Shahid Kapoor Date of Birth

Bollywood Actor Shahid Kapoor was born on 25 February 1981.

Shahid Kapoor Age

Shahid Kapoor was born in New Delhi on 25 February 1981. He is 38 years old.

Shahid Kapoor Height

He is 167cm or 5’6” feet tall.

Shahid Kapoor Movies

He made his film debut in 2003 with a leading role in the romantic comedy Ishq Vishk, a sleeper hit for which he won a Filmfare Award for Best Male Debut.

He followed it with roles in several commercial failures before starring in Sooraj Barjatya’s top-grossing family drama Vivah (2006).

Kapoor earned nominations for the Filmfare Award for Best Actor for portraying a troubled businessman in Imtiaz Ali’s romantic comedy Jab We Met (2007) and twin brothers in Vishal Bhardwaj’s caper thriller Kaminey (2009).

After appearing in another series of box office flops, he starred in the commercially successful action film R… Rajkumar (2013).

Kapoor received critical acclaim for portraying the Hamlet character in Bhardwaj’s tragedy Haider (2014) and a drug abusing singer in the crime drama Udta Punjab (2016).

For the former, he won a Filmfare Award for Best Actor and for the latter, he won a Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actor. Kapoor’s highest-grossing release came in 2018 with the period drama Padmaavat, in which he played Rawal Ratan Singh.

Shahid Kapoor Wife

In March 2015, Kapoor spoke of his impending marriage to Mira Rajput, a student from New Delhi, who is 13 years his junior.

The Times of India reported that Kapoor met Rajput through the Dharmic religious group Radha Soami Satsang Beas.

The couple married at a private ceremony in Gurgaon on 7 July 2015, and Rajput gave birth to their daughter Misha in August 2016 and their son Zain in September 2018.

Shahid Kapoor Mother

Neelima Azeem was born on 2 December 1958, Delhi. Her father Anwar Azeem was a Blitz journalist and Urdu writer.

Azeem was married to TV actor Pankaj Kapur from 1979. They have a son, actor Shahid Kapoor. Azeem and Pankaj Kapur divorced in 1984.

After the divorce Shahid lived with his mother and his maternal grandparents, in New Delhi. Azeem moved to Mumbai when Shahid Kapoor was 10 years old.

Shahid Kapoor Brother

Ishaan Khatter is the son of Bollywood actors Neelima Azeem and Rajesh Khattar. His half-brother, Shahid Kapoor, is Azeem’s son from her first marriage to actor Pankaj Kapur.

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Shahid Kapoor Family

He was born in New Delhi on 25 February 1981 to actor Pankaj Kapur and actor-dancer Neelima Azeem.

His parents divorced when he was three years old; his father shifted to Mumbai (and married the actress Supriya Pathak) and Kapoor continued living in Delhi with his mother and maternal grandparents. In Mumbai, Azeem went on to marry the actor Rajesh Khattar.

He has a maternal half-brother, Ishaan, from his mother’s marriage to Khattar. From his father’s marriage to Pathak, he has two paternal half-siblings, Sanah and Ruhaan

Shahid Kapoor Father

Pankaj Kapur is an Indian theatre, television and film actor. He is the father of actor Shahid Kapoor with his first wife, Neelima Azeem. He has appeared in several television serials and films.

Soon his most acclaimed film roles to date have been that of Inspector P.K. in Raakh (1989), Dr. Dipankar Roy in Ek Doctor Ki Maut (1991) and Abba ji, (based on Shakespeare’s King Duncan) in Vishal Bhardwaj’s adaptation of Macbeth; Maqbool (2003), all three roles which got him National Film Awards.

Shahid Kapoor Daughter

Shahid Kapoor and Mira Rajput’s daughter Misha Kapoor is definitely one of the most adorable star kids in Bollywood. Each time the little munchkin is snapped by the shutterbugs, it instantly goes viral on social media.

Shahid Kapoor Sister

He has two half sister Sanah and Ruhaan.

Shahid Kapoor Son

In 2018, Shahid and Mira’s family got completed with the arrival of a baby boy, on September 5, whom they named Zain Kapoor.

Shahid Kapoor Biography

Later Kapoor was educated at the Gyan Bharati School in Delhi and Rajhans Vidyalaya in Mumbai. He later attended Mumbai’s Mithibai College for three years.

Kapoor was interested in dance from an early age, and at the age of 15, he joined Shiamak Davar’s dance institute.

As a student there, Kapoor appeared as a background dancer in the films Dil To Pagal Hai (1997) and Taal (1999), in which Davar served as choreographer.

He later became an instructor at the institute. During this time, Kapoor accompanied a friend to an audition for a Pepsi commercial featuring the stars Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol and Rani Mukerji, but wound up with the part himself.

He appeared in television commercials for the brands Kit Kat and Close-Up, among others, and featured in music videos for several performers, including the band Aryans and the singer Kumar Sanu. Kapoor also took on the job of an assistant director to his father on the 1998 television series Mohandas B.A.L.L.B.

Shahid Kapoor First Movie

He made his film debut in 2003 with a leading role in the romantic comedy Ishq Vishk, a sleeper hit for which he won a Filmfare Award for Best Male Debut.

Shahid Kapoor and Kareena Kapoor Movies

During the filming of Fida in 2004, he began dating Kareena Kapoor and they both publicly spoke of the relationship. They were involved in a well-publicised scandal when Mid Day published a set of pictures of them kissing in public.

Despite claims by the couple that the pictures were fabricated, the newspaper denied any wrongdoing. The couple separated in 2007 during the filming of Jab We Met.

Since their split, Kapoor decided to keep his personal life away from media attention. However, tabloids speculated on his relationship with several other actresses, including Vidya Balan and Priyanka Chopra.

Shahid Kapoor Vivah Movie

Kapoor later that year when he starred alongside Amrita Rao in Sooraj Barjatya’s romantic drama Vivah, a film depicting an arranged marriage.

Made on a shoestring budget of ₹100 million, the film earned over ₹530 million worldwide, and proved to be Kapoor’s highest-rossing film to that point.

Shahid Kapoor in Padmavati

Kapoor played Rawal Ratan Singh, a 14th-century Rajput ruler, in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s period drama Padmaavat(2018), co-starring Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh.

With a worldwide gross of ₹5.45 billion (US$76 million), it ranks among the highest-grossing Indian films of all time and is the biggest success of Kapoor’s career