Kapoor, Ranbir << kah POOR, RAN beer >> (1982-…), is a popular Indian motion-picture actor. He is a member of a distinguished acting family in the Indian film industry, which is known as Bollywood . His great-grandfather was the film and theater pioneer Prithviraj Kapoor. His grandfather was the film actor, director, and producer Raj Kapoor . Ranbir Kapoor’s father, Rishi Kapoor, and his mother, Neetu Kapoor, also became actors. Ranbir Kapoor’s uncles, Randhir and Rajiv Kapoor, have acted in and produced films as well. Ranbir Kapoor’s cousins Kareena Kapoor and Karisma Kapoor are also actors.
Ranbir Kapoor has won a number of Filmfare Awards for acting. Filmfare Awards are presented annually for artistic and technical excellence in filmmaking in the Hindi language . The Indian magazine Filmfare presents the awards.
Kapoor was born on Sept. 28, 1982, in Bombay (now Mumbai ). He studied filmmaking at the School of Visual Arts and acting at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, both in New York City. Kapoor served as assistant director on the critically acclaimed drama Black (2005), directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali. The film told the story of an alcoholic teacher who educates a girl who cannot see or hear. Kapoor made his motion-picture acting debut in the romantic tragedy Saawariya (2007), based on the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky’s short story “White Nights.”
Kapoor’s other notable films include the coming-of-age comedy Wake Up Sid, the romantic comedy Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani, and the comedy-drama Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year (all 2009); the political thriller Raajneeti (2010); the musical RockStar (2011); the comedy-drama Barfi! (2012), in which he portrayed a man who cannot hear or speak; the romantic comedy Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani (2013), one of the highest-grossing Bollywood films of all time; and the romantic drama Tamasha (2015), about a man with bipolar disorder, a mental condition marked by episodes of abnormally elevated or irritable mood.
