Rajat Kapoor

Rajat Kapoor

Nacimiento : 1961-02-11, Delhi, India

Historia

Rajat Kapoor is an Indian actor, writer, screenwriter and film director. As a child, Kapoor would watch films with his family and decided to become a filmmaker at the age of 14. He mainly focused on acting at first. In 2013 he joined the theatre group Chingari in Delhi, later moving to Pune to attend the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII).

Perfil

Rajat Kapoor
Rajat Kapoor

Películas

Eyes on the Sunshine
IAS Loshit Modliar
Kora Kagazz
Vivek
Our lives are often more interconnected than we think they are... Kora Kagazz is a Hindi lanuguage film that revolves around three lost souls who find a home away from home. Divya, a juvenile home warden and Vivek, an actor struggling to create art, meet Sandhya, a 14-year old girl, with a dark past, and together they rise above their circumstances.
Drishyam 2
Mahesh Deshmukh
La historia de una investigación y de una familia que se ve amenazada por ella. ¿Podrá Vijay Salgaonkar proteger a su familia esta vez?
Clowning with Shakespeare
Self
Rajat Kapoor, an Indian filmmaker & actor collaborates with fellow actors from Bollywood to put up a theatre play that turns Shakespearean stories into a modern tale with an unconventional twist. Rajat’s clowning act of interpreting Shakespearean classics makes for an unbelievably appealing storytelling. The creative exploration of Rajat and his team is discomforting, entertaining, and addictive at the same time.
Gehraiyaan
Jitesh
Alisha Khanna, 30, ambitious, now finds herself at crossroads in life. Her six year long relationship has grown monotonous, her career seems to be going nowhere. But just when she had begun to accept this reality as unchangeable, her life is usurped by the arrival of her cousin, Tia and her fiancé, Zain, with whom she bonds over a troubled past and a common wish to break from its confines.
RK/RKAY
RK and Mahboob
After wrapping up the shoot of his upcoming period film, in which he also plays the lead character Mehboob, Indie film director-writer RK (Rajat Kapoor) struggles to piece his film together on the editing table. Trouble escalates when he discovers that his lead character has vanished from the film’s footage and entered real life.
RK/RKAY
Writer
After wrapping up the shoot of his upcoming period film, in which he also plays the lead character Mehboob, Indie film director-writer RK (Rajat Kapoor) struggles to piece his film together on the editing table. Trouble escalates when he discovers that his lead character has vanished from the film’s footage and entered real life.
RK/RKAY
Director
After wrapping up the shoot of his upcoming period film, in which he also plays the lead character Mehboob, Indie film director-writer RK (Rajat Kapoor) struggles to piece his film together on the editing table. Trouble escalates when he discovers that his lead character has vanished from the film’s footage and entered real life.
How About a Kiss
Anand
Pari, a 22-year-old, is depressed and Professor Anand tries to counsel and help her come out of depression. Things get complicated when Pari falls in love with Anand.
Lo mejor está por llegar
Doctor Aman Kapoor
Arthur Dreyfus (Fabrice Luchini) y César Montesiho (Patrick Bruel) son dos amigos de la infancia que hacen frente a la vida de manera totalmente opuesta. Arthur es un reputado investigador y docente universitario divorciado y con una hija adolescente (Marie Narbonne) con quien le cuesta comunicarse. Por su parte, César sigue soltero a sus cincuenta años y su solvencia económica está siempre al límite. En el día en el que tiene que hacer frente a una deuda con todas sus posesiones, cae accidentalmente por la ventana, lastimándose la espalda. Arthur es el encargado de llevarle al hospital para que comprueben que se ha dañado, prestándole sus papeles. Semanas después, Arthur recibe una llamada del hospital informando de que tiene cáncer de pulmón terminal; pero no son sus análisis los que han recibido, si no los de César con los documentos médicos de Arthur. Incapaz de contarle la dura verdad, Arthur lidia con su amigo mientras le cuida pensando que el moribundo es su amigo, no él.
