Shammi Kapoor's last appearance in 'Rockstar'

New Delhi, Aug 15 (PTI) The fans of Bollywood's legendary
star Shammi Kapoor who bid final adieu to him Monday, will get
to see him for one last time on the big screen in Imtiaz Ali's
upcoming movie 'Rockstar', opposite grandnephew Ranbir Kapoor.
The film that is set to hit theatres on November 11, will
see Shammi and Ranbir sharing the screen space together for
the first and the last time.
The duo will be seen together in a 'jugalbandi' where
Ranbir will be playing a guitar while Shammi will play a
shehnai.
"I was fortunate to get close to him and work with him.
He is irreplaceable. It is a loss to the film industry...it is
a sad news," Ali told reporters outside his residence.
The late actor was on dialysis when he shot for the film
in Delhi with Ranbir, who essays the role of a small-town boy
dreaming of becoming a rock star.
Shammi had earlier said that playing shenai had always
been his passion and was happy to show skills in a Gen-Y
movie.
A computer enthusiast, as he called himself, he was also
one of the firsts from Bollywood to join Twitter, introducing
himself to fans as a "renaissance man, retired actor and
computer buff."
The 79-year-old actor passed away on Sunday due to kidney
failure at Mumbai's Breach Candy Hospital and was cremated
at Ban Ganga crematorium.
Besides the whole Kapoor clan, Bollywood celebrities who
were present for the last rituals were Amitabh Bachchan, Aamir
Khan, Priyanka Chopra, Madhuri Dixit, Anil Kapoor, Vinod
Khanna, Danny and Shatrughan Sinha.
Actors Fardeen Khan, Tom Alter, Tinnu Anand and
industrialist Anil Ambani and Filmmakers Satish Kaushik,
Sudhir Mishra, Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Prakash Jha, Rakeysh
Omprakash Mehra, Ashutosh Gowariker, Ramesh Sippy with son
Rohan, Subhash Ghai and Nikhil Advani also paid tributes to
the late actor.