Rishi Raj Kapoor

Rishi Raj Kapoor (4 September 1952 – 30 April 2020)[3] was an Indian actor, film director and film producer who worked in Hindi films. He has received several accolades, including winning four Filmfare Awards, three Zee Cine Awards and a National Film Award. Kapoor is considered one of the most successful actors in the history of Bollywood.

Born into the Kapoor family, he made his debut, as an adolescent, in his father Raj Kapoor’s film Mera Naam Joker (1970), for which he won the National Film Award for Best Child Artist. As an adult, his first lead role was opposite Dimple Kapadia in the teen romance Bobby (1973), which won him the Filmfare Award for Best Actor. Between 1973 and 2000, Kapoor starred as the romantic lead in 92 films. Some of his notable films during this period include Khel Khel Mein (1975), Kabhi Kabhie (1976), Sargam (1979), Karz (1980), and Chandni (1989). Since the 2000s, he played character roles to critical acclaim in such films as Luck by Chance (2009), Love Aaj Kal (2009), Do Dooni Chaar (2010), Agneepath (2012), 102 Not Out (2018) and Mulk (2018). For his performance in Do Dooni Chaar (2010), he won the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actor, and for his role in Kapoor & Sons (2016), he won the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor. He was honoured with the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award in 2008. His final film appearance was in the suspense thriller The Body (2019).

Rishi Kapoor Age

Rishi Kapoor
Kapoor at the premiere of his film Do Dooni Chaar in 2010
Born	Rishi Raj Kapoor 4 September 1952 Bombay, Bombay State, India (present-day Mumbai, Maharashtra)
Died	30 April 2020 (aged 67) Girgaon, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India[1]
Nationality	Indian
Occupation	Film actor director producer
Years active	1970–2020
Spouse(s)	Neetu Singh ​ (m. 1980)​
Children	2, including Ranbir Kapoor
Parent(s)	Krishna Kapoor (mother) Raj Kapoor (father)
Relatives	See Kapoor family

Personal life

Kapoor married actress Neetu Singh, who he had worked with in several films, in 1980. The couple had two children— son, actor Ranbir Kapoor, and daughter, Riddhima Kapoor Sahni.

Kapoor’s autobiography Khullam Khulla: Rishi Kapoor Uncensored, was released on 15 January 2017. Kapoor wrote the book along with Meena Iyer, and the title was published under Harper Collins. Kapoor’s comments on being a “beef-eating Hindu” became controversial.

Kapoor was known to make controversial socio-political comments. In March 2016, he criticized the Nehru–Gandhi family over naming of roads, buildings and national assets in the name of Gandhi and Nehru. In September 2017, he again took on the Gandhi family by slamming Rahul Gandhi over dynastic politics. In March 2020, he expressed anger and criticized the Indian Judiciary with the “Tareekh Pe Tareekh” dialogue of his film Damini over the delay in execution of the four perpetrators who were convicted in the Nirbhaya case due to loopholes in the laws. The convicts were finally executed on 20 March at 5:30 am in Tihar Jail after it was deferred thrice.

Awards

• 1970 – National Film Award for Mera Naam Joker; and Bengal Film Journalists’ Association Awards: Special Award
• 1974 – Filmfare Award for Best Actor for Bobby
• 2008 – Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award
• 2009 – Honoured by Russian Government for contribution to cinema
• 2010 – Apsara Film & Television Producers Guild Awards: Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Love Aaj Kal
• 2011 – Zee Cine Awards: Best Lifetime Jodi along with Neetu Singh
• 2011 – Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actor for Do Dooni Chaar
• 2013 – The Times of India Film Awards (TOIFA), Best Actor in a Negative Role for Agneepath
• 2017 – Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor for Kapoor & Sons
• 2017 – Zee Cine Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role – Male for Kapoor & Sons
• 2017 – Zee Cine Award for Best Actor in a Comic Role for Kapoor & Sons
• 2019 – Adidas Most Stylish Awards – Best Projected By Adidas

Filmography

Illness and death

Rishi was diagnosed with leukemia in 2018 and went to New York City for treatment.^[12] After successful treatment for a year, he returned to India on 26 September 2019.

However, he was admitted to Sir H. N. Reliance Foundation Hospital on 29 April 2020 owing to breathing difficulties. He died on 30 April 2020 from leukemia. His death came less than 24 hours after Irrfan Khan, another well-regarded actor and his co-star from D-Day died due to colon infection. Kapoor’s last rites were performed at Chandanwadi Crematorium and his ashes were immersed in Banganga.