Shahid Kapoor

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• Date of Birth: 25 February, 1981
• Place of Birth: Mumbai, India
• Biography: Shahid Kapoor born February 25, 1981 in Mumbai, India is a Bollywood actor and model. Starting off his career by working in music videos and ads, Kapoor made his Bollywood debut as a background dancer in Subhash Ghai's Taal . After four years, he made his debut as a leading actor in Ishq Vishk and won a Filmfare Best Male Debut Award for his performance. Following through with critically acclaimed performances in films like Fida and Shikhar , he had his first commercial success with Sooraj R. Barjatya's Vivah , his biggest commercial success so far, and later continued it with Jab We Met . Since then, he has established himself as one of the most promising actors of the industry.
  
  Born to actor Pankaj Kapoor of Karamchand fame and actress/classical dancer Neelima Azeem, who divorced when he was three, Shahid is a trained dancer who studied under Shiamak Davar. After the divorce of his parents, he usually lived with his mother. His stepmother is Supriya Pathak. Kapoor, who is a vegetarian, also has a sister named Sana and a brother named Ishaan Khattar; his brother acted with him in the movie Vaah! Life Ho To Aisi (2005). His maternal grandfather was Anwar Azeem, a noted Marxist journalist and author from Bihar. In 2004, Kapoor began dating actress Kareena Kapoor. The couple separated three years later in 2007. Prior to joining the film industry, he dated actress, Hrishita Bhatt.
  
  Before starting off his career as an actor, Kapur worked in several music videos and ads, including one with Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol, post Kuch Kuch Hota Hai. In 1999, he was seen in the hit movie Taal as a background dancer with Aishwarya Rai in the song Kahiin Aag Lage Lag Jawe.