The Kapoor family is a prominent India

India

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n family with a long history in Bollywood

Bollywood

Bollywood is the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai , Maharashtra, India. The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; it is only a part of the total Indian film industry, which includes other production centers producing...

 cinema. Many members of the family have been successful actors, film directors

Film director

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, and producers

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Background

Prithviraj Kapoor

Prithviraj Kapoor

Prithviraj Kapoor , 3 November 1906 – 29 May 1972) was a pioneer of Indian theatre and of the Hindi film industry, who started his career as an actor, in the silent era of Hindi cinema, associated with IPTA and who founded Prithvi Theatres, a travelling theatre company based in Mumbai, in...

, the first of the family to pursue acting, was born in 1906 in the town of Samundri

Samundri

Samundri is a city of Faisalabad District in the Punjab province of Pakistan. It is located at 30°48'30N 71°52'15E with an altitude of 130 metres , and lies 45 from Faisalabad. It is the headquarters of Samundri Tehsil, a subdivision of the district.-History:Samundri was on a major trade route...

 near Faisalabad

Faisalabad

Faisalabad , formerly known as Lyallpur, is the third largest metropolis in Pakistan, the second largest in the province of Punjab after Lahore, and a major industrial center in the heart of Pakistan. Before the foundation of the city in 1880, the area was very thinly populated. The population has...

, in the Punjab province of Pakistan

Pakistan

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. His father, a policeman, was posted at Peshawar

Peshawar

Peshawar is the capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and the administrative center and central economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan....

, and his grandfather was a Tehsildar

Tehsildar

A tehsildar is a revenue administrative officer in Pakistan and India in charge of obtaining taxation from a tehsil. The term is of imperial Mughal origin made of "tahsil", an Islamic administrative derived from Arabic, meaning "revenue generating; collection" and "dar", Persian for "holder of a...

 in Samundri. Prithviraj's first lead role was in Cinema Girl in 1929.

Though all three of Prithviraj Kapoor's sons, Raj Kapoor

Raj Kapoor

Known as Ranbir Raj Kapoor Rāj Kapūr, 14 December 1924 – 2 June 1988), also known as The Show-Man, was an Indian film actor, producer and director of Hindi cinema. He was the winner of nine Filmfare Awards, while his films Awaara and Boot Polish were nominated for the Palme d'Or at the...

, Shammi Kapoor

Shammi Kapoor

Shammi Kapoor was an Indian film actor and director. He was a prominent lead actor in Hindi cinema from the late 1950s until the early 1970s....

, and Shashi Kapoor

Shashi Kapoor

Shashi Kapoor , born Balbir-Raj Prithviraj Kapoor on 18 March 1938 in Calcutta , is an award-winning Indian film actor and film producer. He has also been film director and assistant director in Hindi Films. He is a member of the Kapoor family, a film dynasty in India's Bollywood cinema...

, became actors, it is Raj Kapoor's descendants who have carried on the family legacy. His sons, Randhir Kapoor

Randhir Kapoor

Randhir Kapoor is a Bollywood actor, producer and director. His nickname is Daboo.-Early life:Randhir Kapoor hails from the legendary Kapoor family. He is the eldest son of Raj Kapoor. He is a fourth generation Kapoor and comes from a distinguished Punjabi Hindu family who have been part of the...

 and Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor is an Indian Bollywood actor, film producer and director.-Early life:Born in Chembur Mumbai, Kapoor is the second son of film director and star Raj Kapoor. He did his schooling with his brothers at Campion School,Mumbai. His brothers are well-known actors: Randhir Kapoor and Rajiv...

, went on to become well-known actors; his youngest son, Rajiv Kapoor

Rajiv Kapoor

Rajiv Kapoor is an Indian film actor, producer, director and a member of the famous Kapoor Family.-Career:He had a short stint in the Hindi film industry, acting in only 13 films. His first film was Ek jaan hain hum , with Divya Rana, Shammi Kapoor, Pran, and Gulshan Grover...

, was not as successful as his brothers. Randhir Kapoor's daughters, Karisma Kapoor

Karisma Kapoor

Karisma Kapoor , often informally referred to as Lolo, is an Indian actress who made her debut in 1991, and appears in Bollywood films. During her career, she has been part of many commercially and critically successful films, Raja Hindustani being the most notable of them, as it was her biggest...

 and Kareena Kapoor

Kareena Kapoor

Kareena Kapoor , often informally referred to as Bebo, is an Indian actress who appears in Bollywood films. During her career, Kapoor has received six Filmfare Awards, among nine nominations, and has been noted for her performances in a range of film genres; these include her work from contemporary...

