Ranbir Kapoor's look alike Junaid Shah dies due to cardiac arrest

Junaid Shah, who makes uncanny resemblance to the chocolate hero Ranbir Kapoor, passed away due to cardiac arrest. A resident of Kashmir valley, Ellahi Bagh area of Srinagar, Shah was 28.Kashmiri model Shah, became a social media star in 2014 for his uncanny resemblance to Kapoor. Shah also gained the attention of Ranbir’s father, late actor Rishi Kapoor, who tweeted that Junaid was a ‘good double’.

OMG. My own son has a double!!! Promise cannot make out. A good double

— Rishi Kapoor (@chintskap) April 16, 2015

Confirming Junaid’s death, journalist Yusuf Jameel wrote on Twitter, “Our old neighbor Nissar Ahmed Shah’s son Junaid passed away due to massive cardiac arrest overnight. People say he was a lookalike of Bollywood actor Ranbir Kapoor. I say he was a big hope, strength & salvation of his ailing father and his mother & that of the whole Kashmir. Magfirah!”

Jameel wrote that Junaid was 28, and had reportedly enrolled at Anupam Kher’s acting class in Mumbai, where he’d done a few modelling assignments.

Jameel wrote, “I’m told 28-year-old Junaid Shah and his parents had about a month back returned home from Mumbai where he would do modelling and was also reportedly enrolled in @AnupamPKher ‘s school of acting. He had no history of heart ailment.”