Shammi Kapoor and Shashi Kapoor hospitalised and critical

Shammi Kapoor and Shashi Kapoor have both taken ill and things are not looking up for the filmi veterans.
Even as the newest Kapoor, Ranbir, looks set to carry the RK torch to new territory, bad news hits the Kapoor khandaan with full force. Both Shammi and Shashi had been hospitalised last month and their condition has worsened.

While Shashi is down with fever, Shammi was hospitalised due to acute kidney failure. The actor was taken to the Intensive Care Unit when he showed signs of being critical.
Sources inform that the two have requested their families to discharge them from the hospital so they can spend some quality time with their loved ones.
We wish them good health.
Source:ndtv
Shammi Kapoor , born 21 October 1931 in a Punjabi Khatri family, is an Indian film actor and director. He was a prominent lead actor in Hindi cinema during the late 1950s and 1960s.

He was given the name Shamsher Raj Kapoor at his birth in Mumbai to film and theatre actor Prithviraj Kapoor. Shammi was the second of the three sons born to Prithviraj (the other two being Raj Kapoor and Shashi Kapoor), both of whom were, like their father, successful Bollywood actors. Though he was born in Mumbai, he spent a major portion of his childhood in Kolkata, where his father was involved with New Theatres Studios, acting in films. It was in Kolkata only that he did his Montessory and Kindergarten. After coming back to Mumbai, he first went to St. Joseph’s Convent (Wadala) and then, to Don Bosco School. Shammi Kapoor finished his schooling from New Era School, at Hughes Road.
Shammi Kapoor Personal Life:
Shammi Kapoor had a short stint at the Ruia College, after which he joined his father’s theatrical company “Prithvi Theatres”. He entered the world of cinema in 1948, as a junior artiste, at a salary of Rs. 50 per month. Kapoor stayed with Prithvi Theatres for the next four years and collected his last paycheck, Rs. 300, in 1952. He made his debut in Bollywood in the year 1953, when the film Jeevan Jyoti was released. It was directed by Mr. Mahesh Kaul and Chand Usmani was Kapoor’s first heroine.
Shammi Kapoor met Geeta Bali in the year 1955, during the shooting of the film ‘Rangeen Raaten’, in which he was the main lead and she played a cameo. They fell in love, but since she was a year older to him and had acted with his elder brother and father, they were skeptical. Four months after they first met, they decided to get married. Shammi and Geeta went to Banganga Temples, near Napean Sea Road of Mumbai, and got married, with Hari Walia as the sole witness. It was only after the marriage that they informed their parents.
The couple lived a life of bliss in the coming years and had a son the following year. Aditya Raj Kapoor was born on 1 July 1956, at Shirodkar’s Hospital, Mumbai. Five years later, in 1961, they had another child. This time, it was a daughter, Kanchan. Tragedy struck the Kapoor family during the filming of Teesri Manzil (1966) and Geeta died of small pox leaving him with two small children. It led to a failed romance with Mumtaz, his co-star from Brahmchari (1968).
In 1969, he married his second wife Neela Devi Gohil from the Royal Family of Bhavnagar in Gujarat, and his significant weight gain ended his career as a romantic hero in the early 1970s, with Andaz(1971) being one of his last hits. He turned into a successful supporting actor in the 70′s, playing Saira Banu’s father in Zameer (1975), when he had been her leading man a decade earlier in Junglee(1961) and Bluff Master (1964) and playing Amitabh Bachchan’s foster father in Parvarish.
Awards won By Shammi Kapoor:

• 1962 – Filmfare Nomination as Best Actor–Professor
• 1968 – Filmfare Best Actor Award, Brahmachar
• 1982 – Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award, Vidhata
• 1995 – Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award
• 1998 – Kalakar Awards – Special Award for “contribution in Indian Cinema”
• 1999 – Zee Cine Award for Lifetime Achievement
• 2001 – Star Screen Lifetime Achievement Award
• 2001 – Anandalok Awards Lifetime Achievement Award
• 2002 – Invaluable Contribution To Indian Cinema at the IIFA.
• 2005 – Lifetime Achievement Award at the Bollywood Movie Awards
• 2008 – Lifetime Achievement Award for his contribution to Indian cinema at the Pune International Film Festival (PIFF).
• 2009 – Phalke Legend Actor Award by the Dadasaheb Phalke Academy
• Recipient of the prestigious Living Legend Award by the Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the Indian entertainment industry.
• Rashtriya Gaurav Award