Ranbir Kapoor plays Lord Ram in Ramayana, marking a full-circle moment as his great-grandfather Prithviraj Kapoor portrayed the same role 92 years ago in the landmark film Seeta.
The young Kapoor scion, Atlas-like, shoulders the weight of two mammoth legacies of his two grandfathers — the legendary Shashi Kapoor and Ramesh Sippy. The ‘Black Warrant’ actor, who’s one of the trustees of Bombay’s Prithvi Theatre, champions both theatre and cinema.
Raj Kapoor at 100: On his hundredth birth anniversary, December 14, Bollywood can take a leaf from actor-director-producer Raj Kapoor's cinema on India, that made the marginalised tramp the hero to critique the then-rising capitalism's ensuing greed & corruption.
Kareena's great-grandfather Prithviraj Kapoor's legacy was taken forward by his three sons Raj Kapoor, Shammi Kapoor and Shashi Kapoor, whose wife Jennifer was the first female from the Kapoor clan to act in movies.