Amitabh Bachchan pens emotional note for 'beautiful friend' Shashi Kapoor

As legendary actor Shashi Kapoor breathed his last on Monday morning, his co-star and friend, superstar Amitabh Bachchan wrote an emotional post on the late actor recalling how Kapoor had inspired him in more ways than one.

Bachchan's emotional blog post was full of nostalgia as he recalled seeing a Shashi Kapoor's photo in a magazine in the 1960s. The photo was to announce Kapoor's entry into Hindi films, recalled Big B. "I saw him standing by a Mercedes Sports car, a convertible, a smart trimmed beard and moustache, adorning involuntarily, the face of this incredibly handsome man. It was a picture that filled almost an entire page of a magazine. Shashi Kapoor … son of Prithviraj Kapoor, younger brother to Raj Kapoor and Shammi Kapoor, making a debut in a forthcoming film, is what the caption read .." wrote Bachchan.

The superstar recalled how looking at Shashi Kapoor's striking image, he had himself thought he stood no chance in films. "And I said to myself, as very uncertain thoughts raced through my mind of wanting to become a film actor, that, with men like him around, I stood no chance at all .."the actor wrote.

Bachchan and Kapoor worked together in 16 films and ruled the Box Office together in the 1970s. The most prominent film that the two featured in was Deewar, which had the two actors playing brothers but pitted against each other.

Bachchan also wrote that how Shashi Kapoor was a humble man and despite the stardom, he would always warmly introduce himself to people, irrespective of the fact that they might already know him. The late actor had also inspired Big B to get his now signature haircut.

"His semi curly hair on head, falling carelessly over his forehead and ears, not quite covering it .. and my upper story mumbled again: ‘hey ! maybe you should think of covering your ears as well ..’ … and off I went to Hakim the hair dresser at Taj Hotel with my plan .. and executed, it remained till date .." the actor wrote.

The actor also admitted that in the last few days, he had not visited Kapoor at the hospital and why he chose to visit Shashi Kapoor's residence on Monday night after he got the news of his demise. " I never ever wanted to see this beautiful friend and ‘samdhi’ in the state I saw him in hospital .. and I did not today, when they informed me that he had gone."

The actor was seen at Kapoor's residence along with son Abhishek Bachchan and daughter-in-law Aishwarya Rai on Monday night.