the Kapoor family tree
For all your Kapoor Khazana reference needs (and beyond), here is a Kapoor family tree. This image is courtesy of Madhu Jain's book The Kapoors: The First Family of Indian Cinema (Penguin Books India, 2005). Click the picture to enlarge to legible size. The dates and underlining are my own. My notations indicate who is of what generation: double underlines are for Prithviraj's children; single underlines are for their children; dashed lines for their children; etc. If you'd rather read, the family tree goes like this, color-coded by major branch and with the names you probably recognize in bold: first and second generations: Prithviraj Kapoor (born 1906) is the father of Raj (Ranbir Raj, born 1924), Shammi (Shamsher Raj, 1931), and Shashi (Balbir Raj, 1938). Prithviraj and his wife Ramsarni (Rama) also had a daughter, Urmi (between Shammi and Shashi), and two children who died, Ravinder and Devinder. Prithviraj has a brother named Trilok Kapoor , who is a
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So Rossellini and Sonali eloped, leaving the first born in Calcutta. Bimal Roy, at the insistence of his wife, put a call to the then Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, to try and stop the two from leaving the country but fortunately or unfortunately, the two escaped. Sonali had her second child in Italy, divorced her husband, bacame Rossellini's third wife and lived happily ever after. Except for her son who grew up believing he was Rossellini's son, Isabella's step brother and half-Italian. He only got to know about it when he was around 20 years old. His name is Gil Rossellini and Salman Khan's character's background is based on him - hence the Italian connection and the last name Rossellini.
Like a Bollywood story, right?
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