, have found success in the film industry. Rishi Kapoor's son, Ranbir Kapoor

Ranbir Kapoor

Ranbir Kapoor is an Indian actor who appears in Bollywood movies.Making his acting debut in the 2007 film Saawariya, for which he won the Filmfare Award for Best Male Debut, Kapoor went on to earn critical praise for his performance in Wake Up Sid...

, made his debut in 2007 opposite Sonam Kapoor

Sonam Kapoor

Sonam Kapoor is an Indian film actress who appears in Bollywood films. Kapoor made her acting debut in the unsuccessful film Saawariya opposite newcomer Ranbir Kapoor, which earned her a nomination for Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut. She earned her first commercial success in I Hate Luv...

, the daughter of Anil Kapoor

Anil Kapoor

Anil Kapoor is an Indian actor and producer who mainly appears in Bollywood films. He won a Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award for his role in Yash Chopra's film Mashaal ....

, in Sanjay Leela Bhansali

Sanjay Leela Bhansali

Sanjay Leela Bhansali is an Indian film director. He is an alumnus of the Film and Television Institute of India...

's Saawariya

Saawariya

Saawariya is a 2007 Hindi film based on Fyodor Dostoevsky's short story "White Nights".Co-produced by Sony Pictures Entertainment and released on 9 November 2007, it is the first Bollywood movie to receive a North American release by a Hollywood studio, shortly preceding Walt Disney Pictures'...

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Family tree

First generation

• Dewan Basheswarnath Kapoor – a retired policeman and son of Dewan Keshavmal Kapoor who made a cameo in his grandson Raj Kapoor
  Raj Kapoor
  Known as Ranbir Raj Kapoor Rāj Kapūr, 14 December 1924 – 2 June 1988), also known as The Show-Man, was an Indian film actor, producer and director of Hindi cinema. He was the winner of nine Filmfare Awards, while his films Awaara and Boot Polish were nominated for the Palme d'Or at the...
  
  's movie, Awaara
  Awaara
  Awaara is a 1951 Hindi film directed and produced by Raj Kapoor who also plays the leading role. His real-life father Prithviraj Kapoor stars as his on-screen father Judge Raghunath. Kapoor's youngest real-life brother Shashi Kapoor plays the younger version of his character...
  
  (1951)

Second generation

• Prithviraj Kapoor
  Prithviraj Kapoor
  Prithviraj Kapoor , 3 November 1906 – 29 May 1972) was a pioneer of Indian theatre and of the Hindi film industry, who started his career as an actor, in the silent era of Hindi cinema, associated with IPTA and who founded Prithvi Theatres, a travelling theatre company based in Mumbai, in...
  
   – eldest son of Dewan Basheswarnath Kapoor; married to Ramsarni Mehra
• Trilok Kapoor – second son of Dewan Basheswarnath Kapoor

Third generation

• Raj Kapoor
  Raj Kapoor
  Known as Ranbir Raj Kapoor Rāj Kapūr, 14 December 1924 – 2 June 1988), also known as The Show-Man, was an Indian film actor, producer and director of Hindi cinema. He was the winner of nine Filmfare Awards, while his films Awaara and Boot Polish were nominated for the Palme d'Or at the...
  
   – eldest son of Prithviraj; married to Krishna Malhotra
• Shammi Kapoor
  Shammi Kapoor
  Shammi Kapoor was an Indian film actor and director. He was a prominent lead actor in Hindi cinema from the late 1950s until the early 1970s....
  
  - second son of Prithviraj; married to Geeta Bali
  Geeta Bali
  Geeta Bali was a popular film actress from Bollywood.-Early life:Bali was born in a Mohyal family in pre-partition Punjab as Harkirtan Kaur, a Sikh. Her family moved to Bombay and were living in near poverty when she started to get breaks in films.-Career:Bali became a star in the 1950s...
  
   (first wife) and Neila Devi (second wife)
• Shashi Kapoor
  Shashi Kapoor
  Shashi Kapoor , born Balbir-Raj Prithviraj Kapoor on 18 March 1938 in Calcutta , is an award-winning Indian film actor and film producer. He has also been film director and assistant director in Hindi Films. He is a member of the Kapoor family, a film dynasty in India's Bollywood cinema...
  
   – youngest son of Prithviraj; married to Jennifer Kendal
  Jennifer Kendal
  Jennifer Kapoor - born Jennifer Kendal - was a British actress who married Shashi Kapoor of the Kapoor family.-Childhood:Jennifer Kendal was born in Southport, England, but spent much of her youth in India...
  
