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Rishi Kapoor: Bollywood's Romantic Hero Dies At 67 Years. Bollywood actor Rishi Kapoor, famed for his romantic roles, has died of cancer aged 67. He was part of the Kapoor acting dynasty which has long dominated Bollywood, the Hindi film industry. The actor made a huge splash in 1973 with his first lead role in Bobby - a teenage love story. He played the romantic lead in dozens of films for over two decades, after which he made a successful transition to character roles. Rishi Kapoor debuted as a child actor in 1970 in his father Raj Kapoor's film, Mera Naam Joker. Several of his films in the 1980s and 90s - Khel Khel Mein, Karz and Chandni - became massive box office hits. He was a skilful dancer and some of his films had songs that are massively popular even today. Kapoor made a successful on-screen pair with actress Neetu Singh. In one of Bollywood's most enduring love stories, they took that romance off-screen as well when they got married in 19...

Obituary: Irrfan Khan, Star of Slumdog Millionaire and Indian Films. Irrfan Khan was one of Indian cinema's finest actors and among its most successful exports to Hollywood. A veteran of nearly 80 films, he almost gave up acting in his 30s - after an unrewarding decade in TV soaps. Khan lacked the looks for a traditional Bollywood romantic lead but made his name as a character actor in Hindi cinema and in Hollywood productions like Life of Pi, Slumdog Millionaire and Jurassic World. Deeply introspective and philosophical in nature, Khan would speak candidly and often controversially about both his Muslim religion and the film industries in which he worked. "I always object to the word Bollywood," he once told the Guardian. "That industry has its own technique that... has nothing to do with aping Hollywood. It originates in Parsi theatre. "Hollywood is too planned. India has no planning at all. It's more spontaneous and informal. India cou...