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Shakti Kapoor’s real name is Sunil Sikanderlal Kapoor. He was born on 3 September 1952. He found his ‘Sunil’ name weak, which he changed to strength.
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Shakti Kapoor has studied from Kirori Mal College, Delhi University. Also learned the nuances of acting from FTII.
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Shakti Kapoor was born in a Punjabi family in Delhi. His father had a tailoring shop at Connaught Place.
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Shakti Kapoor once took his parents to show his film ‘Humanity Ke Dushman’. In the film, he was seen raping. Seeing this, his mother was enraged and left the theater. The father reprimanded that only the girls do the work of teasing. Roll well Work with an actress like Hema Malini.
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Shakti was fond of sports car and spent a lot of money in car expenses. Jeetendra, with whom Shakti has done many films, advised Shakti not to waste money. If you buy a property, the future will prove to be good. Shakti obeyed advice. They have three grand bungalows in Mumbai and one in Delhi.
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Mithun Chakraborty’s Shakti Kapoor is very respectful. They take all the important advice from Gemini. Shakti says that even if Mithun slaps him, he will not get angry.
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Shakti Kapoor’s wife Shivangi Kolhapure is the sister of film actress Padmini Kolhapure in the relationship. Shivangi was doing the film ‘Kismet’ which also had Shakti. Shakti sat on Shivangi. After roaming in his sports car, he won Shivangi’s heart and later got married.
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During power, Shakti realized that he could also do comedy. So he later played several comic roles. Villain also became in a comic style.
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Shakti played many memorable roles. Such as Inspector Bhinde in justice, Andaz Apna in Crime Master Gogo, Raja Babu Ka Nandu, Gift character etc.
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Shakti’s dialogue in the gift ‘Aau … Lalita’ was very much liked. He copied this line. The gift was a remake of the Telugu film ‘Devta’ and Mohan Babu speaks in this style.
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Shakti Kapoor has been an artist of common man’s choice. He has done films keeping the same audience in mind. Shakti’s acting was not liked by most critics. According to him, Shakti performs loud and over acting.
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More than 100 songs have been shot on Shakti Kapoor. Since he looked like young heroes, many songs were filmed on him with Sanjay Dutt, Mithun, Govinda. In Rocky, he appeared in a dance competition with Sanjay Dutt.
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Seeing Shakti dancing so much, Amjad Khan named him Disco Queen.
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It is about the time when Salman was younger and Shakti Kapoor used to go to his house. There was a period of drinking and drinking with Salim Khan. After coming to Surur, Shakti used to dance to the three Khan Brothers (Salman-Arbaaz-Sohail). Salman has not forgotten this thing till date.
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His pairing with Kader Khan became very popular. The two did about a hundred films together. The audience was happy to see both of them together. It was a problem of both of them that they were also ranked with hero-heroine in posters. In many films, both of them got more money than hero-heroine.
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According to Shakti, Kader Khan is his guru and learned a lot from Kader.
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Shakti Kapoor is very much liked by David Dhawan. David has taken him in his 18 films.
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Shakti did the most films with Mithun, Govinda, Jeetendra.
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Despite playing so many films and roles, he received the Filmfare Award only for Raja Babu.
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There was a time when Shakti Kapoor was seen in every film. They came to be called Aloo, which the vegetable (film) is put in the fun, then the fun increases.
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Shakti Kapoor was so addicted to alcohol that at the end of the shooting, he did not even wait for the house or hotel to reach the house and open the bottle in the car itself.
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Daughter Shraddha Kapoor became very upset due to this habit of Shakti. Shraddha believed that her father prefers to drink alcohol instead of spending time with the family. That is why Shakti took part in the reality show Bigg Boss to tell that he can live without alcohol. He remained a part of the show for about four weeks and did not even touch alcohol.
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When he attended the Bigg Boss show, he was the only male among 13 contestants. People made fun of this about this.
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Contrary to his image, Shakti Kapoor appeared in the show as a family man and this improved his image.
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In many films, he also romanced with the heroine.
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In 2005, Shakti Kapoor was caught in a sting operation. A journalist meets him as an emerging actress and Shakti talks to him stupid. According to Shakti, this was a conspiracy to increase the TRP of the channel.
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Under the sting operation, Shakti was banned by Film and Television Producers Guild of India. This ban remained for only one week.
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The Associates of Indian Motion Pictures and TV Producers announced no ban on Shakti Kapoor in no way because no allegations were proved against him.
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Shakti Kapoor has two children. Shraddha Kapoor and her brother Siddharth Kapoor’s father Shakti Kapoor, who is making a splash in Bollywood.
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Seeing Shakti Kapoor’s son Siddhant’s interest in acting, he sent him to learn acting in New York. Taught directions in London. After this, Shakti Kapoor got Siddhant trended by director Priyadarshan as his assistant.