  

Fourth generation

• Randhir Kapoor
  Randhir Kapoor
  Randhir Kapoor is a Bollywood actor, producer and director. His nickname is Daboo.-Early life:Randhir Kapoor hails from the legendary Kapoor family. He is the eldest son of Raj Kapoor. He is a fourth generation Kapoor and comes from a distinguished Punjabi Hindu family who have been part of the...
  
   – eldest son of Raj Kapoor; married to Babita
  Babita
  Babita is an Indian actress. She is now better known as the mother of actresses Kareena Kapoor and Karisma Kapoor and the wife of Randhir Kapoor.- Early life :...
  
  
• Rishi Kapoor
  Rishi Kapoor
  Rishi Kapoor is an Indian Bollywood actor, film producer and director.-Early life:Born in Chembur Mumbai, Kapoor is the second son of film director and star Raj Kapoor. He did his schooling with his brothers at Campion School,Mumbai. His brothers are well-known actors: Randhir Kapoor and Rajiv...
  
   – second son of Raj Kapoor; married to Neetu Singh Kapoor
  Neetu Singh
  Neetu Singh is an Indian Bollywood actress. She worked as a child actor under the name Baby Sonia. She played Roopa in the 1966 movie Dus Lakh and a dual role in the film Do Kaliyaan. Her other notable films were Waris and Pavitra Paapi.-Career:Neetu Singh made her debut as an actress in 1972 with...
  
  
• Rajiv Kapoor
  Rajiv Kapoor
  Rajiv Kapoor is an Indian film actor, producer, director and a member of the famous Kapoor Family.-Career:He had a short stint in the Hindi film industry, acting in only 13 films. His first film was Ek jaan hain hum , with Divya Rana, Shammi Kapoor, Pran, and Gulshan Grover...
  
   – youngest son of Raj Kapoor
• Ritu Nanda
  Ritu Nanda
  Ritu Kapoor-Nanda, currently the Chief Executive Officer of Escolife, is a prominent Indian entrepreneur associated chiefly with the life insurance business...
  
   – eldest daughter of Raj Kapoor; married to Rajan Nanda
• Rima Kapoor Jain – second daughter of Raj Kapoor; married to Manoj Jain
• Kanchan Desai – daughter of Shammi Kapoor; married to Ketan Desai, son of Manmohan Desai
  Manmohan Desai
  Manmohan Desai was a producer and director of Indian movies.- Background :His father, Kikubhai Desai, was an Indian film producer and owner of Paramount Studios from 1931 to 1941. His productions, mainly stunt films, included Circus Queen, Golden Gang, and Sheikh Challi...
  
  
• Aditya Raj Kapoor – son of Shammi Kapoor; married to Priti
• Kunal Kapoor
  Kunal Kapoor (Kapoor family)
  Kunal Kapoor is a former Indian film actor of British and Indian descent. He is the eldest son of Shashi Kapoor and late Jennifer Kendal. Not to be confused with the young Indian actor Kunal Kapoor who starred in Rang De Basanti and Hattrick....
  
   – eldest son of Shashi Kapoor and Jennifer Kendal, married to Sheena Sippy, daughter of film director Ramesh Sippy
• Karan Kapoor
  Karan Kapoor
  Karan Kapoor, Indian actor and model of the 1980s, is a member of the famous Kapoor family, an influential film dynasty in India's Bollywood cinema.-Career:...
  
   – second son of Shashi Kapoor and Jennifer Kendal
• Sanjana Kapoor
  Sanjana Kapoor
  Sanjana Kapoor is an Indian theatre personality and former Indian film actress, who has been running the Prithvi Theatre in Mumbai since 1993. till 2012 February. -Biography:...
  
   – daughter of Shashi Kapoor and Jennifer Kendal; married to Valmik Thapar
• Namita Kapur – daughter of Urmila Sial, married to Vicky Kapur
• Anuradha Kheta – daughter of Urmila Sial, married to Prakash Kheta
• Priti Grover – daughter of Urmila Sial, married to Sandeep Grover
• Jatin Sial – son of Urmila Sial, married Kavita Sharma

Fifth generation

• Karisma Kapoor
  Karisma Kapoor
  Karisma Kapoor , often informally referred to as Lolo, is an Indian actress who made her debut in 1991, and appears in Bollywood films. During her career, she has been part of many commercially and critically successful films, Raja Hindustani being the most notable of them, as it was her biggest...
  
