday, was cremated with state honour on Tuesday as a huge multitude, including his family and the film fraternity,bid him adieu.
The last rites of the actor was performed at noon the Santacruz Hindu crematorium where a three gun salute was given to him.
Earlier, the actor-producer's body was taken to the crematorium from his Juhu home in an ambulance.
His three children -- sons Kunal and Karan and daughter Sanjna -- were there as were other members of the Kapoor family.
About a dozen policemen draped the actor's body in tricolour. Then a minute's silence was observed.
Shashi Kapoor, who had worked in more than 100 films, was 79. He had been battling a kidney ailment.
Kapoor was a three-time winner at India’s National Film Awards.
He was the youngest brother of legendary Raj Kapoor and son of Prithviraj Kapoor, one of the leading figures in in the modern school of acting in India.
His wife, English actress Jennifer Kendal, predeceased him in 1984.
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