Shashi Kapoor, Sridevi to be remembered at New York Indian Film Festival

     Written by : SMTV24x7 | Wed, Mar 21, 2018, 12:48 AM

Shashi Kapoor, Sridevi to be remembered at New York Indian Film Festival

New York, March 20: Indian cinema icons Shashi Kapoor and Sridevi will be remembered at the New York Indian Film Festival. The event will be held from May 7-12.

Shashi Kapoor, star of Merchant-Ivory films such as "The Householder", will be honoured with the screenings of "Shakespeare Wallah" and "Heat and Dust".

The fest will also hold a Merchant-Ivory retrospective that also includes the screening of "Autobiography of a Princess", starring Madhur Jaffrey.

To honour Sridevi, her 2012 hit "English Vinglish", which was mainly set in New York, will be screened.

Son of Prithviraj Kapoor and younger brother of Raj Kapoor and Shammi Kapoor, Shashi Kapoor made his debut in Bollywood with the 1961 film "Dharmputra" after working as a child artist. He passed away in December 2017.