   – eldest daughter of Randhir Kapoor
  Randhir Kapoor
  Randhir Kapoor is a Bollywood actor, producer and director. His nickname is Daboo.-Early life:Randhir Kapoor hails from the legendary Kapoor family. He is the eldest son of Raj Kapoor. He is a fourth generation Kapoor and comes from a distinguished Punjabi Hindu family who have been part of the...
  
   and Babita
  Babita
  Babita is an Indian actress. She is now better known as the mother of actresses Kareena Kapoor and Karisma Kapoor and the wife of Randhir Kapoor.- Early life :...
  
  ; married to Sanjay Kapur
• Kareena Kapoor
  Kareena Kapoor
  Kareena Kapoor , often informally referred to as Bebo, is an Indian actress who appears in Bollywood films. During her career, Kapoor has received six Filmfare Awards, among nine nominations, and has been noted for her performances in a range of film genres; these include her work from contemporary...
  
   – second daughter of Randhir Kapoor
  Randhir Kapoor
  Randhir Kapoor is a Bollywood actor, producer and director. His nickname is Daboo.-Early life:Randhir Kapoor hails from the legendary Kapoor family. He is the eldest son of Raj Kapoor. He is a fourth generation Kapoor and comes from a distinguished Punjabi Hindu family who have been part of the...
  
   and Babita
  Babita
  Babita is an Indian actress. She is now better known as the mother of actresses Kareena Kapoor and Karisma Kapoor and the wife of Randhir Kapoor.- Early life :...
  
  
• Ranbir Kapoor
  Ranbir Kapoor
  Ranbir Kapoor is an Indian actor who appears in Bollywood movies.Making his acting debut in the 2007 film Saawariya, for which he won the Filmfare Award for Best Male Debut, Kapoor went on to earn critical praise for his performance in Wake Up Sid...
  
   – son of Rishi Kapoor
  Rishi Kapoor
  Rishi Kapoor is an Indian Bollywood actor, film producer and director.-Early life:Born in Chembur Mumbai, Kapoor is the second son of film director and star Raj Kapoor. He did his schooling with his brothers at Campion School,Mumbai. His brothers are well-known actors: Randhir Kapoor and Rajiv...
  
   and Neetu Singh Kapoor
  Neetu Singh
  Neetu Singh is an Indian Bollywood actress. She worked as a child actor under the name Baby Sonia. She played Roopa in the 1966 movie Dus Lakh and a dual role in the film Do Kaliyaan. Her other notable films were Waris and Pavitra Paapi.-Career:Neetu Singh made her debut as an actress in 1972 with...
  
  
• Armaan Jain – eldest son of Rima and Manoj Jain
• Aadar Jain – second son of Rima and Manoj Jain
• Riddhima Sahni Kapoor – daughter of Rishi Kapoor and Neetu Singh Kapoor
  Neetu Singh
  Neetu Singh is an Indian Bollywood actress. She worked as a child actor under the name Baby Sonia. She played Roopa in the 1966 movie Dus Lakh and a dual role in the film Do Kaliyaan. Her other notable films were Waris and Pavitra Paapi.-Career:Neetu Singh made her debut as an actress in 1972 with...
  
  ; married to Bharat Sahni
• Nitasha Nanda – daughter of Ritu Nanda
  Ritu Nanda
  Ritu Kapoor-Nanda, currently the Chief Executive Officer of Escolife, is a prominent Indian entrepreneur associated chiefly with the life insurance business...
  
   and Rajan Nanda
• Nikhil Nanda
  Nikhil Nanda
  Nikhil Nanda is the Joint Managing Director of Escorts Group, which specializes in agri-machinery, construction & material handling equipment, railway equipment and auto components.-Early life and education:...
  
   – son of Ritu Nanda
  Ritu Nanda
  Ritu Kapoor-Nanda, currently the Chief Executive Officer of Escolife, is a prominent Indian entrepreneur associated chiefly with the life insurance business...
  
   and Rajan Nanda; married to Shweta Bachchan-Nanda
  Shweta Bachchan-Nanda
  -Personal life:Shweta married industrialist Nikhil Nanda, the son of Ritu Nanda and Rajan Nanda on February 16, 1997 at Prateeksha, her parents' home. She now resides in Delhi with her husband...
  
