Abhishek Kapoor

Abhishek Kapoor

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Abhishek Kapoor Biography

Abhishek Kapoor is a Bollywood director and actor who debut big screen in the year 1997 with the romantic movie, Uff yeh mohabbat, where he played lead role as an actor aside Twinkle Khanna and Sadiya Siddiqui. However he gained attention as a director and has directed critically acclaimed and commercial hits like Rock on and Kai po che. As a film director, Aryan with Sohail Khan and Sneha Ullal, in lead role marked his debut, though it was a box office failure. Rock on is regarded as a cult classic in the genre of music oriented films, which introduced many actors to mainstream and marked the debut of director Farhan Akhtar as an actor. His aunt (mother’s sister) is married to jumping Jack, Jitendra and thus Bollywood actor Tusshar Kapoor and producer Ekta Kapoor are his first cousins.

 

He started his career as an actor in Uff!Yeh Mohabbat in 1996 opposite Twinkle Khanna and Sadiya Siddiqui. This romantic thriller directed by Vipin Handa was a commercial failure. He tried his luck as an actor for a couple of movies. But it was not at all successful. Thus he took a break from the industry and returned back in a new avatar as a director. However his debut as a director, Aryan was a commercial failure. He returned back with ‘Rock on’, based on a music band was one of the earliest experiments of this type and was praised by audience as well as critics. He wrote its screenplay and story as well and the movie received numerous awards and nominations at various award functions. This movie showed the real passion of music and was revealed to be a good ‘friendship’ story as well.  

 

‘Kai po che’ was his next experiment, but this time with the spirit of cricket. This movie too, was based on friendship and was well praised by critics. After its commercial success Abhishek has announced his next directorial venture – Fitoor.

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Updated: March 02, 2014

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