Anil Kapoor

Living in a Chawl in Tilak Nagar Punjabispeaking Anil was born in 1959 to Surinder and Nirmal aka Suchitra Kapoor He has an elder brother Boney a sister Reena and a younger brother Sanjay His dad used to be Shammi Kapoors Secretary A loner without many friends he studied in the nearby OLPS Our Lady of Perpetual Succor School and was an ardent fan of Bollywood flicks that were telecast during the Ganesh Maha Utsav every year He was a fan of Raj Kapoor and it was this that influenced his acting and people saw him as a mimic of the legendary showman He landed a role as a child artiste with Shashi Kapoor in the lead but the movie Tu Payal Main Geet was never released After school he went to study in St Xaviers College He commuted by bus and train from Chembur to Bombay VT and the walked the rest of the way It was here that he met Mazhar Khan A distracted Anil was kicked out of College in the second year due to his lack of presence His attempts to join the Pune Film Institute were in vain as he failed in the written examination He then decided to join Roshan Tanejas Acting school He first appeared on the silver screen in Hamhare Tumhare in a character role His first lead role was in Woh 7 Din and from thence on there has been no looking back He has acted in close to a 100 movies and has 5 in production He has produced two movies Gandhi My Father Badhaai Ho Badhaai as well as been a Casting DirectorOutdoor In charge for Hum Paanch Kapoors first role in an international film was in Danny Boyles 2008 Academy Awardwinning film Slumdog Millionaire for which he shared the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture His performance in the eighth season of the action series 24 generated rave reviews from the American press Globally Anil Kapoor is one of the most recognized Indian actors Anil met wealthy and chic model Sindhispeaking Sunita Bhambhani and married her in 1984 Since then they have given birth to 3 children kapoor has two daughters and a son Harshwardhan KapoorKapoors elder daughter is actress Sonam Kapoor Rhea Kapoor attended school in New York and is now a producer in Mumbai