Kadakh
Rahul
Sunil is home alone when the doorbell rings. The stranger at the door introduces himself as the husband of Chhaya - a woman that Sunil is having an affair with. The guest immediately asks many uncomfortable questions about their affair, becoming more and more intrusive. The situation is already incredibly tense and then the man pulls out a gun from his bag and aims it straight at Sunil. Pretty soon a shot rings out and the wall is splattered with blood. And that is just the beginning.
Kadakh
Writer
Sunil is home alone when the doorbell rings. The stranger at the door introduces himself as the husband of Chhaya - a woman that Sunil is having an affair with. The guest immediately asks many uncomfortable questions about their affair, becoming more and more intrusive. The situation is already incredibly tense and then the man pulls out a gun from his bag and aims it straight at Sunil. Pretty soon a shot rings out and the wall is splattered with blood. And that is just the beginning.
Kadakh
Director
Sunil is home alone when the doorbell rings. The stranger at the door introduces himself as the husband of Chhaya - a woman that Sunil is having an affair with. The guest immediately asks many uncomfortable questions about their affair, becoming more and more intrusive. The situation is already incredibly tense and then the man pulls out a gun from his bag and aims it straight at Sunil. Pretty soon a shot rings out and the wall is splattered with blood. And that is just the beginning.
Mulk
SSP Danish Javed
El hijo menor de una familia musulmana asentada en Benaras se involucra en actividades terroristas, lo que lleva a una masacre con explosivos. Sus acciones tienen un efecto adverso en la familia que queda para defenderse como personas inocentes y no antinacionales.
Pari
Qasim Ali
Arnab tries to help Ruksahana, who is found under mysterious circumstances in a house. He lets her stay at his home until he discovers something strange about her.
August 25
Avik
A physics professor receives a surprise visitor who has greater knowledge about his work with regards to time than the Professor himself. Who is this visitor? Where is he from? Questions and doubts flood the professor's mind, until Shayan the visitor, makes the ultimate sacrifice to turn time and reality on its head. A taut thriller with an unexpected twist, August 25 tests the bonds of love, trust and sacrifice that we share with each other. Bonds that defy nature and reality.
Mantra
Kapil Kapoor
In 1991, the Government of India opened up the economy and unleashed the forces of globalization, forever changing the landscape of the country. A dozen years later, India was celebrating its emergence as a global economic super power. Set in 2004, in the midst of a nationwide 'India Shining' campaign, the film Mantra tells the intimate story of a family and its travails, and through it, the story of the New India. The protagonist of the film is Kapil Kapoor, the founder of an iconic Indian snack brand in the 'License Raj' old India. But today - in 2004 - he is fighting a losing battle against a multinational that has taken over the market. But it is not just his company that Kapil is desperately trying to save; it is also his own wife and children who are battling their own crises.
Waiting
Dr. Nirupam
Narra la historia de cómo dos extraños muy diferentes entre sí, lidian con su propio dolor. Shiv Kumar, es un profesor de psicología de edad avanzada, quien acude a diario al hospital de Kochi para visitar a su esposa Pankaja, quien esta en estado de coma. Tara Kapoor, es una agente de publicidad, que llega al mismo hospital tras el accidente de coche que involucró a su marido Rajat Deshpande. Los dos no pueden ser más diferentes entre sí. Mientras que Shiv es un hombre estoico, que pierde la calma cuando el médico sugiere desconectar a su esposa, Tara en cambio está más preocupada por que sus amigos de Facebook y Twitter no estén de su lado.
Ki & Ka
Kabir's Father
An unconventional woman, gains immense success in her professional life but things take a turn when she meets a guy, who wants to be a house husband.
Kapoor & Sons
Harsh Kapoor
Returning home to visit their ill grandfather, two estranged brothers must confront their unresolved rivalry while their parents’ marriage frays.
X: El pasado se hace presente
K
Un cineasta de mediana edad conoce a una atractiva joven en una fiesta y empieza a verse acosado por recuerdos inquietantes de sus antiguas relaciones.
