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Photo

The photo looks to be that of Shashi Kapoor and not of Prithviraj Kapoor. Can somebody verify? - Lost 09:00, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

No, the photo has a younger Prithviraj Kapoor, of 1929.

Image

Can we use the Non-Free Image File:Prithviraj Kapoor1.jpg in the title of this article? As it is fair use, removing it.--Vssun (talk) 05:12, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

I think as a Peshawar resident Prithvi would've been able to speak both Pushto and Urdu. The latter language as the regional language of Punjab, as well as NWFP's education system, would've been his medium of written communication. In fact Prithvi was cast, in films, in roles requiring high classic Urdu given his enunciation and accent. User: Moarrikh 23:22, 24 November 2011

Pathan/Pashtun ethnicity of Prithviraj Kapoor

User:Saladin1987 keeps erasing the Pathan/Pashtun references from this article. Before him was the now banned (User:PISCOSOUR786) who was doing the same deleting of Pathan. Every reliable published source I come across mentions that Prithviraj Kapoor was a Pathan/Pashtun.

“ For this Hindu Pathan family, actors belonged to the 'debauched' world of wandering street performers and nautanki groups, people outside the pale of society. ... He might have had to stand a long time had the gateman of the studio not been a Pathan. Prithvi spoke to him in Pashto. The guard, Behramshah, happy to discover a fellow Pathan, let him in and advised him to stand in line with the extras. ”
“ Prithviraj Kapoor represented the mental make-up of Pathans of North-West Frontier Province through another play called Pathan ”
“ In 1927, Prithviraj Kapoor abandoned his law studies, left his wife and child behind in northwestern border town Peshawar (now in Pakistan) and headed for Bombay. He was 21 years old, and started work as an extra for one rupee a day. Kapoor, a Hindu Pashtun, made it. ”

He named one of his earliest plays Pathan, which is the story of a Muslim and his Hindu friend. It is a well established fact that Prithviraj Kapoor was Pathan from Peshawar. The person who keeps deleting/erasing this is obviously showing everyone that she is a racist vandal. It is just a waste of time and future embarrasment for removing this well sourced information from the article.--Fareed30 (talk) 03:54, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

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