From Junglee To Brahmachari - Different Derivatives Of Shammi Kapoor

 

Bluff Master, Junglee, Batameez and Jaanwar – in how many notorious derivatives has he appeared before Indian audience! Raj Kumar, Prince, Professor, Laat Saab, Shahid Bhagat Singh, Brahmachari – The list of superlatives is too long! Perhaps he is the only star of Bollywood whose mannerisms in the movie has been adopted to name the title of the movie. Also, it’s to be noted that in most cases, they are just funny names reflecting the character played by Shammi Kapoor in his movie.

 

Shammi Kapoor belongs to the first family of Bollywood – Kapoor family. After a series of flops spanning in a period of 5 years, he delivered a hit in the name of Dil Dekhe Dekho opposite Ameeta. The procedure of naming Shammi Kapoor’s movies with the mannerisms he adopt in carrying forward the role has been initiated with the blockbuster hit of 1961 – Junglee. People loved him to see him in colour screen dancing and shouting with debut actress Saira Bhanu and Eastman colour frames gave a new get up to Shammi’s career too. As the idea of giving such superlative names as film title clicked, a series of movies were released this way. Surprisingly all those movies were hits too, placing him as one among the most wanted heroes of 1960’s. Also his distinct style and dances with western touch disturbing the heroine of movies gave him a lot of female admirers too.

 

In Junglee, he played the role of a rude rich man who falls in love with a simple girl of Kashmir. Next movie of this series was Professor. In this movie he disguises as an old professor to earn a living, who falls in love with his student. Again the name reflected the character role he played in this movie. In the movie Bluff master he plays the trick of a rich man. In movies like Prince and Raj Kumar, he did the role of Prince and both these movies were hits at box office, particularly for songs composed by Shankar Jaikishen and the way which Shammi gave new life to those songs. In Brahmachari, he did the role of an unmarried person who looks after a lot of orphans. This movie again, was a commercial hit giving him his first Filmfare awards best hero.

 

Yes, Shammi Kapoor carried a distinct style of acting and dancing and throughout those movies, he performed very energetic too. That’s the reason why he is still admired by millions of fans all over the world.               

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He is that wonderful actor who made me love Bollywood and listen Hindi songs

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