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{{short description|Indian film family}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2020}}
{{Use Indian English|date=June 2018}}
{{Infobox family
| name = Kapoor Family
| image = The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi meeting with Kapoor family at his residence, in New Delhi on December 11, 2024.jpg
| image_caption = Some members of the Kapoor family with the Prime Minister of India [[Narendra Modi]] in 2024
| origin = {{ubl
| [[Samundri]], British India
}}
| region = [[Mumbai]], India
| traditions = [[Punjabi Hindu]]s<ref name="guardian">{{cite web |author=Nirpal Dhaliwal |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/feb/10/bollywood-bit-part-nirpal-dhaliwal |title=Nirpal Dhaliwal: My Bollywood bit part | Film |work=The Guardian |date=10 February 2011 |access-date=2014-07-13}}</ref><ref name="books.google.co.in">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pzEdHF5UYcMC&pg=PA124 |title=Bengali Cinema: 'An Other Nation' |first=Sharmistha |last=Gooptu |date=29 October 2010 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=9780203843345 |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref><ref name="ReferenceA">{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xmjv-IJymZsC&pg=PA181|title=Fashion Cultures: Theories, Explorations, and Analysis edited by Stella Bruzzi, Pamela Church}}</ref><ref name="newindianexpress.com">{{Cite web|url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/entertainment/hindi/2010/sep/09/remembering-an-icon-prithviraj-kapoor-185155.html|title=Remembering an icon: Prithviraj Kapoor|newspaper=[[The New Indian Express]]|date=16 May 2012 }}</ref>
| members = 
| distinctions =
| heirlooms = {{ubl|[[R. K. Films|R. K. Studio]]|[[Prithvi Theatre]]}}
| estate = {{Collapsible list|
* Krishna Raj Bungalow [[Bandra]], [[Mumbai]], India
* Rajbaug Farms, [[Loni Kalbhor]], India (formerly)<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/raj-kapoors-home-to-house-a-museum/articleshow/11375675.cms |title=Raj Kapoor's home to house a museum – Times of India |website=[[The Times of India]]|date=8 May 2012 }}</ref>
* [[Kapoor Haveli]], [[Peshawar]], [[Khyber Pakhtunkhwa]], Pakistan (formerly)
}}
| meaning =
| footnotes = Active since 1929; Prithviraj Kapoor acted in ''[[Alam Ara]]'' (1931), the first talkie film of India
| otherfamilies = {{Collapsible list|
| [[List of Hindi film clans#Kapoor family (of Surinder Kapoor)|Surinder Kapoor family]]<ref name="Dawn">{{cite video |title=Talk Back: Eye On India (Interview with Anil Kapoor) Ep33 Pt1. |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBKP-rpQmGw |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211117/TBKP-rpQmGw |archive-date=2021-11-17 |url-status=live |publisher=[[Dawn News]] |access-date=2012-08-23 |quote=I'm a Pathan's son... my father, my grandfather they were all Pathans from Peshawar...}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
| [[Bachchan family]]<ref name="indiatimes1">{{cite web |url=http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/slideshows/people/take-a-peek-at-the-business-political-landscape-of-marriages/nikhil-nanda-shweta-bachchan/slideshow/19118743.cms |title=Nikhil Nanda & Shweta Bachchan – Take a peek at the business & political landscape of marriages | The Economic Times |publisher=Economictimes.indiatimes.com |date=2013-03-22 |access-date=2014-07-13 |archive-date=10 November 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151110233547/http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/slideshows/people/take-a-peek-at-the-business-political-landscape-of-marriages/nikhil-nanda-shweta-bachchan/slideshow/19118743.cms |url-status=dead}}</ref>
| [[List of Hindi film clans#Malhotra family|Malhotra family]]<ref name=scr>{{Cite magazine |url=http://www.screenindia.com/old/20020208/fcover2.html |title=Bina Rai: The good old days |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091227030830/http://www.screenindia.com/old/20020208/fcover2.html |archive-date=2009-12-27 |magazine=[[Screen (magazine)|Screen]] |date=2002-02-08}}</ref>
