Prithviraj kapoor family biography books

There is no film family quite like the Kapoors. A family of professional actors and directors, they span almost eighty years of film-making in India, from the twenties to the present.

Prithviraj kapoor family biography books

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Prithviraj kapoor father

Each decade in the history of Hindi films has had at least one Kapoor--if not more--playing a large part in defining it.

Prithviraj came to Bombay in the twilight era of silent movies and went on to straddle both theatre and the silver screen like a colossus, starring in the first full-length talkie, Alam Ara (1931), setting up Prithvi Theatres, and giving life to memorable characters like Akbar and Sikandar on-screen.

His three sons--Raj Kapoor, Shammi Kapoor and Shashi Kapoor--have earned secure and distinct places in the celluloid pantheon, dominating Hindi cinema throughout the fifties and sixties. Over the next decade and a half, Raj Kapoor's sons Randhir and Rishi Kapoor survived the Amitabh Bachchan-spawned age of the action hero.

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