From Sharmila Tagore and Asha Parekh to Hema Malini, Zeenat Aman, Mumtaz, Shabana Azmi and of course Raakhee Gulzar with whom Shashi Kapoor did the maximum number of films, the demise of the veteran actor has left his heroines shattered. Shabana who is in Sydney is too grieved to speak on the actor whom she names among the biggest influences in her life along with Shashi's wife Jennifer Kendal, filmmaker Shyam Benegal and her parents Kaifi and Shaukat Azmi. "He was the most handsome man I've ever come across," says Shabana.

Shashi Kapoor and Zeenat Aman