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Rishi Kapoor: Bollywood icon dead at 67

Rishi Kapoor: Bollywood icon dead at 67
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NEW DELHI — Top Indian actor Rishi Kapoor, a scion of Bollywood’s most famous Kapoor family, has died. He was 67 and had leukemia.

Kapoor acted in more than 90 films, frequently alongside his wife, Nitu Singh. His father Raj Kapoor and grandfather Prithviraj Kapoor were doyens of India's vast Hindi-language film industry, and his son Ranbir Kapoor is a top actor.

Bollywood icon Amitabh Bachchan tweeted “Rishi Kapoor gone….Just passed away… I am destroyed."