Shraddha Kapoor ( born 3 March 1987) is an Indian actress and singer who is noted for her work in Bollywood films. The daughter of actor Shakti Kapoor, she began her acting career with a brief role in the 2010 heist film Teen Patti and followed it with her first leading role in the teen drama Luv Ka The End ( 2011) .
Kapoor gained wide recognition for playing a singer in the commercially successful romantic drama Aashiqui 2 ( 2013) , for which she received several accolades including a Filmfare nomination for the Best Actress. The following year, she portrayed a character based on Ophelia in Vishal Bhardwaj’s critically acclaimed drama Haider ( 2014) , an adaptation of William Shakespeare’s tragedy Hamlet. She established herself as one of the high-profile actresses in Bollywood with starring roles in the romantic thriller Ek Villain ( 2014) , the dance drama ABCD 2 ( 2015) , and the action drama Baaghi ( 2016) , all of which rank among her biggest commercial successes.[2][3]
In addition to acting in films, Kapoor has sung several of her film songs. She is the celebrity endorser for several brands and products, and in 2015, she launched her own line of clothing. She participates in stage shows and concerts. Kapoor features in listings of the most attractive and popular celebrities in India.
Early life and background:
Kapoor with her father Shakti Kapoor, who appeared in a cameo in her debut film.
Kapoor was born and raised in Mumbai into a mixed ethnic family. On her father’s side, Kapoor is of Punjabi descent, and on her mother’s side, she is of Marathi ancestry.[4] She has said that, she went through a tomboyish phase as a child and described herself to have a strong attitude for which she was deliberately picking fight with boys.[5]
Kapoor’s family members, including her father Shakti Kapoor and mother Shivangi Kapoor, her elder brother Siddhanth Kapoor, her two aunts Padmini Kolhapure and Tejaswini Kolhapure are actors in films.[6] Hailing from a family of actors, Kapoor desired to become an actress since a young age, wearing her parent clothes, she used to rehearse film dialogues and dance in Bollywood songs in front of the mirror. She also accompanied her father to various shooting locations in her childhood, during one of David Dhawan’s shoot, Kapoor befriended actor Varun Dhawan to play with him, [7] they were holding a torch pretending it to be a camera while conversing film lines to each other[8][9] and they were also dancing in Govinda’s film songs.[10]
Kapoor did her schooling at Jamnabai Narsee School and at the age of 15, she shifted at the American School of Bombay, where she was schoolmate with actress Athiya Shetty and actor Tiger Shroff. Given in an interview with The Times of India, Shetty revealed that, all of them used to participate in dance competition.[11] Believing herself to be competitive at the age of 17, Kapoor played soccer and handball as she thought these games were challenging.[12] Interviewing by The Hindustan Times in 2016, both Kapoor and Shroff admitted that, they had a crush on each other in school but never proposed to each one.[13]
Kapoor then enrolled in Boston University to major in psychology, [14] but subsequently left her freshman year to appear in her debut film after she was seen on Facebook by producer Ambika Hinduja, who cast her for a role in Teen Patti.[15] In an Interview with the Filmfare magazine, Shakti Kapoor revealed that Kapoor was barely 16 years old, when she was offered her first film by Salman Khan after he was fascinated by one of her school play performances but Kapoor considering herself to be studious[16] rejected the proposal as she was also aspiring to become a psychologist.[17][18] Kapoor was trained as a singer since her childhood as her maternal grandfather ( the cousin of singers Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle) , [19][20] and mother are classical singers.[21][22]
Career:
Debut and early work ( 2010–11)
Kapoor at a promotional event for Luv Ka The End in 2011
Kapoor