| [[Pataudi family]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://zeenews.india.com/exclusive/what-sharmila-couldnt-do-in-her-time-kareena-manages-easily_5725.html |title=What Sharmila couldn't do in her time, Kareena manages easily |access-date=15 August 2013 |author=Sen, Shomini |date=13 October 2012 |publisher=[[Zee News]]}}</ref>
| [[List of Hindi film families#Agha family|Agha family]]
| [[List of Hindi film families#Sippy family|Sippy family]]
| [[Bhatt family]]
| [[List of Hindi film families#Behl family|Behl family]]
| [[Gohil dynasty]]
| Nanda family
| Shivdasani family
| Kendall family
| Sial family
}}
}}

The '''Kapoor family'''<ref name="cameo10" /><ref name="cameo21">{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/movies/rishi-kapoor-dead.html |title=Rishi Kapoor, Leading Man From a Bollywood Dynasty, Dies at 67 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=30 April 2020}}</ref> is a prominent Indian show business family with at least four generations of the family over {{age|1929|range=no}} years being active in the [[Hindi film industry]].<ref name="cameo10" /> Numerous members of the family, both (biological) and those who have married into the family, have had prolific careers as actors, film directors and producers.<ref name="cameo10" /><ref name="cameo2">{{Cite news |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/entertainment/flashback-at-90-a-kapoor-daughter-recalls-family-s-filmy-journey-from-peshawar-to-the-pinnacle/story-7Nxt7k4U9le8VfAZWNIm9L.html |title=Flashback at 90: A Kapoor daughter recalls family's filmy journey from Peshawar to the pinnacle |newspaper=[[Hindustan Times]] |date=18 April 2018}}</ref> "The Pioneer" founder of the dynasty was "The Patriarch", [[Prithviraj Kapoor]],<ref name="cameo1">{{Cite web |url=https://www.news18.com/news/movies/prithviraj-kapoor-birth-anniversary-lesser-known-facts-about-the-film-and-theatre-pioneer-2372101.html |title=Prithviraj Kapoor Birth Anniversary: Lesser Known Facts About the Film and Theatre |publisher=Daily Pioneer |date=3 November 2019}}</ref><ref name=cameo2/><ref name="cameo4">{{Cite web |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/education-today/gk-current-affairs/story/prithviraj-kapoor-birthday-349871-2016-11-03 |title=Remembering Prithviraj Kapoor: 10 facts you must know about the Father of Bollywood |work=[[India Today]] |date=3 November 2016}}</ref> who was the first member of family to begin acting in movies with his 1929 debut film ''Be Dhari Talwar''.<ref name="cameo6">{{cite news |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/bollywood/rishi-kapoor-shabana-azmi-remember-a-compassionate-human-on-113th-birth-anniversary-of-prithviraj-kapoor-the-man-who-started-it-all/story-8NHrWty6np6eJxKnA6KBFI.html |title=Rishi Kapoor, Shabana Azmi remember a compassionate human on 113th birth anniversary of Prithviraj Kapoor: 'The man who started it all' |newspaper=Hindustan Times |date=3 November 2019}}</ref> He was a pioneer of [[Prithvi Theatres|Indian theatre]] and the founding member of the [[Indian People's Theatre Association]] (IPTA).<ref name=cameo21/><ref name="cameo20">{{cite web |url=http://www.coolage.in/2013/04/14/pran-receives-dadasaheb-phalke-award |title=Pran receives Dadasaheb Phalke Award |publisher=Coolage.in |date=14 April 2013 |access-date=4 January 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140104212736/http://www.coolage.in/2013/04/14/pran-receives-dadasaheb-phalke-award |archive-date=4 January 2014 |url-status=dead}}</ref> His son [[Raj Kapoor]] was the most influential actor and director in Hindi cinema.<ref name=cameo10/><ref name=cameo21/> The [[wikt:genesis|genesis generation]] or the earliest linear generation of the Kapoor [[family tree]] to ever act in the films was Prithviraj Kapoor's father, Basheshwarnath Kapoor, who debuted as actor in 1951 film ''[[Awaara]]'', which was produced, directed and starred in lead role by his grandson Raj Kapoor.<ref name=cameo1/><ref name=cameo2/><ref name="cameo3">{{Cite news |url=https://www.thedispatch.in/want-to-go-to-pakistan-once-before-i-die/ |title='Want to go to Pakistan once before I die' |newspaper=The Dispatch |date=30 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210118192041/https://www.thedispatch.in/want-to-go-to-pakistan-once-before-i-die/ |archive-date=2021-01-18 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

