The untold story of Babita Kapoor’s defiance in Bollywood’s oldest film dynasty

Although most people know Babita through marriage into the Kapoor khandaan, fewer people actually know that she herself was born into a film family. Her father, Hari Shivdasani, was a character actor in Hindi cinema, and she is also the first cousin of actress Sadhana Shivdasani, who was one of the biggest style icons of the 1960s.