Abhishek Kapoor

Indian filmmaker

Abhishek Kapoor

Kapoor and Pragya Yadav at Abu Jani-Sandeep Khosla show for 'Volvo S90'

Born|  (1971-08-06) 6 August 1971 (age 51)

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.

## Contents

* 1 Career
* 2 Personal life
* 3 Filmography
* 4 Awards and nominations
* 4.1 National Film Awards
* 4.2 Filmfare Awards
* 4.3 IIFA Awards
* 4.4 Screen Awards
* 5 References
* 6 External links

## Career[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

Year | Film | Director | Writer | Producer | Actor

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1996  | Aashique Mastane | No | No | No | Yes
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
Rock On 2 | No | Story | No | No
2018  | Kedarnath | Yes | Story | Yes | No
2021  | Chandigarh Kare Aashiqui | Yes | Story | Yes | No

## Awards and nominations[edit]

### National Film Awards[edit]

Year  | Category  | Work  | Result  | Ref.

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2010 | Best Feature Film in Hindi | Rock On!! | Won  | [6]

### Filmfare Awards[edit]

Year  | Category  | Work  | Result  | Ref.

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2009 | Best Story | Rock On!! | Won  | [7]
Best Screenplay | Nominated
Best Film | Nominated
Best Director | Nominated
2014 | Kai Po Che! | Nominated  | [8]
Best Screenplay | Won  | [9]
2022 | Best Story | Chandigarh Kare Aashiqui | Won  |

### IIFA Awards[edit]

Year  | Category  | Work  | Result  | Ref.

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2009 | Best Director | Rock On!! | Nominated  | [10]
2014 | Kai Po Che! | Nominated  | [11]
Best Story | Nominated

### Screen Awards[edit]

Year  | Category  | Work  | Result  | Ref.

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2009 | Best Director | Rock On!! | Nominated  | [12]
2014 | Kai Po Che! | Nominated

## References[edit]

1. ^ Taran Adarsh (15 December 2006). "Aryan – Unbreakable: Critic review". Bollywood Hungama. Retrieved 3 March 2014.
2. ^ 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.
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.
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.
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.

## External links[edit]

* Abhishek Kapoor at IMDb

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* t
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Films directed and written by Abhishek Kapoor

* Aryan: Unbreakable (2006)
* Rock On!! (2008)
* Kai Po Che! (2012)
* Fitoor (2016)
* Rock On 2 (2016, writer only)
* Kedarnath (2018)

* 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)

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