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The Kapoor family is of Punjabi Hindu origin belonging to the Kapoor gotra. [8] [10] [11] [9]Prithviraj Kapoor was the first from the family to pursue a career in films. His ancestral origins were in Samundri, Lyallpur District, Faisalabad, Punjab Province of British India.
Prithviraj Kapoor was born as Prithvinath Kapoor on 3 November 1906 [2] [3] in Samundri, [4] British India, into a Punjabi Hindu Khatri family of the Kapoor gotra. [5] [3] His father, Dewan Basheshwarnath Kapoor, was a police officer in the Indian Imperial Police.
Trilok was born as the second son of Dewan Basheshwarnath Kapoor in a Punjabi family. Like his brother Prithviraj Kapoor he entered the budding Hindi film industry in the 1930s and was one of the most commercially successful actors of the era. [1] Born in the Kapoor Haveli in Peshawar, he moved to Calcutta and then to Mumbai. His bungalow in ...
Kailashwati, next door neighbour in Samundari (birthplace of Prithviraj Kapoor), whom Kapoor family used to call "laal chunni" recalls how passionate Prithviraj Kapoor was about theatre. The Kapoors moved to Mumbai in the 1930s, and their occasional visits to Peshawar ended completely after the partition of India in 1947, he says. [ 18 ]
It stars Raj Kapoor along with his real-life father Prithviraj Kapoor, as well as Nargis, Leela Chitnis and K. N. Singh. Other members of the Kapoor family make an appearance, including Raj's youngest brother Shashi Kapoor , who plays the younger version of his character, and Prithiviraj's father Dewan Basheshwarnath Kapoor, playing a cameo in ...
Film personalities of Kapoor family (of Prithviraj Kapoor) 1st generation 2nd generation 3rd generation 4th generation Career Born Died Relation Prithviraj Kapoor: Actor 1906 1971 Son of Dewan Basheshwarnath Kapoor Ramsarni Mehra Kapoor 1908 1972 Married to Prithviraj Kapoor: Raj Kapoor: Actor, producer, director 1924 1988
Raj Kapoor was born as Shrishti Nath Kapoor on 14 December 1924 at Kapoor Haveli, a large house then owned by his grandfather in the Qissa Khwani Bazaar neighborhood of Peshawar, British India into a Punjabi Hindu family [17] of the Kapoor clan, who belonged to the Dhai Ghar Khatri community.
Prithvi Theatre is a theatre located in the upscale neighbourhood of Juhu, Mumbai. Prithviraj Kapoor the spearhead of one of the most influential actor and director families in Bollywood, the Kapoor family, founded the travelling theatre company 'Prithvi Theatres' in 1944 and the company ran for sixteen years. [1]