BABITA KAPOOR
She is married to Randhir Kapoor (actor), Her daugthers Karishma Kapoor and Kareena are also in cinema.
Birth Name Bhambhani
Address R.K. Films, R.K. Studios, Trombai Road, Chembur, Mumbai 400 071
Daughter of Hari Shivdasani (Actor)
Cousin of Actress Sadhna
Before Partition very few Sindhis --- Bhudo Advani, Hari Shivdasani --- had made a name in the movies. Leading Sindhi cine artists include Sudhir, Mach Mohan, Raj Kiran (Mahtani) Asrani, Sheila Ramani, Babita, Sadhana. Sadhana Shivdasani married Nayyar, Babita Shivdasani married Randhir Kapoor.
Babita came in the industry when there were many talented actresses like Mala Sinha and Meena Kumari around. But still she carved out a niche for herself and found a place in the industry. With her cousin the beautiful Sadhana around and about, she had to withstand many comparisons. But this was not to stop her from anything. Her father Hari Shivdasani moulded her career as well as Sadhna's.
She has done movies with some of the top heroes of that time like Shammi Kapoor, Jeetendra and Biswajeet. But she got married with Raj Kapoor's son Randhir Kapoor and once married to him, she had to leave the industry.
But there should be nothing to worry for Babita has got two pretty daughters in Karisma and Kareena. With Karisma already a household name and younger daughter Kareena to soon follow the suit, Babita has all the chances of realising her dreams in them.
Babita with her daughters Karisma and Kareena.
Babita is a Sindhi and Kareena says she just adores eating Sindhi curry.
Let us not underestimate this desire among the haves to leave behind their own image in permanence. We begin to see cloning in a new light. Are these successful attempts at cloning? And, if they are, we better claim perfection in it altogether. This makes all theother feats of genetic engineering inconsequential. In animal and plant world, there does not seem to be any desire to mark the offspring in graven permanence, and they have achieved the same without all the expensive research and without all the cheerleading that we cannot do without. This genetic achievement, in which the photographic resemblance and the programming of talents and careers are guaranteed, goes far enough to reveal the motives of the class that wants to pursue cloning to win over the fear of mortality. In fact, Bollywooods upper class, as we have seen, has turned the gods tools against them and used life to extend life.
