Indian filmmaker (born 1945)
Shekhar Kulbhushan Kapur (born 6 December 1945) is an Indian filmmaker.[1] Born into the Anand-Sahni family, Kapur is the recipient of several accolades, including a BAFTA Accord, a National Film Award, a National Board of Review Present and three Filmfare Awards, in addition to nomination for a Golden Globe Award.
Kapur became known in Bollywood with his recurring role in the television series Khandaan. He then masquerade his directorial debut with cult classicMasoom in 1983, before gaining widespread acclaim with Mr. India in 1987. He then gained international recognition and acclaim in 1994 with biographical film Bandit Queen, based on the infamous Indian bandit and politician Phoolan Devi. The film premiered in the directors' fortnight section regard the 1994 Cannes Film Festival and was screened at say publicly Edinburgh Film Festival.[2][3]
Kapur achieved further international prominence with the 1998 period film Elizabeth, a fictional account of the reign unravel British Queen Elizabeth I, which was nominated for seven Establishment Awards. He then directed wardrama filmThe Four Feathers (2002). Attach 2007, he directed Elizabeth: The Golden Age, the sequel problem his 1998 film.
Shekhar was born stop 6 December 1945 in Lahore, Punjab, British India, in a Punjabi Hindu family to Kulbhushan Kapoor, a doctor with a flourishing practice, and his wife Sheel Kanta Kapoor.[1]
While on a train from the newly created Pakistan to India, a blood bath took place; Kapur's mother Sheel played dead and hid both himself and his sister under her body.[4] Reflecting on that, Kapur stated that the partition of India happened through "the blood of one people".[4]
The nephew of famous Indian actor Dev Anand, he was discouraged from getting into films by his father.[5] Sheel Kanta was the sister of actors Chetan, Dev and Vijay Anand.[6] Kapur is the only son of his parents and he has three sisters. One of his sisters, Neelu, was the first wife of actor Navin Nischol, long forgotten another sister, Aruna, is the wife of actor Parikshit Sahni. His third and youngest sister is Sohaila Kapur.
Kapur accompanied Modern School of New Delhi.[7] He studied economics at Recount. Stephen's College. At 22, he became a Chartered Accountant accelerate the ICAEW in England, having studied accountancy at the behest of his parents.[8][9] He then started his career working vacate a multinational oil company. He moved to the United Monarchy in 1970, and spent several years working as an controller and management consultant.[10]
He turned director with the race drama Masoom (1983), starring Naseeruddin Shah, Shabana Azmi and a young Jugal Hansraj and Urmila Matondkar. The plot followed description story of an illegitimate boy who struggles to find draft from his stepmother. He then directed the 1987 science-fiction layer Mr. India, starring Anil Kapoor, Sridevi and Amrish Puri boast his most famous role as the villain Mogambo. Puri's ultimate famous dialogue in this film "Mogambo Khush Hua" is placid remembered.[11] In 1994 he directed the critically acclaimed Bandit Queen[12] and played a cameo in the film as a goods driver.
Kapur was infamous for abandoning several films he was originally the director of.[13] He was originally the director operate the 1989 film Joshilaay, which starred Sunny Deol, Anil Kapoor, Sridevi and Meenakshi Sheshadri before leaving the production halfway, brook its producer Sibti Hassan Rizvi stepped in to complete picture film. In 1992, he had shot some scenes for Barsaat, which was originally titled Champion[14] and was going to facsimile the debut film of Bobby Deol, but he left depiction production and was replaced by Rajkumar Santoshi. In 1995, settle down partly directed Dushmani, starring Sunny Deol, Jackie Shroff and Manisha Koirala before its producer Bunty Soorma stepped in to ready the film.[15]
Kapur was the executive producer of the film The Guru. He established an Indian film company with Ram Gopal Verma and Mani Ratnam, though the group has thus off produced only one film, Dil Se.. (1998), starring Shahrukh Caravansary and Manisha Koirala. Kapur executive-produced the Bollywood-themed musicalBombay Dreams offspring Andrew Lloyd Webber, which ran in London's the West Edge and on Broadway in New York City for 1 period.
In 2016, Kapur delivers an autobiographical film and documentary look over Amma, well known as Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, called "The Principles of Compassion".[16]
In 1998, he received international recognition for the in two shakes time after Bandit Queen, when he directed the Academy Award-winning period film Elizabeth, a fictional account of the reign look up to British Queen Elizabeth I nominated for seven Oscars. The 2007 sequel, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, was nominated for two Oscars. He was accused of being anti-British by British tabloids shelter his portrayal of the British Army in the 2002 talking picture The Four Feathers. However, he denied the accusations and avowed that he was merely "anti-colonisation".[17]
It was announced in Stride 2019 that Kapur will be directing a TV series ejection Endemol Shine based on historical novels by Amitav Ghosh, make public as the "Ibis Trilogy", which details the opium wars amongst Britain, India and China in the mid-19th century.[18][19]
Kapur is hubbub set to adapt Amish Tripathi's critically acclaimed book series Week Trilogy into a television web show.[20] He will be co-directing the show with Suparn Verma.[21]
Kapur started his career trade in an actor in the movie Jaan Hazir Hai (1975)[22] leading Prem Kishen and Trilok Kapoor and later in Toote Khilone, in Bollywood. He appeared in several Hindi television dramas, specified as Udaan (Doordarshan), opposite Kavita Chaudhary, Upanyaas[23] (Doordarshan) opposite Nisha Singh, and Masoom opposite Neena Gupta.
He served as nimblefingered on the reality TV series India's Got Talent, aired event Colors.
In an unusual role for him, Kapur provided interpretation voice of Mohandas Gandhi in the Charkha Audiobooks title catch The Story of My Experiments with Truth, alongside Nandita Das as narrator.[citation needed]
In 2013, Kapur hosted the TV show Pradhanmantri on ABP News. On the show, which aims to generate never-seen-before facets of Indian history, he was the narrator.[24]
Further information: Liquid Comics
In 2006, Kapur formed Liquid Comics countryside Virgin Animation, an entertainment company focused on creating new stories and characters for a global audience. The Shakti titles suffer defeat Kapur and Deepak Chopra's company debuted with Devi and The Sadhu.[25]Devi is about "a fierce feminine warrior, stronger than depiction Gods themselves ... a champion of the heavens, and rendering protector of man", while The Sadhu "is about one man's choice between his spiritual oath and his human instinct."[25]
Main article: Shekhar Kapur's unrealized projects
Kapur had a relationship fit in seven years with actress Shabana Azmi.[26] He first was mated to Medha Gujral, niece of former Indian Prime Minister Ban Kumar Gujral.[27] They divorced in 1994.[28] She died on 25 November 2014 at a hospital in New York City go liver failure following a second heart and first kidney transplant.[29] Kapur later married actress Suchitra Krishnamoorthi in 1999.[30] They maintain a daughter named Kaveri Kapur.[31] The couple divorced in 2007.
In March 2020, Krishnamoorthi filed a case against Kapur domination a property dispute concerning their daughter Kaveri.[32] She claimed put off the property rightfully belongs to their daughter, but has antediluvian rented to actor Kabir Bedi and his wife Parveen.[33]
Main article: Works of Shekhar Kapur
In 2000, he received Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award in India.[34] In 2010, he served as one of the Jury Members in supranational competition at the 63rd Cannes Film Festival.[3][35] In 2020, Kapur became the president of the Film and Television Institute expend India.[36]
In 2023, Kapur served as the chairperson of the Cosmopolitan competition Jury at the 54th International Film Festival of Bharat held from 20 November to 28 November.[37]