Visual
Mahesh Deshmukh
Vijay Salgaonkar es un hombre que tiene la vida que siempre ha deseado: ser jefe de la red de televisión por cable de una aldea remota en Goa, tener una esposa que le ama con devoción y dos hijas con las que puede mantener su tranquilidad. Durante años, Vijay ha labrado su propio camino hacia el éxito, con la esperanza de poder mantener una buena vida tanto para él como para su familia. Su obsesión por el mundo del cine es a veces preocupante, pero su vida se convertirá en una de ellas, cuando un adolescente desaparezca y le acusen de ser el culpable, pero ¿cómo arreglarlo?
Rang Rasiya
Auctioneer
A look a the life of 19th century Indian painter Raja Ravi Varma.
Ankhon Dekhi
Writer
Bauji resists his daughter's request to let her marry the man she loves as the villagers incessantly shame him. However, his opinion changes after he meets him and he decides to change his viewpoint.
Ankhon Dekhi
Rishi Chacha
Bauji resists his daughter's request to let her marry the man she loves as the villagers incessantly shame him. However, his opinion changes after he meets him and he decides to change his viewpoint.
Ankhon Dekhi
Director
Bauji resists his daughter's request to let her marry the man she loves as the villagers incessantly shame him. However, his opinion changes after he meets him and he decides to change his viewpoint.
I m 24
Shubendu Roy
Saying the truth was always difficult, and lying, they say, is much simpler. Shubendu lives by the tougher option. But when this honest, 42 year old balding writer falls in love with a 22 year old beauty queen, he is tempted to lie. What's more, his jerk of a roommate, Gagan, who swears by the magic of lies, helps him cook up stories. What follows is a hilarious ride of lies, cover-ups, goof-ups and contradicting tales. Shubendu begins enjoying this ride. Why didn't he know that lying was so much fun?! But at some point, the madness has got to stop. The question is: When? This Saurabh Shukla directed romantic comedy will touch all hearts, both young and old.
Hijos de la medianoche
Aadam Aziz
En un hospital de la ciudad de Bombay nacen dos bebés: Saleem y Shiva. Su nacimiento coincide con el 15 de agosto de 1947, el mismo día en el que la India consigue su independencia de Inglaterra. Nacer en ese gran momento concede a los hermanos poderes sobrenaturales como el de la telepatía o el de un agudísimo olfato. Ambos son intercambiados por accidente al nacer y sus vidas se convertirán en esclavas de su contexto. La India vivía entonces un momento de ensueño pintado con la esperanza de avanzar y convertirse en un país rico y desarrollado en todos los sentidos y esto mismo les ocurre a los hermanos a quienes, por estar dotados con el don de los poderes mágicos, se les atribuye un futuro mejor del que finalmente protagonizan. Ambos terminarán tan pobres y atrasados como la cultura y el país en el que nacen. Una historia de poderes mágicos, amor oculto y secretos de familia que se desarrolla en medio de una convulsa situación política del país oriental.
The Owner
Producer
The film follows a backpack on a journey around the world, intersecting the lives of dozens of fascinating characters along the way. The story progresses, we learn details about the mysterious man to whom the bag belongs.
Fatso!
Co-Producer
Killed too soon due to a clerical error in heaven, a man is sent back to earth with a new lease on life, this time in the body of his portly friend.
Fatso!
Executive Producer
Killed too soon due to a clerical error in heaven, a man is sent back to earth with a new lease on life, this time in the body of his portly friend.
Fatso!
Writer
Killed too soon due to a clerical error in heaven, a man is sent back to earth with a new lease on life, this time in the body of his portly friend.
Fatso!
Director
Killed too soon due to a clerical error in heaven, a man is sent back to earth with a new lease on life, this time in the body of his portly friend.
Pappu Can't Dance Saala
Palash
One time bickering neighbors are forced to share the same apartment. The cultural clash between traditional-orthodox-India and modern-urban-India. The collision of two cultures creates havoc in the beginning but finds a peaceful co-existence, at the end. An orthodox boy from the holy city of Banaras, is forced to stay with a chorus dancer in Bombay... The film does the journey of these two opposite personalities and how, after the initial phase of rejection, they find each others place in their respective lives.
