This family of undivided India originates from the district of Lyallpur and the city of Peshawar in Pakistan (Photo: Indian Express).
Last days we talked about the Ganguly, Mukherjee and Samarth family and today we are going to talk about the family whose four generations have been ruling Bollywood for the last 100 years and which is called India’s first film dynasty. is
This family is none other than the Kapoor family. This family of undivided India originates from the district of Lyallpur and the city of Peshawar in Pakistan, where they still have their mansion.
The first Kapoor to step into the film industry was Prithviraj Kapoor who you may have seen in the role of Akbar in the movie ‘Mughal Azam’ and he truly became the Akbar of the film industry who has left his mark on the film world till date. are shining
Prithviraj Kapur was born in 1906 in Sarandi near Lyallpur, but when his father was transferred to Yeshawar, his family moved from Lyallpur district to Peshawar.
Prithviraj had five brothers and three sisters, out of which one brother, Trilok Kapoor, acted in films while the rest stayed away from films. Prithviraj had a cousin Surendra Kapoor. He was a filmmaker of his time and was about 20 years younger than Prithviraj Kapoor.
It is important to mention him here because he is the father of actors Anil Kapoor, Boney Kapoor and Sanjay Kapoor. Anil Kapoor and Sanjay Kapoor entered the field of acting, but Boney Kapoor remained in the field of filmmaking like his father and was married to actress Sridevi with whom he has two daughters, actresses Jhanvi Kapoor and Khushi Kapoor. Boney Kapoor’s son is Arjun Kapoor and he is reportedly with actor Arbaaz Khan’s ex-wife Malaika Arora.
While Anil Kapoor’s son Harshvardhan Kapoor also appeared in films, his daughter Sonam Kapoor gained more fame in the acting world.
Prithviraj Kapoor had three sons Raj Kapoor, Shami Kapoor and Shashi Kapoor and all acted in films. Among them, the elder brother Raj Kapoor not only gained fame as an actor but also as a filmmaker and director, he is among the leading directors of India. He set up his own film studio RK Studios at an early age and produced some of the most popular films of his time, while his father Prithviraj founded Prithvi Theatre, which is still owned by the Kapoor family.
This family is generally referred to as the first family of Bollywood. Kumari Naaz or Baby Naaz was married to Prithviraj’s nephew Sobhi Raj, who played the lead role as a child in Raj Kapoor’s 1954 film ‘Boot Polish’ and then ‘Bahu Begum’, ‘Sacha Jhoota’. And appeared in important films like ‘Kitty Patang’.
Among the many daughters-in-law who joined the Kapoor family were well-known actresses. Raj Kapoor married a housewife but his wife Krishna Malhotra is the sister of actors Prem Nath and Rajendra Nath and Narendra Nath. All of them thus became Raj Kapoor’s brothers-in-law and when Raj Kapoor made the film ‘Bobby’, he gave Premnath a new lease of life as a character actor.
Krishna Malhotra had a sister Uma who was married to actor Prem Chopra who played negative roles and thus Prem Chopra became Raj Kapoor’s soul mate.
Prithviraj Kapoor’s second son Shammi Kapoor married Geeta Bali and Shashi Kapoor married British actress Jennifer Kendall.
Shammi Kapoor’s son Aditya Raj Kapoor entered the film industry and his daughter is married to renowned filmmaker Manmohan Desai, who has made several films with Amitabh Bachchan including ‘Amar Akbar Anthony’, including ‘Quli’, ‘Sahaag’ and ‘Dharma’. Vir’ is included.
Shashi Kapoor has two sons, Kunal Kapoor and Karan Kapoor, while he has a daughter, Sanjana Kapoor, who is the caretaker of Prithvi Theatre. Both Shashi Kapoor’s sons tried their luck in films but were not very successful.
Raj Kapoor has three sons Randhir Kapoor, Rishi Kapoor and Rajeev Kapoor who have made their mark in the film world. If Randhir Kapoor married actress Babita, Rishi Kapoor married actress Neetu Singh.
Karisma Kapoor and Kareena Kapoor, the two daughters of Randhir Kapoor and Babita, entered the film world. Kareena Kapoor is married to actor Saif Ali Khan while Raj Kapoor’s daughter’s daughter-in-law is Amitabh Bachchan and actress Jaya Bachchan’s daughter Shweta Nanda. In this way, the influence of this family reaches the Bachchan family.
Rishi Kapoor and Neetu Singh’s son Ranbir Kapoor is considered a big star these days and he is married to actress Alia Bhatt whose father is filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt and her mother Soni Razdan who has been a well-known actress of her time. Alia Kapoor’s sister Pooja Bhatt was also once in the field of acting but later became a filmmaker.
A relative of Prithviraj Kapoor is Kamal Kapoor who has acted in hundreds of Marathi, Punjabi and Hindi films. You may have seen him in Amitabh Bachchan’s famous film ‘Don’ as Narang. Their daughter Ritu is married to renowned filmmaker Ramesh Bahl and their son Goldie Bahl is married to actress Sonali Bendre. Thus, the Kapoor family is related to the Bahl family by marriage.
Not only that, Raj Kapoor’s maternal uncle was Jogal Kishore Mehra, whose step-granddaughter is actress Salmi Agha, who is a Pakistani actress and acted in one of India’s most hit films of her time, ‘Nikaah’.
In this way, the Kapoor family, which originated from today’s Pakistan, is still somehow connected to the land of Pakistan. His four generations have appeared in films, so in a way, the fifth generation has entered films with reference to Saif Ali Khan’s daughter Sara Ali Khan, because if her real mother is Amrita Singh, then her stepmother is Kareena. Stay Kapoor.
And this family has given Ranbir Kapoor’s latest hit ‘Animal’ along with ‘Mughal Azam’, ‘Bobby’ and ‘Satyam Shivam Sundaram’, from the blockbuster film ‘Awara’ of its time, the Kapoor family continues to shine. is
