Shahid Kapoor is a well-known name in Bollywood with many nominations and awards throughout his career. Shahid Kapoor's first movie is the romance movie Ishq Vishk, which won him a Filmfare Award for Best Male Debut. It has been 18 years since then and he is now working on an upcoming thriller movie called Farzi.
In this article, we are going to take a good look at his acting career from the start and how he rose to fame.
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Shahid Kapoor First Movie Ishq Vishk
Shahid Kapoor made his debut in the 2003 romance movie as the leading role Rajiv Mathur. The movie was directed by Ken Ghosh and was produced Kumar Taurani and Ramesh Taurani. The movie talks about Rajiv, a college student who wants to be popular among his friends, and Payal, Rajiv's childhood friends. While Payal loves Rajiv, he didn't know that and it took a while for him to realize.
Shahid Kapoor Acting career
Shahid Kapoor was born in New Delhi on 25 February 1981. His parents are actor Pankaj Kapur and actor-dancer Neelima Azeem. They divorced when he was only 3 years old.
Shahid Kapoor lived with his mother and grandparents during his childhood. He showed interest in dancing at his young age. He entered Shiamak Davar's dance institute when he was 15 years old.
He was a background dancer of the films Dil To Pagal Hai (1997) and Taal (1999). He later became a teacher at the Shiamak Davar's dance institute.
Knowing Kapoor in the Aryans' music video "Aankhon Mein", Taurani cast him for the teenage romance Ishq Vishk. Kapoor had to went under really extensive training to have a better body shape for the movie.
Following the successful debut, Kapoor got sucked into a series of poorly received movies.
In 2006, Kapoor played in the thriller movie 36 Chian Town, which became a commercial success. Kapoor starred as one of the 7 suspects in the murder of an heiress. In the same year, Kapoor starred in the romantic drama Vivah, a movie about arranged marriage. The movie got great success and became one of the highest-grossing movies of Kapoor.
in 2007 and 2009, he starred in the romantic comedy Jab We Met and the action movie Kaminey, which got him nominations for Filmfare Award for Best Actor.
However, not until 2014 did he got Filmfare Award for Best Actor for starring in the drama movie Haider. The movie is an adaptation of the famous Shakespeare's play Hamlet. Kapoor revealed that this movie is the "toughest" of his career.
In 2016, he received critical acclaim for playing a drug-abusing singer in Udta Punjab and got a Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actor and nominations for Filmfare Award for Best Actor. The film got caught into big controversy when it was demanded a lot of censorship before releasing. In the end, the Bombay High Court cut 1 scene from the movie, where the main character is peeing on people.
In 2019, he got nominated for Filmfare Award for Best Actor for playing in the romantic drama film Kabir Singh. In the movie, he played an alcoholic stalking his ex-girlfriend. He lost 14 kg to play a college student in certain scenes. Kapoor said in an interview that he is afraid that he might bring the character he plays in this movie into his family.
His latest movie is the sports drama Jersey, a remake of an old movie of the same name. He got a bad injury in his forehead while filming the movie and got 13 stitches.
Shahid Kapoor Next Movie: Farzi
The next movie of Shahid Kapoor will be a thriller movie called Farzi starring Shahid Kapoor, Kriti Sanon, and Nawazuddin Siddique. The movie is based on the true story of a life of a con artist. The movie will hit theaters on March 5, 2021.
Shahid Kapoor will be playing the main character, an intelligent con artist who plans to make a big heist. Nawazuddin will be playing as the guy hired by the government to play cat and mouse with him.
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