The funeral of veteran Indian film star Shammi Kapoor has been held in the city of Mumbai.

印度老牌影星Shammi Kapoor的葬礼在孟买举行。

The actor's son, Adityaraj Kapoor, performed the last rites¹ at the cremation²（火葬） attended by Bollywood stars, friends and family.

Shammi Kapoor died of kidney failure, aged³ 79, early on Sunday.

One of the most popular stars of his generation, he starred in hits like Junglee, An Evening in Paris, Chinatown and Kashmir Ki Kali.

The actor belonged to the Indian film industry's famous family of actors that included his father, Prithviraj, and brothers Raj and Shashi Kapoor.

Bollywood stars Amitabh Bachchan, Aamir Khan, Priyanka Chopra and Anil Kapoor were among those who attended the funeral, along with a host of film-makers like Subhas Ghai and Sanjay Leela Bhansali.

A prominent star in 1950s and 1960s, fans called Kapoor the "Elvis Presley of India" for his frenetic（狂热的） and agile⁴（敏捷的） dancing in romantic hits such as 1957's Tumsa Nahin Dekha (You're One of a Kind) and 1959's Dil Deke Dekho (Give Your Heart and See).

The actor was also a keen internet buff and among the first Indians to have his own website. The site profiles his famous family, who have dominated Hindi-language cinema virtually since its inception⁵.

The Indian media carried the news of Shammi Kapoor's death prominently on their front pages on Monday.

'Redefined entertainment'

Chandan Mitra, editor of The Pioneer newspaper, wrote that Kapoor "redefined screen entertainment in post-Independence India".

"He broke away from mushy romances, laboured empathy with the underclass, stilted⁶, high-pitched dialogue-delivery and endlessly sobbing⁷ women," Mr Mitra wrote.

"His films steered⁸ clear of social messages... [and he] sang and danced into the hearts of a new generation of Indians straining at the leash⁹ to break away from the overdose of moralistic hype in the immediate¹⁰ aftermath of Gandhian puritanism（清教） and Nehruvian socialism."

Critic Radha Rajadhyaksha wrote that Kapoor brought "ebullience¹¹（奔放，兴高采烈） and flamboyance¹²（华丽，炫耀） " to Bollywood.

"Kapoor brought to the romanticism of the Hindi film song a certain sexuality, an erotic charge that was a far cry from the way other actors played it," she wrote in the Times of India newspaper.

Bollywood actor Imran Khan wrote in a tribute that Kapoor was the "original Indian rock star".

"He created a style that was all his own, and 50 years down the line, none can touch him in that space," he wrote in the Hindustan Times.

Kapoor's popular co-actress Sharmila Tagore remembered him as a man who "lived to the fullest" and "never let his illness get in the way of his enjoyment¹³".