Vinod Kapri Biography 
Vinod Kapri is an Indian journalist and filmmaker from Uttarakhand, best known for documentary works. He is Mumbai-based. His documentary film Can't Take This Shit Anymore won an award at national film awards in 2014. He became a full-fledged feature filmmaker with Miss Tanakpur Haazir Ho (2015). His second feature film Pihu was showcased at different international film festivals and received positive responses. As a journalist, he owns around 25 years of experience with different publishing houses and media organisations like Zee News, Star News and India TV.
Kapri hails from Pithoragarh in Uttarakhand, and his ancestors belong to this place. However he was born in Secunderabad in Andhra Pradesh in the year 1972. His father worked in Indian army, who worked across India in different cities, and that’s how he was born in Andhra Pradesh. He completed his early education at Kendriya Vidyalaya in different Indian states, where his father worked. He started writing short stories at the age of 14 while at school and published his first short story in 1987 in a Hindi daily Amar Ujala. After that he regularly published stories and poems in all leading Hindi newspapers like Dainik Jagran, Dainik Hindustan and Dainik Aaj. While at school, he serialized a novel in a newspaper as a weekly series.
He launched his own monthly magazine Indian Econo Patrika at the age of 19. He began his journalist career at the age of 20. In 1998 he joined television and anchored the weekly show 'Ek aur Nazariya' for Zee India TV. He also produced the breakfast show 'Morning Zee' for Zee News. He became an output editor of Zee News in 2002 and in 2007, he joined India TV as a Managing editor. At the end of his journalistic career, he made a few films.
Published: October 16, 2018
Updated: October 16, 2018