Jo Dooba So Paar: It's Love in Bihar!
Superintendent of Police
A high-school drop-out is smitten with a visiting American Researcher.
Phas Gaye Re Obama
Om Shastri
Phase Gaye Re Obama is a comedy set against the backdrop of global recession/meltdown that originated in USA. The film traces the journey of OM Shashtri, an American citizen of Indian origin, who loses all his wealth overnight to the global recession & has been asked to vacate his home by the bank unless he pays up $100,000 (mortgaged amount) within 30 days. Seeing no other option Om comes to India to sell a small piece of an ancestral property. But within days of landing in India he is kidnapped by a 'recession-hit' underworld gang those who think that he is still a millionaire. What happens to Om, is he able to save his home, how did the 'poor' gangster cope with their 'poor' catch & what do small town Indian gangsters have to say to President Obama...is largely forms the rest of the story. The film, showcases how global recession/ meltdown impacted lives from an America based businessman to underworld dons in the dusty plains of small town India.
Iti Mrinalini: An Unfinished Letter...
Siddhartha Sarkar
An award-winning aging actress reflects on her life while writing a suicide note.
Rann
Naveen Shankalya
The revered chief of a news agency tries to maintain journalistic integrity as his bureau and a rival agency vie for viewers following a terrorist attack.
10ml LOVE
A romantic comedy concerning the tribulations of a love quadrangle during a night of magic & madness.
A One Night Stand
Writer
Following a wild party, a married man meets with his friends in order to try and remember his indiscretions.
A One Night Stand
Co-Producer
Following a wild party, a married man meets with his friends in order to try and remember his indiscretions.
A One Night Stand
Rahul
Following a wild party, a married man meets with his friends in order to try and remember his indiscretions.
Teree Sang: A Kidult Love Story
Mohit Puri
An under-aged couple fall in love, face opposition from the girl's wealthy parents, elope, and go on the run from the police.
Siddharth: The Prisoner
Siddharth Roy
Siddharth Roy gets discharged from jail, and with his lawyer's assistance, returns to his rental flat in Mumbai and is asked to consider a divorce settlement from his wife, Maya. While in his flat he finalizes a manuscript titled 'The Prisoner', and then attends the Om Shree Internet Cafe to email publisher, Tim Wright. When he returns home he finds that the briefcase he got from the Internet café is not his, and contains Rs.20 Lakhs in cash. He decides to keep the cash, and returns to the café to see if he can locate his briefcase in order to get his book published. He does not do so - but is unaware that the briefcase belongs to a gangster, Atul Bhai, who has already assigned two armed men, Amin Bhai, and Aseem, to get it back, while the café attendant, Mohan, who had Googled Siddharth, is actively engaged in locating him.
Via Darjeeling
Ronodeep 'Rono' Sen
Via Darjeeling is the story of a honeymooning couple Ankur (Kay Kay Menon) and Rimli (Sonali Kulkarni) who are very much in love. On the day of their departure from Darjeeling, Ankur disappears mysteriously leaving Rimli all alone frantically searching for him. Here enters the policeman Robin Dutt (Vinay Pathak) who tries to trace Ankur, but in vain. The story then moves onto a group of friends partying and having a good time, where Robin who is one of the guests narrates the story of Ankur and Rimli to his friends. How each one of them make their own interpretations as to what happened to Ankur makes the movie an interesting watch.
Dasvidaniya
Rajiv Julka
A man who loves to make "to-do lists" makes one last bucket list when he realizes he is about to die.
Hulla
Janardhan Parikh
A stockbroker who moves into a flat finds that he cannot sleep because of the loud whistle blown by the night-watchman. This leads him into conflict with the building's secretary who insists on the use of the whistle.
Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na
Meghna's father
Two best friends being convinced that they are not in love search for each other's love.
Krazzy 4
R K Sanyal
A psychiatrist spends the majority of his time treating four patients, but he becomes so involved in their lives that his wife attempts to get rid of them.
Mithya
Writer
A two-bit actor faces challenges after he is asked by Police to impersonate a look-alike gangster.
