Annu Kapoor

Annu Kapoor Biography

Annu kapoor is famous among Indian audience as a TV anchor. No one can easily forget ‘Meri Awaz Suno’ of Doordarshan during 1995-96 through which Sunidhi Chauhan came into limelight. This program proved to be the direct entry of Sunidhi Chauhan to Bollywood at a younger age of 16.

Born in an art family, he was fully dedicated to art – theatre, TV shows as well as cinema. TV audience cannot forget easily the Anthakshari hosted by Annu Kapoor that lasted for 11 years. He is a good singer too, who uses his voice in singing shows and anchoring. Many of the members of his father’s family have struggled for Indian independence. His mother was a notable poetess who was proficient in many foreign languages including Urdu, Persian and Arabic. His family fully dedicated to art. His siblings are related to film field too.

He started his acting career as a stage actor in 1979 and his first noticed drama was Ek ruka hua faisla. He debut Bollywood through Shyam Benegal’s Mandi in 1983. He dedicated the last 30 years fully for theatre, cinema as well as television shows. Most recently, the movie Vicky Donor brought him a lot of awards including National awards and Filmfare. He won both these awards in supporting roles for the first time. In addition to both, his performance in Vicky donor gave him many awards including Screen awards and Apsara awards. In both these awards, he won best comedian and best supporting actor award for his performance in Vicky Donor.  

Now a list of movies noted for his performance. In 7 Khoon Maaf, Annu Kapoor played the role of a cop, one among 7 husbands of Priyanka Chopra. Among the 6 husbands, he was the only person who respects Priyanka and her beauty. In Aitraaz, he did the role of a barrister. It included some comedy elements too. A few other hit movies in which he has played character roles include Kaalapani, Tesaab, Mr.India, Darr, Kacche Daage, Kayal, Arjun pandit, Om Jai Jagdeesh, Rain coat, Hum, Yodha, Utsav, Betaab, Chameli ki Shadi and Ram lakhan. Hoping we can see him in new avatars with the recent success of Vicky Donor.

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Updated: April 23, 2013