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Prithviraj Kapoor (born Prithvinath Kapoor; 3 November 1906 – 29 May 1972) was an Indian actor who is also considered to be one of the founding figures of Hindi cinema. [1] He was associated with IPTA as one of its founding members and established the Prithvi Theatres in 1944 as a travelling theatre company based in Bombay .
Prithviraj Kapoor, né à Lyallpur (Indes britanniques, actuellement Faisalabad, province du Punjab, au Pakistan) le 3 novembre 1906 et mort à Bombay (Maharashtra, Inde) le 29 mai 1972, est un comédien indien, pionnier du cinéma hindi, membre fondateur de l'Indian People's Theatre Association (en) (IPTA) et fondateur en 1944 du ...
Prithviraj Kapoor was a pioneer of Indian theatre and cinema, and the patriarch of the Kapoor family in Bollywood. He acted in over 100 films, founded the Prithvi Theatre, and received the Padma Bhushan and Dadasaheb Phalke awards.
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29 mai 2012 · Prithviraj Kapoor was a pioneer of Indian cinema and stage, who starred in films such as Sikandar and Mughal-e-azam. He also founded the Prithvi Theatre in Bombay and launched the careers of many actors and directors.
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Prithviraj Kapoor was born on Sunday, 3 November 1906 (age 65 years; at the time of death) in Samundri, Punjab, British India (present-day Punjab, Pakistan). His zodiac sign was Scorpio. Soon after completing his school education, he joined the Edwardes College in Peshawar, Pakistan to pursue a bachelor’s in arts degree. He was born and brought up ...
Parents & Siblings
His father’s name is Basheshwarnath Kapoor, and his mother’s name is Vaishno Devi. The couple had three sons, and two of their sons died at a very young age. Prithviraj is the third and only son of Basheshwarnath Kapoor from his first wife. Basheshwarnath Kapoor married twice and had four sons named Trilok, Amar, Ram, Vishi, and three daughters named Kailash, Prem, and Shanta from his second wife. The popular Bollywood actor Trilok Kapoor was his younger brother. The noted Bollywood actors an...
Wife & Children
In 1923, Prithviraj Kapoor got married to Ramsarni Kapoor. The couple has three sons named Raj Kapoor, Shammi Kapoor, and Shashi, Kapoor. They have a daughter named Urmila Sial Kapoor. Prithviraj Kapoor was 17 years old and Ramsarni Mehra was 15 years old at the time of their marriage. It was an intra-community marriage, which was arranged by their parents by following Indian traditional ceremonies. It is said that their marriage was fixed by their parents in their childhood, but was official...
Prithviraj Kapoor belonged to a Punjabi Hindu Khatri family in Lyallpur, Punjab Province. Bengali Cinema: ‘An Other Nation’
Films
When he was a teenager, he began performing in the theatres of Lyallpur and Peshawar and initiated his acting career. In 1928, he decided to shift to Bombay from Peshawar to pursue his dreams of acting and took a loan from his aunt for the same. Soon after he reached Bombay, he became a part of the Imperial Film Company and started appearing in a few Hindi movies in minor roles. In the same year, he rose to prominence when he appeared in the film of the year ‘Be Dhari Talwar’ in a side role....
Prithvi Theatre
Prithviraj Kapoor founded his own theatre group named Prithvi Theatre in 1944. His eldest son Raj Kapoor started directing and producing Hindi films by the year 1946, and Prithviraj Kapoor started keeping himself involved in many theatre plays, which were organised by him to inspire the young people of India to participate in the Indian independence movement and the quit India movement. The ‘Prithvi Theaters’ staged more than 2662 performances after sixteen years of its initiation, and Prithv...
Politics
From 3 April 1952 to 2 April 1960, he served as the Rajya Sabha Member from the Bombay constituency.
In 1954, he earned the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship from the Indian Sangeet Natak Akademi. In 1956, he was honoured with the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award by the Sangeet Natak Akademi. In 1969, he was felicitated the Padma Bhushan by the Government of India. In 1972, he was honoured with the Dadasaheb Phalke Award (Posthumous) for the year 1971 f...
On 29 May 1972, he died in Bombay, Maharashtra, India (present-day Mumbai) at the age of 65 years after battling a long with cancer. His wife also died of cancer, fifteen days after his death. Later, the family members of Prithviraj Kapoor founded a memorial in his memory at their farmhouse named “Rajbaugh,” which is situated on the side of the Mul...
Soon after the marriage of Prithviraj Kapoor and Ramsarni, her brother, Jugal Kishore Mehra, started receiving opportunities to work in Hindi cinema.
Prithviraj Kapoor was a prominent Indian filmmaker and actor, and the founder of the Prithvi Theatre. He was the father of Raj, Shammi, and Shashi Kapoor, and the recipient of the Padma Bhushan and Dadasaheb Phalke awards.
3 nov. 2018 · Learn about the life and legacy of Prithviraj Kapoor, the founder of Prithvi Theatre and a pioneer of Hindi cinema. He starred in classics like Mughal-e-Azam and directed plays that tackled social issues such as Partition.
3 nov. 2016 · The pioneer of Indian theatre and a stalwart in Hindi film industry, Prithviraj Kapoor was born on November 3 in the year 1906. Prithviraj Kapoor was the patriarch of the famous Kapoor family of Bollywood. He was born in Lyallpur (now Faisalabad) in Pakistan.