Mithya
Director
A two-bit actor faces challenges after he is asked by Police to impersonate a look-alike gangster.
Khoya Khoya Chand
Prem Kumar
Circa 1960s Lucknow-based author Zafar Ali Naqvi, who has issues with his father and his four wives, including the 4th one who lusts after him, re-locates to Bombay, starts writing for movies, and falls in love with starlet Nikhat Sheikh. Both decide to get married but cancel the plans at the last minute after she finds out that her mother and her live-in boyfriend...
My Own Sky
Dr. Sen
In order to make their autistic child a genius, a couple injects a drug into his body, only to face drastic consequences later.
Bheja Fry
Ranjeet Thadani
Ranjeet Thadani (Rajat Kapoor), un ejecutivo de una compañía de música aburrida y arrogante, se lastima la espalda la noche en que ha encontrado un premio para una comida semanal: la cena de talento idiota que organizan sus amigos y él. Él termina pasando la noche con este idiota, Bharat Bhushan (Vinay Pathak), que trata de ayudarlo a recuperar a su esposa (Sarika) que lo dejó ese mismo día. El resultado es un caos total desatado por el idiota, que no puede hacer nada sin estropearlo aún más. La trama se convierte en una serie de mini desastres que dejan la cómoda vida de Ranjeet en ruinas. ¡Llámalo la venganza del idiota!
The Last Days of the Raj
Muhammed Ali Jinnah
Lord Louis Mountbatten arrives in India in March 1947 as Britain's Last Viceroy. He is committed to transfer administrative and authoritative power to an independent and sovereign India. Six months later India indeed was set free, but it had also been partitioned and overwhelmed by an orgy of sectarian violence involving Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs.
Anuranan
The story of two couples - each with their own struggles to survive as a couple and as individuals. After living in London for a few years, Rahul and Nandita have recently moved back to Kolkata and become friends with Amit and Preeti. It is the lives of these four friends that creates a resonance, a chord, that echoes through their present and future.
Yun Hota To Kya Hota
US Consulate Officer
Four individuals from different parts of India board a US-bound flight. However, they are stuck in an unfortunate situation as the flight is hijacked soon after take-off.
Corporate
Vinay Sehgal
Two corporate giants compete in order to recklessly maximize their respective profits.
Mixed Doubles
Script
Bored with his sex life, a man tries to convince his wife to swap partners.
Mixed Doubles
Vinod
Bored with his sex life, a man tries to convince his wife to swap partners.
Mixed Doubles
Director
Bored with his sex life, a man tries to convince his wife to swap partners.
Kisna The Warrior Poet
Prince Raghuraj
Lady Katherine Williams, una mujer mayor que fue ministra del gobierno británico, viaja a la India para la celebración del día de la República. Allí, hace que la lleven a Devprayag, a la verdadera India, donde cuenta su historia. Ella nació y pasó su infancia allí, en una casa de campo atendida por sirvientes. Su compañero de juegos era Kisna, un niño indio, amante de la música, que se ocupaba de los establos. El padre de Katherine, Peter Becket, un hombre déspota, odiado por sus sirvientes, ordena que la niña se marche a Inglaterra para educarse, pues no le hace gracia el afecto que ella siente por los indios, en especial por Kisna. En mayo de 1947, Kathy regresa a la India, momento en que en el país está a punto de estallar una revolución por la independencia.
Tum: A Dangerous Obsession
Vinod Gupta
A married woman has a one-night stand with a lustful photographer while on vacation, and soon cannot escape her past mistake when the photographer follows her home and wants to continue his lustful fling with her at any cost.
Raghu Romeo
Screenplay
Ankur Goyal is a guileless 30-year-old waiter henpecked by his mother and by the boss who seldom pays him. In his naivete, Raghu thinks he must protect the virtue of that joint's floozies from grabby clients, especially Sweety, a hitman's honey whose cynical surface masks a soft spot for the clueless hero. But he only has eyes for Neeta, a quintessential TV-soap suffering-heroine played by not-so-nice Reshma. Unable to distinguish between reel and real life, Raghu kidnaps the terrified actress and takes her to the countryside house of Sweety. Turns out she is on the hit-list.
