Pardesiyon ko hai ek din jaana: Shashi Kapoor cremated with honours

Mumbai, December 5 : The skies opened up on Tuesday as the legendary Shashi Kapoor, the romantic Hindi screen icon of the 70s and 80s, was cremated with state honours at the Santacruz Hindu crematorium here.
The long ailing actor passed away on Monday evening at the Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital here. He was 79.
Kapoor was given a state funeral, which was held amid massive security around noon in the electric crematorium.
The actor-producer’s body was taken to the crematorium from his Juhu home in an ambulance at 11.45 am.
Hundreds of people bid the actor a tearful adieu in the pelting rain.
His three children–sons Kunal and Karan and daughter Sanjna–were there as were other members of the Kapoor family and scores of film personalities to say their goodbyes to the actor who straddled the worlds of commercial and art house cinema.
About a dozen policemen draped the actor’s body in Tricolour, which was later removed for the rituals. There were three rounds of fire to honour the late actor, who had spent more than four decades in Hindi cinema.
This was followed by a minute’s silence. Hundreds of fans with umbrellas and raincoats gathered at the crematorium, undeterred by the rain and warnings of a cyclone.