Name
Rajit Kapoor
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1963-05-22 (63 years old)
Place of Birth
Amritsar, Punjab, India
Biography
Rajit Kapoor born May 22, 1963 in Amritsar, is a distinguished Indian film and theatre actor and director. He gained fame portraying the fictional detective Byomkesh Bakshi in the eponymous television series on Doordarshan in 1993. He won the National Film Award for Best Actor for portraying Mahatma Gandhi in the 1996 film The Making of the Mahatma. His film debut was in Shyam Benegal's Suraj Ka Satvan Ghoda (1992). He also won acclaim for his role in the Malayalam film Agnisakshi. A prominent theatre personality, Kapur has appeared in recent films like Raazi, Uri: The Surgical Strike, and Mission Majnu.
Known For
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After resigning from the presidential post of the Indian National Congress, Subhas Chandra...
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An artist wishes to marry her childhood sweetheart and settle into family life. However, h...
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Set in the 1970s, an undercover Indian spy takes on a deadly mission to expose a covert nu...
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- 2009 Morning Walk as Indra
- 2002 Abaidha as Indra
- 2008 Hansie as Prakash
- 2015 Roy as Detective D. S. Wadia
- 2002 Nishad as Dr. Gopi Gujaral
- 1998 Ghulam as Jai, Siddhartha's brother
- 2005 Maine Gandhi Ko Nahin Mara as Ronu Chaudhury
- 1992 Suraj Ka Satvan Ghoda as Manek Mullah
- 2012 The Bright Day as Father
- 2022 Attack as Home Minister
- 1975 Dharam Karam as Ashok 'Bonga Babu' Kumar
- 2022 Goldfish as Ashwin Raina
- 2008 Lovesongs
- 1996 Sardari Begum as Sadiq Moosvi
- 2022 Maja Ma as Bob Hansraj
- 1997 Train to Pakistan as Iqbal
- 1999 Shuruat
- 1999 Prayas
- 2023 Birha : The Journey Back Home
- 1994 Mammo as Older Riyaz
- 2014 Dishkiyaoon as Viki's Dad
- 2022 Code Name: Tiranga
- 2011 Monica as Raj Jaitley
- 1996 The Making of the Mahatma as Mahondas Karamchand Gandhi
- 2024 Chhatrapati Sambhaji
- 2015 Gour Hari Dastaan as Mohan Joshi
- 2023 Mission Majnu as Pakistan PM Bhutto
- 2009 Blue Oranges
- 2000 Hari-Bhari as Khurshid
- 2013 The Egyptian Mystery as Al Mamun
- 2015 The Threshold as Raj
- 2017 Begum Jaan as Ilias
- 2003 Ek Alag Mausam as George
- 2014 Kick as Dr. Jayant Verma
- 2009 Marega Salaa as Rahul Awasthi
- 2017 For Here or to Go? as Prabhu
- 1999 Samar
- 1999 Agnisaakshi as Unni
- 2006 Deadline: Sirf 24 Ghante as Dr. Viren Goenka
- 2011 Dam 999 as Shankaran
- 2009 Fruit & Nut as Vishwas Atmavishwas Pinakin
- 2005 Bose: The Forgotten Hero as Abid Hasan
- 2001 Zubeidaa as Riyaz Masud
- 1996 BOMgAY
- 2017 A Gentleman as Kavya's Father
- 1994 Shelter of the Wings as Lakhinder
- 1995 Limited Humanity as Sadanand Borse
- 2018 Raazi as Hidayat Khan
- 2018 Phir Se as Krish
- 2011 Shaitan as Amy's Father
- 2016 Anna as Rajat Sharma
- 2019 Uri: The Surgical Strike as Prime Minister Of India
- 2019 The Gandhi Murder as Jawaharlal Nehru
- 2001 Dattak as Sunil
- 2016 Baar Baar Dekho as Panditji (Special Appearance)
- 2019 22 Yards
- 2007 Dahek A Restless Mind
- 2010 Guzaarish as Vipin Patel
- 2009 Do Paise Ki Dhoop, Chaar Aane Ki Baarish as Debu
- 2019 Bypass Road as Pratap Kapoor
- 2018 Project Papa as Dr. Dev
- 2020 Prawaas
- 2002 Zindagi Khoobsoorat Hai as Yusuf Zayed Hussein
- 2021 Nail Polish as Kishore Bhushan
- 2024 A Night, After All as Kishore
- 2025 Kaisi Ye Paheli as Detective Bondo
- 2024 The Prince of Jhansi as Bank Manager
- 2009 Gulmohar
- 2024 Pune Highway as Dr. Mahesh
- 2014 Benegal's New Cinema
- 2010 Well Done Abba as Inspector Srikanth Reddy
- 2021 Kaali Peeli Tales ( 1 episode ) as Father
- 1993 Byomkesh Bakshi ( 34 episodes ) as Byomkesh Bakshi
- 2021 Aisa Waisa Pyaar ( 4 episodes ) as Mahendra Acharya
- 2022 Rocket Boys ( 16 episodes ) as Jawaharlal Nehru
- 2022 Mithya ( 12 episodes ) as Anand Tyagi
- 2015 Bang Baaja Baaraat ( 5 episodes ) as Ranjeet Arora
- 2025 Pharma ( 8 episodes ) as Dr. Rajiv Rao
- 2016 The Kapil Sharma Show ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 2019 Bard of Blood ( 2 episodes ) as Sadiq Shaikh
- 2017 Going Viral Pvt. Ltd. ( 8 episodes ) as Gulshan Sood
- 2014 Samvidhaan: The Making of the Constitution of India ( 8 episodes ) as Alladi Krishnaswamy Iyer
- Soon Storm ( 1 episode )
