Abhishek Kapoor

Abhishek Kapoor
Abhishek Kapoor
	Kapoor and Pragya Yadav at Abu Jani-Sandeep Khosla show for 'Volvo S90'
Born	6 August 1971 (age 52); India
Other names	Gattu Kapoor
Occupation	Film director; producer; writer;
Known for	Rock On!!; Kai Po Che; Kedarnath; Chandigarh Kare Aashiqui;
Spouse	Pragya Yadav (m. 2015)
Children	2
Relatives	Jeetendra (uncle); Ekta Kapoor (cousin); Tusshar Kapoor (cousin)

Abhishek Kapoor (born 6 August 1971) is an Indian film director and producer who works in Hindi cinema.

Career

He started his career as an actor in 1996 with movies Aashique Mastane, opposite Monica Bedi, directed by Ajay Kashyap and Uff! Yeh Mohabbat, opposite Twinkle Khanna, directed by Vipin Handa. He made his directorial début with Aryan in 2006 which was a critical and commercial failure.^[1]^[2]

In 2008, he wrote and directed Rock On!! an Indian Rock musical film starring Farhan Akhtar and Arjun Rampal that won the "National Award for Best Hindi Film" for outstanding artistic contribution towards cinema. The film went on to become a major success, bringing not just accolades but also a Filmfare Award in 2009.^[2]

In 2013, "Kai Po Che" (2013) based on Chetan Bhagat's novel, 'The 3 Mistakes of my Life' had its world premiere at the 63rd Berlin Film Festival's World Panorama segment and won the Filmfare Award in 2014 for Best Screenplay. In 2016, he directed and produced Fitoor, an adaptation of Charles Dicken's Great Expectations. Abhishek has launched his production company, Guy in the Sky Pictures.

Personal life

Kapoor is a cousin of the actor Tusshar Kapoor and producer Ekta Kapoor. His mother Madhubala, is the sister of Bollywood actor Jeetendra.^[3]

On 4 May 2015, Abhishek married Swedish actress and model Pragya Yadav.^[4] They have two children, Isana and Shamsher.^[5]

Filmography

Year	Film	Director	Writer	Producer	Actor
1996	Aashique Mastane	No	No	No	Yes
1996	Uff! Yeh Mohabbat	No	No	No	Yes
2006	Aryan: Unbreakable	Yes	Yes	No	No
2008	Rock On!!	Yes	Story	No	No
2013	Kai Po Che	Yes	Yes	No	No
2016	Fitoor	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
2016	Rock On 2	No	Story	No	No
2018	Kedarnath	Yes	Story	Yes	No
2021	Chandigarh Kare Aashiqui	Yes	Story	Yes	No

Awards and nominations

National Film Awards

Year	Category	Work	Result	Ref.
2010	Best Feature Film in Hindi	Rock On!!	Won	^[6]

Filmfare Awards

Year	Category	Work	Result	Ref.
2009	Best Story	Rock On!!	Won	^[7]
	Best Screenplay		Nominated
	Best Film		Nominated
	Best Director		Nominated
2014	Best Director	Kai Po Che!	Nominated	^[8]
2014	Best Screenplay	Kai Po Che!	Won	^[9]
2022	Best Story	Chandigarh Kare Aashiqui	Won

IIFA Awards

Year	Category	Work	Result	Ref.
2009	Best Director	Rock On!!	Nominated	^[10]
2014	Best Director	Kai Po Che!	Nominated	^[11]
2014	Best Story	Kai Po Che!	Nominated	^[11]

Screen Awards

Year	Category	Work	Result	Ref.
2009	Best Director	Rock On!!	Nominated	^[12]
2014	Best Director	Kai Po Che!	Nominated	^[12]

References

^ Taran Adarsh (15 December 2006). "Aryan – Unbreakable: Critic review". Bollywood Hungama. Retrieved 3 March 2014.
^ ^a ^b Shweta Teotia. Indian Express (5 September 2008). "The rocking underdog: Abhishek Kapoor". Archived from the original on 3 March 2014. Retrieved 3 March 2014.
^ "Filmi Family Tree: Know Ekta Kapoor's famous cousin?". Rediff. 28 January 2014. Retrieved 2 October 2018.
^ "Director Abhishek Kapoor ties knots with Swedish Actress Pragya Yadav". news.biharprabha.com. 5 May 2015. Retrieved 4 May 2015.
^ "Kedarnath Director Abhishek Kapoor's Wife Pragya Kapoor Shares Pic of a Chill Time with Newborn Son". Archived from the original on 24 December 2019. Retrieved 24 December 2019.
^ "56th National Film Awards juries (PIB)" (PDF). Press Information Bureau (PIB), India. Archived (PDF) from the original on 16 June 2012. Retrieved 28 March 2012.
^ "Nominations for 54th Filmfare Awards 2009". Sify. 16 February 2009. Archived from the original on 17 June 2021. Retrieved 4 July 2021.
^ "59th Idea Filmfare Awards Nominations". Filmfare. 13 January 2014. Retrieved 3 July 2021.
^ "Winners of 59th Idea Filmfare Awards". Filmfare. 25 January 2014. Retrieved 3 July 2021.
^ "Nominations for the IIFA Awards 2009". Bollywood Hungama. 29 April 2009. Retrieved 4 July 2021.
^ "IIFA Awards 2014: The list of nominees". CNN-News18. 22 February 2014. Retrieved 3 July 2021.
^ "15th Star Screen Awards Nominations". Screen. Archived from the original on 21 January 2009. Retrieved 4 July 2021.

