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Jennifer Kendal Kapoor (28 February 1934 – 7 September 1984) [1] was an English actress and the founder of the Prithvi Theatre. She was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for the film 36 Chowringhee Lane (1981).
While playing the role of Miranda in the play “The Tempest” in 1956, Jennifer met Shashi Kapoor for the first time Calcutta (now, Kolkata). After dating for two years, Shashi and Jennifer married in July 1958. She helped Shashi rejuvenating the Prithvi Theatre in Bombay (now, Mumbai). Kendal and Kapoor appeared together in several films ...
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Dec 5, 2017 · We've been hearing much about his wife, Jennifer Kendal in the last two days. We've seen her pictures everywhere: a girl with sparkling eyes, with an electric personality to match, according to her family and friends.
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How did it all start? It was the Royal Opera House in Mumbai, then Bombay, where Shashi caught a glimpse of a beautiful girl dressed in a black-and-white polka-dotted dress. Little did he know then that the girl, Jennifer Kendal, daughter of Shakespearana's Goeffrey Kendal, would change his life. According to Jennifer's sister Felicity Kendal's aut...
However, it was not all rosy in the beginning as Jennifer's father was against their relationship. He would not hear of the actor marrying his daughter and was often nasty towards him. He chastised him for his accent and fought with him over Jennifer, but that couldn't keep the couple apart. In a biography of Shashi Kapoor written by Aseem Chhabra,...
In 1983, Jennifer was diagnosed with colon cancer and she spent the last months of her life in her home in Britain. She died in 1984, leaving Shashi devastated. His son, Kunal had earlier said, "When he got there, that was the first time he cried. Really, he wept." Simi Garewal wrote in Shashi Kapoor's biography, "Jennifer occupied - or Shashi surr...
Women may have lusted after other actors, but they fell in love with Shashi Kapoor. Be it his dimpled cheeks or his on-screen romance, lovelorn daughters, mothers and even grandmothers believed in him as a romantic lover. His 1965 film Jab Jab Phool Khile was a key takeaway as his romance with leading co-actor Nanda was simply unmissable. Given the...
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Feb 11, 2024 · Jennifer Kendal was an English woman, who was in India by fluke, with her father Geoffrey Kendal's traveling theater group Shakespeareana (partly the reason behind the header, you see).
Dec 5, 2017 · In July 1958, Shashi Kapoor and Jennifer Kendal got married. Soon after their wedding, Shashi and Jennifer reached Calcutta for their honeymoon. In Room No 17 of Fairlawn Hotel, on 33-A Sudder Street in Calcutta, Shashi and Jennifer spent the first few days of their married life.
Sep 7, 2021 · Apart from his professional excellence, Shashi was a man of his words, as he had remained single and devoted to his wife, Jennifer Kendal, after her demise on September 7, 1984, due to cancer.
