His elder brother, Ranjit, is a director and screenwriter and his sister, Seema, is a producer and actor. Kapoor's sister Seema Kapoor, was married to actor Om Puri. Kapoor has promoted India's positive aspects in his programmes. Film director Shyam Benegal who saw Kapoor perform, sent him a letter of appreciation and signed him for his 1983 film, Mandi. After graduating from the National School of Drama and a brief stint with its repertory company, in 1981, he played a 70-year-old man in the play Ek Ruka Hua Faisla in Bombay (now Mumbai). Following a stint there, he joined National School of Drama in 1976, after his brother Ranjit Kapoor, who was already a student there insisted. On his father's insistence, he joined his theatre company. With a salary of ₹ 40, his mother worked as a teacher. ĭue to poor financial circumstances, he had to quit school following secondary education.
His grandfather Kripa Ram Kapoor was a doctor in the British Army and his great grandfather Lala Ganga Ram Kapoor, a revolutionary who was executed during the Indian freedom struggle. His father owned a travelling Parsi theatre company which performed in cities and towns, and his mother was a Urdu teacher and a trained classical singer. Early lifeĪnnu Kapoor was born in Itwara, Bhopal, Bhopal State, on 20 February 1956, to Madanlal, a Punjabi father with roots in Peshawar and Kamal, a Bengali Brahmin mother. He has won numerous awards in his career, including two National Film Awards, one Filmfare Awards and two Indian Television Academy Awards in varied categories. Besides acting, he also does a Radio show, named Suhaana Safar With Annu Kapoor which airs on 92.7 big FM. His career has spanned over 40 years as an actor, producer, director and singer.
Annu Kapoor (born as Anil Kapoor, 20 February 1956) is an Indian actor, singer, director, radio jockey and television presenter who has appeared in over a hundred films, as well as television series.