Due to their decades old participation in the Hindi film industry, the family is often called "The First Family of [[Bollywood]]".<ref name=cameo10/><ref name=cameo2/> Prominent personalities related to the Kapoor family through marriage include [[Kumari Naaz]], [[Jennifer Kendal]], [[Geeta Bali]], [[Neetu Singh]], [[Babita]], [[Valmik Thapar]], [[Saif Ali Khan]], [[Shweta Bachchan Nanda]] and [[Alia Bhatt]].<ref name="indiamarks.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.indiamarks.com/prithviraj-kapoor-to-kareena-kapoor-and-ranbir-kapoor/ |title=Prithviraj Kapoor to Kareena Kapoor and Ranbir Kapoor |date=4 June 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170805085551/http://www.indiamarks.com/prithviraj-kapoor-to-kareena-kapoor-and-ranbir-kapoor|archive-date=5 August 2017|access-date=24 March 2023}}</ref><ref name="Britannica.com">{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/311774/Prithviraj-Kapoor |title=Prithviraj Kapoor (Indian actor) – Encyclopædia Britannica |publisher=Britannica.com |date=4 February 2013 |access-date=13 July 2014}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://tribune.com.pk/story/441304/showman-raj-kapoors-house-to-be-converted-into-museum |title=Showman Raj Kapoor's house to be converted into museum |date=23 September 2012 |website=The Express Tribune}}</ref>

==Kapoor family tree==
{{Tree list}}
* Dewan Murli Mal Kapoor<ref name="cameo10">Madhu Jain, 2009, [https://books.google.com/books?id=l3heZ8I-k9AC&q=%22prithviraj+kapoor%22+and+%22surinder+kapoor%22 The Kapoors: The First Family of Indian Cinema], [[Penguin Books]].</ref>
** Dewan Keshav mal Kapoor, m. Radha Kapoor (first wife) and Prem Kapoor (second wife)
*** Dewan Basheshwarnath Kapoor, m. Vaishno Devi (first wife) and Channa Kapoor (second wife)
**** [[Prithviraj Kapoor]], m. Ramsarni Mehra
***** [[Raj Kapoor]], m. Krishna Malhotra
****** [[Randhir Kapoor]], m. [[Babita Kapoor]]
******* [[Karisma Kapoor]], m. [[Sunjay Kapur]] (divorced)
******** Samaira Kapur
******** Kiaan Raj Kapur
******* [[Kareena Kapoor Khan]], m. [[Saif Ali Khan]]
******** Taimur Ali Khan
******** Jeh Ali Khan
****** Ritu Kapoor Nanda, m. Rajan Nanda
******* [[Nikhil Nanda]] m. [[Shweta Bachchan Nanda]]
******** Navya Naveli Nanda
******** Agastya Nanda
******* Nitasha Nanda
****** [[Rishi Kapoor]], m. [[Neetu Kapoor]]
******* [[Ranbir Kapoor]], m. [[Alia Bhatt]]
******** Raha Kapoor
******* Riddhima Kapoor Sahni, m. Bharat Sahni
******** Samara Sahni
****** Rima Kapoor Jain, m. Manoj Jain
******* Armaan Jain, m. Anissa Malhotra Jain.
******** Rana Jain
******* Aadar Jain, m. Alekha Advani Jain
****** [[Rajiv Kapoor]], m. Aarti Sabharwal (divorced)
***** [[Shammi Kapoor]], m. [[Geeta Bali]] (first wife) and Neila Devi (second wife)
****** [[Aditya Raj Kapoor]], m. Priti Kapoor
******* Tulsi Kapoor
******* Vishwapratap Kapoor, m. Saili Kapoor
****** Kanchan Desai, m. Ketan Desai
******* Raj Rajeshwari Desai
******* Pooja Desai
***** [[Shashi Kapoor]], m. [[Jennifer Kendal]]
****** [[Kunal Kapoor (actor, born 1959)|Kunal Kapoor]], m. Sheena Sippy (divorced)
******* [[Zahan Kapoor]]
******* Shaira Laura Kapoor
****** [[Karan Kapoor]], m. Lorna Kapoor
******* Aliya Kapoor
******* Zach Kapoor
****** Sanjana Kapoor, m. Valmik Thapar
******* Hamir Thapar
***** Urmila Kapoor Sial, m. Charanjit Sial
****** Jatin Sial, m. Kavita Sharma Sial
******* Myra Sial
******* Ammeya Sial
****** Anuradha Kheta, m. Prakash Kheta
******* Priyanka Kheta
******* Nushka Kheta
****** Namita Kapur, m. Vicky Kapur
******* Vibha Kapur
******* Anisha Kapur