  , daughter of Amitabh Bachchan
  Amitabh Bachchan
  Amitabh Bachchan is an Indian film actor. He first gained popularity in the early 1970s as the "angry young man" of Hindi cinema, and has since appeared in over 180 Indian films in a career spanning more than four decades...
  
   and Jaya Bachchan
  Jaya Bachchan
  Jaya Bhaduri Bachchan is an Indian actress and politician. She is an alumna of the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune. Bachchan is the wife of Amitabh Bachchan, and is the mother of Shweta Bachchan-Nanda and Abhishek Bachchan...
  
  
• Pooja Desai – eldest daughter of Kanchan and Ketan Desai
• Rajrajeshwari Desai – second daughter of Kanchan and Ketan Desai
• Vishwapratapraj Kapoor – son of Aditya Raj Kapoor and Priti Kapoor
• Tulsi Kapoor – daughter of Aditya Raj Kapoor and Priti Kapoor
• Zahan Prithviraj Kapoor – son of Kunal Kapoor
  Kunal Kapoor (Kapoor family)
  Kunal Kapoor is a former Indian film actor of British and Indian descent. He is the eldest son of Shashi Kapoor and late Jennifer Kendal. Not to be confused with the young Indian actor Kunal Kapoor who starred in Rang De Basanti and Hattrick....
  
   and Sheena Sippy
• Shaira Laura Kapoor – daughter of Kunal Kapoor
  Kunal Kapoor (Kapoor family)
  Kunal Kapoor is a former Indian film actor of British and Indian descent. He is the eldest son of Shashi Kapoor and late Jennifer Kendal. Not to be confused with the young Indian actor Kunal Kapoor who starred in Rang De Basanti and Hattrick....
  
   and Sheena Sippy
• Hameer – son of Sanjana Kapoor
  Sanjana Kapoor
  Sanjana Kapoor is an Indian theatre personality and former Indian film actress, who has been running the Prithvi Theatre in Mumbai since 1993. till 2012 February. -Biography:...
  
   and Valmik Thapar
  Valmik Thapar
  Valmik Thapar is an Indian natural historian and foremost among Tiger conservationists. He is the author of 14 books and several articles, and has produced a range of programmes for television...
  
  
• Anisha Kapur – daughter of Namita Kapur
• Vibha Kapur – daughter of Namita Kapur
• Varun Kapur – son of Namita Kapur
• Nushka Kheta – daughter of Anuradha Kheta
• Priyanka Kheta- daughter of Anuradha Kheta
• Sukriti Grover – elder daughter of Priti Grover and Sandeep Grover
• Nainika Grover – younger daughter of Priti Grover and Sandeep Grover
• Ammeya Sial – daughter of Jatin Sial
• Myra Sial – daughter of Jatin Sial

Sixth generation

• Samaira Kapur – daughter of Karisma Kapoor
  Karisma Kapoor
  Karisma Kapoor , often informally referred to as Lolo, is an Indian actress who made her debut in 1991, and appears in Bollywood films. During her career, she has been part of many commercially and critically successful films, Raja Hindustani being the most notable of them, as it was her biggest...
  
   and Sanjay Kapur
• Kiaan Raj Kapur – son of Karisma Kapoor
  Karisma Kapoor
  Karisma Kapoor , often informally referred to as Lolo, is an Indian actress who made her debut in 1991, and appears in Bollywood films. During her career, she has been part of many commercially and critically successful films, Raja Hindustani being the most notable of them, as it was her biggest...
  
   and Sanjay Kapur
• Navya Naveli Nanda – daughter of Nikhil Nanda
  Nikhil Nanda
  Nikhil Nanda is the Joint Managing Director of Escorts Group, which specializes in agri-machinery, construction & material handling equipment, railway equipment and auto components.-Early life and education:...
  
   and Shweta Bachchan-Nanda
  Shweta Bachchan-Nanda
  -Personal life:Shweta married industrialist Nikhil Nanda, the son of Ritu Nanda and Rajan Nanda on February 16, 1997 at Prateeksha, her parents' home. She now resides in Delhi with her husband...
  
  
• Agastye Nanda – son of Nikhil Nanda
  Nikhil Nanda
  Nikhil Nanda is the Joint Managing Director of Escorts Group, which specializes in agri-machinery, construction & material handling equipment, railway equipment and auto components.-Early life and education:...
  
   and Shweta Bachchan-Nanda
  Shweta Bachchan-Nanda
  -Personal life:Shweta married industrialist Nikhil Nanda, the son of Ritu Nanda and Rajan Nanda on February 16, 1997 at Prateeksha, her parents' home. She now resides in Delhi with her husband...
  
  
• Samara Sahni - daughter of Bharat Sahni and Riddhima Sahni Kapoor