External links

Abhishek Kapoor at IMDb

[1] Taran Adarsh (15 December 2006). "Aryan – Unbreakable: Critic review". Bollywood Hungama. Retrieved 3 March 2014.

[un-2] Shweta Teotia. Indian Express (5 September 2008). "The rocking underdog: Abhishek Kapoor". Archived from the original on 3 March 2014. Retrieved 3 March 2014.

[3] "Filmi Family Tree: Know Ekta Kapoor's famous cousin?". Rediff. 28 January 2014. Retrieved 2 October 2018.

[4] "Director Abhishek Kapoor ties knots with Swedish Actress Pragya Yadav". news.biharprabha.com. 5 May 2015. Retrieved 4 May 2015.

[ref1-5] "Kedarnath Director Abhishek Kapoor's Wife Pragya Kapoor Shares Pic of a Chill Time with Newborn Son". Archived from the original on 24 December 2019. Retrieved 24 December 2019.

[56thnfapbijuries-6] "56th National Film Awards juries (PIB)" (PDF). Press Information Bureau (PIB), India. Archived (PDF) from the original on 16 June 2012. Retrieved 28 March 2012.

[7] "Nominations for 54th Filmfare Awards 2009". Sify. 16 February 2009. Archived from the original on 17 June 2021. Retrieved 4 July 2021.

[8] "59th Idea Filmfare Awards Nominations". Filmfare. 13 January 2014. Retrieved 3 July 2021.

[9] "Winners of 59th Idea Filmfare Awards". Filmfare. 25 January 2014. Retrieved 3 July 2021.

[10] "Nominations for the IIFA Awards 2009". Bollywood Hungama. 29 April 2009. Retrieved 4 July 2021.

[11] "IIFA Awards 2014: The list of nominees". CNN-News18. 22 February 2014. Retrieved 3 July 2021.

[12] "15th Star Screen Awards Nominations". Screen. Archived from the original on 21 January 2009. Retrieved 4 July 2021.

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v t e Filmfare Award for Best Story
1955–1970	Mukhram Sharma (1955) Rajinder Singh Bedi (1956) Amiya Chakrabarty (1957) Akhtar Mirza (1958) Mukhram Sharma (1959) Subodh Ghosh (1960) Ruby Sen (1961) C. V. Sridhar (1962) K. P. Kottarakara (1963) Jarasandha (1964) Ban Bhatt (1965) Akhtar Mirza (1966) R. K. Narayan (1967) Manoj Kumar (1968) Sachin Bhowmick (1969) Vasant Shankar Kanetkar (1970)
1971–1990	Chandrakant Kakodkar (1971) Hrishikesh Mukherjee (1972) Basu Bhattacharya (1973) Salim–Javed (1974) Kaifi Azmi, Ismat Chughtai (1975) Salim–Javed (1976) Balaichand Mukherjee (1977) Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay (1978) Dinesh Thakur (1979) Shanker Shesh (1980) Vijay Tendulkar (1981) Chetan Anand (1982) Samaresh Basu (1983) S. D. Palwalker (1984) Mahesh Bhatt (1985) Aleem Masroor (1986) no award (1987) no award (1988) Subodh Ghosh (1989) K. Viswanath (1990)
1991–2010	Rajkumar Santoshi (1991 ) Honey Irani (1992) no award given (1993) Sutanu Gupta (1994) K. K. Singh (1995) Ram Gopal Varma (1996) Gulzar (1997) Kamal Haasan (1998) Mahesh Bhatt (1999) Vinay Shukla (2000) Honey Irani (2001) Ashutosh Gowariker (2002) Jaideep Sahni (2003) Nagesh Kukunoor (2004) Aditya Chopra (2005) Sudhir Mishra, Ruchi Narain & Shiv Kumar Subramaniam (2006 ) Rajkumar Hirani & Vidhu Vinod Chopra (2007) Amole Gupte (2008) Abhishek Kapoor (2009) Abhijat Joshi & Rajkumar Hirani (2010)
2011–present	Anurag Kashyap & Vikramaditya Motwane (2011) Sanjay Chauhan (2012) Juhi Chaturvedi (2013) Subhash Kapoor (2014) Rajat Kapoor (2015) V. Vijayendra Prasad (2016) Shakun Batra (2017) Amit V. Masurkar (2018) Anubhav Sinha (2019) Anubhav Sinha & Gaurav Solanki (2020) Anubhav Sinha & Mrunmayee Lagoo Waikul (2021)