****** Priti Grover, m. Sandeep Grover
******* Nainika Grover
******* Sukriti Grover
****** Mandhir Siyal
***** Devinder Kapoor (died during infancy)
***** Ravinder Kapoor (died during infancy)
***** Shanta Kapoor Dhawan, m. Chander P. Dhawan
**** [[Trilok Kapoor]]
***** [[Vijay Kapoor]], m. Veena Kapoor
****** Sanjay Kapoor, m. Anju Kapoor
****** Ajay Kapoor, m. Neelam Kapoor
****** Anuradha Kapoor
***** Vicky Kapoor
**** Kailash Kapoor, m. C. Kakkar
***** [[Subbiraj|Subbiraj Kakkar]], m. Kumari Naaz (Anuradha)
****** Girish Kakkar
****** Gauri Kakkar
**** Prem Mehra, m. Prithvi Chand Mehra
***** Naval Mehra, m. Anne-Marie Mehra
****** Neville Andrew Mehra
****** Christina Minner
***** Vijay K. Mehra, m. Ruth Mehra
***** Sabita Khanna
***** Kiran Seth, m. Vipin Seth
****** Vikram Seth
****** Mrinal Seth
**** Amarnath Kapoor
**** Vishwanath (Vishi) Kapoor
**** Lt. Col. Ramesh Kapoor
*** Diwan Shambhu Nath Kapoor
**** [[Surinder Kapoor]], m. Nirmal Kapoor
***** [[Boney Kapoor]], m. [[Mona Shourie Kapoor|Mona Shourie]] (first wife) and [[Sridevi]] (second wife)
****** [[Arjun Kapoor]]
****** Anshula Kapoor
****** [[Janhvi Kapoor]]
****** [[Khushi Kapoor]]
***** [[Anil Kapoor]], m. Sunita Bhavnani
****** [[Sonam Kapoor Ahuja]], m. Anand Ahuja
******* Vayu Ahuja
****** [[Rhea Kapoor]], m. [[Karan Boolani]]
****** [[Harshvardhan Kapoor]]
***** [[Sanjay Kapoor]], m. Maheep Sandhu
****** Shanaya Kapoor
****** Jahaan Kapoor
***** Reena Kapoor Marwah, m. Sandeep Marwah
****** Mohit Marwah, m. Antara Motiwala Marwah
******* Thea Marwah
******* a son (name undisclosed)
****** Akshay Marwah, m. Ashita Relan
*** Ram Pyari Khanna
**** Dharambir Khanna
***** Ashok Khanna, m. Baby Khanna
****** Kirran Ashok Khanna, m. Monga Khanna
***** Banshi Khanna
***** Mohan Khanna
*** Ram Rakhi Mehra
*** Kaushaliya Khanna
{{Tree list/end}}

==Photos of the notable members of the family==
<gallery mode="packed" heights="125">
File:Prithviraj Kapoor in the film Ek Raat.jpg|[[Prithviraj Kapoor]]
File:Trilok Kapoor.jpg|[[Trilok Kapoor]]
File:Raj Kapoor 1950.jpg|[[Raj Kapoor]]
File:Shashi Kapoor during a media interaction at 36th IFFI, 2005.jpg|[[Shashi Kapoor]]
File:Shammi Kapoor at the launch of Shammi Kapoor Unplugged (cropped).jpg|[[Shammi Kapoor]]
File:Signed photo of movie actor Randhir Kapoor (1).jpg|[[Randhir Kapoor]]
File:Rishi Kapoor.jpg|[[Rishi Kapoor]]
File:Rajeev Kapoor at Green Carpet of IIFA Rocks 2016 (cropped).jpg|[[Rajiv Kapoor]]
File:Neetu Singh.jpg|[[Neetu Kapoor]]
File:Kapoor Women (cropped).jpg|[[Babita Kapoor]]
File:Kunal Kapoor, 2020.jpg|[[Kunal Kapoor (actor, born 1959)|Kunal Kapoor]]
File:Karan Kapoor in January 2020.jpg|[[Karan Kapoor]]
File:Sanjana-Kapoor.jpg|[[Sanjana Kapoor]]
File:Valmik thapar 200.jpg|[[Valmik Thapar]]
File:Shweta Bachchan Nanda at Timekeepers Chopard event.jpg|[[Shweta Bachchan]]
File:KarismaKapoor02.jpg|[[Karisma Kapoor]]
File:Kareena Kapoor in 2018.jpg|[[Kareena Kapoor]]
File:Saif Ali Khan attends the opening of the Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre (cropped).jpg|[[Saif Ali Khan]]
File:Ranbir Kapoor at the trailer launch of Shamshera.jpg|[[Ranbir Kapoor]]
File:Alia Bhatt 2016.jpg|[[Alia Bhatt]]
File:Zahan Kapoor in February 2020.jpg|[[Zahan Kapoor]]
</gallery>

==See also==
{{Portal|Bollywood}}
* [[Kapoor Haveli]]
* [[List of Indian film families]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* {{cite news |title=Indian cinema@100: 35 fun facts about the Kapoors of Bollywood |url=http://movies.ndtv.com/bollywood/indian-cinema-100-35-fun-facts-about-the-kapoors-of-bollywood-360233 |publisher=NDTV |date=29 April 2013 |access-date=3 May 2013 |archive-date=3 May 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130503025840/http://movies.ndtv.com/bollywood/indian-cinema-100-35-fun-facts-about-the-kapoors-of-bollywood-360233 |url-status=dead |ref=none}}
* [https://www.junglee.org.in/ The Kapoor Family Site by - Shammi Kapoor] (by [[Shammi Kapoor]])
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Alejandra13P at 21:02, 27 February 2026