Raghu Romeo
Director
Ankur Goyal is a guileless 30-year-old waiter henpecked by his mother and by the boss who seldom pays him. In his naivete, Raghu thinks he must protect the virtue of that joint's floozies from grabby clients, especially Sweety, a hitman's honey whose cynical surface masks a soft spot for the clueless hero. But he only has eyes for Neeta, a quintessential TV-soap suffering-heroine played by not-so-nice Reshma. Unable to distinguish between reel and real life, Raghu kidnaps the terrified actress and takes her to the countryside house of Sweety. Turns out she is on the hit-list.
Kali Salwar
Sultana, a small town prostitute and her pimp Khudabaksh migrate to the metropolis, bringing with them their dreams and meagre belongings. Sultana goes about her bright and artful seductions but somehow misses her targets. Her business collapses. Desperately, Khudabaksh too tries his hand at many jobs but is unsuccessful. Sultana's loneliness and despair get objectified in her desire for a 'salwaar' that she needs to complete her black ensemble for the observance of mourning for Moharram.
La boda del Monzón
Tej Poori
Los preparativos de una elegante boda en Nueva Delhi, que durará cuatro días, reflejan los conflictos entre generaciones partidarias de seguir las tradiciones y otras defensoras de la modernidad. A Lalit Verma y a su mujer Pimmi la boda concertada de su hija les lleva casi al borde de un ataque de nervios y de la quiebra. Otras historias paralelas se desarrollan a medida que van llegando a la ciudad parientes procedentes de todo el mundo. El novio llega de Houston (Texas), donde trabaja como ingeniero, para conocer a la novia. La novia, por su parte, acepta el compromiso a regañadientes, pues está enamorada de un presentador de televisión. Los preparativos de la boda exigen contratar a un organizador profesional y el elegido será P.K. Dubey, que es un inteligente joven de clase media.
Do You Thing
Mahesh
Tres jóvenes, Akash, Sameer y Siddharth, son amigos cercanos, pero sus gustos y formas de ser son completamente incompatibles. Así que cuando Siddharth se enamora de una mujer mucho mayor, Tara, una mujer que no ha tenido éxito en mantener intacto su matrimonio y que además arrastra una dependencia del alcohol, la brecha entre el trío se ensancha, obligándoles a separarse. Años más tarde volverán a reunirse, siendo ya mucho más maduros y comprensivos.
Private Detective: Two Plus Two Plus One
Screenplay
An urban contemporary film about adultery, murder and betrayal in the film noir style. A simple story to which the director imparts a feeling of unrest and disquiet, catching the city in its various moods. The film breaks generic conventions, notably in the presentation of the private detective through his deglamourised life and his process of discovery of 'who did it'. It is not constructed through his point of view at all. In fact the policeman and the detective, the fact finders, are in the dark about the crime, to the very end.
Char Adhyay
Set in the Bengali Renaissance of the 1930s and 1940s. A group of young intellectuals get embroiled in the struggle for Indian independence, sometimes at the expense of their personal lives.
Private Detective: Two Plus Two Plus One
Director
An urban contemporary film about adultery, murder and betrayal in the film noir style. A simple story to which the director imparts a feeling of unrest and disquiet, catching the city in its various moods. The film breaks generic conventions, notably in the presentation of the private detective through his deglamourised life and his process of discovery of 'who did it'. It is not constructed through his point of view at all. In fact the policeman and the detective, the fact finders, are in the dark about the crime, to the very end.
Tarana
Director
This film is on the 'Tarana' gharana of Indian classical music. A Tarana Bandish normally does not use words instead it employs men monic syllables. Some of these are borrowed from tabla bols,some from the moment of her instruments. It has been suggested that these syllables may have religious origin both from Hindu and Sufi faith.
The Khayal Saga
Music Student
A music student listens to stories and legends about the birth and evolution of the Khayal form of classical Indian singing. These stories are re-enacted by actors who play several key figures throughout the history of classical music.