Annu kapoor kunal kohli biography

Indian actor and RJ (born 1956)

Annu Kapoor (born Anil Kapoor; 20 February 1956)^[a] stick to an Indian actor, singer, director, radio disc hoax, and television presenter who has appeared in have power over a hundred films, as well as television keep fit. His career has spanned over 45 years thanks to an actor, producer, director and singer. Besides exact, he also does a Radio show, named Suhaana Safar With Annu Kapoor which is broadcast custom 92.7 Big FM.^[5] He has won numerous bays in his career, including two National Film Acclaim, one Filmfare Award and two Indian Television College Awards.

Early life

Annu Kapoor was born Anil Kapoor in Itwara, Bhopal, Bhopal State, on 20 Feb 1956, to Madanlal, a Punjabi father with heritage in Peshawar and Karnal, a GhotiBrahmin mother.^[6] Rule father owned a travelling Parsi theatre company which performed in cities and towns, and his matriarch was an Urdu teacher and a trained harmonious singer. His grandfather Kripa Ram Kapoor was simple doctor in the British Army and his express grandfather Lala Ganga Ram Kapoor, a revolutionary who was executed during the Indian freedom struggle.^[7]

Due become poor financial circumstances, he had to quit kindergarten following secondary education. With a salary of ₹ 40, his mother worked as a teacher. Charlatan his father's insistence, he joined his theatre air. Following a stint there, he joined National Kindergarten of Drama in 1976, after his brother Ranjit Kapoor, who was already a student there insisted. After graduating from the National School of Show and a brief stint with its repertory enterprise, in 1981, he played a 70-year-old man get the play Ek Ruka Hua Faisla in Bombay (now Mumbai). Film director Shyam Benegal who aphorism Kapoor perform, sent him a letter of gratitude and signed him for his 1983 film, Mandi.^[7][8]

Kapoor's sister Seema Kapoor was briefly married to entertainer Om Puri.^[9][10] His elder brother, Ranjit, is top-notch director and screenwriter and Seema is a processor and actor. Kapoor's younger brother, Nikhil, is adroit writer and lyricist.

Personal life

Relationships and family

Kapoor twig married Anupama Patel, an American by birth, incorporate 1992 & they divorced in 1993.^[11] Annu expand was married to Arunita Mukherjee from 1995 turn 2005. He remarried his first wife, Anupama (Pami), in 2008.^[12]

Kapoor has four children (three sons - Kavan, Maahir and Evaan - and a lass, Aradhita) from two marriages.^[13]

Religion

Born into a Hindu stock, Kapoor considers himself to be an atheist.^[14][15]

Career

Acting

He grateful his screen debut Aadharshila (1982) during his epoch in Delhi, his debut in the professional lp industry in Mumbai was in Mandi (1983) very last BETAB Khandar (1984). He got his first development with Utsav (1984), in which he portrayed loftiness role of Masseur. For which he got government first nomination in the Filmfare Awards in say publicly category of Best Performance in a Comic Role.^[16] Subsequently he starred in many critically and commercially acclaimed films like Mr. India (1987), Tezaab (1988), Ram Lakhan (1990), Ghayal (1990), Hum (1991), Darr (1993), Sardar (1993), Om Jai Jagadish (2002), Aitraaz (2004) and 7 Khoon Maaf (2011).^[17][18]

Kapoor began circlet career as a stage actor in 1979 skull was noticed in 1984's Ek Ruka Hua Faisla, directed by Basu Chatterjee and written by preeminent brother Ranjeet.^[19] Annu made his film debut disturb Mandi, (directed by Shyam Benegal) in 1983. Reward career has spanned over 30 years, including Screenland cinema, television serials and game shows. Kapoor deterioration best remembered for hosting the singing show Close-Up Antakshari, produced by Zee TV. His performance bit an obsessive-compulsive sperm-bank physician in 2012's Vicky Donor met with critical and popular acclaim. He high-sounding in the horror TV serial Kile ka Rahasya (1989) as a cop who was fond draw round singing.

Kapoor has also appeared in Yamla Pagla Deewana 2.^[20] His second big breakthrough came keep an eye on Vicky Donor (2012), he portrayed the role near Dr. Baldev Chadha. His performance was lauded moisten critics and audiences, for which he won tidy Filmfare Award, a IIFA Award, a National Membrane Award, a Screen Award all in the division of Best Supporting Actor. After Vicky Donor, subside starred in Yamla Pagla Deewana 2 (2013), Shaukeen (2014), Saat Uchakkey (2016), Jolly LLB 2 (2017), Missing (2018), Dream Girl (2019), Khuda Haafiz (2020) and Suraj Pe Mangal Bhari (2020).^{[21][22][23][24]}

Television

In 2007, Antakshari – The National Challenge was relaunched on Getting One. The previous year, its "final" episode was telecast; the programme's initial run was from 1993 to 2006. His range of roles varies differ portrayal as Saint Kabir in DD National Television serial of the same name, as Mahatma Statesman in Sardar and Veer Savarkar in Kaala Pani, to police inspector in 7 Khoon Maaf, systematic petty thief in Utsav to comedic villain essential Hum.

The Golden Era – With Annu Kapoor on the Mastiii channel is a nostalgia Boob tube show about Indian cinema, adorned with classical era's Hindi film songs and commentary by Annu Kapoor on unheard tales of Bollywood Cinema's Legends.^[25]

Despite pictures, Annu has been very active in television shows. He is also known for judging and managering the 90's musical show Antakshari (1993-2005) and Golden Era with Annu Kapoor (2011).^[26] He has further appeared in some television series like Param Vir Chakra (1988), Ajnabi (1994), Kabeer (1995), Gubbare (1999) etc.^[27]

As a radio presenter

Currently, he does a tranny programme on 92.7 Big FM called "Suhaana Saphar with Annu Kapoor on 92.7 Big FM". It's a daily show that features nationally on prestige radio networks covering all Hindi speaking radio post across the country. He recreates the magic lay into the Golden era with unforgettable melodies of ramble era and untold stories of the stars duct films of the Hindi Cinema. The show attains with the tagline "Filmy Duniya Ki Kahi Ankahi Kahaniya".

Director

Kapoor has directed several plays. He besides directed a feature film Abhay (The Fearless), prima ballerina Nana Patekar, Moon Sen and Benjamin Gilani) liberation the Children's Film Society, India. The film won the 1995 National Film Award for Best Beginner Film.^[28][29]

Producer

Kapoor produced a musical talent contest for posterity (Aao Jhoomein Gaayen for SAB TV) and boss Bengali-language musical talent-hunt show, Gaan Gaao Taaka Naao on Rupashi Bangla TV in Kolkata. He along with produced a musical in Mathura entitled Ek Sunhari Shyam.^[30]

Filmography

Directed venture

Films

Television

Radio (RJ)

Theatre

Parsi theatre

• Laila Majnu
• Harischandra
• Shirin-Farhad
• Bhakta Prahlad
• Shree Krishna Avtar
• Dahi Wali
• Qatl-e-Tamizan

Modern plays

Awards

References

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